Lukas' Weekend with his Class Mascot

Lukas had a weekend at the end of March with his class mascot, a hedgehog puppet. The children in his class are called "Igelkinder", which translated is "Hedgehog Children". They named the puppet at the beginning of the year. Lukas suggested "Ben", but he was the only one who voted for that sensible name--the majority voted for "Igel Blauer Fisch", meaning "Hedgehog Blue Fish" because they had been reading a book about a rainbow-colored fish in class that day.

He was so excited to take the mascot for the second time this year and we did many fun activities and brought the puppet along, of course. Here are some of the things we did that weekend.

Lukas holding Igel Blauer Fisch

Lukas is learning to play soccer in an eight-week class at our community center on Saturday mornings. He is really enjoying it so we may sign him up for another round in the summer!

Lukas loves building things out of wood. Olli took him to build a "Fortune Teller" at the Lowe's Build and Grow.

Here he is with the finished product

Lukas graduated to a new car seat last month and Isabel is now riding in his old one--she loves facing forward and Lukas likes his new seat too so it's a win-win situation!

Lukas was so inspired by Grandpa's bird-feeder that he wanted to build his own. Here he is after building it with his Papa.

We decided to hang it outside on a pole on our back deck, but since no birds have visited it yet, we may need to move it to another location.