On a more cheerful note …

… I continue my flashback.

Pssst, don’t tell Erik that one day when he was in kindergarten Lilly got to GO TO THE BEACH!

And here she is, busy busy and super cool in Mommy’s sunglasses.

(Urg? What’s WORDPRESS doing? That’s not the right order! But WHO CARES??? I can finally insert many photos at a time which saves me, like, HOURS!!! Oh, goodie, I can blog myself (and you) insane!! YIPPIEH!)

So, this is not Lilly, but Nena LOVEingly cleaning her feet of sand.

The two lovebirds again.

And again.

There she is! Still all cooool.

Having lots of fun.

Suddenly she demanded to have a look at the “water”. She was very impressed, but refused to go closer.

Pick up sand, throw the sand. Repeat!

There comes Nena – typical Mom. Goes shopping and buys something for her kids. Sounds familiar. Without her I’d be in rags.

Nena, it’s quarter past nine – SCRABBLE time!

Sniff, I think we must start to online-Scrabble.

Two Weeks Gone By Too Quickly

Amazing how quickly two weeks pass when you are having a good time.

Now my parents are already safely back home. Time to get back to blogging!

Obviously I must start with a couple of flashbacks to catch you up on all you’ve missed.

A stay in Cape Town wouldn’t be a proper one without at least one visit to Blauberg Strand. This time Anja was the lucky child to participate in the outing.

Look at those two love birds!

We miss you!

Rooiels

Just before Christmas I wanted to place my dog food order like I always do only to find out that I had apparently not received a whole lot of emails from my supplier informing me that they would be closed for a couple of weeks over the holidays. Fortunately they still had a bit of stock left which they offered I could collect after Christmas.

When I told Glenn about this he suggested we combine the collection with a little trip for the whole family.

This little  trip turned into a spontaneous whole afternoon on the coast road with a stop in Rooiels.

The drive was wonderful – come join us for a a bit!

In Rooiels we went into the next best (and only) little shop, loaded ourselves with drinks and icecream only to be told that they only accept cash and that there is no ATM in town.

So we put everything back onto the shelves and went to the restaurant next door where we enjoyed apple pie and ice cream.

Although we were only there for about an hour the little coastal town made us feel like on holiday – which we were I suppose

I think we must come back – this time with more drinks, snacks, car entertainment and nappies

Don’t mess with this little lady!

Our little girl certainly is a tough one – by nature and also by learning to survive an older brother.

Sometimes she looks it too!

And sometimes one can’t imagine her not being anything but simply sweet and of course completely innocent (I suspect this innocent look will drive Erik crazy in the future when the question is “Who did it?”).

Whether lady or rocker – she certainly is talkative. Here an introductory course to “Lilly”:

Awe (Affe / monkey))
Kuk (or kuch) (book or Buch)
juice
Oupa
shoes
want it!
cacker (cracker)
Aja (Anja)
Ball
ss (heiss)
poopoo
Arm (and “upi” to be picked up)
ja
up
Dudu
an (on)
kitty
hat

Auto/car

nana (banana)

Happy New Year!

With a few impressions from our very nice outing to Hout Bay last Tuesday with Glenn’s parents as well as Ashley, Jackie and Marcelo who were visiting from Johannesburg …

 

(yuuuuuuuuuummy fish& chips lunch!)

… we now wish you all a great start into 2012!!

Lots of love from us KohlRabies!!

Para-, Para-, Paradise

Erik is a HUGE Coldplay fan and his favorite song is “Paradise”.

Since his other favorite thing is playing the guitar I decided to show him a video of Coldplay performing Paradise live on stage so he could watch the guys playing their guitars.

He loved it – and Lilly also started singing along making up her own words.

(In fact she even clearly said “Paradise” in the car the other day after Erik had demanded we put it on for the I-don’t-know-how-manyith-time. )

Christmas Eve 2011

Needless to say Erik was speechless when Santa talked to him personally

(until he mentioned Lilly that is)

http://magicsanta.ca/player.html?code=cpxhxz

After decorating the tree in the morning of Christmas Eve the kids were very excited and it was impossible to get a proper picture of them in front of the tree.

After their nap “Auntie Ant” and her Mom arrived.

We all (-2) had a nice cup of coffee and some home baked cookies …

… and then Santa arrived …

… bringing with him lots of presents including Erik’s greatest wish:

For a while he completely forgot that there were other presents waiting for him and he just walked (and rocked) around the lounge playing along to “Jingle Bells”.

Nostalgia

Before I post the pictures of Rooiels that Glenn promised I want to show you some images of our outing to Hout Bay today …

Little table dancer at the fish & chips place …

… and everyone enjoying their ice creams for desert.

I’ll soon post more pics of our fun time at the beach!

Where else, but Rooiels?

We had to go get some raw meat for the beast (no, Anja!) and so we decided to make a bit of a trip of it.

Glenn: “Let’s go and get the food and then take a little drive to get ice-cream”

Well, Gordon’s Bay was packed! (Pic to follow….when Meli does the uploads) so we drove on further to Rooiels.

We had a snack and then a little walk round the town before heading home with the holiday traffic.

Exhausted kids dreaming away and I think Mom and Dad are going to turn in too!

XMas Moments…

Christmas Eve…

Xmas is traditionally a time for candles, fires, snow and food to warm the heart.

In Cape Town, I would have gladly traded some of our sunshine and heat for a little bit of a white XMas. Luckily Auntie Ant and her mom Sylvia joined us to celebrate a traditional Weihnachten despite the 28 degrees.

Luckily the heat couldn’t keep the man in red away, and he Ho-Ho-Ho’d down our chimney and there was ringing of bells, much to the children’s delight! (Erik was suitably impressed that I managed to snap a pic of “The Christmas Man” in the act!)

The next day…
We went through to Granny and Oupa and joined the rest of the Rabie Family for a hot XMas lunch.

The women were cooking up a storm in the kitchen…

…while Miss Rabie did her best to look too cute for her XMas sock

After a light snack for lunch (Hahahahaaaaaa!), Granny and Oupa held court over their brood in the shade.

…but as soon as Granny was distracted and went inside, the “Manne” took over the court (complete with the visiting jester!)

Little Miss wasn’t fussed and took her dollies for a constitutional in the perambulator.

“Hmmm…my cousins Nikky and Michael have water and sand!  Maybe I need to rethink this Little Miss prim and proper thing…”

Even though he lives at the North Pole, Santa had the sense to bring a pool!  So after some huffing and puffing and discussing (and cussing!), the kids were cooling down!

After lots of laughter, fun and excitement, little elves were taken off to bed.  Thanks everyone for making this XMas the fun family occasion it was meant to be.

To family and friends far away, we shared a little bit of our sunny fun and Xmas cheer and add our love.  We miss you all lots.

Merry Xmas and Happy Holidays from the Rabies!