Family pics

Visiting little holland (Zaanse Schans)

A little bit cheesy, but fun nonetheless


Kaemon's growing up...into a (nose-picking) BOY

Stan Getz in the making...

Buddies hanging out

Not afraid...

A (dubious) tribute to Sister Kathleen, our violin teacher (Jen, Ingrid and myself). I hope she appreciates the fact that we're still playing since it's impossible to appreciate anything else... Warning: turn the sound DOWN. C'mon, it's been 5 years since we've played together and our fingers aren't the nimble ones as when we were 10 year old prodigies scratching out Bach (at least ingrid has the advantage of having perfect pitch!! sorry ingrid, couldn't resist one more dig ;). Now we're just nearly 30/30-somethings scratching out Bach. Anyway it was fun (despite douwe and tom laughing about us going to band camp. Band camp was fun too). The musical equivalent of a not-too photogenic photo:

Ingrid visited and I had such a good time talking Australian, and meeting the backpacker that led her to go AWOL in Belgium. Jen, she's entering our competition (Denmark vs NL vs Belgium) but she's already lost a point since Vlaams-Dutch sounds much nicer than Dutch!

kaemon meets the big chicken, kaemon loses chicken

Apologies to the vegetarians, a chicken was harmed in the making of this film.

Panic ensues when the chicken time is over...methinks he's got a little touch for Drama.

Kaemon's friends Yara and Timo came to visit Nelson!

Vrijgezellendag!

Lieve Marjolein Bride-to-be! Girlfriends are great aren't they? We had a great day on the canals of Utrecht doing some girl-bonding.

little lord N

Time flies when you're having fun! N is a lovely baby- hardly cries, eats and sleeps well- all a baby his age ought to do! he appears to smile just before getting the booby... Kaemon is very interested in him...in short intense bursts of 20 seconds at a time, then it's back to tractors and buses. They like holding hands and giving each other kisses, kaemon calls N 'tractor' & gives nelson little gifts of contraband (my credit card, car keys, all the things he's not allowed).

300+ photos in 2 days...

Shawn, Loli and Noah came for an intensively photographed 2 day visit. LOTS of FUN!!
Our vessel:

Can you spot Nelson?

Ehm...who's steering the boat?

First family (of four) picture!

Multi-tasking

Shawn actually paid for those sunglasses. (money not shells too)

Lovely Nelson

All in a day's work (29 may 2008):

0830 Hungry, quick eat breakfast...Tummy ache....oh, labour pains...quick eat breakfast, who knows when I'll get to eat next.
0930 To hospital quick!
1119 Hello Nelson!
1400 At home again*, play with Kaemon.
1800 ...in time for dinner

*I only work part-time anyway

The Big Weigh-in

First Encounters

Baby where are you?

Something was supposed to arrive today...was it a package? a letter? my on-line shopping order from H&M.com? NO! A BABY!!!

About to pop- less than a week to the due date. Tried hot n spicy KFC, didn't work. But it was GOOD!

Nice weather, been doing stuff...
Kaemon discovers watermelon and icy poles

in the neighbourhood

Not sure how to balance the see-saw with my gut...

Visitors from the other side of the country

my gorgeous men:

planes trains and automobiles

Note the vehicle-appropriate noises and gestures. Budding Genius...

FIRST WORD!!!

Not mama, papa, milk, but..........

if you missed that, that was TRACTOR 3x, and then Ta-ta (the horn). The jury was undecided for a few days, but there is distinct enunciation and we are in agreeance: TRACTOR it is!!!

Oh yes, and a new hair-do! with the second one on the way, the old hairstyle was too high-maintenance!

what we've been doing

NOT MUCH! Been sick, the body is failing... Anyway, great that mum and dad are here, extra hands, all the better to keep Kaemon happy and me sleeping! We went to the beach and had a great day....the highlight was seeing a real tractor, significant, as that is the little man's FIRST WORD!!!

Bedtime

Text book instructions: create rest, a calm environment, and quiet time before going to bed...otherwise kaemon gets hysterical!

CARS

long one but too lazy to edit. he's obsessed with wheelie things, he loves this book from uncly hanoi and aunty afern

Not exactly first words but nearly!