A long weekend with lots of sun

A long weekend with lots of sunshine so we spent the days flying our kites with all the neighbourhood kids joining us. Nils and Wende are quite popular with the neighbourhood kids or maybe it is because of the trampoline in our garden and the fact that we allow all these kids to play in our garden.. Then on saturday and sunday we went to our beach in Andel and spent the day playing in the water and building sand castles. A great couple of days, Ingmar was also with us in the pram sleeping most of the time.

Uncle martin came to visit us, unfortunately, Judith could not join him because she felt ill. Davina, Thymen and Matthijs had great fun playing in the garden and especially jumping on the trampoline.

family portrait

Well, the picture says it all I gues..

Kikerdril ... the second time

Last thursday we (Nils Wende and dad) went to the local cinema (in an old farmhouse) to see the movie "kikkerdril". It is a story of two brothers, the oldest has to go to the hospital to undergo minor surgery. In short, the oldest says to his younger brother that he needs kikkerdril (frogs eggs) otherwise he won't be able to speak ever again.. So the younger brother goes on a adventure to find this kikkerdril and on the way he meets up with a girl. There are funny songs in the movie and one of them is a cough song in the bus.. very funny

BBQ at the campsite

Granddad and grandma invited us to have a BBQ with them at the campsite. Although the weather was not too great, the temperature was not bad to sit outside. Nils and Wende had a lot of candy (a lot because normally they only have one piece of candy a day) and that made them very hyperactive. So hyperactive that there was no reasoning with them, not listening to what we say.. and very naughty. I've seen this before, also when they had eaten a lot of candy.. So I guess it is true what they say about sugar and children.. No more than one piece of candy a day! Anyhow, the BBQ went okay apart from the many times we had to correct Nils and Wende..

Maartje and Maaike's birthday

This saturday we celebrated Maartje's and Maaike's birthday in Woerden. For Maartje we bought a jumping rope with melodies, the faster you jumped, the faster the melody. For Maaike we had bought a book and we also bougth something for Guusje and for jaap for his help with our house. Luckily it was dry and not too cold so the kids played outside chasing each other and dad set out a track with chalk around the block. Unfortunately the chalk did not last very long so the track was only one block. Nils and Wende found it so exciting but the older kids found it quite boring.. So they continued with playing football and other older games..

Chicken tonight?

Dad noticed something moving in the shed but realized that the rest of the family were inside.. Who or what was in the shed???? Closer investigation revealed that we had an unexpected guest, feathers macgraw. A chicken??? What the .....?? And we just hád dinner... Ah well, we released the futigitive near some bush from where we suspected this feathered friend came from.

Ingmar's bathtime and kyte flying with granddad

The vikings arrived!!

This weekend, Maaike arrived with my dad and mom from Hulst and also tanta Henny. Later on, Jaap and the girls arrived from Woerden and we had a great time with the family. Everybody stayed for dinner (soup with bread to be sure they all would be able to get home in time for the kids) They all took a tour through the new part of the house and the children played in the garden. Even two kids from surrounding neighbours joined for dinner. Although one of them was already dressed for bedtime and was supposed to return a toy.. Her mom eventually showed up to rertieve the lost one and was suprised to see her child having dinner again.. Dad had made a sail on the canoe and drawn special pirate paintings on it, great fun!!

More Ingmar

Ingmar came to the world not breathing and totally limp but the doctor got him breathing again but it scared us all very much. Nothing indicated a problem, the heartbeat was normal, the birth itself was a bit quick, maybe too quick for him to get ready for breathing on his own.. We will never know anyway. Now all is okay although he sleeps a lot! Not bad ofcourse but we have to wake him up every 3 hours to feed him and sometimes he doesn't want to wake up at all. Abyway, here are some more pictures..

INGMAR IS HERE!!

We are proud to announce the arrival of Ingmar, born 5-5-2009 1:15 am weighing 2960 grams.

More to follow, first some sleep..

Pirates, clowns granddad an grandma, pancakes and croissoints, what a weekend.

Thursday was queens day but this year some nut case drove his car into the crowds killing innocent people just because he lost his job and didn't like the royal family.. Nils and Wende didn't see it and we didn't tell them this. Because of this drama, several festivities were cancelled ofcourse so we didn't see all of the Andelse events. We did visit the "aubade" performed by the Andels fanafare corps. Not only the dutch anthem was played but also the brabants anthem, brabant is the province we live in. For dinner we had pancakes baked in our own kitchen. Friday afternoon, grandma and granddad from De Lier came to see us. They placed their caravan at the campsite where we stayed during the time we didn't have a kitchen. They joined us for dinner and we made a lovely lasagna in our new oven, just perfect. Dad painted some windows and doors and installed a large mirror in the bathroom and Cor the neighbour helped me lifting the heavy bast*ard. Nils and Wende played outside the whole day accompanied by the regular neighbourhood girlfriends. The trampoline is favorite. We also went to see the grandparents at the campsite and were treated ice cream! Nils picked the biggest chocolate one ofcourse and Wende didn't finish her ice cream. Sunday we went to the Verkade fabriek an old chocolate fctory where nowadays movies are shown. Nils went with mom to "Kikkerdril" a movie about a boy who needs an operations and tells his little brother (because he wanted to have frog eggs) that he wouldn't get better unless his little brother gets him frogs eggs. Dad went with Wende to a movie about a bear who finds the moon knocked unconsious in the woods. The moon was knocked off the skies by a unidentified airplane made of a bathtub and more wood. The bear takes care of the moon and after a couple of adventure they find someone who has an airplane as well and helps getting the moon back in the sky. Along the way the mystery of the unidentified airplane was also soved.. Wende stayed awake throughout the movie but dad was struggeling..