Monday, November 10, 2014

Nicole's visit

Nicole came to visit!




 Max was so happy! He did not let her out of his sight, not even at night ;-)
 Hence Max after Nicole left...
Plus! We got to see former president Jimmy Carter speak. It really is him, my flash was off :-), 90 years old, still traveling the world.

And we did looooooots of other fun things. Mark Oh, Bonny Tyler and Guus Meeuwis are still on my youtube search history, the wine bottles are empty and my head is spinning from all the talking!

To end this post, Max's new favorite song:

The oeh oeh oeh oeh song

Friday, November 7, 2014

Monday, October 20, 2014

Dont do it


The pursuit of normality is the ultimate sacrifice of potential. The chance for greatness, for progress, for change dies the moment we try to be like someone else.  Please, don’t tell me I’m normal.

You should hear her say it though: Source, 

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

4,5 years in the making

The Day before yesterday I was sitting on the couch watching some tv (House of Cards, good show!) and Max came up to me, tiredly leaned against me and spontaneously said: I Love You.

OMG!

He said it! He told me he loved me! He didn't just repeat me or say I love you after I told him to say 'I love you.' He did it all on his own!

He loves me :-)

I don't think he'll spontaneously tell me again though. I jumped up, grabbed him, loudly told him 'Thank you buddy!! I love you! OMG!' And....I cried. Max then worriedly told me 'NO SAD!' Mike came running around the corner to make sure everything was oke and I was just so teary eyed happy. I may have reacted a little bit extreme..

But he told me, he did!!

We love each other :-)

Monday, October 6, 2014

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Preview

The summer vacation was sweet. I have so many pictures and they're all on different machines, but here's a little preview from one, miss you all!











Monday, June 23, 2014

Orange fever

It's really fun to have international friends and family. I am receiving congratulations left and right on behalf of my country since I am the only Dutch person most people know. Thank you, thank you, I feel very proud :-).

But I did not get to watch the last two games and I watched the one against Spain only partially because I forgot.

It's not that I don't like soccer or the World Cup, I love it! But I am a little bit out of it apparently.

Will someone in Holland please contaminate me with the Orange fever!

Thursday, June 19, 2014

Go away auwie!

Max, opa has een auwie :-(.

I DON'T WANT OPA HAVE AUWIE!! GO AWAY AUWIE!!!

That's right Max, go away auwie.

Saturday, June 7, 2014

Answering questions

Max answers questions very well now, even if he does not understand the actual question. And I have started using this new development for my own entertainment:

Max, are you a single lady? (Song was on)

YES!!!

hihi


Thursday, June 5, 2014

I was thinking that flying internationally with a young child must be like giving birth. As time passes you forget how hard and painful it was, and you do it all over again.

I am not pregnant :-), but I did book our tickets, sigh. I won't put dates on this blog, but we are coming sometime this summer. Am I out of my mind? I must be...

What I will put on the blog, Delta tried to rip me of for 800 dollars!

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Crushes

Max has two new friends; twin girls age 1,5 ;-). He loves it when 'the babies' come over.

They look very much a like and for the longest time I did not know which one was who. 

But apparently Max does, he is absolutely in love with one of them, and totally ignores the other. He talks to her in his sweet baby voice, goes to her level and is continuously hugging and kissing her.

Why only her and not her sister? 


Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Max after me driving 3,5 straight to Shreveport from Baton Rouge and nearing our house:

"One more drive please!"

Djeez! Was 3.5 hours in the backseat of the car not enough?!

Friday, May 9, 2014

Hotel

It's noon and Max has asked me at least 50 times already if we can go back to the hotel, I guess he really really really liked it :-).

Saturday, April 26, 2014

All of me :-)

Oke, John Legend, 'All of me' as we all know comes on about a 100 times day. And since we drive around a lot, we hear it a lot. And when I hear it a lot, it get's stuck in my head.

So today I was singing 'Cause all of' .... and then Max said ME!

(I never taught him, he learned the song from the radio!) I said What?!

And then he sang LOVES to which I sang 'all of you.'

And then we performed a duet!

All of Me

Sunday, April 20, 2014


I felt like sharing this picture today :-). 

Had my two guys together this weekend, Louisiana summer has started, weapon school is coming along and we are slowly starting to talk graduation & vacation after. 

Ready for the week!

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Unexpected friendships

A little over a year ago I started volunteering for the Literacy Center here in town. I met my student, visited with her every week and became friends along the way.

I taught her english and she thought me about religion, being a good person and raising your kids right. 

Today I called her for the first time after a long break (on my end, I have been completely involved with Max and have totally neglected a life besides Max). I shared my situation and concerns with her, and this is what she said:

I love you, your husband, your son and your family. I will pray for you every day and so will my husband and children. Know that you are not alone, you are strong, you are courageous and miracles happen all the time if you let them. Your son can heal, there is so much hope. 

Then she said, I am in a park right now, where are you? I told her I was home. She asked me if I wanted to pray together. Ehm, way out of my (Dutch) comfort zone, but her question was so sincere I could not say anything but yes..

And so we prayed together, she talked to God and prayed for strength for me & healing for Max.

She then expressed in prayer how grateful she was for my fathers recovery (what he does not know is that she has been praying for him non stop since I told her he was sick).

And we ended the prayer there, amen.

Friday, April 11, 2014

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Loves

Max: I love you!

I love you too!

Max: I love you three.....:-) lol

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Jefferson, Texas

We can drive an hour and go back in time. Jefferson, Texas is in many ways still like it was; Old store fronts, antique stores, horse carriage rides, historic homes and more. A great place to spend the day.


This is Max; you tell him, 'don't bite on the entire sucker.' And he'll look you straight in the eyes while biting on it anyway, sigh. 





Max wanted a pop. Hmm, try explaining that he can't because these are antiques.

The nice lady in the store gave us one anyway.

Ha! Karma for daring me with the sucker, ants in his pants :-). 

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

The artist

He colored within the lines, drew both circles and added the right side nostrils! 

Sunday, March 30, 2014

Pictures!

We went to Florida a little over a month ago, Candido (Michaels father) turned 80, and Nicole joined us to celebrate. We stayed in Orlando for a couple of days and then left with Nicole for Key West.

I now wonder if all this really happened, it went by soooooooooooo fast!