Lottes 7th birthday

This month Lotte turned already 7. Time flies. She loves having her birthday and she loved that grandma and grandpa from the Netherlands especially came for her birthday.

7 candles on the cake. For Lotte no problem to ...

... blow them out all togehter in one time.

Hilde waiting for her piece of cake.

The guys after having their cake.

Aunt Elke, Anna and Jonas

We were just back from our holidays in the Netherlands when my sister called to tell me that she was planning to visit us. And she did not only plan to visit us, she even arrived the same day.
We had some lovely hot days together that we spend at the pool, gelateria, Mannheim and at Luisenpark. Here some pictures of our trip to Luisenpark.

Climbing can be really challenging.

We spend at least 20 minutes at this hot spot.

This is how Malte looks if something is not going as he would like it to go!

All the five kids enjoyed a ride on the electric cars. I hopped on with Malte and he didn´t wanted to get off.

Hilde and Anna.

Funny picture, isn´t it?

Holiday impressions

This year we had planned a two week holiday in the Netherlands. We decided not to go to far away to make sure we could bring our bikes and because we will leave to Greece in autumn.
Here are some pictures of our holidays. Enjoy!


When arriving somewhere one of the first things you have to do is going to a supermarket. This is what we did an all the kids wanted to give a helping hand.

We had rented a holiday house near a lake and the kids loved it.

Even Malte loved it - what else!

Hilde was totally into the sandcastles!

Don´t touch me!

We were very happy to have the chance to go to Warner Brothers Movie World with the girls. Remcos parents came to visit us for two days so we could leave Malte behind at our holiday home.
Here we sit in our very first attraction a Wildwasserbahn - don´t ask me what that is in english!

Hilde had a very good time.

Remco hadn´t! His spot - the one on the right side - was the worst one as you can see!

Me and Hilde in a small rollercoaster while Remco and Lotte were queueing for a bigger one.

She seemed to be very excited!

This shot isn´t the best one.

Remco and Lotte in the bigger rollercoaster. You needed to be 1,20m to get in.

Same demands with this attraction. Hilde had to stay outside!

And these are the flying Dutchmen.

We were also happy to welcome Niels (Remcos brother) and Mariska for a few days. Guess who is entertaining Lotte, Hilde and Malte!

We also spend a day at the zoo. To be honest, this is the only picture taken as it rained whole day!

Next day there still was some "rain water" left. Malte loved it and the girls joined him with the muddy games.

As Eric always says: Only a dirty child had a good day!

Hilde thought she had a good day.

Lotte, too.

And you don´t need to ask about Malte.

Some pictures of one of our bike trips.

Hilde did a great cycling job during the holiday. Before she didn´t want to start up and stop on her own. The first day of our holiday she decided that she now could do it on her own.

Malte enjoyed every single trip. Everywhere there was some "ba". This time on the right side.

Here some "ba" on the left side.

Here some different "ba" on the right side (could be some animal, church, whatever. In any case worth mentioning it).

Happy guy!

There is no picture of Lotte on her bike. She was too fast to catch and she doesn´t want to wait.

Weingarten

After our trip to my in-laws in the Netherlands we also joined my parents at the Lake of Constance area. The weather was beautiful so we were outside most of the day.

We also went to the pool of my home town where we had lots of fun that afternoon and Lotte even jumped from the 3m diving platform!

Malte loves being with the girls, especially when there is some ice-cream to share.

It seems that it was a tasty ice-cream!

And Lotte enjoyed hers, too.