Dat was de titel van de verjaardagsmail van Maïté, mijn Franse vriendin. En tegenwoordig ben je echt jarig, met voordurend appjes van lieven mensen die alle emoji'suit de kast halen. En ik kreeg nog één echte kaart, van Marleen:
Margrietjes, mooi hè.
En dan heb ik weer een verzameling uit Singapore:
We're eating lunch. Aiden raises his glass... "a big loud sound! One two three... CHEERS!"
Elsa's portrait of mama.... 😝
so adorable.... she looked at shirls for a while and then drew, looked again and drew, she was very careful
Aiden: "I want to go running with Oliver and PJ and you."
Erik: "Sure, but we run very, very far. Maybe you can instead join us, on a bicycle one day."
Aiden: "Then mama's hair will be very, very messy."
Erik schrijft hierbij:
Elsa also drew this very sophisticated house /rocket ship /not sure what.... Find oma!
Maar ik zie wat ze getekend heeft. Ons huis. Je ziet de oprit (pijl) met daarboven de weg naar links en rechts.
Je zien het huis in twee delen, links Roelofs huis, rechts mijn huis. In de huizen zijn kamers, in mijn huis haar bed. En de blauwe krassen zijn het zwembad.
We run across a road, while the pedestrian light turns red.
Erik: 'uh oh it was red, now I feel like a bandit."
Elsa (panting): "it's OK papa, there is no camera at this light. "
I had my handphone in my pocket. Aiden came to me and asked "mama, guess what is in your pocket?" I said, "my hand phone." Aiden said "No, you have to guess first." I said "ok.... An apple?" Aiden said, "No.." I said, "My handphone?" Aiden said, "Yes!
Aiden: "I want to take bus 166."
Erik: "But that doesn't go to our home.'
Aiden: "yes it does."
Aiden holds a pack of chocolate sprinkles. Written on it is "HAGELSLAG", in very big letters.
"I know how to read this, Papa!" He points his little index finger at
the H and as he very carefully moves right, he says:
"Sss-Puh-Rrr-Ih-Nuh-Kuh-Luh-Sss"
Lunchtime. The menu has pictures.
Aiden points at a noodle dish. "Is this one spicy?"
Katelyn: "no, it is not spicy."
Aiden points at another image: "is this one spicy?"
Katelyn: "no."
Auden: "how about this one?"
Katelyn :"yes, that's a spicy noodle."
Aiden reaches with his hand to the menu, pretents to grab the photo and promptly stuffs the grabbed air into his mouth. He opens his eyes wide, twists his face and curves his back. "oooh, brrr, huuhhh that is a spicy noodle."
Hierboven een zelfportret van Aiden.
It is shower time. Elsa is daydreaming and staring at a bar of soap on the shower floor.
Erik: "Hello, please pickup the soap and wash yourself... Stop doing nothing."
Elsa: "I was staring at the soap, I was not doing nothing."
Poor Aiden. He started crying after we reached school today. So I hugged him and said, "Shh, it's ok. Let's go into class and find your friends."
But in class too, he kept crying. And I said, "Come, one more, the biggest hug of the day."
We hugged, released and then Aiden said to me, "I miss Mama."
over de tekening van Aiden, links:
Painting by aiden, which has waves, a man floating on the water, a girl and her sister staying in the holiday home, a cat with a very long tail on a leash, and 10 crosses..... 😝
Hint, the very long tail of the cat is the line that runs across the bottom of the paper
We're getting ready to go to school (Katelyn left much earlier).
Aiden says, "today I don't want to go to school."
I tell him he will be home alone then. He says defiantly, "today, I will stay with mama."
Elsa laughs, "but mama is already in her office."
It is quiet for about twenty seconds, and then Aiden asks with a super sweet voice: "Papa, can you show me the way to Mama's office today, please?"
We share the lift with a dog and its owner. The dog sniffs around the floor.
Elsa: "Dogs really like floors. They do everything on the floor; they smell the floor, they pee on the floor, poop on the floor."
Toen de kinderen bij ons waren, maakten ze kennis met struiken waar ze zomaar frambozen uit konden plukken.
Children miss raspberries.... These 2 little bowls cos sgd13... But aiden was very close to picking up a random raspberry that was on the floor of the supermarket.... So i decided to buy for them....
En dan nog een die ik zelf meemaakte.
Elsa had mij een brief geschreven, die netjes via de post aan kwam. Ik besloot een kaart terug te sturen waar zonnebloemen op stonden. Ik bedankte haar en vroeg haar: kun je deze kaart aan Aiden laten zien? Hij zegt dan vast: "SUNFLOWERS"net zoals hij altijd deed toen hij bij ons was een het zoveelste veld met zonnebloemen zag.
Toen de kaart aankwam kon ik meekijken met de whatsapp. Elsa las de kaart voor en rende naar Aiden om de kaart de laten zien.
Aiden riep: "SUNFLOWERS" en meteen erna: "Where is the cat?" (Moby, die inmiddels dood is).