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  We celebrated Jac’s 3rd birthday on the 15th of June. We were at my parent’s home in Ohrigstad and celebrated with friends from Pretoria, Ohrigstad and our family.   He loves cars and numbers so that is why is cake is decorated like this.  Jac listening to the musical candle Lily-Marie, Neo-Rie, Pierre and Zane The children had a great time and will miss the friends they made in Ohrigstad. Grandma “Ettie” as Jac is calling her and Grandpa “oupa” as Jac is calling him was helping to blow out the 3 candles.     Waiting for his cake

  After our visit to Cape Town we travelled to Ohrigstad, sleeping one night in Bloemfontein and our cousins, Johannes and Rianda and two nights in Pretoria at our other cousins, Schalk and Christelle. We really enjoy spending time with our family and getting to know them a bit more before we depart. For the children it is also very nice to spend time with the younger cousins, and I am sure they will remember them now. We also spend some time with our sending cell during a soup and bread evening and Danie had time to give feedback on this USA trip. Then we were off to Ohrigstad where my parents stay. We spend a wonderful Mothers day there and on the Monday we took Jac to see a psychologist.  We have been suspecting that something was not quit right for the past year, but you know parents, always in some kind of denial when it comes to their children.   We were told that our beautiful little Jac was autistic. This was not a big surprise but still a shock to our syste...

Wow so many things has happen in the last month. Let’s start with Cape Town. While Danie was still in the US my friend Christine and I took the kids to the aquarium. They loved it. It was really interesting to hear about the African penguins and the spots on their bodies being like a fingerprint. Not one of them the same as the next one. The children really loved watching the big fish in the the huge tanks and even Jac was impressed with it all. We also went to Wellington for the SAD race. No, we did not run the half marathon but at the end of the day it seemed liked I had. My brother, Schalk and his wife Milan together with my sister in law Christelle and my friend Christine ran the marathon. I was looking after seven children while they did. In the end we were rewarded with Lollos. For those of you who do not know who Lollos is. He is kind of like “Barney” but just the blue Afrikaans version of it. This was the highlight of the day for all the children. Singing and dancing with ...