Biltong & Beskuit

The Vissers are making Biltong again these days and discovered their little boy is crazy about it. Now we will have to keep making it. We share with the Harvetts in exchange for Christina's great beskuit which is another favorite food for Liam. His mom is not so crazy about him eating beskuit, because we now have crumbs all over the house and have to run the Roomba vacuum almost daily.

Liam with his eye tricks

Liam loves to turn his eye lids inside out and freaks out everyone around him. His teachers cannot stand it and the more they get freaked out the more satisfaction for the little boy:) He loves doing it on the changing table and before going to bed.

Liam's 2nd Birthday

Liam had a great NEMO birthday party on January the 28th and had a few friends over. We had great fun playing, eating and opening all his gifts.
On his actual birthday, the 30th, he went for his 2 year doctors check-up. Liam is in good health. A little on the small side, but he gets compared with the big American kids, so we're not concerned at all.
He took a big cake with a soccerball on it to the daycare and had fun playing and overloading on sugar yet again.

January 2007 - Liam and his FISH!

In a recent shopping trip with mom, Liam picked up a wooden green fish made for home decorating purposes and it clearly stated on the label "This is not a toy". Luckily the fish was on a clearance rack and after Liam threw the tantrum of the century, mom decided to buy the fish. This fish has become Liam's oxygen. It sleeps with him, eats with him, goes to daycare with him and has on occasion taken a bath with him (which is good since it gets pretty dirty at meal times). Mom also realize that she might have to go back to the store and see if she can find another one, just in case this one gets lost. Wish her luck!

Webpages upadted

At long last the Visser's webpages are updated - you can find a link to the new pages on the right under Links. This means we have our link to this blog back up, as well as the map of where we live. Willem also added all his work stuff that is now no longer being hosted by NASA. Of course all the Google hits will still go to NASA, bugger. We also added Google Analytics stats for your webpages so that we can see how many times people visit etc.

Willem's New Job

Willem joined SEVEN Networks on the 1st of February! Things went very smoothly, took only 50 mins on 101 to get to Redwood City and within 5 mins I had my badge and my laptop was set up with my account and password. At NASA this takes 3 days to do! Had a meeting with my new boss, Sheng Liang, the VP of Engineering, and after 30 mins I had a project to work on too. Actually within 1 day I had three projects! Things move very fast at SEVEN. By the end of the day I was already double booked for a meeting on Monday. Day 2, today, I took the train and it was 5 mins faster (45mins) door to door, and very relaxing. I'll take the train as often as I can.