Through the Eyes of a Child

Well, I was going to do a first Christmas post, but I realized that Elena took the camera with her on her trip with her sister Maria - they went to Guntzenhausen to visit their relatives. The boys and I are home with Carl and Gertraud. I did find our old camera here, which is what we have given to the boys to help them hone their own photography skills. I downloaded the lot of pictures from their camera and realize that they can provide some really nice perspectives of our life in Zurich.

The first picture was probably taken by Elliot. It captures two of his favorite toys - his knights and his tools. He loves to pretend with his brother about endless adventures of good and bad armies and knights, and he loves to create and destroy with this real small tool set we bought at the local toy store.

The next picture depicts another great tradition the boys have for nearly all our visits to the forest. They love to use loose sticks to build small houses or, in this case, a bridge. Isaac and I worked for a half hour to build a bridge over a small stream in the woods near our apartment.

I'm not sure how Elliot's favorite action figures came to be competing for this glass of port wine, but Elliot captured the battle royale none the less.

Another Elliot shot is of a too common site - in this case, Mom attached to the computer trying to get some work done.

Elliot also has captured another common site - Isaac practicing on the electronic keyboard. Unlike last year, Isaac is not taking formal lessons. However, we bought a moderately nice keyboard upon our arrival and he has kept up practicing and even treated us to a Christmas eve concert.

Elliot has worked out the self-timer on the camera and took a nice shot of another common image - that of mom working in the kitchen and Elliot seeming to be quite happy with this fact. My own tradition is to do dishes while keeping up on NPR shows from the US by listening to podcasts on the laptop.

Isaac captured an interesting shot of our building's elevator on the way home from the Christmas play at Elliot's school last week. You can see me, Carl (Cotton) and our upstairs neighbor Terri and few other partial peoples.

Elliot also caught a picture a place of importance to him - the area where he has to hang up his coat and put his backpack in our little hallway.

Last, but definitely not least, Elliot captured a child's eye view of our bathroom.