New photo album

Mira december

A selection of pictures of Mira turning 6 months old, learning to eat solids and wearing sunglasses.

Thu 14/12/06 - On Wednesday evening the Francophone public broadcaster RTBF interrupted its normal programmes with the news that Flanders had declared independence.

(see also this article ). While some people are amused, most were shocked, however Belgium is still one country.

Meanwhile Mira has gone through a series of difficult nights because her first tooth has finally declared independence. She's been playing with it with her tongue all day long!
She's also started 3 'meals' a day- kiwi, banana, apple, potato, carrot, zucchini... We try and give her bite sized pieces, instead of mashing it all, and she can drink water from a cup (slightly assisted of course).

diamonds kill in Antwerp

At a dawn raid on Thursday, December 7, the Antwerp police raided the house of Indian diamantaire Nikhil Manilal, who at the time was at home together with his wife Sujata and his father. When confronted with the police detectives he was struck by a heart attack and collapsed. Only when it was apparent that the 46-year old diamantaire had passed away, some ten to 15 minutes later, an ambulance was called.

The version of this news is quite different from the one on the Belgian news, stating that an ambulance was called within one minute of the attack.

The Indian diamond community is outraged and already spoke to the prime minister about the incident.

Sint

De Sint is langsgeweest en omdat Mira een half jaar braaf is geweest kreeg ze een lekker houten speelgoedje. Het is nu 11 uur vrijdagavond en ze ligt onvermoeibaar naast mij te spartelen, soms os ze echt niet in slaap te krijgen. Maar het goede nieuws is dat ze vandaag voor het eerst echt gegeten heeft met een lepeltje, ik bedoel dus dat wij haar het lepeltje in de mond staken en zij de appel ook echt opat. Het concept eten dringt tot haar door, want daarvoor was het enkel sabbelen op een lepel of kauwen op wat eten en niet de twee samen.