My son turned 9 today. 9 already. Every year I say the same, about how fast everything goes. But damn, he’s already half way about becoming an adult!
As a gift from us to him he got a keyboard so that his creative and musical intelligences will be further developed 
. Without kidding it’s amazing to see what the boy can do within 10 minutes pushing buttons and playing around with that thing if you compare it with me after 1 hour of reading the manual.
Great to have the whole family and circle of friends together in our house. My son must really have had a good day I guess. Especially with all the new toys he now has. December is really about being spoiled here.
It isn’t over yet! Tomorrow it’s time for the children’s party where he and his friends will go to a big indoor playground where they can be themselves for several hours without me telling them to keep quiet.
Son, I love you and I wish you a lot more healthy and happy years to come!
Today my son got his first snowboarding certificate! After 7 weeks of intense training in the snow he has now earned his first level in his snowboarding education. That means that there are now two people in the Jansen family who want to go on Wintersport vacation! Only 1 to go and we are in majority!
As a birthday present from me to him he can continue his snowboarding education in January with the follow-up course to the one he just finished. This way we can go a few days to Winterberg or something like that around in the near future.
As you can see in the picture Rody is just as crazy in the snow as I am.
Last Wednesday I had a little gap in my calendar and thought it would be fun to surprise my son with a nice trip to Landgraaf. Why Landgraaf? Because there is a 550 meter long indoor 5 lane wide field with snow, called Snowworld! My favorite indoor spot to do some snowboarding!
As my son is at les 3 of his 6 lessons course in snowboarding, I thought it was time to give him some extra practice. So together we drove to Landgraaf and after an hour of driving Rody, my son, was jumping with energy to get started.
It’s fun to see his face when he saw the big hill. For the first time in a stoeltjeslift was pretty exciting for him, but I’m proud to say that after the third ride up he managed to do it all by himself without falling. It took me much longer the first times I tried snowboarding!
It’s good to be young and not be afraid that you will hurt yourself! It’s clear after 3 hours of snowboarding that my son still lacks some control while going down, especially in the steering department. Wow, I wouldn’t dare to go that fast down and let yourself fall on your back because you don’t know any other way to brake.
But after a few takes more and more control came to him. It’s clear that he hasn’t got the stamina yet to go on for 3 hours or longer! After almost two hours we took a break and eat and drink something. Afterwards we came back and within the hour it was over. He had no more energy and cold hands (time for some new bigger and longer gloves).
All in all it was fun to do something like this with my son and it made me proud to see him busy on the hill all alone while I was waiting at the bottom. I can’t wait until the course of him is over half way December so we can go again together and he can show me how I can grind and jump!
My son turned 9 today. 9 already. Every year I say the same, about how fast everything goes. But damn, he’s already half way about becoming an adult!
