Christmas 2008

Gingerbread Houses with Auntie Riss and Marc!

Sinterklaas

Hope you enjoy this slideshow of our Sinterklaas festivities this year. The first celebration is with Dutch playgroup and the second was at our house last night.

de Sint Komt

Papa and Annelies ready her boot for Sinterklaas. We heard he was around town before his big day on Friday...

Thanksgiving

We had a great time with Rissa and Marc, making pies and cheesecake for the big feast. I don't have any other good pictures from the day itself, just the girls at the table waiting for the deliciousness to begin.

Annelies and Aunt Judy make apple crisp- Annelies' big smile is because she's eating the crisp part before Judy can stop her!

Grandpa and Annelies watch the Veteran's Day Parade

One cold baby!

Sitting on her new toilet seat! No, she hasn't actually gone yet. Just likes to sit there.

Some More Pics

Hi All, A few pictures of our time in Hanover while Hans was away. We enjoyed a nice morning at the Norris Reservation with Judy and Michael and went to the Veteran's Day Parade on Tuesday morning. You'll also notice Annelies in her new favorite room!

Here's a great one of Elin showing her stuff!

Where has the fall gone?!?

I had so many pictures built up I couldn't face the blog, but I've finally gone through them all and have plenty of updated ones for you all! Hans is actually in Amsterdam at the moment for a short visit; and I'm able to finally sit and do this because Nana and Grandpa are on granddaughter duty! Things are speeding right along for us. Hans' mom was in the States for four weeks and got to spend about 2 weeks with the girls, so that was nice. Then it was about halfway through October and we were busy with Halloween happenings and now it's Veterans' Day. In addition to the time flying, the girls are also flying through their development. Elin is crawling quickly and pulling herself up onto everything. She is so quick and wants to do everything she sees Annelies doing! Meanwhile, big sister is adding more words to her vocabulary every day and is quite a character now that she has so much more to say. It is such a fun time to be part of the Brink family, now (with the exception of teething, of course)! We hope all is well in your corner of the world! Lots of love, The Brinks

Dancing with papa at Jennifer & Ruth's wedding

Splish, Splash They Were Taking a Bath

Too Cute! Plus you can see her bottom teeth well in this one.

Take my picture, too. Note the boots on the wrong feet!

Cracking Each Other Up

Look Everyone, I Can Clap!

Halloween Fun

The girls had a busy Halloween this year. We went to a party at a friend's house, trick-or-treating at papa's office and trick-or-treating on Halloween itself.

Spending Time With the Smiths

Eri and Leona (& Nate & Ange!) came up for a visit in October. It was fun to watch Eri and Annelies play again and to finally meet little Leona! This slideshow shows some highlights from hanging out with them.

Fotos Met Oma

Pink from Head to Toe

Gorgeous New England Afternoon at Red Apple Farm

Drumlin Farm with Oma

6 Month Check-Up

Hi Everyone, I took Elin to the doctor on Tuesday (Papa took Annelies to swimming lesson- a humurous short story in and of itself!). Dr. Mitchell is impressed with our little angel. She weighed in at 19lbs. 5oz. and is 27.5 inches long. She was impressed by her early crawling, which Elin loves to show off. Though she's happy in the shot below, she'd much rather be on the go on the floor- she's really quick and we've had to re-baby-proof the house. Her bottom two teeth have pushed their way up and she's started to have some cereal. She loves to sit up at the table with all of us- especially Annelies. The two of them together are so much fun, they make each other laugh and are so sweet to each other. Again, stay tuned for some more pics of our little rascals in the coming days!

Annelies is 2!

Hi all, just a few pics from yesterday... Annelies thoroughly enjoyed turning two, you can see from the last pic that at the end she just gave in to the sleep (and kept right on sleeping through the night!) I really can't believe how quickly these two years have flown by. I promise more pics soon.... and updates (Elin's crawling now and has 2 teeth!)
Stay tuned....

Gorgeous Girl

Sorry it's been a while since I've put new pics up. Here are a few of Elin- She'll be 6 months old tomorrow! Time absolutely flies! She is doing really well. Her latest achievements include sitting up by herself and crawling- I can't believe that she skipped the sitting up and staying in one spot that we enjoyed with Annelies! Now the floor has to be 'babyproofed' (read: all of Annelies' books and some toys picked up) because she's all over it in a second if you're not careful! Hope you're enjoying these first few days of autumn!