First Day of School - 1

What do you think Indi's expression says?

This is taken as we hop off the car and getting ready to walk to the school gate...

Thanks to Troy for taking the pictures on Indi's first day of school... !

I'm sooooo behind with blogging!!!

It's two days from March and I haven't post January pictures... :-)

News first... Indi has started his pre-school on January 15. The first couple of weeks he's got the normal 'separation anxiety', cried whenever I have to leave him, only for a while. Soon after that he's busy with the toys and school activities.
But after two weeks he stopped crying... gave me the goodbye kiss and hug, and see you soon... his eyes already wandering which toys he can grab.
There was a week break because he developed the Hand Foot Mouth Disease symptoms, but turned out it was false alarm. Thank God! But the week at home was driving him crazy... and driving me crazy too... :-) He was sooo glad to be back at school after that.

Robert was away on Indi's first day of school, but Troy was there, so Troy helped with driving us and taking the pictures. Robert is still travelling, and we managed to have a bit of a break. 10days break in Bali during the Chinese New Year.

I'm rushing now... would like to up-load a couple of pictures before time to pick up Indi at school, and put a load of washing in the laundry... phew... back to routine again.
After picking up Indi from school, it will be lunch time followed by his nap... routines, routines... routines..

Hope you're all well!!!!

New Year's Eve and New Year's Day

Picture of us on New Year's Eve




and New Years day with the 'extended family'...

Mama n "us"

A portrait of Mama on New Year's Eve...

... visiting cousins...

I haven't visited my cousin house for ages...!!! (last time was in Austin, Texas - i think!!! ouch!) During the Christmas 06 trip I made sure to that I visit them. With my brother Iksa as the designated driver.

It turned into a great visit because others were there, too: Yanti, Linda, Benno and Pingkan... Tari served a Menadonese lunch... SUPERB food! Fish and the dabu-dabu was yummy!!!
Photos taken by Adilla... See you next year... ... See my Tabblo>

from us...

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cousins

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more friends...

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... sanur girls...

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families... at birthday...

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... from the van de Bergh(s)..

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My Birthday... the van de Bergh(s)...

We met Herman and Elly at Lesti's wedding... and i'd like to think of them of good friends now. What makes it even better is the fact that we've met their daughters and their families (and also friends)... and we liked them all...!!!

This Christmas they all came to celebrate it in Jakarta... and also make time to come to my birthday party....

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...more of Christmas Day - this time it's with Mom's family...

We celebrate Christmas at Mom's younger sister's house - just a few house down from Mom's. It was planned or anything... but we were just there...

Roy and his family from Makassar happened to be visiting. Isn't it nice to spend Christmas with your families...? ... See my Tabblo>

Us On Christmas Day...

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indi n Sarah at Christmas Day

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... a visit to Elly and Herman...

We're back in good old 'betawi' for Christmas. One of the things we do is visit Elly and Herman whose family is visiting from Holland.
We saw Thies for the first time - Thies is Madelon's son. He's one year younger than indi, but he's bigger already... :-)

Indi had a great time playing with the toys and swimming with Herman and daddy.... ... See my Tabblo>

Emily and Ben Visits

Emily and Ben are the couple renting our old rented house. They were in Singapore for a week-end and we went out for brunch and a bit of sight seeing. We visited the famous hotel that starts with R... Here are some pictures of Indi goofing around with Em and Ben...

Posing...

Along our walks Indi would stop and play with things that he found, took some shots of him playing or rather jumping around this thing...







He loves to pose doesn't he... ? :-)

Strolling...

Went strolling with Indi and Ike... and for Indi it really means "strolling" - playing with his stroller. He'll push his stroller around, sometimes he'll bumped into others, and many times he'll make people smile. Well, just imagine this... what will you think if you see a stroller strolled by itself.... it's because Indi is still shorter than the stroller, and when he pushes it you can't really see him, so you'll think that the stroller is moving by itself.... We've seen a lot of people smile or laugh because of it...

See You Oma...

Indi doesn't like to say good-byes... but he sure likes to kiss... :-) Here's pictures of him saying good-bye to my mom....