Nov 2002 Well he's cooked french bread tonight. Has chopped carrots and onions and garlic and suchlike for me too. I was quite impressed. First chopping pieces were way too big but he worked on them all and then they were perfect.
He's getting on excellently in school, quite a happy chap. Irish dancing and PE and library on wednesdays. Speech & Drama on Mondays. For halloween he had a string of rhymes and some songs he had learned.

Here's the witch with a pointy hat *do action*
here's the cauldron round and black, *action*
here's the stick something something *action*
mix it well and something? hmmmm.....

In a dark DARK forest, .... is a dark DARK castle.
In a dark DARK castle, ... is a dark DARK door.
etc... stairs, room, cupboard, box
A GHOST! Augh!

June 2002 Daire's getting big. St Olaf's. school starting this september. Soccer mad. Loves the farm in Cobh. Gets up early and wakes us up for work almost every day. I'm not keeping up with pictures at all at all. he can crack eggs (without getting shells in the mix

Sep 1998 Goodbye from Daire

Er was en klein wijsneus uit de Kangaroe in Huizen,
Daire heet hij en speelt hij soms met muizen!
Met kicken de kindjes en trekken lange haar,
Had hij geen eender, kampion was hij daar.

"En waar is mij kinderstoel, speelgoedkast en beer?
Som schorrienorrie heeft alles gestolen, ik wil het niet meer!"
"Alles zijn en Ierland bij onze nieuw huis,
Naar Dublin zijn jij meubles, jij speelgoed en jij muis."

"Bwaawbwawbwaaa" zegt Daire, "wat zegt u Mam?
Wij gaan naar Ierland? Hoe kan dat dan?
Weg van mij vriendjes, en Loes en iedereen?
Komen zij naar Ierland ook, bij schip en bij trein?"

"Nee Daire" zegt Mam, "zij blijft wonen hier,
Nieuw vriendjes zal jij hebt en Ierland, nog een keer.
Zallen wij stuur brieftjes en soms photos naar iedereen,
En terug zal je komt in de toekomst mischeen."

Maar nu gaan wij naar Ierland, tot ziens iedereen,
Success met alles, we'll see you again.

Right, well, here ye go, old.

Older photos

Oh! Wat mooi! Fionnuala, James and Daire, een kleine gezin. Gezellig!

About 5 minutes after being born. 3.5kg and 53ish cm long. That's Tieneke the midwife who's holding him up.

And this is all of us with our Krammzorg Regina, she came for the whole week after the bevalling. She cleaned, cooked, ironed, minded Daire and had a good time :).

Ronan and Daire all bundled together in a hangmat. In Baarn.

Waider, James, Robbie, Fionnuala, Bronagh and one BIG pint of Guinness in Waider's flat in Dublin. Can you see Daire?

Well, yes, I know we're in the Netherlands but here's Mary-Teresa in the farm in Cobh in the middle of lots 'n lots of pretty tulips. Daire's Great-Grandmothers house is in the background, we used live in it when we were smaller before we swapped houses with our Grandparents and went to live on the farm itself.

Hoi! Kijk! Jeroen ag damhsadh? Oh, sorry Jeroen, Win95 chopped off your bodies :(.

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