Birthday girl

Birthday girl Naomi is one!

Our little girl is one! We celebrated her birthday as a family on friday and had a garden birthday party on saturday. The photo's show Naomi opening some presents with mama's help! The swing was mama and daddy's present and you can see why! She had lots of fun with 6 little friends whilst the adults enjoyed pimms, scones and strawberries on a perfect hot summer day! She had a first proper piece of chocolate birthday cake too which you can see she loved! It was a really lovely time and hereby thank you for all the great presents she got! I think we got more excited than Naomi just opening them!

Learning to walk

Back to work!

This week we are celebrating Naomi's first birthday and Leonore ending a year of maternity leave!! It has been an amazing year being home with Naomi and I seriously have total respect and understanding for stay at home mums! Its a very fulfilling place to be and I have loved every minute....seriously! I can particularly recommend the many coffee's at Starbucks, lunches at the local deli with my friends, walks in the park, shopping trips and visiting family...and some girlie nights out! It really has felt like a long holiday but lets not underestimate the full-time care for a baby! I think Chris has come to appreciate that over time. At the centre of all my social activities this year has been other mums I got to know and love hanging out with. Being bonded together by motherhood, sharing its ups and downs (though mainly ups for me) Life never being the same again, but even better!
And now back in the midwife role, leaving the care of Naomi in the very capable hands of Petra, our dutch friend. A new chapter and looking forward to it!

First teeth!

more happy holidays

We also spend some time at my parents little blue holiday home which was adorable. Especially Naomi in the kitchen sink was all part off the holiday fun. We ate pancakes in a pancake house, went cycling and enjoyed those kind of relaxing dutch things.

Happy Holidays

We enjoyed our first long holiday to Holland in June going by ferry. The photo's show a very happy opa and oma (grandparents) with some exciting play time in the garden and on the bike! We particulary looked forward to taking Naomi cycling as its such a dutch thing to do. We even bought a little front seat to cycle over here! As you can see we got Naomi's support for the dutch football! Was already planning on an orange decorated house on return but sadly not happening.