elie visits the little family in belgium

this post is a supplement to the month of . . . . .well, sometime during the summer. elie went to belgium to visit a good friend of his, ilse, with her two young children. he really went over there to practice his father instincts and spend some time with the humongous mother ilse, whom he has known for ages. daddy was away for some time, wify daisy was busy on the grand green island, so that the four of them had some quality time together. that is the visitees: ilse, cas (just under 2 years) and job (born past march).


mum and daughter.


elie spent a wonderful time with the three of them, going for walks, feeding them, bathing them, comforting them, changing nappies, rocking them into sleep, playing, talking, rolling on the floor, and just relaxing. it was lovely for ilse to have some help around the two toddlers, with whom you certainly don't experience boredom ;-))


while cas was little more distant with unknown male critters . . . . . .


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job certainly had no problems to make friends with elie. they just seemed to be on the same wave-length, connect straight away, and learn all sorts of things from eachother.



for a change elie took off on a trip to cologne in germany, where he walked around in the streets of that lovely city. i must say, that picture reminds me of our time living in germany some years ago, germany is just so neat.


they also met someone else there, our friend philou from belgium. he has the privilege of living within a half-an-hour's car ride (probably 10-minutes at his regular cruising speed. . . .) of two other countries (germany and the netherland), and went over to cologne for the afternoon. he seemed to be rather happy about a grand- day- out.








but is it not amazing, that something like this, is going ot gradually morph into something like . . . . . . . . .













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