Dear I. About the holidays!

Hi I,

You are still in Belgium at the moment, but due to the holidays we haven't seen each other in a few weeks. It's obvious, but I'll say it anyways, I miss you. Lucky for me, I have been so busy that I couldn't think about the whole America move as much.

Since the last time I saw you I celebrated my sister's birthday. It was nice and quiet besides the fact that something very special happened that day! My niece became part of the pizza club the 24th December *GASP* Yup, the little munchkin likes pizza. I haven't seen anything disappear so fast as that pizza in het belly. Obviously that was one of the most adorable things I have ever seen!

At New Year's Eve, we went back to my sister's. Wasn't quite a fan of the food that night. It would have been nice if they didn't chuck loads of shrimp in there. Don't get me wrong, I like shrimp if it's a tiny amount, like in shushi, but when it's loads of them I just cannot eat it. So when mash potatoes, spinach and some basic fish taste like shrimp I'm done. Luckily the first course were cheese croquettes, I'm quite fond of those and so is E. Seriously, the nugget ate half of mine. She even licked her fingers afterwards. As you can guess we gave her some pizza that night as well. Not that it's going to be a daily thing, but during the holidays there should be a few exceptions. She didn't make it to midnight, but that's okay. After all, she is only 1.

In between all that I went to work. Hazaa! I love my job, but when everyone in your family is home for the holidays it stings a bit.

The first week at work I was the colour blue and I literally was blue. I woke up mad on Monday and stayed in that funk till the end of the week. All the colours tried to make me smile. Orange told jokes, Red gave cuddles, Purple went looking for my smile since she thought it was lost. Luckily I wasn't blue at the end of the week anymore and we had a bit of a party.

The second week two of my colleagues created an under water world, It was nice. Because of that topic I made squid/jellyfish in a bottle and fish out of a carton plate. Despite me being a disaster at arts and crafts I'm quite proud of my achievements.

Also, I'm seriously shocked it's here already (and yes I'm slightly in denial), today we celebrated E.'s first birthday. Theme: Nijntje! (EPIC!) True, it's a day early, but since I work late I wouldn't see her much on her birthday and what kind of birthday is that? Not playing with your favourite auntie in the world? So today we did just that. I held her upside down, tickled her, danced with her, shared some toys and gave loads of high fives. She ate her first cupcake, safe to say it was gone fast, and learned that she doesn't like whipped cream.
Can you imagine that I met her a year ago already? Gaaah, time has gone so fast and eventhough she is still so very little, she's becoming quite the young lady. I'm really proud of the girl she is becoming and can't wait to see how much she will change (although, I hope it doesn't go too fast, still not over the fact that A. is already 15 months!)

Last but not least, and you already know this cause you liked it on my twitter, this week I'm going to fix my passport to come see you. I'm excited and terrified at the same time! Right now more excited though. I've never had a passport before, so that's new too. I'm going to be so weirded out when I can actually hold it (after I did a joyful little dance obviously!)

Anyways, Can't wait to see you! The countdown has started (lol!)

Lots of Love!
I.