eh

yannick is not feeling well and his voice is almost gone. of course i feel really bad for him and i worry about him, like i always do when he's not in his element, but... i know i'm going to burn in hell for it, but it's also kinda hella cute when he throws a tantrum and only a little 'eeeh' comes out.

i'm so bad.

annoying!

'eh hee' is not available for download outside the u.s.

WHY? just give me a good reason and i'll shut up.

there is no good reason. is there???!!!

(p.s.: yannick and i started a band - i play the flute, he plays drums)

meeemorieieieies

(yes, i look like a dork)

i'll be wearing that mccain shirt!

i had to delete this post because it just might be possible that some people won't understand that i'm kidding (or take offense to hanging out with doug - you never know).

so that's why i have to say something else now. hm....

if the only way to losing weight and not gaining it back is a change in lifestyle, why do so many people around me still (crash) diet?

just wondering.

ANYWAY. close to booking that flight to MSP and SFO!! woo!

just for fun

(if i would and could vote, i think it'd be hillary - i'm dying to get a hillary baseball cap when i'm in the states THIS MAY)

82% John Edwards
78% Hillary Clinton
78% Barack Obama
76% Mike Gravel
75% Dennis Kucinich
74% Chris Dodd
71% Bill Richardson
70% Joe Biden
44% Rudy Giuliani
36% John McCain
31% Mitt Romney
31% Tom Tancredo
25% Mike Huckabee
20% Ron Paul
16% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

no wait - a mccain t-shirt just to piss off the europeans when i return!

forget 'teaching' english

... because my english is getting worse and worse. i'm noticing i'm not speaking it everyday anymore (since i don't work for an international company now).

it's annoying me to bits and it means i should just get my butt on a plane, right? right!

baby talk

so you're probably expecting a somewhat comprehensive, or at least interesting and intelligent post by now - but you guessed it: no such luck.

i'm just going to talk about my boy. cause i feel like it. so there.

yannick got a dvd for sinterklaas. he's completely into it. and that is the first Principle with a capital p that's out the window. i always swore my kids wouldn't be allowed to watch tv before the age of six. he's now 16 months old. good going, mom.



he's such a delight though. i think in many ways, he takes after me. he enjoys playing by himself (current favorites: duplo and blocks) and even 'reads' to himself. he'll just grab a book and talk out loud, sometimes getting a word or two right (and looking mighty proud doing so), but most is just gibberish - cute gibberish. he's talking like crazy anyway, sometimes even blurting out a sentence (current favorite: get out of the way). anyway, he enjoys the company of other children and playing with us just as much as being by himself - something we've got in common.

i sing english songs to him (all time favorite: because by the beatles), but i'm afraid to really teach him english. i don't want to be pushy. i firmly believe that you can give your kid too much attention and you shouldn't always be directing him but let him discover things on his own. is regularly exposing him to another language 'too much attention', especially since it's not my native language and he's in the process of learning his own native language as well? i don't know yet.

it's a hard enough job to set boundaries and rules these days anyway. he's quite obviously developed a consious and is testing us all the time. here's a pic of what happens when he doesn't get his way :)



last but not least, just one of my favorites of yannick with his great grandmother, grandmother, and cousins.

without permission