From today on I'm wakening up my sons Albert and Nicolas myself (it's six years now since Isabella died) because the doctor advised Hélène to stay quietly now she's pregnant...
We had breakfast al together though (the maid prepared it and helped the boys getting ready to leave for their courses at the jesuits-school).
Then I asked Hélène for a short walk into the garden; she enjoyed the new blossoms...
She told me about the Dodonaeus-book on vegetation that our
gardener showed her yesterday. I know the work; it's splendidly illustrated
with copperprints,and already re-edited at the Officina Plantiniana.
We were also talking about the new child that will join our family - with the
help of God - and I proposed the name of Clara Joanna to her, in case it
would be a girl, which name she approved...
