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Esther Solis Joined: September 2nd 2005
Logged in: February 2nd 2012
Logged in: February 2nd 2012
This November with mark the beginning of our third year living in Leiden. So far so good.
pic 2004 Sweden at Tommy & Petra's wedding
Travel Blog Posts
mwuah
So many wonderful people have birthdays in March! Let's see cousin Cesar is 21, Grandpa Thomas is 65 and Happy birthday to Aunty Angela today! Yesterday was Rhys' FIRST birthday! He has a touch of the cold but otherwise is doing brilliantly. He has seven front teeth, is walking proudly in his first pair of shoes and getting ready to run. It's been a very busy year since Rhys has arrived. We had a very relaxing holiday in Finland last summer and recently made a brief visit over the Christmas holidays to England to visit family and catch up with a few friends in Portsmouth. Avalon is doing dance and loving it. While she dances Rhys is busy making friends with the slightly older dancers (5yrs). It's good fun for all even if I'm exhausted afterwards! ... read more
Halloween morning
A year ago, yesterday we arrived in Holland. To begin the latest chapter in our lives and it's been great so far. Making new friends, seeing new sights, and most of all our little family welcomed Rhys into the world. Avalon is enjoying her new 'play' school and as she wasn't able to celebrate her birthday with friends back in May due to having chicken pox we decided to have her a Halloween costume party! Other update is that we are booked to go home to England from the 21st of December returning on New Years Day. So if you fancy a visit to Portsmouth we shall be there most time... May you all be happy and well Much Love Sean Esther Avalon & Rhys... read more
Rhys day five
Birth weight was 2990 grams, just over six and a half pounds, but the wee fella is bulking up fast...... read more
Rhys in bath
Mother and baby doing fine - not so sure about father! Rhys Finn Solis Blair was born about ten minutes after we made it to the hospital, but home now and in repose, first bath!... read more
Rhys
... born on the morning of 10th March 2010, about ten minutes after we made it to hospital! Mother and baby doing fine!... read more
kitty cat
Hello friends, Thinking of everyone and knowing everyone may be wondering if bump "rice" is every going to present themselves?! Just went to the docs this past Friday and all is well with bump and mama. We have our next visit this Friday provided labour doesn't begin prior to that. It's half term for Ava this week so as it's a Monday and she has a touch of the cold we are staying indoors for the most part, crafting, coloring and dancing about the living room and select program viewing. I've been doing a bit of reading this last trimester which is great mainly because it feels like such a long time since I've had the energy or time to do so. If you have any reccommended reading please let me know. For the most part ... read more
the model museum
Greetings from Esther, Sean, Avalon and bump "Rice", What a year, eh? Here's looking forward to 2010 Hope you are keeping warm and dry or, better yet, catching some of the Sun's rays in some sunny tropical place on this globe. We are having, fingers crossed, our first white Christmas holiday (Just the three of us and bump) here in Leiden. No plans other than to play, write, read, sleep, and hopefully watch some movies at home. Will get to the movie house in the new year once we've arranged babysitting (Avatar is calling!). The pace of life has slowed quite a bit from our very busy filled days in Hitchin (UK). Although we do miss all our friends very much we are beginning to make new ones here in the Netherlands. Avalon and I attend ... read more
SUERTE ! -- beautiful handmade quilt
thanks for all the great comments Most of you may know Sean is working with ESA (EJR- Quartz) at the ESTEC facility in the Netherlands on contract for the next three years. So we have begun the adjustments that come with a new culture and country. It's a great city, with canals, boat houses, bicycles every where (and they definitely rule the roads). Seems the hierarchy is bike, pedestrian, then autos, which is the way it should be in my opinion. I also realize that my previous entry was incomplete- bit of a glich with the blog? Avalon loves the big park which is open from 11 until 17 and they charge .50 cents to play or 12 Euro annual membership. That seems to mean no graffiti or litter or unruly youth hanging about. That said ... read more
And what a great day, it was such a beautiful day today, we began with breakfast then Sean set off to work with Cees for his first day. We got ready for our first outing headed to the super market in search of OJ as I mistakingly bought drinkable yogurt thinking it was orange juice... needless to say I was very surprised when I poured my first glass to discover milky looking liquid, that said it is quite tastey. I imagine so many instances like this happening in our near future. So off to the play park we went after dropping off the groceries at 'Leiden house'. Avalon wasn't impressed with the sad little park at the end of our road so we sought out the larger one. First, ding the nieghbours door to inquire of ... read more
tree hugger
We have been in super sunny California for just over two weeks now. Andy boy is it HOT! It's been over a 100 degrees since we arrived. Our first outing was to Clovis water slide park which was good fun with the family as my Aunt Janie and cousin Anabel were also visiting from Texas. Mostly we have spent time indoors during the hottest part of the day , keeping hydrated and enjoying lots of laughs with the family. Sean tells me the rain is heavy in England so I guess Sunny days are better than the British weather. This past weekend we went up to the Sierra national forest to spend the day in Huntington Lake -though the outing itself was a lot of fun. Avalon was car sick on the way up and down ... read more
