Family visits and Holiday!

well it has been a busy few weeks. We first had my parents from Holland staying here as well as my cousin and his wife from Canada so it was a 'gezellig' full house. We had a great time together and had nice long catch ups and coffee's. They also visited Adriaan and Rebecca before they came here and its great to see how they enjoy spending time with their half-english granddaughters. I noticed we were not the only one who forgot to take some pictures! Anna and Naomi are very different especially as Anna is a year older and speaking english and dutch very well unlike Naomi who at the moment is using her loud voice and finger pointing to say what she wants. She is a keen walker now and it has made life a bit easier for both of us.
We have just been to Mallorca for our first proper summer holiday and it was great! Unfortunately we were not so organised again with the camera as it ran out of batteries so we didn't get many photo's. You can see Naomi enjoyed the pool although it was freezing, but she didn't mind. We bought a little boat that everyone had for their kids and it was great for her and for us to be able to have a swim and ball game in the bigger pool. Naomi was very considerate is letting us have a sleep in till 9.30 every day....amazing! I must say we do recommend Mallorca as its only just over 2 hours flight which was just enough for Naomi and she is pretty good. The weather is generally good (we had 3 days rain typically!) and its very child friendly! So now back to normal life and looking forward to our trip to Holland in November!

Naomi is almost walking!

and a very excited mama!

In the sea

Day on the beach

Big teeth!

Just wanted to give you a picture of the bigger teeth as it looks so funny and cute! It is amazing how she is changing into a little girl with all her expressions, determination and tantrums too!

Special guests

Chris and I have become host family for foreign students who come to Manchester to learn English. We now have two delightful eighteen year old girls from Poland and France. They go to school 5 days a week and in their free time we get to know eachother, Manchester, English culture and some Dutch thrown in as well! It has brought back some memories of being an eighteen year old coming to Manchester! The girls are just lovely and we have some good giggles. Chris is being quite cheeky with them and certainly teaching them some of the typical English words. Naomi is a great hit and loving all the extra attention. We are all going to miss them lots when they go on sunday but maybe we meet again in their home town one day!