Fall colors and costumes

It is the most colorful time time of the year. The leaves are so beautiful. It is so much fun to be outside and watch the fall colors. Walking back from school we find the most colorful leaves, then at home we dry them and Hanna and Marius make beautiful pictures with them.

Last weekend we went to a farm in Stamford Connecticut, called Heckscher Farm at the Stamford Museum and Nature Center. A lovely place, with lots of farm animals (chickens, ducks, goats, sheep, horses and cows), trails to walk in the woods, a nature playground and an otter pond. They also had a hay maze, hay ride and pumpkin patch. It was so nice to spend all day outside in such a wonderful place, we all had great time. The kids loved the animals, Nathalie-Ann especially loved one duck and actually at one point grabbed his beak. Hanna and Marius had a blast in the playground, playing pirates and big bird in the big nests.

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Tomorrow is Halloween day. Last weekend Hanna and Marius already had their first party, today Hanna had a parade at school and tomorrow we’ll have a fall festival at the church. Marius is a proud fireman this year and Hanna was really creative with her witch costume.

Hanna and Marius at Olivia’s not so scary Halloween party.

Finding pumpkins in the back yard.

Cinderella (with dark hair) and Tigger.

 

 

Hanna and her friend Ellie.

Marius just learned to ride his two wheeler and by now he is really good at it. People we meet on the road or at school say that they are really impressed, which makes Marius really proud of him self, to the point that he will now tell total stranger we meet that he can ride his bike or he will just point to his bike and say “two wheels”, so that those people will also compliment him. It is really fun to watch. Today after watching the parade at Hanna’s school we went biking to the Massapequa  preserve. Marius really wanted to go there, because he had not been there yet on his bike. Also here the trees were beautiful. And Marius did really well biking all the way to the woods and back to Hanna’s school to pick her up and back to our house.

A Summer Day in October.

A Bright Sun and a Blue Sky, with 20 Celsius. A perfect day for the beach. Marius, Nathalie-Ann and I spend a couple of hours at Robert Moses State Park today. It was lovely. We found lots of shells and beautiful stones. There were a lot of jelly fish on the beach so we had to be careful where we walked.

Yes! Marius can ride his two wheeler

He has been practicing for a few days now and yesterday, Oct. 20th, he did it. All by himself he rode his two wheeler, without falling. Now that he can do it, he loves it. He rides on the grass, tries screeching breaks and rides as fast as he can. What a freedom. This afternoon, he biked all the way to Hanna’s school and back.

Nathalie-Ann loves to be outside.

Hanna is a big helper.

Today I thought about: listening to God’s voice and I found this verse in the Bible.

Job 37:5 (New International Version)

⁵ God's voice thunders in marvelous ways;
       he does great things beyond our understanding.

Vacation at the Finger Lakes

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Finally we are going to see our friends from London Ontario. It has been more then a year since we have seen each other. Both our families lived in Seattle for a while and that is where we met.

We are going to spend the weekend in a cottage at lake Keuka.

Here are some photo’s; more text is coming up…..

Some pictures

 

Yes, our little girl can walk by herself.

She is such a happy girl.

Marius with his best friend Erin.

A visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art

October 3rd, 2009

It was going to be a cloudy, perhaps rainy day, so we decided to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

I can see now why they write six pages in our tourist guide about it. It is a great museum with a huge collection. And the special attraction was “Het Melkmeisje” van Vermeer. What a beautiful painting! René and I liked the real life history paintings the best. Hanna was really interested in Picasso and Matisse since she had learned about them in school recently. Marius loved the Greek and Roman naked sculptures with sword and all. We had so much fun.

  

 

Hanna and Marius studying the map.

The beautiful front of the museum.

Picknick in Central Park.