Our days have been a bit hectic lately, not because of our new born son, but because of all the nice people who: vis­ited, send cards, send e-mails, flow­ers and presents. Thank you all so much we have been over­whelmed by all the atten­tion and my sin­cere apolo­gies for those who had to bail-​out at my request. I had to manage the number of people who called and tried to visit us. Tris­tan and Mar­ijke need their rest. Tris­tan is now 16 days old, he weights 4.4 kg (9,7 pounds) and is about 57 cm (22,5 inch). This morn­ing I grabbed my trusty SLR (Canon EOS 350D) and took some pic­tures of him laying on our bed.

I am happy to say that I’ve become a father. Our boy (Tris­tan) is called after a medieval romance Tris­tan and Iseult. I’m going to bed now because I am exhausted.

With the baby coming we had to buy a car. I am not a caro­holic like some people, but I had a wish list: sta­tion wagon, 5 doors, reli­able, cli­mate con­trol. Not only did I got my wish list but even more: cruise con­trol, elec­tric win­dows, rooftop and mir­rors, auto­matic trans­mis­sion and the list goes on and on, I’ve made a good deal, my brother-​in-​law went along he’s wiki-​car-​pedia. I let him test-​drive the car and even told me how to nego­ti­ate. I’ve bought a car stereo a Pio­neer DEH-P7000UB and as a travel com­pan­ion I’ve got TomTom XL 31 Europe Widescreen from my wife. The TomTom Home soft­ware really sucks balls big time, I’ll later write a review about it. The car we’ve bought is a Volk­swa­gen Golf Vari­ant 1.6 Com­fort­line, a real nice family-​car, lots of room for all the baby gad­gets. But as of today I am going to intro­duce a new term: dad­gets, these are baby gad­gets which dad also likes. Paci­fiers are not one of those, though they will help with your relax­ation process

Coco Bloom belongs in con­tem­po­rary living spaces with its iconic form and com­fort­able nest for baby formed in cul­ti­vated style­wood and plex­istyle. Coco Bloom has a smooth self-​rocking motion, a curved, single-​piece frame with cosy soft-​feel for max­i­mum com­fort and 5-point padded safety har­ness, adjustable for the grow­ing baby. This micro-suede/leatherette seat pad is avail­able in vibrant colours and is easy to clean.
So our little man can lounge, rock and relax…

Now that the baby is coming I’ve read in-​depth arti­cles on every baby gadget I can get my hands on. We’ve got a stroller from Joolz (Bloom Flax Black), a nice prac­ti­cal and reli­able but tech­ni­cally inge­nious and orig­i­nal device. She comes in colors every­where reminded me a bit from the song “She’s a Rainbow” by the Rolling Stones which Apple used for their iMac com­mer­cials. The Bloom is avail­able in: Cosmos Silver, Flax Black, Lotus Blue, Ivy Orange, Yarrow Pink and Poppy Red.
If you’re inter­ested there is a demon­stra­tion video of the Bloom avail­able at the Joolz home­page. There’s a lot of dig­i­tal lifestyle inte­gra­tion in these prod­ucts, more on this after the break.

As you’ve prob­a­bly noticed, there were few no posts these couple of months. This is because of a life chang­ing event… no, I don’t mean the ultra secret, all new Mac Pro Peta-​Core
The secret is out: I’ll become a daddy. A dig­i­tal daddy a di-​daddy. No this weblog will not change into a Baby Blog™, though it’s fun to show some of our gadgets for our new­born. I’ll be back soon with some post…