Tantrum break

Last Friday when mom picked me up from daycare we went straight to the childcare center for another check up. It has been a while since I'd seen the doctor but, apart maybe from my 'anger tantrums' all is well; I'm 88 centimeters now and weigh 12,5 kilograms. The next day mom and auntie Nienke took little Jop and me on a surprise trip. We went to see a great Alice in Wonderland play-exhibition and then had fresh baked fish in a nice place called Hoorn. I had such a huge anger tantrum that morning, mom totally forgot to pack my buggy in all her stress. Luckily I got a ride from Jop and decided to be a real nice boy the rest of the weekend and mom decided we'd take it real easy for a couple of days. She'd found me a huge new bathtub and since it's real nice and sunny I got to bath in the garden. I even had my siesta in a little tent in the garden, that was awesome, and auntie Karen came to visit and we went out for huge ice creams! But yesterday when we bought a new vacuum cleaner my puberty behavior surfaced again. We picked a super cool red "Henry" but I love it so much we got into a fight about who gets to use it. Well you guessed it, this is my chore from now on! ;-)

Holiday special

Yesterday was a national bank holiday so I didn't have to go to daycare. Instead mom's friend 'uncle Paul' took us on a surprise trip. First we went to this miniature world called Madurodam, which was totally awesome. Lot's of planes, trains and automobiles I was not allowed to touch but it was still super cool. After visiting the life size Sesamstraat set up we went back in the car for another surprise destination; the beach! I was a bit tired but we lounged on a sunny couch at a nice beach restaurant for a while until I was ready to face the biggest sandpit and water pool I ever saw. I was a bit impressed at first and cried when the cold sea touched my bare feet but I really loved all the sand. So many kids and kites and dogs and nice people.... Mom says we'll go more often now that I got the hang of it. Mom and Paul took a nice countryside detour back home but I slept the whole time, exhausted from all the excitement.

spring is in the (h)air!

Mom's been sneezing a lot lately because all this spring stuff is floating in the air but I love to ruffle it a bit more ;-)

Boys love wheels

I've been in lot's of cool rides this week. We keep bumping into this crazy world called 'kermis' where I got to ride lot's of vintage tractors and merry go rounds. The coolest part of the merry go round is when I have to give my ticket to the boss man, hehe. And today mom and I went to Amstelpark with auntie Nienke and little Jop. We took a cool train ride through the super pretty park and then we got lost in a real labyrinth but I showed everybody the way out.
My private car park is also growing steadily. Yesterday I got this 'car transport truck', another late birthday gift from a friend of mom. I love it, I can stall 5 of my favorite dinky toys in there! And I can actually say words like 'autotransportwagen' on the spot which is why they seem to think I'm a real smart one in daycare ;-)

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!

March report

Hello there. Yeah we were terribly absent cause mom and I were both sick and then busy with lots of work and play and parties... you know the life. But we have some cool updates. The major news is my latest vocab skills. It all went very fast from saying one word at the time and then two and now I'm like a parrot repeating everything I hear, even songs. Mom is so proud! We've been having the usual fun together, I'm helping her clean the house, she took me to this giant flea market with uncle Peter and bought me this cool Volkswagen, and auntie Karen got me this super cool vintage design chair as a present. Spring is almost here so we're all ready for the garden life & now I have my own terrace with lounge chair ;-)

Geisha Deven

I rediscovered my Japanese kimono which still fits me fine. Mom was not too fond of me running around naked with the cold, but this silk geisha dress feels just as nice. So we got a bit giddy Araki style during our daily jumping and fooling around on the big bed routine ;-)

Complete Fluzy

I just passed this terrible stomach flu that's going around like crazy and that lasted for over a week. I kept mom and grandma pretty busy with loads of laundry, food experiments and long disrupted nights but it looks like I had the worse of it. I did get the hang of sleeping in mom's big bed a lot and our regular schedule got all messed up with me sleeping in every morning being the best part for mom. Also I'm showing the first sighs of a disease called 'terrible two' which involves me screaming NO NO NO a lot but apart from that we are definitely having a great time taking our usual trips and reading piles of books. I'm quite the scholar learning lots of new words and concepts and names lately, that I all run by myself before I fall asleep. Here's some pics of all the fun, and just to prove I'm not just wearing mom out being sick, unreasonable or playing soccer: I also do her least favorite chores ;-)