Christmas is neighing...

Hi everyone - as you may or may not know, the merry season has already started, and therefore I wanted to show you some Pauli pics again... and because Heidrun and Doris told me they had a look at it recently! So, Paul is a happy bunny, after breaking his leg at the beginning of September ... clibing ladders and changing the light bulbs.

Reading up on some Taotao with his uncle Lukas... He likes that little panda bear, I can tell you.

Ohne Worte... no words necessary... I want to go to bed!

At the St. Martin´s kids´ celebration in Niederranna, together with his cousins Elias (half a year older) and Carolina (8) - and Mama Rita, of course.

Pretending to be St. Martin himself - Maaantel, Maaantel - well, it seems he got the story in the end... the same with Lausi (Santa Claus, well, not really, Nikolaus, actually!)

At Kerstin´s place with Christoph, Markus and Georg - good lads, and then there was Nikolaus again!

Georg and Christoph all excited about Lausi...

Some real guitar excellence for Lausi by Christoph!

The group picture with Nikolaus - how amazing is that!

Talk to you guys again soon, hope you enjoyed the short trip through the last couple of months!
ERF

Some impressions from England - yeah...!

Hi you guys, as promised there are some pics from our trip to England, where we stayed at Benenden for nearly 3 weeks; I worked as an English and tennis coach, and when we took trips, Rita and Paul had the chance to come alone and enjoy them with me.

The pic above shows Paul´s 1st ever encounter with the ocean on a beautiful beach outside Rye called Winchelsea beach - he loved it.

On another day we went to Brighton, where we saw the Sealife Center, a half impressive aquarium, the Royal Pavilion and had Fish´n´Chips on the pier - great!

Then we lay down by the seaside, on the pebble beach with Paul´s friend, also called Paul, and enjoyed the realxing atmosphere by the sea...

Paul loved his furniture in the old and very atmospheric buildings around Benenden school for girls - and he practiced walking a lot - he did a couple of steps several times... coool!

one day we went to Leeds Castle and bought the best present ever - for only one pound - that´s all it takes to make a little boy happy, right?

Camden Market

The kids started buying presents for Paul - so cute, our future heartbreaker!

On a train journey home from London, Paul got this flag - it saved the last 15 minutes of the tiring journey for us!

Stefan and Paul - these boys were great!

Canterbury Cathedral and Sir Paul in his push chair.

Our first trip ever to Hastings - it is beautiful there...

At the playground in Benenden, outside Henry IV - good food there!

The last present Paul got from the kids - Tigger tiger! Good fun, thanx!

So we´re back from England!!!

Hi everybody,

it´s been a while again, and so many things have happened, so that it´s not easy to know where to begin.
Well, first of all, we have finally settled into the summer holidays and are enjoying the last few weeks thoroughly. Pauli is settling in in Linz again and just being sent to bed by Rita, so I can use the moment of peace to inform you about the last month or so.

Rita, Paul and I had the chance to spend the summer in Benenden this year, where I was working at the summer camp and Rita and Paul were on "holiday" - it turned out to be really exhausting for Rita and really, really fantastic for Pauli - all the kids there loved him and, thus, he loved it, too! Fair enough, I guess, it was his first... well, journey abroad, flight, encounter with the foreign language for real, the beauty of the Kent area we lived in and sooooo many chlidren and teachers, many native speakers, who were all really fond of him.

We returned only like 4 days ago or so, on Saturday, went straight to the "Dorffest" in Niederranna, then to a wedding on Sunday, and today, the Gablers from Lower Austria are coming for a visit. How exciting.
So, actually, I´ll best go and get ready for their arrival, i.e. our departure to Oberkappel, where we´ll be going swimming in the afternoon....
Cheerio folks, I´ll put some pics on as soon as I have the time!
ERF

Happy birthday, Paul!

Would you believe that? Our Paul is turning 1 (ONE!) year in a few days. On Sunday, June 19, the big day will finally arrive and make Paul a little boy rather than a baby... progress has been made, oh god, just check out the pics - above, it was his first time to be ill - how tired he looks! ;-)

But there´ve been some really great days for him already, too - when we went to the zoo in Linz, for example - how exciting! He could not stop looking at the goats and loved the mercats...

And that one day, when I took him to the park nearby and he discovered what it´s like to scuttle around in the grass and found his first dandelions and so on - smelt his first flowers, saw and ant...

And that, too, when we did our second baby swimming course - the first one Rita did and he loved it but when he did the second one with me there were a lot of tears and fear involved, until finally, we got around to enjoying being in the water again...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PAUL,

mum and dad are really proud of you.

Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year

Hi everyone on this channel,

Rita, Paul and I wanted to wish you all a "good slide" into 2011 and another exciting, success- and eventful year. Below there are some expressions of Paul´s first Christmas, first at the Aubergers´, then at the Fischers´ home, and when he opened his last presents on my sister Kerstin´s birthday party on Dec. 29... all the best, take care, we´re hoping to see many of you again this year!

Paul is astounded when he sees his first ever Christmas tree...

Granny Fischerwirt (not Weatherwax!) watching her little Paul...

Godmother Kerstin, holding Paul with pride and elegance...

Wow, presents....
ERF

Just before Christmas - Paul goes half a year!

Happy first half birthday Paul!
Mum and I would like to congratulate you to today´s first half year on this little planet - you´ve been doing very well, thank you.
Here are some fine moments from recent weeks.
The first one showing you and Rita on a tour towards the Poestlingberg near our flat. A great day out for you and your parents!

The second picture shows you wearing one of the great gifts you have received in your first half year - a body from St. Pauli, Hamburg, from Rita´s girl friends.

And then, finally, the day had come - Paul got his first meal - carrots! He loved it and is starting to really enjoy eating "normal" food - how exciting...

That´s it for today, to be continued during the holidays. Merry Christmas to everyone and enjoy the time with the people you love!

Rita, Paul & Ernst Fischberger

When little boys go to church...

Hi, today I would like to show you some pics from Paul´s christening. It was a nice day for all of us with Rita and me putting a lot of effort into the service´s course and Paul being really sweet... Christoph, my brother, had created a song for the occasion and played it in church. Kerstin, Paul´s god mother, had a really nice talk at the end of the service, well, everything was really nice. Here are some pics taken on this memorable day.

Paul´s behaviour in church was immaculate, he slept throughout - just like his grandad! ;-)

A beautiful picture taken from the gallery, showing Niederranna´s little renovated chapel at its prime.

Paul and our priest, Jaques Kiadi, who is our neighbour in Oberkappel and tried very hard to make this christening a day to remember for our families.

The two Glaser "girls" and mummy Auberger having a chat at Grisi´s place, where we had our festive - and delicious - meal.

Sandra, her son Elias (Rita´s god son) and her partner Errol at the Wundsams. He is half a year older and you can see that in every move he makes... he´s a tall fellow! ;-)

Christoph playing his song again, Thomas watching him in awe... listen to it here.

ERF

News from the Auberger Fischers...

Hi everyone,
after not having been in touch for a while and speaking to David last night (Salut, mon ami!) I have tried to find the time to put some new pics online of our life with little Paul. The pics below were taken in the last couple of weeks, just before and after Paul was baptised - yes, he´s officially Roman Catholic now, how weird!?
Anyways, we are doing great again - Paulie´s had a couple of rough weeks after some curious injection he got - against 6 different kids´ diseases he was antidoted at once... that was a little too much for him, I guess. He started being really stressed at nights, his belly hurt and he did not stop screaming like a maniac when waking up during the night. Last night, though, it was the first time he slept soundly again, so we´re hoping things are on the mend, finally.
Next week, tune in again for some pics of Paul´s baptism... xxx

In the morning, just before Paul was to go to church - he slept all the way through the service - so cute...

Playing with David and Emily´s present from Belgium - the dice - they truly are great, he loves them. That´s the first one, it´s got a little bell inside. And he loves the animals on it. His favourite is the frog, I think...

A serious mum checking a curious smell coming from the rear of our source of joy.
;-) ERF

A day at the zoo - with the Daxens

In the last week before school started again, the Fischberger family decided to help Kerstin with her studying for her test last Friday, so we took her sons out to the Tiergarten Walding near Linz. Christoph and Markus got my camera and fired away and so, we have about 200 pics to show of that short but quite interesting afternoon out. One of the typical Christoph pics you can see above... ;-)

Markus taking pictures of his favourite animals - the camels. Christoph liked the elephant best, and Georg the goats, I guess.

Rita, Paul, Christoph and Markus having a rest on a bench just by the goats´ stalls. Below a group pic of the fabulous Dax boys, Joe, Jack, William... there´s no Averell, Paul is still too little! ;-)

Well, we did take more pics and some of the animals as well... I´ll show them to the boys soon...!
ERF