My birthday is coming up and I can treat my friends at day care. This is always very exciting, because then I can be in the centre of attention, and - not the least!! - I get to stand on a chair! While the others sing for me. So, I am excited to prepare for this treat. We make paper cups with a mandarin, an umbrella and some candy.
Wow, that was quite something, such a first morning. But it was fun!! But at twelve o'clock I was tired and happy to see mama. Home!
But after a lunch I revive, and we prepare the evening meal: we need to grind the last hazelnuts. I get into the mood, and I get 'sugar' (flower) and water to play with, in the hot spring sun.
Then I need a bath.
I am nearly four year old, and ever since I turned three, I have been saying: 'when I am four, I go to school', basisschool I say, that is the official name of the school.
A couple of weeks ago we went voting, and voting took place in the school. I met miss Maartje. She was so sweet and showed me my name plate for my coat, and on my own little chair.
This morning I was very excited. But finally we were ready! Here I am just before I go.
Thank you Grandma Franka! She gave me these shoes when I was born. Now I fit them. Look, how well Snow White (= me) can dance with them. Ballet means lifting your legs high!!
Papa brings me to day care. Mama waves through the low window in the dining room.
In the book is shown how you can finger knit. But I don't have the patience for it. But there is an easier way to make nicely knitted cords. You twist and twist and twist. And then it twists by itself. And then you have a nice necklace. Or head band.
This a mama's old puppet Lily. But I have today called her Isa. Sometimes I am Prinses Isa, but today it is the puppet.
I am dressing and un-dressing her.
The baby dragon always wants to be be fed with the black stones by little children. Yesterday it asked Alex to feed him, but mama said no! Too many stones in its stomach already.
So, uncle Frank invented the lunchbox for keeping the stones.
Today I tend to the dragon and give him a little blanket and feed him from the lunchbox.
Simon has made a chocolate cake with raspberries. Mmmm! 'Shall we come and bring you some?', he asks. Yes please! And we sit in the bright sun eating cake. I am very excited about bringing my cooking table out, and so Simon and I cook outside.
Alex, of course, is firmly attached to our ponds. Luckily he finds our fish back, after the heron visited us.
Mama and I walk into the village, to pick up the new curtains for my room. Running downhill is fun, and here near the bridge is my chance!
As we drive home from day care, I am talking with mama. 'I can't see the sun today. It is a grey day.' I say. 'Het is een grijs weertje vandaag'. This is perhaps not translatable, adult words by Ces.
