American in Cyprus: September 2013

My blog writing has gotten a bit away from me. I'll blame having a baby for the cause, but the truth is that Marissa is a super baby. She is happy during the day and in the past week has started sleeping through the night. She makes everyone melt with her big smiles and is making lots of cute cooing noises.
The month of September started with Sofia's fourth birthday on the second. We had a party here at the house for her with family and our neighbor friends. Sofia cracks us up with all of the funny things she says and her many facial expressions. She is a character!
The Limassol Wine Festival was the following weekend and we decided to use that as a chance for a little getaway. We went last year but didn't really like having to drive home afterwards and Demetris was the designated driver. We were smarter this year and stayed overnight in a nearby hotel. The kids are always excited to spend the night at a hotel. They were happy just to play in the pool there. Couldn't decide where to have lunch and ended up at TGIFridays of all places. It tasted pretty good actually, maybe since I don't have many choices in American restaurants here. The wine festival was enjoyable, pretty much the same as last year. The next day we went to a cafe I had seen on the internet that sounded good called Chocolate Soup. With a name like that I figured we couldn't go wrong. The food was nice, but for Alex the highlight was seeing two red Ferrari's parked out front. He likes fast cars.
Alex's big news for the month is that he lost his first tooth. Luckily, the tooth fairy found him, even in Cyprus. The other big change for him this month is that he and Sofia started school. They are going to Highgate Private School. Sofia has only been one day so far as she had a fever the first two days. They both settled in nicely and I think they will blossom there.