Birthday Triatlon

Phew we just recovered from all my birthday celebrations. It started on Friday morning with our living room full of balloons and birthday presents. I got the sweetest handmade 'bear' desk with it's drawers filled with little presents like water paint and a miniature "Tanja" (my favorite hippo from the Zoo). Then we celebrated my birthday at daycare with cake and rice-whipped cream and sprinkles and lots of singing. After daycare mom brought 'papa Theo' and Nolan and we pick nicked at the kiddie farm and I got lots of new Lego and a bunny and we had lots of fun. Back home a friend of mom dropped by with a set of 5 Ferrari's so we flipped the rug to the side and had a cool car racing party until bedtime.
The next day we did some shopping and went to the playground for some soccer as usual but when I (finally) woke up from my noon-nap the garden was filled with mom's friends and their kids and we partied until 21.00 and I got so many super cool presents like really amazing books, a Klavers van Engelen couture piece and Nijntje markers ... I woke up again in the middle of the night because I was too excited and wanted to play with all of it. Auntie Esmee had backed the prettiest birthday cake for me and little Tesla and I had fries and chips and nothing but 'bad food'.
After sleeping in on Sunday we had to pack -slightly hung over- and head to the grand folks in Riverland for yet another birthday party with family and neighbors. A little nap in the car was hardly enough for me to deal with even more presents like this super duper bike from grandma and grandpa and even more Lego and this amazing beach tent. At the end of the day I totally crashed in grandpa's lap watching Barbapappa on tv.
Barely back to my normal self we will have this crazy Queensday fleamarket this Thrusday so we'll get back to you soon with more party hardy pics! Thanks everyone for an unforgettable 2nd birthday bash and all the sweet cards and presents and treats and fun!

2nd year Deven Eno

Mom made another calendar-boy poster for my second birthday party next Saturday. This is the click & enlarge version you didn't get in your mail, so enjoy and see you coming Friday (my real birtday) or Saturday for the big garden party at mom's or Sunday for another big garden party at the grandfolks!
ps. there's two cause mom couldn't really choose on the best august-pic. tsss ;-)

Easter fun

I really got the hang of this Easter egg ritual. Last week mom and I did some egg-creativity and then this weekend I got really addicted to this new game of finding chocolate eggs and bunnies mom and grandma had been hiding in the garden. Especially at grandma and grandpa we played this game over and over again until I was so tired I started to smash the big bunny to pieces and throw eggs around. Wonder what's next. Seems I got my second birthday party coming up... yeah! ;-)

Wanna be a rockstar

Like all babies I love music and the best of all is to jam in front of the mirror - gotta make sure it looks good. I seem to have an amazing sense of rhythm (especially the 'demo' button on my key board is impressive) and I can also sing a couple of songs (I have to give mom cues) Unfortunately I don't have a drum set yet but I got real drum sticks from auntie Jessica and they work on just about everything in the house so when mom and I do a jam session we really rock!

Sleeping beauty

I'm going through a bit of a cranky phase these last weeks because of ongoing toothaches - mom believes several molars are surfacing at once - so I take the longest and sweatiest afternoon naps for one. Sometimes up to 4 hours and then mom still has to drag me out of the bed for dinner. Just now I'm seeing 'papa Theo' once every two weeks and I haven't been showing my best; tantrums and continuous Lego demolition, the works. Oh well guys, it's just another phase so hang in there!