Wouter

Child’s play

Wouter — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:45:29 +0000

Hugo watching himself

Wouter — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:00:06 +0000

When we were watching a clip of Hugo dancing to Sh-boom he started dancing to his own video, calling himself Anpanman.

Hugo dancing to Sh-boom

Wouter — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:58:50 +0000

Since Hugo saw Cars he loves to dance to Sh-boom.

Balloon

Wouter — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:18:04 +0000

Hugo discovered another fun thing to do with a balloon.

Hafu

Wouter — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:48:19 +0000

One in everything 30 children born in Japan has at least one parent that is not Japanese. Having grown up in a multicultural country like The Netherlands this number doesn’t seem significant at first. But when you consider that Japan is a largely homogenous society where foreigners tend to stand out, this puts that number in a different light.

These kids, simply referred to as ハーフ (hafu, the Japanese way to pronounce the English word half). Hafu’s stand out nearly as much as foreigners, but are in fact full and worthy members of society that work, study, love and live in Japan and speak Japanese just like their peers that happen to have two Japanese parents.

The film Hafu explores the lives of some of these people (some of whom I am lucky enough to count amongst my friends). Being the foreign parent of a hafu myself, I hope to get some insight in some of the personal challenges Hugo might find himself in.

At the moment the film is in the final stage of production and is due to be released some time during 2012. I am looking forward to seeing what must be a beautiful piece of art.

Tower

Wouter — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:34:11 +0000

Hugo’s learned to build a tower with his blocks.

Trains, planes & buses

Wouter — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:33:02 +0000

Hugo can distinguish between trains, buses and airplanes. He remembered the Japanese words.

It’s snowing

Wouter — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:21:06 +0000

The first proper snow of the year fell today. I took a quick timelapse video of the falling flakes.

“Toetje” (Dessert)

Wouter — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:48:10 +0000

Hugo’s language skills are improving every day. His latest word is “toetje”, the Dutch word for dessert. He loves eating dessert, especially flavoured yogurt.

Petting zoo

Wouter — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:22:04 +0000

Playing in the snow

Wouter — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:35:28 +0000

It snowed!

Wouter — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:11:23 +0000

A day in the city

Wouter — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:56:05 +0000

Today we met our friends Anton and Evelien in Amsterdam. After a canal cruise we had a go at the Dutch interpretation of all-you-can-eat sushi.

Vacuum cleaning

Wouter — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:05:22 +0000

On the beach again

Wouter — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:16:38 +0000

Bags

Wouter — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:22:58 +0000

Rainboots

Wouter — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:21:19 +0000

Water lover

Wouter — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:26:00 +0000

Hugo’s office

Wouter — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:16:39 +0000

On the beach

Wouter — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:02:53 +0000

Today we went for a walk on the beach near Callantsoog.

Cranes, planes and automobiles

Wouter — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:58:13 +0000

Cookie time

Wouter — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:47:24 +0000

The gardner

Wouter — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:39:17 +0000

Hugo playing in the garden with the push cart that his father used to play with when he was Hugo’s age.

Vacuum cleaning

Wouter — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:31:18 +0000

Ikea

Wouter — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:03:30 +0000

Ikea in Haarlem has special parking places for people with kids. Thumbs up!