Moms gathering with Nancy Barnes

We organized a mother's gathering with Mrs. Nancy Barnes on baby massage last week, here's a photo of the group with the newest babies in town.
















(from L-R: Barbara & baby Ethan, Liudmila with Ilya & baby Alexei, Theresa & baby Delcran, Nancy, Menchie, Melissa & baby Nevyn)

Welcome Baby Nayriz Keanan!

Here are few photos of the newest member in the Balundo family, baby boy Nayriz Keanan!

one week old


with open big eyes


baby Nayriz has a lot of hair like Ate Enna-Marie when she was a baby

Welcome to Oisín, Nevyn & Alexei

Oisin Salim Padilla McLoughlin was born on 24 September in Drogheda, Ireland

such a sweet photo of mommy Corinne & baby Oisin!

Moms' Visit to May & Kayla

Recently a group of moms visited May and her new baby Kayla Carmel at their home. It was the first time to see Kayla for most of us. May shared her experiences in the hospital with us, as well as her first month with Kayla. It seems to be going well and she is enjoying every moment with her. Of course before everyone left, we had a group photo together.

the little ones sitting altogether

Menchie, Katharine & Jasmine, Negeen, Sieni & Tara

two of the newest babies in town Clara & Kayla, & baby G coming soon :-)

& here's everyone!

Meet Kayla Carmel Kersten...

few hours old

less than 2 weeks old

with Mommy May

with Kayla's happy parents

Welcome to Keon, Bahia and Lilli...

Here are the newest babies born recently, congratulations to the happy parents...

Keon Chase Sobhani

Bahia Eady

Lilli Simin Wong

















and finally here's a picture of Alexander Amin from Holland (he's 4 months old here) whom we mentioned in our previous postings that we didn't have a picture available of him at that time. Alexander's mom Shirin Milani is the sister of Maarten's sister-in-law Molouk.

More babies...

Five more babies that we know were born in the past months (well actually six but we don't have photos yet of the newborn baby Alexander Amin from parents Shirin and Erik in Holland). Yep these babies are making their parents busy and up all the time, but for sure they are enjoying their time together. So nice to see some pictures in their blog, we get updates and follow their developments...wow, they are growing soo quickly. Congratulations again dear parents! Below are photos of these babies that we took from their parents sites to share here, hope this is just okay with them.

baby Liam Uluru Fojas was born in April

with parents Mark and Mara

baby Naomi Nadimi was also born in April

family photo (parents are Ruben and Mutaleni)

baby Kiyon Maxwell Zebarjadi was born last May

with his parents Nafis and Shirin

baby Ela McKinney-Estevanovich was also born in May

happy parents David and Gianni

and in June baby Norah Carla Nadimi was born

soo cute!

baby Norah with parents Ramin and Cathelijne who accomodated us during our stay at their place in Makati when we were visiting Philippines in Dec-Jan...we miss u guys!

Welcome to Elfida Laroya...

Canan gave birth to a beautiful girl Elfida early morning today. Congratulations to the proud parents. When we looked at baby Elfida, she has similar features as Enna-Marie, well they are both half-Filipinos. We visited them this evening and here are couple of pictures to share with you.

the little princess, sleeping, sleeping, and sleeping

Enna-Marie sits beside her little sister Elfida, while auntie Canan looks on to her little princess

Visit to Ariana...

Last Friday, our friends Farzana and Neil Songgadan just had a baby girl named Ariana. We visited them two days after at Rambam hospital and we were finally able to meet her. She is such a beautiful girl, another mixture of two cultures, Filipino and Indian.

sleeping angel

Enna-Marie loves to be with little babies, she knows how to be gentle with them

she says "baby" when a baby is around (or "bata" Tagalog word for a child)

happy parents

baby Ariana just woke up

Birth of Ariyanna Afaridan...

Our friends Pash and Ulviyya just had a baby and her name is Ariyanna. She was born on 26 March 2007 at 9.30 am in Australia and weighs 4.350 and 57 cm. What a huge baby!

We remember Pash and Ulviyya being so fond of dear Enna-Marie when they were still serving with us at the World Centre. Ulviyya would take and bring her to their table at lunch time in the dining room and play with her. The dining room is a place where staff usually eat lunch. Now they have their own bundle of joy.

Congratulations to Pash and Ulviyya! Below are few photos of Ariyanna.

Meet two new babies...

Welcome to the two new babies, they are both soo beautiful. Congratulations to their proud parents!

Sienna Isabelle Martin who was born on 13 March 2007 in Newport Beach, California, is the daughter of our friends Susy and Kris Martin. Both Susy and Kris are former BWC staff.

Reina Natalie is Savvy Him and Chris Lay's daughter. She was born on 15 March 2007 in Shenzhen, China. Savvy used to serve with us in the Department of Statistics, while Chris in the Department of Holy Places.