June 2012 - European Soccer Championship fail, Malú's dry nights and invasion of the ants

Herbert started his new job. He likes it to be back on a routine again. It's still a lot of new info.

My mom had a "spot", a sort of birthmark on the side of her head, behind her glasses. She went to the doctor and they cut a small piece out and examined it. The results came back and that "spot" is skin cancer. She will have to have the rest removed at the hospital and hopefully that will be it ...

Early June, the European Soccer Championship started in Poland and the Ukraine and we hopelessly failed:
Netherlands - Denmark: 0-1
Netherlands - Germany: 1-2 (at least 1 goal)
Portugal - Netherlands: 2-1 and that was it, we were sent home ...
Being the number 2 of the world 2 years ago, winning from Argentina and Brazil of all countries, it was a HUGE disappointment.

Malú is doing great going to the bathroom and she is only wearing underwear. We are sooo proud of her !! She was still wearing a diaper at night, but for a while, we noticed her diapers were still dry in the morning when she woke up. So mid June, we decided it was time for her to try to sleep without a diaper at night and has kept her bed dry ever since !! Yet another milestone !!

We celebrated Herbert's Father's day, but didn't do much. We had a great breakfast with all kinds of yummy-ness.

Herbert had a beach volley tournament towards the last week of June. Malú and I had planned to go watch daddy play, but it rained ALL day, so the afternoon games even got cancelled.

It seemed like a bad horror movie, but it was very real. We had an invasion of ants at our house. I had seen 1 or 2 in the days before, but didn't think much of it. A couple of days later, I got up and I spent an hour and a half cleaning up all the ants. YUCK !! After that it was just an occasional one that lost its way I guess.

Love, Astrid xx