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I have merged Tobias' and Lorelei's blog into one. You can find new posts about them on:
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If I Were a Carpenter

Tobias really wants a guinea pig. When I was little I remember having a rabbit and a guinea pig. I remember liking having them around. My mom remembers them stinking up the house and having to clean them all the time. Good thing the rabbit and the guinea pig weren’t my idea but hers at the time :-). Anyway, ours ended up in a rather sizeable cage outside.

So, I told Tobias all this and now we need a rather sizeable cage so we can keep the guinea pig outside… and that’s our rather sizeable project right now. I really enjoy that because we first made a plan, drew it up, got some wood and here we just got started on sawing the first poles. It’s going to be a really nice cage, but it will be a while before it is finished (and hence, before we actually have a guinea pig ;-)).

90 Years Ago

This year Tobias’ school celebrates it’s 90th anniversary. That is quite the milestone and they dedicated some class projects to it. In Lorelei’s class they looked at vehicles for transportation then and now. In Tobias’ class they looked into “professions” of then and now. Very interesting stuff. On the opening day of the celebration, February 8th, they went to school dressed in the kinds of clothes they wore 90 years ago. The perfect kodak moment, right? Well, Lorelei was a bit upset for one reason or other, but Tobias really wanted his picture taken in these “cool” clothes :-). He even made a sign (the piece of paper he is holding) saying: “This is 90 years ago!”, just in case :-).

They also took some pictures at school. Here’s one of Lorelei’s class from the school’s Facebook timeline (Lorelei is in the bottom row on the very left).

Christmas (final)

Taking posed pictures of one kid can be a challenge. Eyes open, nice smile (not too forced), good pose etc. Well, taking pictures of two children is exponentially more difficult. It took me quite some shots to get this one (and Tobias’ eyes are still kind of odd, or not? Anyway, I like this picture and I just wanted to post one more of my two very happy Christmas children.

Oh yeah, and very spoiled too. Check out the pile of gifts by the tree… Let' met just say tha 90+% of that was for them… yep… SPOILED, but happy and lovely, so I guess they deserved it…?

Sleepover with Catherine

I think I have written about Tobias’ girlfriend Catherine before, right? Anyway, there have been some sleepovers back and forth in the past.

The last one was a sleepover during the Christmas vacation at our house. It was just one night and it was a lot of fun. Warner, her brother and Lorelei’s friend, came over too. Before they came over we met in town for a skate and a sandwich. When they came over we played some games, watched a movie, had dinner and stuff.

Well, while watching the movie I found them on the couch like this :-). Kind of cute, right? (or should I be worried…?).

Maze

Tobias likes mazes. He got some maze books and a maze game from Santa. Well, on one of the last days of our Christmas break we went to a Castle (“De Haar”) near Utrecht and we went into a real maze. As you can see the hedges are tall, yet not so dense, but I can assure you, it still took some effort to get to the center, and to get back out. I can’t even imaging what it will be like when the leaves are dense and green…

Anyway, when we finally did get to the center Tobias was quite proud :-).

The castle was pretty cool by the way. We took a “Fairy tale tour” which was fun for both children and adults. I think we might go again someday…

Birthday Gifts

As you know, Tobias plays baseball. We got Tobias a baseball helmet and a baseball bag for his birthday this year. Despite the fact that it has nothing to do with Skylanders he was quite excited about that too. It looks pretty cool, right?

Lorelei got him Skylanders bedsheets, opa and oma gave him another Wii game, Mario and Sonic at the London Olympics 2012, but, like I said in my other posts, he mostly got lots of Skylanders stuff :-).