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The Orange Maple Leaf: September 2008
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The Orange Maple Leaf. Thursday, September 25, 2008. The week before Ilianna's birthday, I took some really nice pictures. Helena's best friend, Joke, was here after school, playing with Helena. We had some real fun trying to get everyone to simultaneously look at the camera and without goofy looks on faces or stuffed animals in the way! The next morning when the girls came, I had to take a picture! Ilianna is really learning to play with other children, and enjoying it! What a difference a year can make!
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The Orange Maple Leaf: A Piglet-filled birthday for Ilianna
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The Orange Maple Leaf. Thursday, September 18, 2008. A Piglet-filled birthday for Ilianna. September 17, 2008: Ilianna's 4th birthday! We had a quiet day, with a few presents, and Ilianna seemed to understand that she was turning 4 and that all the decorations were for her. The first of the company, Johanna and her mom, Sjoukje, arrived just after 3 in the afternoon. Followed by Hendrika, Grytsje and their mom, Bertha. Ilianna looks so cute in her outfit! September 21, 2008 at 4:40 PM.
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The Orange Maple Leaf: November 2007
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The Orange Maple Leaf. Thursday, November 22, 2007. The other day Ilianna and Jan were having some fun on the couch and I took a couple of really great pictures! They were really having a great time! Fooling around - that's one thing that Ilianna really knows how to do and loves doing! That's another hurdle she's jumped over! She answered by saying "Mama sjaal". That was really exciting, because she's associating things with people, and that is really super! On saturday we are going to see Sinterklaas (S...
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The Orange Maple Leaf: August 2007
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The Orange Maple Leaf. Saturday, August 25, 2007. Wow, it's been a few days since I wrote, but I guess I've sort of been suffering from writer's blog. Oops, I mean writer's block. Yeah, yeah, ok. That was really bad, but I guess I get my sense of humour from my Dad. I mean, look at that cutie! To do that with me. Well it finally happened to me on thursday. Came out of the classroom, looked for me, and when she saw me yelled out: "HI! There were tears threatening to fall from my eyes, I was so happy!
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The Orange Maple Leaf: Vacation Photos
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The Orange Maple Leaf. Wednesday, August 27, 2008. We stayed in a park that was built on a hill looking out over the town of Vielsalm, Belgium. Here is the view from the playground near our cottage:. The day after we arrived, which was a Tuesday, it was beautiful weather, so we decided to go on a boat trip on the Mosel, a river running through part of Germany. The views from the river are amazing. Here's one of them, behind Beppe and Ilianna:. Love all the pictures.would have loved to be there with y...
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The Orange Maple Leaf: February 2008
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The Orange Maple Leaf. Friday, February 22, 2008. Ilianna is either a real Slagman or a real Dutch girl, she just loves to bike! At school, when they play outside in the morning, or in the hallway in the afternoon, she is always biking! It's been nice weather here lately, except yesterday and today, and we got Ilianna's trike out of the shed and she's been biking every day lately. She is as proud as a peacock with her new bike! Links to this post. Wednesday, February 20, 2008. The next ones are of Iliann...
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The Orange Maple Leaf: January 2008
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The Orange Maple Leaf. Saturday, January 19, 2008. What do you mean, no imagination? Since August a lady has been coming here from the Autism team of Northern Netherlands to give Ilianna "playing- therapy". Children with autism have problems with developing their imaginations, but if you look at these pictures that we took around Christmas time, you can say that Ilianna has no problem in that area. Here she is doing Piglet and Elvis' hair:. And it's not just those two who get all the attention:. It's bee...
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The Orange Maple Leaf: August 2008
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The Orange Maple Leaf. Wednesday, August 27, 2008. We stayed in a park that was built on a hill looking out over the town of Vielsalm, Belgium. Here is the view from the playground near our cottage:. The day after we arrived, which was a Tuesday, it was beautiful weather, so we decided to go on a boat trip on the Mosel, a river running through part of Germany. The views from the river are amazing. Here's one of them, behind Beppe and Ilianna:. Links to this post. Friday, August 15, 2008. While Dave was h...
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The Orange Maple Leaf: Crazy about Oranje
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The Orange Maple Leaf. Friday, August 15, 2008. While Dave was here and some of the time my parents were here this summer they got to enjoy the European soccer championships. Two days after my parents arrived here my Mom celebrated her "16th" birthday. Holland also had an important match that evening, so we all wore orange all day and watched the match in the evening. Ilianna was right into the spirit of things! Here we are watching the game, which turned out to be a very disappointing loss.
