Visit to Eindhoven

We visited our friends, the Nazarathy family, Carmel, Yoni, Emily, and Kayley in Eindhoven one afternoon. They recently moved from Haifa to the Netherlands and it looks like they are settling in well. It was particularly nice for Enna-Marie to see Emily again, they played really well, dressed up in Cinderella dress, played in their garden and also in a nearby playground. It was interesting to hear Yoni speaking Dutch, he is doing very well! Thank you Nazarathy family, we enjoyed spending time with you again...thanks Emily and Kayley for sharing your toys with Enna-Marie.

Dutch Summer School

Maarten with brother Jorrit and nephew Kian

cousins Minou & Enna-Marie meeting again this summer



friends Ysa & EM are reunited, these two met at last year's summer school

mommy Shirin & baby Sabine

best friends

cousin Nadim



daily morning gathering of the friends for prayers & some singing too

children at the end get some musical instruments that they play while everyone sings



we're glad we joined (& graduated too) the Ruhi Book 5 class on junior youth animator

Wendy...one of the facilitators

two more facilitators, from left: Lauren & Oscar, with Rob & Mahasti from Bunnik

one activity we did was to write some good qualities of a junior youth animator in colorful baloons...

...while on red baloons, we were asked to write the bad things we should remove

EM joined the kinderklas

Maarten & Minou

EM with Dan at the playground

new playground

We have a new playground in our neighborhood, yay! The old one has been removed several months ago and we were wondering if they will build a new one, which they did. Selvi and I brought Enna-Marie and Lillian for the first time last Sunday and they truly enjoyed it.





nice double slide that the two can slide together

walking on the benches

Lillian pushing Enna-Marie's ride

Lillian gives the water to auntie Menchie while EM guards her

EM pretends sleeping as she claims this is her house

calling Lillian back to the playground just after she & her mom left

cloze up shot

Winter gear...

Here's how Enna-Marie looks at this cold winter time...(this was taken at the playground in Merkas this weekend, it was sooo windy that morning that we only stayed for 15 minutes)...

Me and Lillian at the playground

While papa Maarten was away, mama and auntie Selvi brought me and Lillian at the playground in Hess street, just walking distance from where we live. It is a small area with a slide, elephant and a "merry-go-round" rides. Although at first it was not easy to share a ride on the elephant with Lillian (i still have to perfect this virtue), we both enjoyed the ride together, see our cute faces on the photos.

It is already getting cold in Haifa, but still we are enjoying a nice sunshine as well.