Vacation and Experimenting with the Webcam

So girls are out of school this week and we've been able to do some different things. Yesterday (Monday) Naomi kindly set up a play date with one of Jojo's English speaking friends, Issac and we enjoyed playing/socializing as well as eating chocolate chip cookies!! These particular friends are transplanted Americans and understand what a wonderful pleasure a simple cookie can be--not that I have anything against the Belgian desserts I've had thus far! Issac has a little brother that is Amelia's age but he was at some sort of childcare that morning but I think that Amelia had just a good a time as Jojo with not only a Thomas train set and even a mini-trampoline!
Brussels is having an animated (Anima") festival with a variety of child friendly as well as adult-only animated flicks. With another more dreary day looming, we headed out to see "Les Nouvelles Aventures de la petite Taupe" or the New Adventures of the Little Mole. I think that it was originally produced in Eastern Europe somewhere (based on the names of those who worked on it) but there were luckily no words in any language so nobody was left out of the loop! While I was worried about seating once we bought tickets because there were several preschool groups as well as others waiting to get in, it turned out to be a very large theatre with a balcony that easily seated everyone! There were several mini-episodes shown within the hour it lasted and while there were whispered questions and occasional noises from the audience (which was mostly children) I was extremely impressed by all the good behavior for such an extended period of time!
I have posted a link to this webalbum of mine before but there are a few new ones so here it is again:


So I thought it would be fun to play around more with my webcam rather than just using it for Skype calls (which has also been a very good use). I'm not really keen about being on camera when it is going to be something that can be kept forever and ever so the result is that Jojo has now started a little blog of her own!! I've never tried to post a video link before so I hope that it works and that you will be able to view it and enjoy it!! I think that if you double click on it, it will open in another window and play properly!

From Jojo's Blog Videos