So much has happened since my last post. Time goes too fast and Arthur grows up waaaayyyy too fast and his personality has changed so much since a year ago. He used to be a quiet baby and very lazy - Now he is a very busy young man and about a day after his 3rd birthday he decided he is too big for afternoon naps and we moved from a 3 hour nap to zero which makes a huge impact on mommy's life. But I love to see him different too and standing up for himself ( sometimes too much).
We went to New York for valentines weekend and enjoyed walking around in the city. We took the train down to the city and Arthur loved it. He also took a good nap during the train ride. It was very busy and definetely the city that never sleeps - we stayed in a hotel close to time square and was able to get around very easily. We did a busride through the city and took the ferry out to go see the Statue of Liberty. Food was great. On our last day we went to the wax museum. The were some good wax statues but I think there is better wax museums than the one in NY. It did make us miss our days in Switserland where everybody walks or public transport wherever they need to be.
We came back with a huge blessing and are happy to say that we will be adding another member to our family end of October.
We went away for a few days to Cape Cod in April and had a blast. Definetely one of our favorite vacations. Beautiful and great food. Arthur enjoyed the beach and sand very much and was very sad to go away. There is a few quant towns that is very nice to walk around in. We were there in the off season and there was still so much to do. The room we stayed in was just a short walk to the beach and it was good to see the sun rise over the ocean in the morning. We will definetely be going again.
We celebrated Arthur s birthday the 29th of April and he was spoiled to no end. We were sorry that Deon's dad and Antoinette were not able to make the trip to Albany from South Africa because of the volcano erupting over Europe.
Friends of ours spend the evening with us and we had wonderful weather, barbeque and good company. Arthur loved singing Happy Birthday to himself. It was a dinosaur themed(what else?) Party. ( Dinosaurs is about to take over this household) We dont ask Arthur what he likes anymore. Everytime I go to the store even for groceries Arthur will ask with a sparkle in his eyes " Go shop for dinosaurs?" - No Arthur not today.
We are all doing really well and hope all of you are all doing well too. We pray for everyone of our friends and family all the time and thank God that you are in our life.
We are looking forward having Lilian and Ernest coming to visit in July and my Parents will hopefully come in August and September. We are very happy to have warm weather here and excited to explore the area more over the summer. Arthur will be starting preschool in the fall and he sure is ready for it.
Arthurs 3 rd birthday party
Spike the dinosau r is part of our family now and does lots of fun things. Arthur was too scared to turn him on at first but works the remote as a pro now.
Ouma Lombard sent him some spiderman jammies and he likes to wear the hat and play spiderman.
Cape Cod
whale whatching was amazing. We saw 2 different types of whales very close by.
the view from our room
our little guy was in his element on the beach
father and son with their fishing poles
wax museum NYC
easter egg hunting.
I had to take a picture of the above. I found him like this in my snow boots.
