Wings for Life

Yesterday Mommy and Max tagged along with Papa to the airbase to go to the Wings for Life benefit day. Wings for Life is an organization that helps sick children and their families. Rob spent the afternoon talking to kids and parents about the apache while Mommy and Max enjoyed french fries and face paint!

Time for an Update!

Sorry that we haven't updated since the year changed, but we have been super busy!
Rob arrived back from Afghanistan safe and sound on January 16th. Besides a trip to Germany, Italy, America, and (maybe) Kandahar he is home until his next deployment to Afghanistan in October.

Max is doing very well. He was extremely happy to see Papa again and the two have been inseparable since! He is beginning to greatly extend his vocabulary and put a couple of words together. We have introduced the potty, but have not seriously begun pottty training yet. However, he does like the potty and receives a sticker on his Elmo board when he goes to the potty. Unfortunately he tells us he pooped after the fact... oh well it's a learning process!

Rob is also doing well. It is so nice to have him home and to have an extra set of hands around the house! My job is going well, but I am sure looking forward to a break soon! When both parents work 4-5 days a week it seems like we are always busy!

Luckily Rob will be taking ouderschapsverlof, or a "Papa Day", starting in April. This means that he will get 1 day a week off for the next 2-3 years to spend with his child. He also gets 75% of his salary for that day! It will be really nice for Max to only have to go to daycare 3 days a week instead of the 4 that he currently attends.

It is finally beginning to turn into Spring in Holland. The crocusses and tulips are popping up and the sun is finally showing itself for (what seems like) the first time since last summer! We are looking forward to taking Max to the petting zoo, playground, and going on bike rides in the coming months!

I'll post new pics soon!

Our little boy is 2!!

Last Saturday Max celebrated his 2nd birthday with his cousin, Owen, who turned 3 the day before. We went to the Lazy 5 Ranch and the kids had a great time! The weather even held out for us :-)

Now I'm just wondering how I am going to get all of his presents back to Holland...!!

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Max's 2nd Birthday

Max's Bag

Max's bag for Sinterklaas at his school!

Sinterklaas op de basis!

Saturday Sinterklaas came to Mommy and Papa's work with his Zwarte Pieten.
After waiting until all 140 children it was finally Max's turn to get a present. He got an animal piano. It was one of the options that I picked, but it is SO annoying! He loves it though! Click the link below to see more pictures!

Sinterklaas op de basis

Snow Day!

Today mother nature is blanketing us with a beautiful white coat of snow. Since Max still has bronchitis he could only play outside for a couple minutes. He thought the snow was funny and liked catching it with his tounge. Luckily he didn't want to stay outside long anyway, he did not like getting snow in his eyes!

Our little man

Max & his new haircut :-)