Another blog

We are not the only couple, that is going to China to adopt a child this week. There are two couples, who are joining us, as you could have read in an earlier blog entry.

One family of three is joining us in going through to Xi'an, in Shaanxi province. They have a blog as well. You can read about it here: http://www.bokomtthuis.waarbenjij.nu/.

Visiting Tijs and family

We visited Ellen and Hubert, good friends of ours, to see their newborn son Tijs, who was born on easter day, 8th of April. Today we visited them to see Tijs for the very first time. He is such a handsome baby boy. He only cries when he is hungry and when his tummy is hurting (as they do with newborn babies).

We also saw Evie, Tijs' big sister, who had a nice princess' dress and princess'shoes. She also showed her new room to us, which has been nicely decorated by Ellen and Hubert.

We had 'beschuit met muisjes', which is a dutch tradition after a birth of a baby. The 'muisjes' are round and tast anicy. When a baby girl is born, they are pink and when a baby boy is born, they are blue.

When Tijs was put in our arms he hardly cried (means we do something right) ..... ;o)

Countdown begins

It has been a very very hectic week for Nina and I.

From the beginning of April until yesterday I had to transfer my work to someone from PostNL, the company I was doing a project for. Because he jumped on a rolling train and lacks the knowledge I have, I had to go to all kinds of meetings with him to support him. This even meant I had to go to all kinds of meetings on my last working day for this client of ours. from 14.00 to 17.00....... on my last day....... ;o(

Nina also has to work hard. Since she is the only one in the company with her skills, they want her to complete a lot of timeconsuming tasks. She had to work really hard on Thursday and Friday. And even next week Tuesday, the day before, she has to work hard, she tells me.

Today we tried to take it slowly, but somehow we couldn't.
We went to de Kruitvat (check out www.kruidvat.nl, to see what kind of store it is). I guess you would call it a drugstore? There we bought a lot of medicine for ZiXuan and ourselves. From there we drove to a store specialised in all kinds of things for young kids (where we bought ZiXuan's cupboard). Bought a couple of things and then we went to a babydump store (some kind of online wholesale for baby stuff). There we bought this little monkey:

In the evening we went to Amstelveen to a Bday party.

ZiXuan's room

Family day in the Efteling

Today we went to the Efteling to have a family day.

It was great fun and we all enjoyed it very much. We talked about ZiXuan a lot and everybody is very excited about our adventure(s).

Here you can see some of the video's we took:

And some pictures:

In the end we were al very content and looked back at an enjoyable day:

Visiting our neighbours

Today we went to our neighbours, who live opposite to us. They are experienced in the adoption field as well. They have a nice son called Dong. They helped us by telling us about their experience in the past and gave us helpfull tips. What to do and what not to do ! It was very helpfull.

They also gave us a bag of old clothes from their son, which he has outgrown.

Afterwards I made pancakes to celebrate the weekend !

Yummy !!

The Us family visiting

Last Sunday morning we got a surprise call from the Us family. They wanted to come and see us as well as ZiXuan's room. It was great fun. They gave us some good advice on what to take along with us to China and such.

Here you see my niece showing how to use the cloth, which we will use to carry ZiXuan if he doesn't want to sit in the stroller or if we can't use the stroller. ZiXuan will sit in the back, rather than the front, like the bunny in the pictures above.