Our two toddlers

Milou is real a toddler now, no longer a baby. She is very active (just like Thijmen), always smiling (just likeThijmen) and when she doesn´t want someting she´ll let you know (just like Thijmen).

Here are some nice pictures of them from the past month.

Diving with sharks!

Paul´s birthday present this year was a dive in Underwater World, a big aquarium. He went together with Leon and Thijmen was watching. It was quit funny to see them behind the glass wall, between all the fish. They could touch the sharks and even feed the big eagle rays. Thijmen is still talking about it. "Papa, swim fish! I see."

Visitors

In June we had a few visitors. First grandad Huub came for one week. Thijmen and Milou really enjoyed playing with him. When grandad left, Thijmen kept saying: opa, airplane.

Two days after grandad had left, Edo arrived. Thijmen was really fond of him and called him ´uncle´ all the time. Since Thijmen saw Edo leave by taxi, he kept on telling us: uncle, taxi.

Grandad had taught Thijmen how to say cheers (´proost´), so he could practice this with uncle Edo. Here they are sitting in a bar at the Boat Key after a nice boat trip along the Singapore River.

Party time!!!

Last few months Thijmen and Milou have had many many birthday parties. Almost one every weekend. Thijmen is starting to understand the concept and is really enjoying it. Especially the moment when the birthday cake with the candles (never more than 1 or 2) arrives. The part he likes most is of course eating the cake. And so does Milou!

Milou can walk!

One and a half week before her 1st birthday, Milou started to walk and it´s going better and faster every day.

Milou´s 1st birthday

Last Friday we celebrated Milou´s 1st birtday. She didn´t know what to do with the candle on her birthday cake, so Lily helped her.

3 weeks in the Netherlands

The first three weeks of May we spend in the Netherlands. We stayed with Paul´s parents and had a great time there. Although the flight from Singapore to Amsterdam was a nightmare and we had to recuperate from our jetlag for almost a week.

We were really lucky with the weather, it was warm and sunny most of the time, so Thijmen and Milou could play in the garden almost every day. On the first day Paul bought two bicycle seats and I think we´ve been cycling every day with Thijmen and Milou. They really liked it, especially Thijmen. In the morning he would come downstairs, walk to the garage, point at the bicycle and say: "fiets, fiets" (bicycle, bicycle). In other words, he wanted to go cycling. So often Paul would take him for a ride, at 8 o´clock in the morning.

The second week, Corinne, Pierre, Luc and Julie came over for France and it was really nice to see them again after one and a half year. The children had a great time together and enjoyed being in the small pool we bought for them.