Maartje, Eelco, Rick, Kaat & Duuk: January 2012

Appel-Sjoerd & Oma Joke

As you may have noticed from some of the previous posts Eelco's parents spend most of January with us trying to keep up with our somewhat insane program.

It was very nice to have them around and Kaat & Rick loved the extra attention

Eelco's gene pool - source & product -;)

not a member of the family fortunately! - This huge Alligator in the wild

If someone would run some statistics on my Birthdays of the past 35 year cross referenced with teh locations where I lived on that date I am willing to bet that this person would uncover that there is a 75% chance of a storm of some kind on my Birthday in the relevant location. I know as I remember my Birhdays

Today in Houston is no different:

At this time, the National Weather Service has the following alerts in place for our area:

Severe Thunderstorm Warning

Flash Flood Watch

Tornado Watch

Flood Advisory

Wind Advisory

http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2012/01/tornadoes-touch-down-northwest-of-houston/#2682-4

....I love storms...so maybe there is another correlation there?

Happy Stormy Birthday to me!

Party!

Early in the morning - ready in party dress

at school

unwrapping presents

with lots of help

Dutch pancakes

Bob the Dog for the saviour of our eardrums

Singing for Kaat

Hip Hip Hurray for the other birthday boy

the other Birthday Boy

Kaat vs Cupcake - 1-0

and crackers are better anyway!

taking off into the night, the sunset or year 2.

our Holiday season will be Nov - Jan for a good few years to come -;)

1....

I am not ready at all for her to be 1 year old already....

Happy Birthday lovely, happy, cute, sweet Kaat!

Wanderers

In Hawaii we spend > 2 weeks with 2 little kids in Hotel Rooms and Restaurants. No normal routine to speak off. Our scores: days with proper nap time in the room in a bed 0, days back in the hotel room and kids in bed before 9pm: 0, days Rick ate any veggies at dinner: 1? (fortunately he ate loads of banana's), days everyone slept in the same bed for the whole night: 0, days we started before 8am: 2 or 3 when we had a morning commitment only. But it all worked and everyone was happy so what?!

Kaat loved the menu's wherever we went

and cleaned the floors everywhere too

As we lost a stroller on the flight to Honolulu we picked one up at a garage sale for 10 USD. Rick slept just as easily for 1.5 hours in that rusty wobbly thing

as he would spend the night in his private queen

maybe our big boy is not as big as we think!

happy chaos in the hotel room

Kaat was definitely our entertainer at dinner

or my bodywarmer

Rick also was either 'on' or 'off'

Kaat got used to being parked everywhere

and Rick was totally happy with the Asian influences as he could get drum sticks every place we went for dinner - only if they would have an aquarium too would he forfeit on the drumming.