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february 20th
Summer is 7 months old now. And it's time to write something again.
Today ,after many times trying, she opened her mouth to eat a bite of fruit.
Before this she always kept her mouth shut tight and I has to push the spoon
in., And she seemed to enjoy it. At this moment she is in her chair just
grinning. There's always something to laugh about. Especially when grandad does
his trics.
Last week we swam for the first time. At dads work there's a great pool, nice and warm. We swam with some other kids who have a handicap., and mostly their mums. No dads, as ussual
The warm water is so nice
Last sunday Summer's friend Rick had his first birthday and his
baptismal at the same moment. He invited Summer and Merel at his party to. The
party was great.
In church Merel started asking when the birdician (magician) would come. (in
dutch a magician is a 'goochelaar' and someone who has something with birds a
'vogelaar').
When the priest talked about Jesus, Merel asked me where he was, looking and
searching around at the same time.(for the record, we aren't believers ourselves
so she never comes in church). Merel really loved little Rick and wanted to play
with him al the time.
And above this all, we don't have to worry about a suitable marriage candidate
anymore. Thats all been taken care of by Ilse, Ricky's mum. We just have to wait
and see if Summer and Rick feel the same in about twenty years time.
At the party we met the parents of Camiel. Very nice people who tell the same
emotional stories that we told. Camiel just had heart surgery and that kept me
busy the last weeks. It all comes back again in those moments. When I saw him
for the first time in church and on top of this, there was a song written
especially for him and Summer in the book of pray, it all got to me. At those
moments you realise that al emotions fire up in the flick of a moment. Just
touching the right button and 'bang' there there.
My future son-in-law's party was great. I had a private little
talk with him about the things of live. He understood. This little guy is okay.
Summer's got a good match with him.