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Meeting after many years

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 7:50am

This week I met with Patricia and her husband Raymond. Patricia is a classmate from my high school, Wiringherlant and they are in the United States for a vacation. It was fun to see them. A little surreal too! We talked about my home town and Wieringen, where they are from, in the middle of the high rise buildings in Ballston.

I showed them my office and we had lunch together. On Thursday they traveled to Miami, where they'll run a road race.

Patricia is close friends with Saskia who I met a while back in California.

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Repairing books

Sat, 01/25/2014 - 7:00pm

Since we don't have access to Dutch libraries here, I try to build up a collection of Dutch children's books, including second-hand books.

We received a wonderful gift from Judith last year, and a few months ago I bought several books from a sale by a Dutch school in California.

Today I repaired several books. I had never done that before and in fact it has been a long time since I used glue and a brush. It's a rewarding project. The books will never look new again but at least they'll be usable for several more years.

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Shoveling

Sat, 01/25/2014 - 5:05pm

We had a lot of snow on Tuesday.

When I shoveled our deck Nora wanted to give it a try also.

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Cart

Thu, 01/23/2014 - 10:21pm

When we went to the grocery store earlier this week, we saw a shopping cart with a children's cart attached to it.

Nora greatly enjoyed riding in the cart, together with her toy Nijntje.

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"Nora zegt nee!"

Mon, 01/20/2014 - 10:48pm

This week Nora started giving her stuffed animals and toys water to drink and a "happie cereal" to eat.

Tonight, just before dinner, she came to us in the kitchen and said: "Nora zegt nee, koe! Nora zegt nee, koe!" (Nora says no, cow!).

She is using her authority over the cow and telling the animal: "no!". She was kind of impressed by this and kept telling us: "Nora zegt nee!"

The relationship with the cow is still fine. Nora wanted it next to her on the table with dinner.

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A spring day in January

Mon, 01/20/2014 - 10:45pm

It was very warm today with a high of 55° Fahrenheit (13 °C). When Nora took her nap Sasha and I had our coffee outside on the deck.

It's Marten Luther King day so we were home. It was nice to spend time at home; we played with Duplo and Playmobil and had a good day.

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National Aquarium in Baltimore

Sun, 01/19/2014 - 10:06pm

Today we visited the National Aquarium in Baltimore. It is said to be one of the best aquariums in the country and we really enjoyed it.

We left home at 9.15 am. Baltimore is about an hour away from here.

The first exhibition we saw was the "Blacktip Reef", a huge reef with animals from the Pacific ocean. There were rays, turtles, and many types of fish. There were big sharks, tiny seahorses, beautiful jellyfishes, and much more. At the end of our stay we watched a training session with 6 dolphins. A very impressive aquarium.

Nora had a blast. She got scared from the sharks -- they swim fast and made her jump when they appeared from around the corner all of a sudden. She particularly liked the dolphins.

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Saturday morning

Sat, 01/18/2014 - 9:49am

After breakfast Nora said: "beer, voorlezen!" (bear, read a book).

She asked me to give her the Jip & Janneke book and she read it. A quiet day at home after a tough week.

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Sunday morning at the National Gallery

Sun, 01/12/2014 - 3:25pm

We visited the National Gallery this morning. We considered going to the Phillips Collection, where there is a special exhibition on Van Gogh, but decided on our perennial favorites: 17th century Dutch art and French impressionists.

We prepared Nora by reading her "Nijntje in het museum" and in the car she was talking about "papa Pluis en mama Pluis". It was fun showing her the paintings and statues.

We had lunch in the restaurant in the museum and went home at 2.00 pm, for Nora's nap. In the evening she said "Van Gogh".

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