Wedding of Analiza and Rayyan

We attended the wedding of Analiza Cañete and Rayyan Behbahani last Friday 7 September at the Ridvan Garden in Akka. What a bounty of attending this happy occasion at this special Holy Place. The Behbahanis are the custodians of this Holy Place, Rayyan in fact was born here. Analiza is from Ormoc city, southern part of the Philippines, who served for a year and a half at the World Centre.

Enjoy the photos...as we enjoyed the wedding programme, venue and the food was amazingly scrumptious! It is indeed a job well done with all the preparations...Congratulations Anne and Rayyan!

toddler in action...

learning to put her pants on



eating by herself

yum!

our toddler is also fond of standing at the edge where she steps down or sometimes jumps...very brave girl indeed!

and this one she recently started to play inside the car

Playtime in Merkas

While mommy attended a teacher's training for the upcoming Bahá’í school in our community last Saturday, daddy and Enna-Marie went out and had some playtime in Merkas. It was the first time that mommy and daughter were separated for more than four hours. So it was good that daddy was able to bring her in the playground and she got entertained. You can see from the pictures below that she enjoyed the horse ride and her jumping together with the other kids.

From Birth to 20 months...

Here's a slide show capturing Enna-Marie's life with us for one year and eight months. It's hard to believe that in three and a half months she'll be turning two years old...Enjoy!

Our little Turkish-Arab girl...

Enna-Marie was playing with baby Elfida's burping cloth and look what she used it for...cutie!

Play time with Rylan and Lillian

Lillian and I together with our moms visited Rylan and auntie Kami recently. It was a short visit, but an enjoyable one as we played with his cool toys that he shared with us. Thank you again Rylan for having us. We look forward to our next visit.

the birthday girl, little Lillian

Rylan patiently waiting for his snacks

Enna-Marie enjoying her ride

the girls playing some animals and cars

Enna-Marie is following Rylan wherever he goes, Rylan pretends holding a camera, but it is a binocular.

soo sweet of these two...

Like her hair...??

This is the hair that mommy Menchie tries to determine each day what hairdo to do for her 'little prinsesa'.

Bye-bye Maftechuk family...

Yesterday we visited one last time our dear friends Minoo, Roger and baby Rumi, and said goodbye to them. They left today and will be settling in Canada. We will miss you guys!
















dinner at home with them and Melissa and Balbir

Enna-Marie talking, talking and talking...

Here are some of the things our dear Enna-Marie is saying these days:

at dinner time
EM: "Enna eating, Mama eating, Papa eating"...
EM: "Lekker!" (delicious!)
EM: "Put it there!" (referring either to her glass, spoon or food)

at breakfast
EM: "Juice please Mama" or "appelsap please Mama"...

inside the car
EM: "Mama sitting, Enna sitting, Papa sitting"...

at the car park just outside the building of our house
Mama: "Saan ang auto ni Papa?" (Where is Papa's auto?)
EM: "There it is...Papa auto!" or she also says "there, auto ni Papa!"...

while visiting baby Ariana, she saw her crib and hanging toys
EM: "Enna's toys" (pointing to the toys)..."Enna's bed" (pointing to the crib)..."baby sleeping"... she also says "bed ni Enna" when she sees her bed at home

the three of us about to go out the house
EM: "Mama coming??"

when she falls or gets hurt
EM: "Enna wawa" (pointing to the wound or the area that got hurt) or "Mama...pain!" or sometimes she says in Tagalog "Enna's sugat" (Enna's wound)

when she needs help from us like her toy got stuck
EM: "Mama..."
Mama: "Yes sweetie..."
EM: "Helpen Mama"...

when we ask her where are her cousins
Papa: "Waar is Minou...Waar is Nadim...??"
EM: "Holland"...

when changing diaper, she says "diaper ni Enna" followed by "pippi" (or "wiwi")...or "poopu!"...she knows that she just did either of these.

when she's asked to count her fingers
EM: "een, twee, drie, vier, vijf"...
Yes, she can count until five in Dutch. She still needs to improve her English and Tagalog counting.

Recently Enna-Marie started saying "my" or "mine", sometimes when we talk about toys she says "mine", meaning those toys are hers, or when we are in the living room at home she would say "mine" to the area where Mama usually sits.

Happy Birthday Rocco, Lillian and Carmel...

Today Rocco and Lillian celebrate their birthdays. Rocco turns two years old in Estonia (we miss you auntie Evelin, uncle Santana and Rocco!!!), while Lillian turns one. She's one of my friends that I see every week in our mother goose class which is now being handled by her mom, auntie Selvi.

Happy Birthday dear friends!!!



















Also, Carmel had her birthday early this month, Happy Birthday again Carmel!