Cute and ORANGE!!!

So, today was not an eventful day. We were watching a movie at one point, though, and I got this beautiful picture of the younger girl--to be 3 next week. I took the baby to the doctor with his Mom and he got two shots and he didn't even CRY! He is much better with shots than I will ever be. Then we came back to the house and I watched the two younger kids with the other Au Pair until we got the older kid from school. She had two friends coming over--one planned play date (a novelty in Holland) and one spontaneous. Then we watched the kids until dinner and a little after. I had two of my first funny language barriers with the father today--after dinner he said to me, "you know, you can relax now." This, at first seemed to me like he was telling me I was uptight but really eh meant that I was off duty and didn't have to work. Then, after the kids went to bed, I was brave and went to spend some time with the parents to grow a relationship with them, and he said to me "Tell em if there is anything I can do to make you stay." This meant, Jane and I figured out, that he wanted to know if anything would make me more comfortable. Those were just some of the first, of many I am sure.
Also, these past days have been Orange and soccer filled. Even the toilet paper in the house has orange writing on it that says Hup Hup Holland--Go Go Holland! and has a dog playing soccer. The supermarket even orange flower arrangements and every few houses is decked out with flags, banners and orange galore. The day of the game they won in the finals we didn't even have to watch, we knew what was happening from the cheers and horns being blown throughout the neighborhood. It was insane everything we could hear. It was like the red sox were winning the world series back home--but for each and very kick and goal. This country definitely lives for soccer like Bostonians live for baseball.