Don = a lamb
The first somewhat bigger named tropical strom this year is Don. Don triggered an unlikely reaction with much of the population in Houston / Texas as it would actually be very welcome to pass through the area. What?!?!? Well Don so happens to have a relatively mild intensity and could bring with little grievances other then some strong winds alot of very much needed rain to our drought. Unfortunately Don is unlikely living up to expectations.
The header on the local news site therefor reads Don = a lamb
Sarah's Party
One of the recent Brithday parties of Rick's friends at the Children's Museum had a semi professional photographer present resulting in some cute shots to share. I am respecing the kids-picture-web ethics and am tryng to avoid posting pictures of other people's kids without permission hence it is only a limited selection.
Roddy's dad & Sister w Eelco & Kaat
Happy Rick
'Successful City'
We live in the worlds’ 11th most successful city according to a recent report from PriceWaterhouseCoopers grading global capitals in terms of Finance, Innovation & Tourism mainly due to very good scores on cost of owning business space, entrepreneurial environment, life satisfaction, commute time and cost of living. The top 10 is filled with the usual suspects such as New York, San Francisco, Chicago, London, Paris, Sydney, Hong Kong and the maybe less expected Toronto and Stockholm. # 11 is not bad at all right? Especially if you think of places like LA, Seoul, Tokyo, Abu Dhabi, Beijing etc being lower on the list. The reason you might not really ‘see it’ is because Houston also attracts fewer tourists than any other comparable city.
Interesting question – what should Houston develop to become a tourist attraction? I would think it needs to involve Space, Oil & Cowboys.
6 Months
Today Kaatje is 6 Months. Already?!?! Yes that is what it feel like to me anyway and I would not mind if time went by a little slower. But I guess that means we are having fun right? Kaat is still a baby but no longer tiny....
We are not sure how she is stacking up against the 'norm' as we have not been for the 6 month check-up. Fortunately it easy to see that wherever she is on any curves she is just fine. The last few weeks Kaatje is really picking up skills and here favorite past-time is using her legs! Thank god for the exer-saucer (below) otherwise we would be holding her up all day. She is interested in toys now as well and gets frustrated when they fall overboard or if there is nothing to play with.
I guess Kaatje does not spend enough time in the Kitchen (like below with Rick) as she still has no real interest in any other food then milk. We try hard but she refuses (that is actually the word used on her daily diaper & food report from school as it so accurately describes the behavior - lips locked tight!) at home and school more often then not. At 6 months Big Brother Rick was having a go at all sorts of things including stuff on our plate but he also had his first teeth at 4 months and no sign of those yet with Kaat. No sign that the food effects her growth negatively as you can clearly see below.
Whilst Rick has discovered lounging & watching Toy Story (thanks Jeppe!) - well he actually is a little feverish -, Kaatje loses the ability to sit still more and more and is on the move below:
Rick appears to almost have an infinite amount of attention for his little Sis and is very very caring fetching her bottles and cleaning her face with 'doekies' and we think giving her lots of brotherly advise (we don't understand all of the conversation). So far even if she tries to grab Rick's toys he is ok with that and explains her calmly that these are not hers or even lets her have it - Miracle?
We just think she is the cutest girl on the planet and has the best smile ever. Easy & Sweet and these days always with a soaking wet front panel of any shirt or dress from drooling & chewing on it (No, really no teeth on approach even). I enjoy the shopping part a lot as well so Kaatje is the fashionista in her class -:)
Party Animal
Kaat still wakes up somewhere in the middle of the night. It appears these days mainly to have a party!
With huge smiles like those Kaatje concinces us it is the best thing in the world to get up at 2am.
After partying with her for a while we tend to put her back in bed - leaving her to party on by herself.
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