JESSICA, JANE & HARI COME FOR TEA

Family Visit
This weekend, Jessica, Super-Aunt (superlative of great-aunt...) and 'our 'Arry flew out to see us. We had a very gezellig afternoon - obviously with chips. Unfortunately our ice-skating plans were thwarted by a foot of snow...

Peekaboo

Jools is getting really big...

Some pictures to keep track of how quickly she's growing
Blink twice and she'll be off to college...

Jools's first heirloom/hand-me-down :)

Jools nice & warm in her first official family heirloom
Thanks for vacating it, Jessica!

Jools goes to stay with Opa & Oma

Baby Jools went on a mini package holiday to Muiderberg
Oma Magda and Opa Jacques had fun too.

The view from our balcony

SAGRES 2009

Our trip to the Algarve was wonderful

Just got back from a week's holiday to Portugal. The weather was great and we had a wonderful time. Here's some pictures to make you jealous.

We stayed at the Memmo Baleeira hotel (highly recommended!), run by a friend of my friend Godert's... which was absolutely stunning. The last picture is of the view from our balcony in the morning (!)... due to the funny geographical position of Sagres, we had a view of sunRISE over the sea in the morning, and a view of sunSET at the most south-easterly point of Europe only 4 minutes drive away.

Op Bezoek bij ...Overgrootmoeder

That's Dutch for visiting great-grandmother

Jools's great-grandmother Mrs. De Boer lives in Diemen, close to Sue.
Ingeborg and Aunty Kiki went round with Jools.

International Babe of Mystery

Joolsie got her first passport

Pretty smart, we thought...
Amazing how Ingeborg got her to sit still!

Grandma & Grumpa : BabyBjorn

No, not tickets to the ABBA revival tour... ;)

Even better : a mega-handy baby-carrier
This way we can potter around with the baby - hands free !
Thanks very much!

FRONTEER ROCKS!!!

Wow, my colleagues have really great taste in presents!

My dear colleagues at Fronteer Strategy made Jools a 'trappelzakje' in the Fs house style and colours. She loves it - sleeps in it every night.

Wouldn't mind one myself :)

Baby Jools - Bath Time in HD

This is a TEST

As Grandma rightly pointed out, the videos on the weblog are a tad small (not to say postage stamp size...) so a lot of detail is lost.

So... this little video is a test to see whether HD video will come out any bigger on the screen.
Hopefully so.



Hmmm apparently not. oh well, I'll send a CD for your viewing pleasure...

We just can't keep up....

With all the wonderful presents...
6 weeks old and already spoiled beyond salvation.
We simply can't keep up with all the wonderful cards and presents - too much to put on the weblog. Dresses, shoes, clogs, books, toys... we're getting a bit embarrassed.

I must say it's great to get so much mail though... and Joolsie feels very loved.
Here's two more of the lovely presents that Jools was given this week - and are stacked up on the record player before being worn/read/played with/installed/watched/etc...

A very ALOHA indeed romper suit from Jan, Roos & Hannah Roos
A lovely wooden bead dummy chain with Joolsie's name on it from Merel, Hester and Jozee

(Please don't be offended if your present isn't on the blog... it probably means Jools is already wearing it :))

Turn your frown upside down

More wonderful mail...

Today we received a package from Antoine and Karen Peters.
Antoine is one of Holland's top young designers, famous for his use of fun and humor in his collections. Legendary are his shows called "Don't turn a mosquito into an elephant", "Fat people are harder to kidnap" and "Turn your frown upside down".

Ingeborg has made a number of spectacular (and much photographed) entrees at fashion week wearing Antoine's dresses.

Now Joolsie can wow her peers in a unique "Sweater for the world" sweater.
Thanks Antoine!!!

Granda Magda

Movie Time

Last saturday, grandma Magda (a.k.a. "Madge" :)) celebrated 40 years of being a nurse.
Coincidentally it was also her birthday. Anyone interested to see what we got up to can check out a video of all the fun at

http://magdajacques.blogspot.com

This is also the first time I used the new sooper dooper camera and most of the gizmo applications on the computer to do fancy editing... so beware :§

2 COOL 4 SCHOOL....

Coolest Baby in Town don't wait in no line ... she on the guest list!
My friends Casper & Cynthia sent Jools her very own Jimmy Woo t-shirt.
That means she's the incrowd of the incrowd....
Jimmy Woo is only the hottest nightclub in town ;)
























Casper and Cynthia's son, by the way, is called James Rod.
James after some cool bloke they apparently know. Rod after ... Stewart.
Pretty cool heh?

Thanks guys!

Greetings from Oegstgeest

A present from Joke & Brian

Grandma popped round to say hello and drop off a lovely present from her friends Joke and Brian. Very sweet, thank you so much!

The New Camera Works !!! Grandma and Oma on Video

HOORAY !
Thanks for driving up and down to Urk again for us mum.
The camera works a treat now - and the resolution is great.
Can't wait to start figuring out all the tekkie features.

Here's a first snippet of what Ingeborg recorded this afternoon.

Soiree de Bebe

Soiree de Bebe

Marjan, Lisemarie, Cathelijne and Ingeborg all gave birth in the same week. Mark, Olivier, Robert-jan and I are still not quite sure what happened there, but... the babies' 1st month birthday was a good enough excuse for a little get together.




Sorry about the music - there aren't very many soundtracks on iMovie to choose from.

NEW HAT

JOOLS HAS A NEW HAT

Not quite sure if she likes it ....

Leonie, Tessel, Floris, Alexander, Godert, Teun and Dick

A house full of guests
It's so great to realise how many wonderful friends we have, now that everyone pops by to meet Jools.

Today, my favorite fraternity friends Teun & Godert came to visit, with their respective 'better halves' Dick and Leonie (supported by sons Floris and Alexander). Thanks so much for the books, we look forward to loads of bedtime reading fun.

My friend Tessel also came to visit, bringing with a car full of presents : thanks for the suit-saving 'Burp Cloth', book and of course the super cool shoes ! Now daddy and daughter can go out strolling, wearing the same shoes!

Back by Dope Demand : more bath time video

In Bath with Dad this time

Excuse me whilst i discover and use new gizmo's on my wonderful Apple computer's iMovie programme. I've been banned from using the 'canned laughter' sound effect, but here's a go at slow fades and slo-mo... Tarantino, move over!

Tante Tinus a.k.a. Valentina from the House of Hulsman

Valentina!

My lovely friend Valentina is a famous aromatherapist and Aroma Jockey (that means she mixes up different potions of essential oils which she then evaporates in big vats of bubblling water at big dance events to make the atmosphere warmer, more welcoming, etc.).

Joolsie thought she smelled very nice indeed and had a thouroughly enjoyable snooze on her lap.



















Her company is called House of Hulsman and she makes custom-made bath oils, perfumes, massage lotions and therapeutic salves.

Danielle and Ivar from Zuiderwouderbergerdammerdijk

Ivar & Danielle

Ivar is a good friend from secondary school. He lives in Kodak-country (fields, traditional green wooden houses, windmills and clogs) to the north of town with his girlfriend Danielle. They bought Jools these wonderful pink, purple, yellow, blue and white Nike DUNKs.... they're cooler than my own!!!!

Their house is one of those super stylish homes you see in magazines: from their bedroom they have a clear view over fields for miles. Fortunately, they seem to enjoy slumming it ;) at our place too.

Ivar is beyond cool: he (bass player...) and his band the Rare Groove Orchestra played at the North Sea Jazz festival...