Has it really been 4 weeks already?

This week was filled with beautiful sunny days. Yes I said sunny days in Amsterdam. Thursday actually felt like summer. Isaak and I have been taking advantage of them as much as we can. We mostly take a 45 minute walk around Beatrix park with the dogs. Saturday Kevin joined us for a 3 mile walk to and around Vondelpark.



I can't believe how much he is growing. His hair is dark but glows red in the sunlight. Kevin's does this. My dad and my grandfather both have dark red hair. I wonder if Isaak will take after the 3 of them. His eyelashes are getting darker and longer every day. He is almost 10lbs already. It is hard to beleive that Isaak is already a month old, the first 4 weeks flew by!

Monday we took Isaak to get a second set of Passport photos. His US passport arrived about 2 weeks ago and Kevin picked it up on Monday. The photos we used for his US passport wouldn't work for his dutch residency, so we needed to get a second set.



Thursday Kevin, I and Isaak had lunch with my cousins; Nancy, Jill and Sarah. They were in town at the end of their Brussels, Brugge, Amsterdam and Leiden vacation. After lunch Kevin had to run to tutoring, the 5 of us stuck around and moved to the restaurant's patio to soak up some of the sunshine. We then moved down the street to another restaurant for dinner.

Kevin got a teaching job for next year! It is at the Amsterdam International Community School, which just happens to be a 5 minute walk from our apartment. It also has a daycare associated with it the "Blue Rock Penguin". The teachers at AICS receive priority at the daycare, when Kevin goes in to sign his contract he is going to find out how to get us on the list. To have both Isaak and Kevin that close to home, and each other, will be really nice for next year.

The position actually starts on June 1st. It is 3 days a week and is on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. This presents a day care problem for us in the month of June. Kevin is in The Hague on Wednesdays and Fridays (AICS will have a sub for him on the Wednesdays he is supposed to be in AMS). I was going to take Fridays off in June and work from home on Wednesdays, that won't work now that Kevin has the AICS job. Kevin's parents have graciously offered to come and help us out in June....THANK GOODNESS!

It sounds like this week won't be filled with as much sunshine, it was nice while it lasted.