Party time at kindergarten

At kindergarten they celebrated Nils's birthday and Nils loved it. Mamma made sure that all kids got a small balloon she made from, yes, balloons, staws and a paper cup.

He was standing on one of the chairs and all the children sang him a birthday song! After that Nils gave every one a cup cacke mamma bought for all the children. They also made hats and played outside with the bycicles and the sand pit.

Comparex party

Sunday, Tamara, Marius and Desmond visited us in the afternoon and Nils Wende and Desmond played in the gardenafter the sun started shining again. We had dinner with them and lots of things to talk about..

Saturday afternoon we went to Waspik a small place in the south of holland where we spent time with colleguages of Lisette. A small company party at a place of one of Lisette colleguages. They had a place with horses stables and more. An air filled castle to jump for the kids and a trampoline. Wende had a lot of attention from the older girls and Nils ravaged around with the older boys and even the director of Comparex was not safe for Nils.

Kite flying

This morning Nils and Wende were running and screaming...

In the afternoon Nils and dad went to the park to fly with Nils's kite which he got as a birthday present from Joost our neighbour

Wende and Nils having a ball(th)

Wende and Nils at the end of a hard days work, a bath a story and then off to bed.

Wende's female instinct

Wende is a typical girl, she already showed us her love of shoes and bags.At the kindergarten she's already putting on shoes fromotherkids and running away with them, the original owner running after her. Now she found dad's motor gloves and her instinct told her what to do with them..putting them on!

Friends from Italy

Yesterday our dear friends from Italy were here to visit us. Well, not really from Italy but dutch friends living and working in Italy..

Lisette, Tom, Milan and Laurens were visiting us briefly after which they had to continue with their ohter appointments. Normally they live near Rome in Italy and we went there once with Nils and Wende and this time they were spending their holiday here among friends and family. But because they had so many friends and family to visit, they could only stay here for a short time, anyway, we loved to see them again and hope to see them at the end of the summer in Italy.?

Milan, Nils and Laurens were crawling like rabbits in the garden and ended up in the rabbit pen.

Ofcourse they had a lot of fun on the trampoline...

Thanks Lisette and Tom, hope to see you guys again soon!

Nils's birthday party!!

Nils will be 4 years old coming sunday but because Maaike (my sister) is going on a holday then, we decided to celebrate Nils's birthday a week earlier.

Nils woke up early on sunday because he had wetted his bed... Dad took him (still sleepy) to the bathroom where Nils spotted a giant trampoline in the garden..... Bugger, dad wanted to keep this a secret until after breakfast... Dad? Who put this trampoline in our garden?? And "Maybe we can jump on it"... Anyway, we had great day and thanks to our neighbours Cor and Sandra, we kept it dry. They lend us their party tent against the rain. Although the temperature was still okay.

A lot of family and friends came over and Nils received a lot of toys (where are we going to put all these...)

Later that night dad asked Nils what he found the best gift of the day and Nils said:"the race car grandpa gave me" "and the trampoline". Thanks to Sandra I could take some film because my camera quit after 20o hours of film. Enjoy the pictures and movies!