Family Mellmann

This day started out calmly (it started rather early for me, as a matter of fact...somewhere around 04:15) and quietly as I spent the first couple hours in the office planning the day and how I was going to get everything done - or at least a few things - along with some fun kid time. By 07:30 Joerg and Patrick were both up and my morning silence was over. I started right off with Patrick's room cleaning - similar in magnitude to scaling Mount Everest - followed immediately by the cleaning of the play room - more like K2 - and by the time we got all that done it was time for a few quick errands and a trip to the park. Alas, our trip to the park was short-circuited by the threat of rain (it had already started to sprinkle while we were running errands) so we shifted our plans to Pizza Putt (a local indoor fun house with pizza, mini golf, arcade, climbing structure...you probably get the picture). While we were there (and, of course, at the same time we were planning to leave) th