Knorr Family Adventures

This week's update is pretty much just on Anton as he and I spent all week together. Anton had his adenoids removed and his tonsils shortened on Tuesday.  The doctors do not recommend removing the tonsils completely because they help to stop some infections and with his history of bronchitis, he will likely be sick a bit too much for our taste.  Thankfully, he is doing pretty good with the help of our friends ibuprofen.  The surgery was super quick - about 30 minutes max as was overall experience - checked in at 7:30, released by 10.  Then spend another 15 minutes looking for Chris who went to the actual hospital instead of the outpatient part.   I wasn't planning on taking a picture but wanted to see if Anton fell asleep. Anton got accepted into a school which we hoped he would be but there is always a chance that something might go wrong.  So here is the update since the last time I wrote about his and his school options.  After spending...

I have a theoretical new plan for 2018 regarding this blog which includes me posting at least something (as short at it might be) everyday except when we travel.  I am not sure how this will hold up in reality! Our plans for 2018 so far include adenoid removal and tonsil reduction surgery coming up next week, trip to Portugal in February, 2 new schools in August, many so-far unplanned trips- we might revisit some old places but definitely want to see new countries.  Anton has been asking to go to Paris :)I am sure there is a lot of things that I am not currently thinking about (Friday night after a long week). Regular weeklies will still include 2 speech therapies, 2 Kumon lessons, reading therapy, ergo therapy, acrobatics, cub scouts (fun but very time consuming), English school, swimming club, art class and a chess class.  We pulled Ilya and Andrei out of English school which will make our Saturdays a lot easier but the current plan is for them to work on their Engl...

It has been an interesting year (to say the least).  To start - as I type this - sitting in our home in Germany we weren't even supposed to be here by now.  Our plan was to go back to the United States during the summer break.  However, even though life here is not always easy, it wouldn't always be easy in Pittsburgh either. We love the opportunities we have here and we are really trying to optimize them. I tried to write up a summary of our year but it was a bit overwhelming since I haven't kept up the blog and have probably close to 1000 unsorted pictures.  So here is the short summary - we have definitely traveled around Europe to see nice new sights which included Darmstadt, Hamburg, Copenhagen, original Legoland, smaller cities in Netherlands where we biked for kilometers on end, Bratislava, Zagreb, Vienna, Budapest and many more.  We also had a great 5-week trip to Pittsburgh, Outer Banks, and Pawley's Island where boys got to have all kind of Ame...