Car Wash

Ayla just loves water! Whether it's swimming in the pool, playing in the tub, spraying with a hose or washing papa's car....she just loves it.

I really hope that she will continue to like washing my car for many years to come!

Just look at her......Isn't she adorable?

More Eggs ?

One more time......eggs! I promise this will be the last eggs post...well....at least until next year's Easter.

Noah and Ayla had a great time coloring eggs in to their favorite colors. It's pretty easy to do, you just dip the egg into a colorful liquid ( water and food color), keep it in there for a while and voila....It's done

Easter Breakfast with the Murgies

On Saturday morning we had the Murgatroyds over for an Easter breakfast and egg hunt for the kids.

The breakfast was delicious and it was great to see the 4 kids running around frantically trying to find as many eggs as possible. Needless to say that the chocolat eggs were everybody's favorite....

Early Easter Egg Hunt

Next week during Easter we will be away on holiday to Phuket . Since we were not sure if the Easter bunny would come all the way to Thailand to visit us, we decided to have some early Easter celebrations at our house for the kids.

On Friday morning Noah and Ayla were hunting the house for eggs . On the photos you can see that the hunt was pretty successful.....

No More Training Wheels !

Since the Christmas break Noah and I have 'trained' hard to learn how to ride a bike on 2 wheels..... without the little training wheels.

Yeah, it was hard work for me too because I had to run next to him to make sure that he wouldn't crash and hurt himself. Believe me I lost a lot of sweat running laps around the park. After a slow start he made steady progres and the other day he suddenly said...I think we can throw the training wheels away...I don't need them anymore ............MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

Ayla loves to ride her bike (and the motor bike.....) too, but she will still be on 4 wheels for a while......

Reading to Noah's class

This morning I went to school with Noah to read a couple of books to the kids in his class.

Often parents come in to read to the kids, but for me its difficult because I work at a different campus, which is pretty far from Noah's campus. Also I never read or talk to Noah in English, so this time I had to make an exception.

I read 2 books, one about dinosaurs and one funny one about Grover from Sesame Street. The kids loved it and it was fun to do!

Showing Off!

Don't you like these photos of Ayla, showing her new hairband that Sue got her from the States?

Cute, huh?

Home alone with 2 kids

For the first time, since the kids were born Sue was away from the kids for a longer period of time. She had to attend a conference in SanDiego and including traveling time this meant that she would be away for a whole week. So far she had been away from them once for 2 nights. So this was pretty difficult for her. We expected it to be difficult for the kids too, but they turned out to be just fine. We actuallly had a great week together and it was nice for a change to have their full attention....instead of them focussing on mama all the time.....especially Noah can be a real mama's boy.

I actually think that the separation was harder for Sue than it was for the kids.........

Of course we were all very happy when she came back to us yesterday.

Sue's Birthday

A little bit late but never the less....here are some of the photos I took on Sue's birthday about 2 weeks ago.

HAPPY ( late) BIRTHDAY Sue!