Party like a Pirate, Play like a Pro

There was the annual company summer party, which is always great, because it's for everybody, not just the snooty newspaper journalists, which means - theme party! This year it was all about pirates. So we had quite a few shots (the boys at the booths, we at the bar.

There was a brief visit to the office of course.

Karl and Henri would be a fantastic "Doppelspitze". Damnit, HR should've known before....

Sunday I had to go and play with the band again, but Fred and the boys went out to the park to kick some ball!

Henri and Karl talked some strategy....

...and out they went.

Henri did some genuine Lionel Messi moves, before remembering, who his real favorite was...

André Schürrle!

The guy who scored the 1 : 0 against Algeria with his heel, a move Henri has tried to copy ever since.

In the end the mighty Kreye Brothers were no match against Mom though. It's sure exhausting to be an up and coming.

Graduation Party (kinda)

It was something like a graduation day. All preschoolers who will go to grammar school in September got a rather fancy farewell (above you see Karl with his preschool buddies from the "green group"). There was a buffet full of sausages and chicken nuggets, pastas and salads, cakes and puddings. The kids sang welcome songs. The highpoint of course was a musical performed by the kids. It was a very philosophical tale about four animals entering a competition of dares after being challenged by the very challenging frog.

Karl snagged the lead role - the frog!

And he sure gave a great performance. Here is a scene where the animals are very astonished.

The frog's dare is to eat a water lilly, which was substituted with a salad leaf which Karl in a great stunt worthy of Johnny Knoxville wolves down, getting some good laughs out of the audience.

He was also right on the mark with his lines. And there were quite a few (remember - he was the lead!.... annoyingly proud father tone to be inserted here). Afterwards there was a great farewell rituals where all the teachers sang a song while swinging each kid and pretend throwing him through the air towards school, which made all the kids giggle and all the parents wipe away secret tears. After which the customary "Schultüte" was pretend, which the kids had made themselves.

Summer School

Since Karl looks like a mini version of Mario Götze in this first picture I had to share.

Today was the big summer party at his future school, the Ostpreussenschule (nice name, I know...).

He was super excited. A week before we had gotten a very sweet invite for the party from Fee, a second grade student, as well as two coupons for ice cream. Karl can't wait to start school and this party was just the last incentive. If you have trouble tracking him down in the photos: he's the number 7 (Schweinsteiger).

I mean – bouncy climbing castle? Cake buffet? Lemonade? Ice cream? It was awesome. And school will be just like that, every single day... (no, he doesn't really believe that). Luckily most of Karl's buddies from Kindergarten will go the very same place and he even knows some of the second and third graders, so we all hope everything will go smoothly.