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Reading on Monday evening

Mon, 07/28/2014 - 10:25pm

A nice Monday evening. Nadya had made dinner and we ate early. Nora wanted to be read to over dinner so I read her de Grote Rode Schuur, an alphabet book, a few pages from the kabouterboek and two short stories: Ik will lekker stout and Het Fluitketeltje.

Later we read Dick Bruna's Bloemenboek and Nijntje in het ziekenhuis, the latter per Nora's request. I don't always manage to read to her every day, but we try.

Then we went for a walk to see the new sidewalk -- it was completed a few weeks ago and looks great.

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ourhouse

Deck is done

Sun, 07/27/2014 - 3:59pm

I wrapped up the deck resurfacing yesterday.

It feels great.

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dailylife

Jefferson Memorial and the Zoo

Sat, 07/26/2014 - 4:46pm

Yesterday evening we visited the Jefferson Memorial and the Martin Luther King Memorial and had a great dinner at Cafe Asia in Rosslyn.

This morning Nora, Sasha and Dyado and Baba went to the National Zoo. They saw the panda baby and Nora had a blast playing with the water feature.

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dailylife

Still so little

Thu, 07/24/2014 - 11:43pm

Nora is growing fast and wants to do everything herself: switching on the light, closing her shoes, filling her cup with water. If we by accident do those for her she gets upset and wants us to undo it so she can do it herself.

The best way of getting her to do something is saying: oh, Nora can't do that. She will insist to prove you wrong.

If I said "Ik ben twee en ik zeg..." she would answer "Nee!" Now she is cheeky and says: "Drie!"

It is cute to see that she is also still a baby (as she insists she is sometimes). When we drove back from Secaucus she didn't want to sleep. The solution? We put a blanket over her car seat, blocking her view. She fell asleep in 5 minutes.

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dailylife

Visiting the Mall

Mon, 07/21/2014 - 10:00pm

The Zanes left on Sunday morning. In the evening we went to the National Mall to see the monuments.

It was the first time that Nora saw the Lincoln Memorial and Reflecting Pool.

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sportstv

World Cup 2014

Mon, 07/14/2014 - 9:15pm


Last week's games concluded the 2014 World Cup. On Wednesday afternoon we saw Germany thrashing Brasil -- beating them 7 to 1 in a stunning game.

Sasha, Milan, Wouter and I were in Elephant & Castle where we sadly saw the Netherlands lose to Argentina on penalty kicks. I was quite disappointed.

The Netherlands won 3-0 from Brasil to win the 3rd place, and yesterday Germany won the final.

It was sad to see the Netherlands being eliminated in the semi-finals but this was a terrific World Cup with excellent games. Very enjoyable.

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ourhouse

Resurfacing our deck

Sun, 07/13/2014 - 11:00pm

Today I replaced 15 boards of our deck, the smaller part at the entrance of the backyard.

Our deck is from 1996 but the wood hasn't been cared for very well so some of the boards were cracked and splintered. The main deck is in better shape, thankfully.

It was a fun project to replace the boards but it was hard work. I started at 11.30 am and finished around 6.00 pm. Milan helped me get started and I'm proud of the end result.

The most exciting part was at the end, when I had to cut a board to fit in a smaller opening. I used my own circle saw for the first time.

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sportstv

Quarter finals: Netherlands - Costa Rica

Sun, 07/06/2014 - 10:49pm

Saturday we watched the game between the Netherlands and Costa Rico from Secaucus. When Nora woke up from her nap she watched the last hour of the game on my lap.

The game was exciting, even though the final score before penalty kicks was 0-0. Nora repeated the things we yelled at the TV.

Guus: "Oh, de bal tegen de paal!"
Nora: "Oh, de bal tegen de paal!"
... a few moments later...
Nora: "Waar is de paal?"

She really enjoyed the moment when the game ended and we all jumped up and shouted and clapped.

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dailylife

Nora and Dyado

Thu, 07/03/2014 - 7:34am

Nora is having a great time with her grandparents.

Here she is with Dyado, who is reading her a new book.

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plants

Pruning roses

Wed, 07/02/2014 - 10:24am

Nadya helped us in the yard this weekend. One of the things she did was pruning our roses. They are mature roses but hadn't been pruned in many years so it was time to cut them back drastically. Nadya has a lot of experience with roses.

It's nice to make progress on the yard. There are many more small projects we want to do but slowly but surely it's truly becoming "our yard".

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