Nomad and Babies: juni 2012

Camera loving Mama continuation

As I was saying in the Camera Loving Mama post

I have the two most beautiful daughters a Mother could ever ask for

I love to see how different Shakinah and Kaliya are and how each of their personalities is unfolding.

So since most of you don't even really know my girls in person I wanted to share their little personalities a bit with you...

Shakinah (Ki) is my little monkey:

mischievous, hilarious, loving, affectionate but likes her space, independent, social, the life of the party, intelligent, hyper,

a drama queen, tough, loves to make a mess but loves to clean it up. A very caring and good big sister, but can sometimes be a little over loving and needs to be told to let her sister breathe. From day one she has always been a Papa's girl.

Kaliya (Liya) is my little sweetie:

sensitive, just loves attention, smiles non-stop, hates to be alone even for a second, very relaxed, is very affected by others moods, gets scared quite easily, crazy about her big sister, focused, very emotional, for now she is definitely a mama's girl.

This is Ki's favourite face to make at the moment.

It's an incredibly ugly face...but it cracks me up.

She is extremely attached to her pacifier

so now that potty training is done

next step: get rid of the pacifier

fun fun fun

not.

She loves finding ants in the forest

i love her curls...she gets that from her papa

Liya has these eyes that tell everything she is feeling

They are so sweet

This is one of my favourite trees by our house

It makes me want to climb into it's branches and read anne of green gables

Bethany

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Welcome to our Home

If you were to come into our home

I would open our door and say

"Hey! I'm so happy you could drop by"

We would sit down in our dining room

and you would ask about what we were doing in our garden because it looks like a complete mess

and I would tell you it's still in project mode, but I can't wait for it to be finished

I would hope that you would notice the back window decor

Then I would make a nice cup of coffee

and as I got some cookies out I will tell you that I can't wait to look out my kitchen window

and see a completed garden, but for the moment I'm happy that I can look out and dream about the possibilities

Then we would walk over into the living room

And have a nice chat about love, life and the pursuit of happiness

all the while watching people coming and going out our front window

I would then tell you that if you come one evening we can light the fire

and roast marsh mellows

you then would ask why there is an old window frame above the couch

and I would proudly tell you that I just finished painting and distressing this old frame I got for 5 Euros

and that I liked the idea that you can always change the things that will go inside the frame and I like that more than having something that never changes there.

Then I would ask you to go upstairs

but before we do I would have to show you my new gas stove and oven that my grandmothers bought as a gift for us. And I would tell you that it's the first oven we've had since our married life and how much I love it!

Then I would ask you if you would like to see the rest of the house

but to please not be too loud because the girls are sleeping

and I'll show you their rooms on another visit

We would walk up the stairs and the first room you would see would be to your left which is the small guest room.

I tell you that we want to have a handicapped child come stay with us on the weekends and this is where he/she would stay.

then to room right of this one you would see Johan's and my room

and I would tell you about that wooden chest at the end of our bed. Johan's grandfather (a carpenter) migrated to Amsterdam from Friesland and he didn't have any suitcases because they were too expensive

so he built his own suitcases out of wood.

I would also tell you that normally don't like ikea stuff, because it''s a bit too modern for me

and if anyone knows me...i'm definitely a more antique/old fashioned, but I found this at ikea and it made me quite happy

Then we would go up the stairs which Johan and I are busy repainting and carpeting

to the attic

(and I would tell you it's my favourite part of the house)

And this is what you would see at the top of the stairs

we would first walk into my room to the right

this is my peaceful nook in the house

where I go when I want to do a project (like the framde)

or to have my quiet time

I would tell you that Johan's other grandfather (a painter by trade) painted this poster on the wall

Then we would go to the left to the main guest room

I would tell you that you are always welcome to stay over the night

and that we love having guests and that if you ever need to get away

we would love to have you

and this is where you would stay

I would also tell you that these are my favourite books in the world

(excluding anne of green gables and the little house on the prairie series)

you could sit and rock in the chair that was from Johan's great aunt

(that I refurbished)

and that while you rocked on the rocking chair you could enjoy the picture drawn by Johan's grandfather Samuel.

And then the girls would probably start waking up

And then I would invite you for dinner, because it was just about to be that time

and you would say

"Bethany, I know your cooking...I'll pass!"

Bethany

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Camera loving Mama

I know this is a tad bit excessive, but I got an amazing new camera for my birthday

from my amazing old husband! (This is the first birthday present I've gotten from him since we got married and it more than made up for never having gotten one before!!! It's beautiful/spectacular/wonderful...i love i love i love!) :) And I do have the two most beautiful daughters in the world...

so it only seemed natural for them to be my first subjects!

So today I took some of Kaliya

Enjoy!