More LO's and iceskating pics

OK the ice is almost disappeared right now but last week we had wonderful ice for skating. And that is what we did. We love it here are some pics, I was behind the stroller on skates.

And here are a lot of LO from last weeks, finally keeping up with posting the pics.

10 months

All the facts of Tristan at 10 months, I'm glad I kept up with doing this every 2 months.
I added the holes to the die-cut (Crate paper) with my crop-o-dile. Mostly stuff of studio calico ki of december.

1e Sint feestje

Picture of Tristan at my workplace when 'Sinterklaas' came to visit us. He is on the stage when all the kids were getting their presents somewhere else. I love that you see the poem behind him on the wall.

Merry christmas

Love this blurry picture of Tristan with christmastree lights in the background and Etienne feeding him. Journaling is about Tristan's first christmas. About that we were all ill, but we managed to make it a nice time. I'm in love with this pink paisley alphabet stamps, can't stop using it, :) Kijk wat ik kan (look what I can do)
Tristan at 10 months, he discovered how to clap and he is having so much fun with it. Didn't I told you I'm in love with these stamps ;)
Winter wonderland

Pictures of dec '07 whe we had this wonderful weather with all the frost on the trees, last week we had the same weather so I took a lot more pictures :)

Dat kun je wel zien dat is hij

3 jaar, dat kun je wel zien dat is hij (yes you can see it's him) That is part of a dutch birthdaysong. Camiel turned 4 last month so I thought it was time to scrap him 3rd birthday pictures ;)

Perfect day

Pictures of little walk with the family on old years day. When I say the picture I tought about the Lou Reed song: Just a perfect day.

Schaapje

Picture of Tristan when he was 2,5 week old, in 2 weeks he turns 1 year old, time flies...

OK that's it for now, need to make pictures of my last LO's in daylight.

See you.

Hugs, Astrid

OLW

My take on the OLW challenge of last week: start. I was mentioned in the slideshow on their blog :)

Frisse start van het nieuwe jaar
Fresh start of the new year. Made this picture during new years eve. We woke up Camiel at 12 'o clock to wish him happy new year an to light some kids fireworks. I was surprised by the picture I made without flas at 3200 ISO. Love the special feeling about this picture, journaling is on the tag behind the picture.

Looking forward to see what the new word is today. Planning to join the challenges as much as I can , really love this challenges, they make me think differently about my stories to tell.

Hugs

Astrid

Layouts

OK I was planning to this already for weeks: posting LO's. You were already giving up on me weren't you?? I made these in november/december, so already old stuff for me ;)




Tristan = 8 maanden

All the facts about Tristan at 8 months. He is already 1 year in a few weeks, time flies, but I'm glad I keep up with recording the facts every 2 months (I already made a LO about 10 months).
Journaling (in dutch)
Funny kid
An autumn photoshoot picture of Camiel, I try to record the funny things he says but it so hard to actually doing the wrinting down.... (and I still think I will remember...) This is hard to translate. If something happens he always says 'Ohhh dat geeft toch niet erg!'.

Baby on the move

First attempts of Tristan to move on the ground backwards (tijgeren).

Eerste schooldag

First schoolday of Camiel, a tryout just before he turned 4. Itwas so much fun to peek trough the window and saw him singing together with all the kids when I picked him up. A double LO for a change, too much pictures. I used an autumn leaves for the journaling. Really c

lean and simple I think.
Left page

Right page

Protection

This photo was made when Sinterklaas was visiting my workplace. Camiel thought it was really exciting and only wanted to be with us i.s.o. sitti ng with the kids up front.

Quote: I can not think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for father's protection. Sigmund Freud.

This it for now, otherwise it will be an overload... Next time I have more.

Hugs Astrid

Happy New year

First of all best wishes for 2009! A bit late, but may all your wishes come true!

I want to sum up what we did in the rest of december wit some pictures.

Tristan learned something new, he can clap now and he likes it a lot ;)

The 23th was my dad's birthday, we celebrated it the 21 th. Camiel and I made a house for him, that was so much fun!

Tristan is exploring and exploring. So muxh fun for him ;) Here he is checking out a kitchencupboard.

Then I got the flu, really troatpain. I got antibiotics and was almost ill for a week
Om first christmasday we celebrated it with dinner at my parents. My mum and sister had made lovely food and it was the first normal diner I could eat. Camiel got this fun candle.

2nd christmas day, we were at home. Camiel got chickenpox (and TRistan a few days later). And Etienne started with the flu. But we managed to eat our diner (gourmet).

On the 31th I bought this double skates for Camiel, so he could try his first steps on ice.

After that we did a nice stroll around at my parents town (Rhoon).

At new years even we were also at home. We woke up Camiel at 12 o' clock so he could light some sterretjes (stars, kids fireworks). I managed to make some nice mystic pictures (at ISO 3200).

I post some of my last LO's I made in a later post, promise!!

hugs Astrid

Lots of stuff

So lots of stuff happend meanwhile. First we had Sinterklaas who brought us a visit, at my work, at daycare and at 5 dec. we celebrated it with my parents and sister at our place and of course lots of presents.

This is at my work, he didn't wanted to sit in the front with the other kids, just wanted to be with us, also didn't wanted to make a picture with zwarte piet (a colleague of me)

We had just enough time to take a picture before Tristan was getting upset.

At daycare:

Here we are at daycare, where he was even more impressed, he didn't want to leave me for an inch. But when we left he told me that it wasn't the real Sinterklaas, almost 4 and already doubting, he said his beard was different. He really is a boy who sees lots of details, so funny.

Hulp zwarte piet Tristan (Black Pete's little helper Tristan)

Sinterklaas eve 'Zwarte Piet' left the bag in Camiel's room and forgot to lock the window behind him, luckly we got a letter in the mailbox we had to search. Camiel loved that part and of course unpacking his presents and the ones from the rest too if he had the change ;)

Then we picked up our trees (yes treeS we got 2 little ones to place in the window-sill, we already do this for years, easy if you don't have much room for a big one, a very handy away from little hands who like to grap everything).

Camiel picked his own little tree and all red decorations.

We got to meet little Melvi, 3rd child of friends we met during our summer holiday in 2007, such a sweet and mellow little boy.

Then it was time for Camiel to say goodbye to daycare Ketelbinkie and also celebrating his 4 th birthday.

I made his 2 main 'juffen' a little album with pictures, they really likes it. (forgot to take pictures)

Together with juf Inge.

He is really gonna miss them, luckely he can see them if we take Tristan to the babygroup.

I made this crocodiles out of cucumbers and cheese to treat the other kids, they really likes it, they even ate the cucumber. (I didn't come up with this myself, I got it from the internet)

So you can say I had a very busy time. And on top of that we celebrated Camiel's 4th birthday birthday together with Etienne's birthday, not much pictures of that, to busy with entertaining the guests.

We got Camiel a new bike, he still needs the trainer wheels, but it is so much fun to see him go on his new bike, he loves it.

I ordered this cake at HEMA I got the picture from the net, not really creative maybe, but you can't do it all ;) And he liked it (of course he likes everything with cars). Needless to say he was really spoiled, first Sinterklaas then his birthday, bad timing....

I got Etienne 3 canvasses for his birthday, black and white of the boys and a familyportrait. I made a composition on the wall with an S (first letter of our family name) which I painted teal and distressed a bit. I really love it, sorry no picture of that yet.

And that it was Camiel his first real week at school, after a few try outs the last weeks. Of course the last week for the christmasholiday is not a normal week. Thursday afternoon they had a celebration in the church, The little ones sang a song together, you see him in the middle with his orange sweater. So proud of him he was really singing and enjoying it.

And in the evening they had christmas diner together in the classroom, everyone was dressed so fancy. If I knew I would have put him something else on, Ok really unexperience here :)

He loved everything, but today he was really hyper and too tired, but he didn't want to do a nap anymore. So lots of crying over nothing. Poor boy, a little too much for him (of course).

And tomorrow we celebrate my father's birthday and then christmas. But we are not making a big fuss. Just quietly celebrating together, just what we need.

Tristan is a bit ill the last days, lots of running noses, coughing, sleeping bad (so we also...). poor boy. He can pull himself up to stand, so he is practicing that a lot. And today was the first time he was clapping his hands, so cute.

Still busy with december daily album, not much time for it which is a pity, but I really want to finish it, I still have time. Not much scrapping done meanwhile. I still have some LOs of weeks ago, I want to show. But I 'do that next time. This post took me ages to make, especially with all the pictures. But I'm glad I documented it.

See you! Have a merry christmas (in case I don't speak to you before christmas)

Astrid xxx