May 18, 2006
Just a perfect day........
Wednesdays Jacob stays at home with me and we do nice things together, like raking up leaves, doing the shopping, building houses with the ironing-board and glueing leaves to bits of paper that are then posted to Oma in IJsselstein. Imagine that getting past quarantine in Australia!
Yesterday was even more fun than usual as Judy came over with Beatrice, Queenie and little-not-so-little-Charlie. We met Judy while we were living in Amsterdam and coincidentally, she and Cees moved back to Melbourne only months before we did.
Jacob is crazy about Beatrice and Queenie being just between them in age. From his point of view it's a bonus that they also understand Dutch. Together they hold garbled bi-lingual conferences on topics ranging from who neeeds-to-do-the-biggest-poo to brilliant-but-illegal-things-to-do-with-play-dough. These discussions have to be conducted at high volume, with frequent screams and yells and interspersed with sprints along the hallway to be effective.
Judy and I ocassionally get to talk to each other through the din, in between serving a constant stream of food and drinks and coming up with more-imaginative-ways-to-scream-SHUT-UP, which of course neither of us would ever do. By the time they leave Jacob is a very tired but very happy little heap on the couch. With such nice visitors and the glorious autumn weather we're having at the moment there's now another notch on Jacob and I's list of Perfect Wednesdays.
Posted by Faith