the beach (again)

in and around La Rochelle - Sunday

Our hotel - Yachtman - with blue awnings.

The harbour.

Town hall.

The Roets family.

Family fun!

La Rochelle - Saturday at the beach

It's always fun meeting Martin, Faye and Nicholas. This time we met up in La Rochelle. It was an excellent weekend and I think the boys enjoyed themselves just as much as we did. Dylan's favourite part was our trip to a beach on the Ile de Re on Saturday.

He was fascinated by the waves,

and had a ball playing with the water and throwing sand around with Nicholas.

Time for a juice break after all that fun.

We're all going on a summer holiday...

... to La Rochelle

a whole one and a half

Dylan is 18 months today, and as cute, clever and entertaining as ever. We visited the clinic and he weighs 11kgs and is 82.8cms. He's certainly grown fast these last few months.

I guess it's as good a time as any to record some facts*:

- favourite friends: Taatie and Georgie

- favourite toys: balls, cars, the sandpit and his bath buy (bug)

- favourite pastimes: eating and climbing stairs

- favourite meal: booboo (bloemkool/cauliflower) and sausage

- favourite drink: milk

- favourite fruit: arbei (aardbei/strawberry) and apple

- favourite snack: booey (which I like to think is genius englitch - a combination of biscuit and koekje)

- favourite books: Old McDonald, Trucks and Mouse

- favourite dvds: Mouse on the farm and Bumba

- Bedtime: 7.30pm, but it takes him ages to fall asleep, he chats, reads and sings for at least half an hour.

- Wakes-up: between 6 and 7am.

- Has a 3 hour(!) afternoon nap.

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What I also think is worth mentioning is that he has a great imagination: treating Georgie like a baby, reading books, making tea and eating pretend biscuits and flying Drew around in his helicopter.

*I got this idea from a post in the Jackson files.

balcony art

Here are Manon and Dylan drawing. Sadly, nothing remained of these works of art Sunday morning, it rained again during the night.

Manon also showed Dylan how to climb the fence, luckily they can't get much higher... yet!

Dylan's first visit to the hairdresser

We took Dylan for a long overdue haircut yesterday. No problem keeping him still... He was given a biscuit and watched Bumba the entire time, no complaints!
The hairdresser gave us a lock of Dylan's hair to keep. Do people really save their child's first locks? If so, any suggestions on what we should do with it?

shopping

back from the shop, on our way home with all the groceries.
who needs a car if you can cycle there and back! and cycling is fun when the sun shines.

My family

crossing the bridge

There is a large jungle gym in the park nearby with something for kids of all ages. Dylan however prefers to run backwards and fowards across the bridge on the other side of the park... up and down. He stops every now and then to watch the ducks, admire the fountain or stare at people walking past.

Bubbles

Last week, with opa.