Dancing Queen

Doing a quick dance on the drywall dad was about to cut.

Busy day at the Command Center

Savita spend quite sometime arranging whatever not from the Command Center today. She barked orders into the mouse/phone while pounding on the keyboard.

With the fixins

No Savita pictures today. Just finished fixing our neighbors/tenants screened in porch. Really needed to be done. Now it looks and feels a bit like a 50's diner I think......not sure yet if that is a good or a bad thing.

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Xmas/St Nicolas present

We didn't celebrate either holiday this year, but we thought it would be nice for Savita to have a bike for outside.....of course they no longer make regular bikes that just bike.....this one has lights and sounds and what not.....so when Savita took her nap this afternoon I took out the batteries.

Here's the outside ride inside, just for today.

Chopsticks

How do you teach a one year old to use chopsticks? I have no idea, I didn't learn how to use them properly until I was well in my teens. Here's Savita giving it her best shot. Maybe it is innate?

If the shoe fits.......

Taking care of the pearly whites

Mountain Goat

We can't turn around or Savita is on top of something, preferably standing! Here she climbed on top of the chair to be closer to the speaker so she could better enjoy the music. Other than that not much new.....used Skype with Opa and Omi which was a big succes with Savita waving and blowing kisses.

Op deze foto's kun je ook goed de tegels zien die tijdens de eerste verbouwing vorig jaar Jan. in de 'voorkamer' zijn gelegd. Zand kleurige tegels. In de vorige post kun je nog de oude tegels zien die in de woonkamer liggen, die zullen we op een gegeven moment ook wel vervangen, maar eerst even een aantal andere dingen ondernemen.

The Great Orator Savita

Whenever there's a box around Savita deems it her toy and so the box our new laptop came in was also considered hers to play with. It's great to drag around the house as a make shift suitcase, but that gets boring after a while. She figured out she could climb on top of it and be taller. Here's the great orator on her soap box. Especially the look in the seconsd picture is great I think.

Big Help

Here's our big help climbing the ladder to "help" dad.

Bookworm

Books are the in thing right now. No no she doesn't read them yet, she just leaves through them. Once she's leaved through them a couple of times she moves on to the next book.

Relaxing

Bought this chair today for Savita because we don't really have any small size chairs. Looked at several kids chairs with funky prints on it for beaucoups of money, but none of them seemed as nice, sturdy and stable as this one. Savita seems to like it. She can get on and off easily and move it around to where she wants it. Note mom relaxing in the background.

I know Savita looks huge in this picture, but she's not quite that big. She growing fast and is up to Thu butt, but she's petite compared to some other kids I have seen on island her age. At her 1 year check up she was in the 50% for her age.

Lachende Kanibaal

In de knel

Savita had zich aardig in de knel gewurmt vanmorgen op een stoel onder de tafel en toen zat ze opeens vast. De goede vader die ik ben, ik heb haar eerst uitgelachen toen een foto genomen (moest eerst nog even de batterij vervangen, want die was leeg) en haar uiteindelijk uit haar benarde positie bevrijd.


Ze begint een aardige klimmer te worden. Ze heeft het vorige week voor elkaar gekregen om uit haar bed te vallen. Kennelijk is ze helemaal omhoog geklommen aan de spijlen van haar ledikant en heeft toen haar lichaam er overheen kunnen wurmen. Ik hoorde haar alleen vallen. Niks aan de hand geen gebroken botten, blauwe plekken, of schaaf wonden.


Savita managed to get herself in a bit of a bind this morning on top of a chair underneath the table. Good parent that I am I first laughed at her then had to take a picture of course (before I could do that I had to change the battery because it was empty) and eventually freed her from her tight spot.


She's becomming quite the climber. She succeded to fall out of her bed last week too. Apparently she climbed all the way up the rungs of her crib and hurled her body over the top. I just heard the thud. She walked it off though, no broken bones, bruises or scrapes.

Bear Hug

Eigenwijze Drol

Hard to Imagine

It's is still hard to imagine how fast Savita is growing.... She walking, talking gibberish and learning more each day.

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Samba bal

"Ik heb worstjes op m'n borstjes, preitjes op mijn dijtjes, marmalades en salades op mijn bil...."

Thu thought it was a good idea to buy these maracas (samba ballen) for Savita, when you shake them they count to ten and name the colors of the rainbow (in both English and Spanish) or they just play music. She likes them, but after 5 minutes it gets pretty annoying (to me at least!) when Savita walks around shaking the thing and yells out, rojo!, naraja!, amarillo!, verde!, azul!, morado!

Upgrades

Our new and improved shed.

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People sometimes ask us why we live in Saipan. Here's my answer from now on: because the view from our shed is most likely better than the view from your house. Note the reflection of the view in the window.

Aspiring Chair Woman

As soon as we get up from a chair Savita will climb in and make herself comfortable.

Gek Bekkie!

Gekke bekkies zijn altijd leuk. Dit is op dit moment haar favoriete tas. Vanmorgen liep ze zwaaiend de kamer uit met haar tas op haar schouder (net als mama op weg naar werk). De foto is van vanavond voor het douchen. Weet niet waar dit bekkie vandaan komt?!

Strange faces are always fun. This is her favorite bag at the moment. This morning she walked out of the room with her bag on her shoulder waving goodbye (just like her mom when she is getting ready to leave for work). The picture was taken this evening right before her shower. Don't know what is up with the face!?

Child Proof Chair?

Until recently Savita hadn't managed to get on top of our chairs. Right now, if we leave a chair unattended she will be on it. Even if the chair is under the table, she'll pull it out and climb on top. Once on top she will feast on whatever she can find on the table or kitchen counter. How do you child proof a chair? I think there's a patent in the making!

Almost done!

Our bedroom is almost done. We bought a fan and blinds while we were in Guam. The only thing left is the louvre doors for the closet. Working on it......

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It's a Girl!

Our youngest niece: Silke Eva van der Geest. Born Oct. 16th.

Looks like she'll be a longhorn!

Savita would point at the picture and then to herself indicating she thinks it is her in the picture. The confusion is understandable because the only baby pictures she has seen are pictures
of her self.

Canoe Race Pictures

Micro Cup 2008 Results for Saipan: 2nd in 500m, 2nd in 1000m, 2nd in Long Distance (12 miles/19km).

Future Reporter

Savita is trying to decide with our local TV reporter what footage of her dad's canoe race should be shown on TV that evening.

Savita probeert samen met de lokale TV verslaggeefster uit te vogelen welke stukjes video van haar vaders canoe race op TV moeten komen die avond.

Sweet Ride II, III, & IV

Before she got on it she had to check what was under the hood. Apparently whatever was under the bonnet met her approval and she took it for a test drive, easy at first, but soon she was making vroom! sounds.