Baby dedication

Yesterday we had the baby dedication (kinderopdracht) of Elissa. She is now a little over 6 months old and since we found a church where we feel home we wanted to have her dedicated in this church.
Here are some photo's taken during the dedication.



Pastor Rual did the dedication and you can see that he is very happy with Elissa. I'm sure she has a special place in his heart!


It was kind of celebration for the church since it was the first baby dedication in this location. So, now everybody in church knows about Elissa.

Holiday in Indonesia

We spent 3 weeks in Indonesia on holiday. The first week we flew to North Sulawesi where we met tante Sjaan. Tante Sjaan was the person who introduced Karin to me when we first met. So, she is like a grandma to Elissa. Last year she moved to Manado. It was great to see her again. Even Elissa liked to hang out with her! :)


We spent the whole time travelling around with tante Sjaan and I'm sure she liked it too!


At a certain moment we could all see that Karin and Elissa needed a break. While we were working hard in the hot weather they took a quick nap!


We had the rare oppertunity to meet Elissa's great grandmother. Elissa was born exactly on her 80th birthday and it was great to have the chance to take a picture of the 4 generations together. The difference between the oldest and the youngest on the photo is exactly 80 years!!!


Getting a bath in Indonesia was a new experience for Elissa. But she loved it (cool down from the heat!) and we had a lot of fun with her!!!!

Last Emperor!!

For those of you who have seen the movie "The last Emperor" and think that it was really the last one, we have good news for you. We have the new last Emperor right here in Dubai! And actually it is not an Emperor but an Empress!
Like in the movie the head had to be shaved. With our Empress it was a bit hard and we had to come up with an intermediate step. We first cut the hair to make it a bit shorter.


Doesn't she look naughty!!!


And then we shaved the remaining hair. This is the result. Doesn't she look like a real royalty?


The reason we shaved her head is because we would like her to grow thick strong hair. The second reason is because of the heat here in Dubai (40-45 C) she had some problems with the long hair and irritation was already showing.


At the moment the hair is slowly growing back and hopefully we won't have to do this again.


By the way, in a lot of countries babies get their head shaved up to the age of 1 year.

Too long ago!!

Can't believe it has been such a long time since I posted something! Time really flies!!!

In the meantime we have been on leave to Indonesia to witness the wedding of Karin's sister Astrid with her dreamprince Randy.
It was a beautiful wedding and Elissa enjoyed attending the first wedding of her life. She stole a lot of attention from all the quests and I hope the wedding couple won't be to jealous! But I think they were too happy to get married to be bothered about that!


It also gave us the oppertunity to meet my sister in law Beiby and her very naughty daughter Nasha. It was the first time for them to meet Elissa just before they moved to Holland. Nasha was very crazy with Elissa and wanted to play with her constantly. I wonder what would have happened if Elissa could already walk!


We also dressed up and both mother and daughter looked like princesses!! Was pure coincidence that I bought the same colour dress for Elissa during my last trip to Seattle!


The next day after the wedding the newly weds wanted to have a photo of them together with Elissa. During the wedding reception Elissa already fell asleep and was not able to be present during the photo shoot! So, on the photo you can see that they were not dressed up like the day before!