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In the beginning, there
were our parents, and before them, there were their parents, and ... blah blah.
Every once in a while, alikeness is striking though. Below you see a picture of
a grand-grand ma (mother of Marielle's father) and Marijne:
Marijne, our long awaited
first child, was born on januari 12th 1994, 14.30. It took about 8 hours of
labour, but it was worth it (I'm a guy, so I can easily make that statement). As of feb. 1996 she speaks fluently 100 words Dutch
and 50 words Limburgs and knows how to kick a dog and men in general. Her
favourite music at the time is dutch folklore and House/Hip Hop. Favorite TV
programs are Sesamstreet and MTV. She collects stones and shells can read some
letters and some figures.
Marijne enjoys to learn
(up until this moment (1999) that is). At 3 she could identify all letters and
figures, can set up a chess board (guess who taught her that) and speaks
reasonably well. BTW, some credits (actually most of them) for teaching Marijne
how to play chess go to a Dutch video movie, called 'Lang Leve de Koningin',
teaching kids chess by telling a fairy tale. By the way, we decided to speak
Dutch to her instead of Limburgs, as she started speaking Limburgs at the
Woerden kindergarten, and there a not that many Limburg speaking nannies over
here.
  
Marijne is really fond of
her sister. She was very happy to have a little sister she can teach and play
with. She is very carefull girl, usually looking and listening first before
acting. Typically, she refuses to do gymnastic trainings until she trained them
at home first to be sure that she can do them.
  
Marijne enjoys reading,
drawing and playing with a PC. Here you see her in action (with Thomas &
Sanne Welgraven).
 As
of june 1999, Marijne can
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write and read a bit (mama, papa, roline, marijne, etc) |
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can add and substract a bit (3+5, 4-2, 4+7, etc.) |
The picture below is taken feb, 2001 by the school photographer,
as Marijne and Roline both visit the same school. You tell us who the sweet
heart is and the one you don't want to mess with.... (see the Roline pagine
for more information).
As always, she is very caring for her two little sisters. Her
favorite night saying is 'I made you daddy and mum, Roline made me sister and
Julianne made our family complete'. One other thing, she hates to loose.
She want to train as much as possible to become the best, in whatever she likes.
But my god, she really can be slow as everything has to be perfect. And
yes, she is still a dreamer (april 2001). 
And this is Marijne as of may 2001, taken by the school photographer. By now she
read her own books before going to sleep. She actually won a game of chess
against Marielle (hmm, what does that tell you?).
As Marijne was about to have her last
schoolday (3rd grade), she figured she wanted to
thank her schoolteacher 'meester Hans' by writing him a letter. She wrote the
letter all by herself (mind the clever note that she cannot show (by this
letter) that she can read). Ok, there are some spelling errors, but hey,
it's the intention.
 
As
Marijne is 9, she still is the loving big sister.  <foto
made by Roline>
 Marijne
leest overal waar ze zitten of staan (2004)
 Marijne 2005....
Typical Marijne art
Below you see two drawing
of Marijne, her first 'real' drawing March 98 (4 years old) and a typical
Marijne picture: a princess with long hair, a sun and flower (Jan. 99, 5 years
old). Missing usual items are love-hearts and a rainbow.
 
And yes, the Teletubbie
horror has invaded our house as well (march 27th, 1999)
Below an abstract one (april, 2001) (I won't bother you with all
the Pokemon ones)
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