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Here's a little photo tour of our apartment here in Deutschland!  It's a short tour as our home is rather small, but we love it, and the space suits our family quite well.  Actually, through the process of living out of our car for the summer and now living in a 1 bedroom apartment with a family of 3 (soon to be 4), I've decided I actually prefer living in a small space as opposed to a large one.  It naturally limits our possessions and everything is a lot easier to maintain.  Even when everything does inevitably spiral out of control, it doesn't take insane efforts to get it all back together.  Especially with destructo-toddler on the loose, it's handy to have natural limits on how much she can destroy at a time. :)

Here's a photo of our building.  It's the one on the right, and it connects to the classrooms/library on the left which Isaac is quite thrilled about.  Our apartment is the right half of the 1st level.

Our front door decorated for Christmas.

What you see when you walk in the front door.

On the immediate left from the hallway is our bedroom.  Here in Germany it's most common to have two twin size duvets on a full size bed.  Each person gets their own.  It took me a bit to get used to this practice, and if anyone has any tips on how to neatly make a bed with two separate duvets I'm taking suggestions.

I do really love the pattern on our duvets though!

On the right hand side of the hallway is the bathroom.  We're probably a contender for the most colorful bathroom in Germany!

We have a one bedroom apartment, but there is a second family/living/office room with a couch and desk.  It also functions as Elise's room, the playroom, and our guest room (please still come visit anyway).

Our office/project area.  Note the sewing machine I'm borrowing from a friend!  I've been missing mine so this is quite the treat.

Elise's book and toy box.  We brought a few beloved items from home, and we we've also received a few hand-me-downs from friends here and a few presents in the mail.  Elise will also be receiving a few new toys/puzzles for Christmas that I bought at a children's bazar here in Oberursel!

Straight ahead from our front door is the kitchen area.

Elise was getting into the trash can on a regular basis so Isaac fashioned a barrier from two beer crates.  Recycling is BIG here, and as a result we don't end up throwing away much so our kitchen trash is the same size our bathroom trash can was in the US. 

Also, here's a quick pregnancy update!  Things are going very well, and though my morning sickness is still hanging on, I feel so much better overall than I did during my pregnancy with Elise.  My morning sickness ended up going away around this time with Elise so here's hoping this kid follows suit!  I've been feeling movement for about a month now, but it really ramped up over this past week.  I had almost forgotten how fun it is to feel all those little kicks and movements.

Here's a 20 week photo:

You can already tell this kid is (hopefully someday) going to be a middle child - with Elise we took weekly or bi-weekly bump photos, and this baby has gotten 2 photos snapped on the ipad so far. :)