Our congratulations to Spain! And to the Dutch: We’re very proud how far you made it, we never thought we would make it this far! Awesome!

Isabella is playing with orange blocks.. no excuses for #ned: win the finals! http://twitpic.com/24h0tz

last game of the #worldcup starting soon.. let’s see if we can hang the orange flag out again

Of course we’re also following the worldcup soccer in South Africa here in Hawaii, with the last match tomorrow already.. We are, just as everyone else, very curious in what the final result will be.

Quite a few predictions have been made.. There is the prediction of Paul the octopus, but you shouldn’t take that one so seriously as he cannot predict finals (think about 2008, he predicted that one wrong), plus he only chooses for the right cases (he is probably right winged (tentacled?)). Then there is a parakeet in Singapore, which predicts the Netherlands to win, and I’ve seen a dog, a drunken woman and some more predictions of that sort.

But, we have the exclusive, a real prediction, and believe it or not, even with a prediction to the final scores of tomorrow. Both predictions were done by our own Isabella.. Here they are:

Those results are great, right? 4-1 for the Netherlands with 2 goals disqualified as we see it now (probably the offside rule), so eventually 2-1. It looks like the Netherlands will be the better team with such a result.

If it will really happen like this, who knows. I, for one, am really curious if we can hang the orange flag out again tomorrow here in Hawaii, Isabella is ready for it..

• I’m so proud of Isabella today.. she found out how to go into sitting position (she does it the whole time now) & she learned how to wave #

I’m so proud of Isabella today.. she found out how to go into sitting position (she does it the whole time now) & she learned how to wave

For several reasons we rather don’t have Isabella to crawl around the place, one of the reasons is because we’re living on the second floor, and another reason is because she always tries to crawl to the power outlets.. don’t ask me why, but she is attracted to them for some reason

However, we feel her playpen is getting too small for her. She doesn’t have the space that we want to give her, so we had something else in mind, to use a part of our place exclusively for Isabella (besides her bedroom, of course). We started on it today, we cleaned the corner completely, we cleaned it and placed a safety gate.

Unfortunately we’re unable to finish it completely, this because we want to paint a large part of our place on the inside, but we also got a mold problem which has to be solved first as it would be a shame to do things twice (meaning the flooring and walls in some parts will probably have to be redone/rebuild). We want to paint Isabella’s corner in nice colors, but that has to wait as well then. I also miscalculated the floor surface, I thought it would have been less big as it is now, so we couldn’t make the whole floor as we wanted to but instead we have added a few quilts to the floor so she doesn’t have to sit on the hard wooden floor.

This is how it currently looks like:

It looks fun, I think. For now she will have enough space there. If only she would know how to sit up after she falls on her belly or back.. the only thing she does now, when that happens, is to cry because she cannot get up anymore (well, that, or she cries because she just wants to be in my arms (and that can be very tiresome)).

By the way, something different.. Our website will soon get a new look as someone made a new lay-out for us, and I will also update some other things when I implement the new lay-out. It might take a while before it is all finished, Isabella really keeps me busy during the day, but oh well, it is coming

• so cute! RT @shelle808: my sweet isabella http://twitpic.com/1tmsby #
• Someone’s teeth are coming through.. they feel pretty sharp.. downside of this is that I have to deal with a bit moody little girl… #
• Drinking all alone http://twitpic.com/1suv0k #

so cute! RT @shelle808: my sweet isabella http://twitpic.com/1tmsby

Someone’s teeth are coming through.. they feel pretty sharp.. downside of this is that I have to deal with a bit moody little girl…