Maike at Grandma Carla's house in Nijmegen

After a long trip I was happy to be at grandma's. A nap made me completely
awake so I could hang with the whole family. And the rest of the vacation...
I just had a really fun and good time. Grandma I wish I could see
you a little bit more often. Just to hang out and all. Here are some
pics just so you can all see how it was.
Taking a bath

Waking up.

Posing for grandma

Just hanging on the floor

Climbing on the old fun high chair.

Watching Grandma making me some yummies, or
waiting for it in the rocking version of the high chair.

Watching a little TV on grandma's bed

Who did I meet in Holland!?

I want to share some family and friends I met in Holland.
First of course the welcome of the Paparazzi when we just
got at Grandma Carla's home in Nijmegen....

On Monday I went went aunt Ilja and my moms friend
Joyce to see some "beestjes at het Goffertpark".

On Tuesday we had a "borrel" at ome Henk and tante Yvonne's house.
My moms cousins Angelique, Marco and Nathalie and Jaap with their kids
Anouk, Mika, Noa and baby Luna where there too.
Had a ton of fun running around with them.


And do you remember Lizzy and Roos? The 2 girls of mommy's oldest
friend Josette? We played till their grandma Agnes came pick them up again.


When mom was in Utrecht I stayed with grandma and she invited Carola and Willy and Frans and Minet over for coffee. So I got to see them as well.

After helping mom getting a lot of junk to the "stort" in Utrecht, my uncle
Mark was happy to finanlly see me again and just hang out at his house.

In the weekend we stayed in Den Bosch and Grandma had all her 3 'kleindochters" around! This is Sunday morning, cosy on Mark and Jana's Bed.

Bob and Ilja came later on that afternoon and we all went out for diner because of Mark and Jana's Anniversary. That was lekker.

The next morning (Monday) I got to hang out a little longer in PJ's with Mark and Jana before we all had to go do our things.

My mom had a date with Mirjam while I hang out (or basically slept all afternoon) at their house with Janny. At night we had diner with Mirjam and we all got icecream as desert: Babs, Lars, me and Kiki. Yummie and Fun!

Back in Nijmegen we visited Ilja at her really cool daycare - she was playing outside with all kids and Grandma, mom and I had a change to say hi to Ilja at her cool work!

Fee came by in Nijmegen on Wednesday for diner with all grandma and mom. Good time to catch up.

Do you also remeber Faab and Sanne? They came visit in Denver once and in the meantime they got married, bought another house and... had coffee with us in their new place on Thursday.

One of the last and maybe a little strange visits for me was to my grandpa's grave. I cannot meet him in person because he is not in our living world anymore. But my mom tells me always all about him and I was happy we could light a candle there with Grandma.

My cousins Karolina and Mariska

I have a hard time pronouncing their names (it's Nina and Maka for now)
,but they are my best friends in Holland. We tried to spend as much time as
possible with eachother and had a ton of fun.

Taking a bath together

Getting my milk before bedtime.

Karolina teaching me some writing

Waking up and watching Mariska do a puppet show
and hang in bed...



Getting their bunny out to play



Mariska helping me get my fries dipped in mayo

Posing together for pictures

And giving eachother big hugs for good bye. Doei Doei. I love you.

Shopping for new Boots in Nijmegen

Mom, Grandma and me went shopping in Nijmegen.

First stop at Ilja's work - fun!

Then trying all sorts of boots on in the store. Only fun
for a little bit of time..

Then we found the best ever: Nijntje boots!

Playdate with my Dutch Friends in Doorn

Our friend "big Maike" helped planning a cool playdate in "Recreatiepark het Rosarium" in Doorn. We were with 14 (Con Garbo) ladies and 20 kids. Wow - that was so much fun! Mom was trying to catch up with all her friends while I was trying to catch up with the bigger kids on the racetrack..... And you know - I wasn't the youngest one at all: that was my little baby-guy-friend Stein from Marije.

Here are some pictures from the whole afternoon....

Goffertboerderij met Oma

Ok, ok we walked over there and I didn't go their with a "traktor"
But that would have been fun too!

We saw all sorts of small farm animals.


And I got to play on the "wip kip"

My first Haircut ever.

My grandma gave me my first haircut!

First I was pretty curious about what was going on, but then
I didn't really like it at all. Luckily my new haircut was pretty cute!