My grandma (we call great-grandma: grootoma) turned 90 on March 27th, which was for us reason enough to go to Holland and celebrate that event. I traveled alone with Sofia and Lilian and Jasper which was quite interesting. The girls travel really well, as they are easily entertained by coloring, reading, activity books, pictionary etc, so after all that they watched 1 movie on the portable DVD player (thank heaven I took it as the airplane's tv's were not working at all), brushed teeth (yes, I am a teeth-brushing freak) and went to sleep..... each a head on one of my knees, and Jasper on my lap.... 'only 5.5 more hrs' :) I was very happy when we could get up and get out of the plane! We went through very smoothly thanks to the baby bjorn, and walked to Budget to get our rental car. As soon as I saw the Budget sign, I knew something was wrong....very wrong! I had forgotten my driver's license! I was a little in a panic although we could have just taken the train, and then Josh (who came a week later) could have rented the car). Fortunately my dad came (by train) to help us drive the car back and he was able to rent it instead.
The car was put to good use, as the first week we spent time to visit everyone I wanted to all across the country.
We started ofcourse with my grandma. It was so nice to see her happy to meet jasper, and he was his usual happy self, giving her as many big smiles as she could handle. The girls were very well behaved too, and cleaned up the whole vase of water they knocked over all by themselves :).
After the visit with grandma, I was able to visit a friend from the university that i hadn't seen in 19 yrs! Sandra and her family were very welcoming and the girls had a great time with her Larissa and Hugo (6 and 4), for more than 2 hrs while we had a marvelous time reconnecting. How fun to be able to do that. hopefully they will be able to visit here someday too!
Pictures of our first visit with grandma!
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You are so very brave! The kids look adorable.
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