News and Pictures

Hi everyone,

A current update, about what is going on right now. Fresh news for a change :-).

School:
Noah will go to school in about a week and a half. Despite some administrative hic-ups the daycare centre at the 'tyltyl' school has finaly decided on when Noah is welcome and also informed us of the dates with plenty of time for us to make arrangements for nurses etc. etc. ... Right, I'll try to turn the sarcasm a bit down, and continue with the rest of this post.
We have started arraging for a nurse to go with Noah each day as we have not heared anything from the school about them providing nursing care, or training the school nurse. This will cut into our night shifts of course, but that is a small price to pay when we know that there is someone with Noah that can be trusted with his care. For now Noah will only go to school two days a week, we are still busy trying to arrange nurses for all the days.  Since one of his school days coincides with his creche day, the creche is working on moving Noah to a different day which involves training up staff for them as well. Changes are never easy! ;)

Development:
Noah keeps developing his big motoric skills, he is starting to stand up, we turned around one day to find Noah standing looking out the window! :




And walk while holding our hands, or a handrail:



Crawling goes better as well.



All  this new found movement is not without danger though.....

 
Noah managed to crawl off our bed and bump into the heating. Luckily it wasn't as bad as it looks, but still was quite a shock for mummy - must be his 'opa's' influence, we think. Fingers are still all there though! ;)

 He seems to be making more contact and is getting better at realizing that he can do things he wants to do.This does lead to more (fake) crying if he doesn't get what he wants as well, which can be quite funny. He can pull the most pityfull faces, but without a tear in sight.





Visitors:
Louises father will come to visit, so we are looking forward to that. I'll take some holiday while he is over here, so hopefully we can do some gardening together and get all the paths and some building work finished. It will all depend on the weather, and since it is a hoilday we'll take it easy anyway! Anyone volunteering to come over while he is here, please call, and you can entertain grandpa J.B. for an evening!
Before that Tom and Judith will come over for a night out. We are planning to go out for dinner, looking forward to that as well!

And the rest of us:
We are doing all right, we did a few nice things this last months. We went over to Eindhoven to cook for my aunt Annet, she asked me to show her some tricks. Was a very nice day out, and we saw Noah's cousin Max again as well.



We were also asked to bake some cakes for dessert for the neighbourhood BBQ. We completely forgot that we promised to do so last year, so it came as a bit of a surprise when two days in advance we were asked to bake cakes for the 55 people that were going to be there.  So oven(s) on, and a quick check what different size cakes we could make:







With having to take Noah to school for three days a week and the bad timing of the handicapped taxi system, we have been looking for a car for Louise. It arrived a few weeks ago and here is Louise enjoying her new car!



 Hopefully she will soon be able to enjoy her three days of relative rest a week. We are both very tired though, and a bit stressed. The stress is mostly because of the difficulty of getting Noah started at his new school, which was a lot of work for us. We haven't been able to do much around the house, but we did manage to bake two xmas cakes, so Louise is already getting excited about putting the ligths up (including outside lights...). The garden is only just recovering from the summer lights that we can put outside for some added 'sfeer'...



And the last picture for today is from a surprise vistor. He (or she?) has not been able to rid the garden of slugs and snails, but I know there is plenty to eat for the little hedgehog anyway.



See you here again soon,

Thijs