Roline (October 23rd 1996)
Roline was born on Oct. 23rd, 1996,
actually our wedding day. And what gift that was. Below you see one of the first
pictures ever taken, Roline just 2.5 months old.
She always has been a
quick one. Labour took only but a few hours, although she had to stay in the
hospital for a couple of days for observation. And yes, we were both very happy
again.
 
As you can see from the
following pictures, she's got the looks. If she wants something she will try all
her charms. If that doesn't work, you still can use violence. As a matter of
facts, she tries to dominate her big sister, and if necessary with force.
  
And here are some of may
1999.
 
Talking about resemblence:
 Here you see a picture of Marielle's Dad at the about 4 years....
As Roline is getting older some trends are remarkable: at school she is noted
is dominant yet social. Solving her own problems either by discussion or force,
but in general by her arguing technique. A typical example at home (july 2000):
while she was bathing with Marijne, she spilled all the baby soap from a bottle.
Before Guus even tried to start yelling at her, her response was "It's your
fault (pointing at Guus): that bottle didn't belong there in the first
place, and besides that, I could not have known there was real soap in it!". Well, that's a strong
argument from a 3-year old girl, isn't it.
As she turned four during our holidays in Spain, she entered kid's school at our
return. That was something she had been waiting for, for a long time. She addepted
very easily and she is having a lot of fun with her teacher Leonie. At
kindergarten she left her big friend Natascha (one of the baby-sitters) behind. But we promissed her that
Natascha would visit us often and would take charge of baby-sitting. And as
always, she is in for a goold laugh and a lot (I mean A LOT) of talking (and
singing in between).
She is very 'hot' by the boys in her class, as she is one of the only girls
that (can) plays with 'boy-stuff' and actually owns some very 'hot' boys toys
(such a remote controlled motor).
As a matter of fact, her dominant presence suprises everybody who only knew
Marijne until then. At kindergarten she went into the computer room where kids of
age 7-9 where playing on the computer: "I want to play with the computer,
and I want it now!", so to the teachers surprise, ten seconds later she had
convinced all the other children and she was
sitting behind the computer, leaving all the older kids in confusion. "But she is so cute..." was the
reaction of the older kids. (For the record, this happened on the fourth day she
went there).
And here she is with Big Sister (feb 2001)
 By januari 2001
she started 'step'-ping (you know, those kids things with two wheels, kind of
surfboard with a steeringwheel). On the morning of april 28th she came in and
told us she could ride a bike. Huh? Well, she thought that it was time for her
to learn how to ride a bike, so she picked her older sisters bike and there she
went. That's Roline. Btw, the photo on the left was taken a few month
earlier when Guus tried to interest her in riding a bike. Although we had a lot
of fun, she decided then that there was no need for her to ride a bike at that
time (that are more or less her (exact) words).
 And this is
Roline as of may 2001, taken at her school. And she can set up a chess
board as of june 11th, 2001 without Guus even teaching her how to do it (just by
looking at Guus playing Marijne, maybe that chess movie ('lang leve de koningin'
(Disney)) helped as well, but then again, she was not taught to set up a board
intentionally). And then, she loves to 'schakelen' ('schaken' is dutch for
chess).
"When I grow up, I want to be a soccer coach. There will be plenty of
boys AND I WILL BE ONLY GIRL AROUND!"
  Here
you see Roline getting a hair cut by Jasmine (aug 2001).
 
A girl groes up, 2003. Still has the looks and the words..
Roline als paspop in de etalage van een winkel (ja, voor gekke dingen is
roline altijd in)
Roline weet altijd al wat ze weet, zie hier wat ze schreef in het
vriendenboekje van Martijn
 Samenvattend:
Haasje&Rammelaar
K3
Totally Spies
Schoppen en slaan en knijpen
De baas zijn en alles hebben
En ze wil later toneelspeelster worden ...
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