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a long while...let us see...a new house in Vlodrop and the kids..aaaa...Max can almost outrun me and two days ago he said "voeten" (feet), "opa/oma" (granddad and -mum) and he is grown big!! Bram is talking away rappidly and just is recovering from the waterpocks...very sad!!

welll...it has been a while.
But most of December and Januario me and Vivan were ill (infections of the throat or head or just a huge flue-attack) and during the Xmas-days and Newyear we just tried to relx in bed and gather our spirits a bit...
Whatever...we are ok again and we are working towards our move. We will be moving to a house in Vlodrop (470 m3 and 5 bedrooms!!) in March/April...
What is new with the boys?? Well...MAX just turned ONE and last weekend he started walking! It looks great!! Bram is just a little late with talking but every day he now seems to improve his speech!!

The hat my dad got for Bram is from Nepal where my dad went on a holiday. Bram does not leave the house without it!! He even wears it when going to the supermarket!! LOL

OK!!!! My dad came by today. Some two years ago he and I jsut could not see eye to eye anymore, mostly because of unresolved feelings of negativity that just kept popping up every meeting we had. So shortly after Bram's christaning I decided to cut the contact to a minimum.
It was a hard decision but I have no regrets about that decision since it brought nothing but positivity back into my life. But now, 2 years later I could now accept him and let him into my life again and into the life of my sons. So now finally Bram and Max have two instead of just one grandfather. And while Max does not comprehend it yet with him being not even one year old, but Bram is an entirely other story! But luckily he reacted great!! He made my father feel right at home and welcomed him with wide open arms. What a great sight it was seeing Bram sitting with my father, while my son was eeting a banana! Just a great sight!! Really!!

Besides that, the two boys are doing great and Bram is preparing himself for Sinterklaas (dutch version of Santa Cluas I guess) and we have gotten great toys!!

LATER!!

mmmmm Max fell...down the stairs!! I had picked up the boys and went upstairs to get them into the shower but when I gathered some showerstuff I forgot to close the gate (childprotection no less!!) and he took off and went down the stairs under my eyes! I saw him fall and it still sends shivers down my spine!! The last hour we checked and doublechecked him but other then some bruises he seems ok and he even shows his famous smile again!

Well...it finally happened...
Max can sit up straight and on his own AND he pulls himself up and stands on his own. He still stumbles sometimes and falls over but the kid has learned this all in just one week!! I personally am amazed tremendously at his speed in learning!!

We also decided to NOT go to a hearing test (which is kinda regulated here in Holland in order to check for hearing problems as being the cause of learning difficulties) for Max since with Bram it just did not work out quit right. He was prognosed as having failed for the test but in our honest opinion..we think it is just plain ridiculous. In a figure of speech Bram can hear mice crawling under the floortiles!! So my guess is that my kids just fail since they are easily distracted and that is ALL!! So Max is not even going! And we are very sure of the fact that Max also does not have a problem hearing things at all..in the contrary :-)

Bram is doing great also. He is very busy with words and making complete sentences. He still has a problem with the "l" making a 'HALLO' sound like 'HAJJO' but that just makes us smile that much harder! :-) Also the K is pronounced as a T so a COOKIE is a TOOKIE :-)

The boys are both big for their age with Max being 11 kilos (wearing size 76/80) and Bram being 16 kilo (wearing size 98/104).

Last night we went for the festivity called Saint Maarten. We went to church were a small sermon was held and the story of the Saint was being played by children. Afterwards we all walked (kids holding little lights) to a field were a huge bonfire was being lit and songs of Saint Maarten were sung by children. Both Max and Bram had a great time and were very excited about the fire and all the people.

And ofcourse me and Vivian were excited because of that in return!! :-)

die jaren vliegen inderdaad voorbij. Maar dat komt omdat je MET kinderen NOG ientensiever leeft. Ik ga niet meer uit (af en toe een filmpje) maar ELKE dag is weer fantastich OMDAT die kleine koters zo lekker bezig zijn. HEEL vermoeiend maar HEEL intensief.

En voor eimand die geen kids heeft kan je het gewoon niet begrijpen. Dat kan gewoon niet!

Maar zelfs al ben je KAPOT en je ziet dan die ene glimlach die NET dat randje tand (Max zijn eerste) laat zien OF je gooit je kid de lucht in en hij kraait OF Bram stoot zich giga en springt in je armen om getroost te worden en hij gooit dat 2+1/2-jarige lijfje om je heen OF ik zie Bram voor het eerst op zijn driewieler wegkrossen OF ik zie dat Max ervandoor gaat (hij heeft net leren kruipen en een vaart dattie maakt!!) terwijl we net een deken met speeltjes neerlegden en dan komttie al verkennend als een hondje onder de tafel doorgekropen OF bram valt in de auto in slaap OF je gaat naar bed en je stopt ze nog even in en je ziet Bram met zijn hoofd op het voeteneind en Max met een bungelend armpje buiten de spijlen liggen.....dat maakt de indruk! Daar doe je het voor! En dat is meer waard dan mijn hele collectie Vampirella en Kabuki en Spawn en Aria EN mijn website (100mb en 200+ pagina's)(jullie weten wat dit allemaal voor me betekend he!!??) bij elkaar!!

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Well....I had a week off (august 4) and that was also the hottest period in my providence (Limburg in the Netherlands) in the last 100 years with temperatures going well over 30 degrees Celsius (I believe that is 100 F). We have this little swimmingpool, just big enough for Bram and Vivian and me could sook a little when we were overheating :-)

That is all we needed cause that is all Bram needed. And we are happy when he is happy!! And Max just plays around on a blanket in the shade and is very happy with that.

Since I have had 4 weeks off in februar (due to max coming to this world) I have little days left but in the week of 11th august I took an extra 3 days off! Just sooking up the sun some more and being with Viv and the kids! just lovely.

We had a couple of barbeque's with ourselves or with friends and that is the most important thing! Sun, fun and meat!!!

We also got some new chairs for the kitchen. The old wooden chairs were very old and I took an axe and chopped them up. You should have seen the look in Bram's eyes!! He totally loved seeing this dad do this crazy thing!! And it went better from then cause we made a nice bonfire (in a metal firebasket...I dont know the exact english term) and I burned the 4 chairs!! It was till well after dark when I finished and Bram stayed up very late!! 21.30 hours was his bedtime cuase he was so enthusiastic he just couldn't be brought to bed earlier!! lovely!!

I will be uploading some nice pics of the boys in the next couple of days if I can but here is a nice preview!!

Anyway. Life is good. Vivian is still searching for a new job (she got fired as soon as she told her boss she was pregnant of Max) but we are still fine. The boys are doing just great.

Yesterday we took Bram (Max stayed with grandma/pa) to a swimmingpool and he just loved the water. If we hadn't held him he would have jumped straight in. He just thinks he can swim I guess!! He did go under a couple of times and on one occasion he threw up on me cause he had gotten a bit too much water inside but that did not spoil his fun one bit!! He even loved it when I took him into this gigantic slide!!!

Oh Max has started crawling since a week. Bram's speech is getting better and better and it is so much fun to hear him talk and trying so hard to make correct sentences!

This past weekend I wanted to do some work in the fromtyard, trimming some stuff while the kids where sleeping. I hadn't finished when Vivian brought Bram. He was already awake and he always yells WAKKUR then. Very adorable.
And there he came with his boots on his feet. Pappa working in the garden, well..so will he :-) So he picks up the broom and starts turning some of my debris unerneath the car :-)
I started cutting away a bit more and Bram joins me. Just plainly looking at what his daddy is doing. End all of a sudden he just walks away since he lost intrest in what I was doing. Still so cute!! But while he walks off he crosses a big log on the crossing of the yard to the neighbour and suddely he stands in the middle of a swarm of wasps!!!
Never knew there was a nest there since I always walk over those logs to get to my side of the yard!!
But there Bram was, scared and almost making no sound at all and over 20 wasps buzzing around him!! With only one jump I leap next to Bram and wildly toss my arms through the air and fencing off those groundwasps. I grab Bram and spin him around so the wasps hopefully will get off my son. I make a run for it and those damned wasps start coming at me like in a sodding cartoon!! But I manage to loose them all the while trying to slap away wasps from my son! And when I put Bram down I still see a wasp on his nosebridge and one on his head!! I slap those away and Vivian (still not having a clue as to what is happening really) takes over Bram. Bram is scared silly and cries on and on. Vivian even gets some tweezers and takes 3 waspangles (is that a correct word??) from his head which where still sticking out! And when his eye starts swelling I rush him to the doctor, afraid of an allergic reaction!
But in the end Bram is ok. He wasn't allergic but a wasp had stung him next to his nose close to his eye and that was merely a logical swelling. BUt add 3 more stings in his hair and one on his arm (totalling 5) I was glad IU rushed him to the doctor, just to be sure.
Daddy dearest only had 2 stings in his arm :-) At least now we know that neither me or Bram and even Vivian (who got stung back in '92) are allergic. Now Max... ????

We also got a new pet! A little bunny Vivian has named HENDRIK, after RIK my bro-in-law who is on holliday with his family and left their bunny to stay with us.

Let me see if I can tell some more...
max is fun as always. He is still incredible cheerfull and laghs a lot. Those high pitched screems that breaks into almost-singing is the sweetest thing to behold I tell you. Max is now 6 months and weighs 9200 grams and is really tall. But we never thought he would be smaller then Bram at six months, but he is... :-)