Little Mermaid...

Today Zara started a new game with Daddy...

What the game entails is: he puts her on the lilo in the pool then she slips off into the water and he is there to catch her.

With great delight she did it over and over till she was absolutely exhausted!I must admit, even though Dad was right there to catch our budding mermaid, my heart did skip a beat...

Christmas Day 2008

Today is Zara's 2nd Christmas!

Having been a super good girl her Grandpa passed on the necessary message to Santa and we found a christmas stoking in her cot. Being on holiday we did not have our own Christmas tree but on arriving at Mark's we found an abundance of presents! The kids had a ball opening gifts and the parents battled to keep track of what had come from whom - so, Thank you EVERYONE for spoiling us and especially Zara! After present opening session we had a swim and then had a feast of roast lamb and gammon cooked by Mark and Michael - YUMMY!

Such a lovely day to have all the "van Gelder" clan together again!

Beach Babe

This afternoon we went down to Umghlanga Beach. Zara has always been a water baby and loved the calm Croatian sea so we were not too sure how she would take to the wilder North Coast crashing waves. Well much to our delight she was so excited and kept wanting to crawl into the waves giggling and shrieking with absolute pleasure. Being bounced and dunked by the "wild" waves once or twice didn't seem to faze her!

Grandpa Christmas on Duty

This year we were lucky enough to catch Grandpa Christmas on duty at the Westville Mall. Even though he is Zara's grandfather, we dont often - in fact almost never- get to see him all dressed up for the all important job of Santa... what a treat it was!

not every child gets to say their Grandpa works for Santa ;~)