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!

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