Something to make you smile!

Look what my little baby has discovered he can do! I can't even blame Andrew for this one. We keep asking Charlie to point to parts on his body and he will point to them and of course then he found 2 little holes perfect for little fingers.



A funny story, last night when we were waiting for the main electric garage door to open we all lined up to race down the hill to our garage. (Andrew and I do this everyday coming home from school.) There we waited and the door slowly creapt up, Andrew eager to win thought the door was open enough for him and cycled straight into it, crash. Of course we just laughed. Needless to say Andrew won the race.

Maybe it was one of those things were you had to be there!

What a Weekend!

First on Saturday we all went for a mega cycle. As always it was only meant to be a little one but somehow it was very long! We cycled down the canal on the cycle path then turned off down the country and stayed in Turnhout, or so we thought! Turns out we had cycled to the next town down, opps. At least the weather was nice even at 6.30pm.

Today, Sunday, we decided to go for a walk. Not too far mind we all had sore legs from yesterday. We all hopped into the car with our obligatory pick nick (for my hungry boys) and headed south. We ended up going to a lovely area near a village called Robertville. Yes it really was called that!

There is a dam and a very nice castle called the Reinhardstein. Around the castle there is a walk that is quite hilly, okay I lied it is very mountainous. Never mind our sore legs but we had a lovely walk around the valley under the castle. We also got to see the highest/longest waterfall in Belgium which is 60 mts.

We took so many pictures I will put them on our photo site. They are all lovely.

Where has February gone?

I cannot believe it is almost March and I haven't written anything. First I was ill then Robert went away and then we were busy doing silly things and the time has just flown by. We haven't really done very much. Even though Feb is the shortest month it sometimes seems to last forever with all the dull weather and not much to do. Today we went out for a long cycle even though it was meant to be a short ride. We made a wrong trn somewhere and ended up a lot further than we thought, oops!

Andrew is plodding along but getting very excited about going away with school to the farm. His class and the class above are going for a night away at a working farm on Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th March. The first night away own his own!

Charlie has discovered welly boots. He brings them to me every morning to put on and will not take them off until bed time.


Here he is in his boots. He is so grown up lately and very bossy, we have already got the terrible two's tantrums! He copies everything Andrew does and they love to play with each other. They disappear away to their room and all I can hear is them laughing.





Here is a picture Papa took this morning and I can't believe how big they have both gotten. My big boys.

Drielandenpunt, Sunday is walking day!

The last week has been really quiet. That is except for Andrew being sick on Friday night. He seems to be feeling much better now. Poor little man.

Today we all went for a lovely walk in Drielandenpunt (three land point). It is the point where Belgium, Netherlands and Germany all meet. It is a wooded area with lots of walks and there is a Lybrinth that you get lost in! Today we just went wandeling (walking to us english speaking lot) around the trees.











Andrew was very excited about walking but was not so happy about getting his new walking boots dirty! As always the first thing the boys do is find big sticks to walk with so off they went in pursuit for the straightest branches they could find. With that accomplished we all set off enjoying the lovely scenary. Papa got bored following the set path so we diverted off up a hill through the trees with much moaning from Andrew that his legs and feet were sore.

About 20 mins later we all reached the starting point and Andrew went to play in the park while Papa bought us all some lekker frietjes (yummy chips). Charlie loved them. He then went to play with Andrew in the park and got really annoyed when he couldn't walk up the slide on the part you are supposed to slide down, silly billy!

Andrew's 8th Birthday!

Today, the 18th January is Andrew's 8th birthday. Wow 8 years old. It started off with a loud shout coming from the boys room, 'It's my birthday today!' No sooner said than a little excited boy came flying out of his room declaring he wanted eggs and bacon for breakfast. A little pile of presents awaited while mummy made fried eggs, bacon and toast for her little men.

Andrew got some lovely clothes from Oma and Opa, a t-shirt from Auntie Jilly and Uncle Steven, and some wonderful socks from Auntie Stephanie. From mummy and papa and Charlie some new figures for the work in progress castle build.

Later in the post came another parcel from Nanny and Grandad that was excitedly ripped open. When Papa came home from work we all had some yummy cake and watched A Night In The Museum (a present from Nanny and Grandad). It all came to an end too quickly and soon it was time for bed. But tomorrow there is a party .....

Saturday fun

Here is Andrew starting to build his new castle using his bricks that Santa brought. Of course Papa had to 'help'. Andrew sat for about 1.5hrs working away until he was told to go to bed. Not long after Andrew went to bed Papa was sitting in the same chair building as well, what a pair of boys!

I was also able to pursuade Papa to help me make some felt food for the boys. Here he is working away. I stopped to take the picture but I did help!

Here was the end result. With thanks from Andrew for the design on Papa's face!

Hi and hello

Well here is our new blog! I thought it would be nice to share our everyday life with others, oh you lucky people. For now all I wanted to do was say hi. It might take a while for me to work out how everything works but hey-ho it will be fun.