Simon's Cat in 'Santa Claws'

Bas's dad Christiaan introduced me to Simon's Cat and I'm totally addicted. He's just like our cat Monkey and I hope Simon's Cat will put a real big smile on your face for Xmas. Big smiles are very important. Love and miss you all & hope to see you during the holiday's if not in real time than at least on Skype! Merry XXXMas from mom & me!
(ps. to avoid the darn advertising you better watch it on YouTube so you can check the go-away-box in the upper right corner of that awful banner)

Dealing with a white Xmas

As you all know there has been abundant snow since Sinterklaas and it's not even Xmas. I hear there's lots of trafic trouble for the grown ups but MY trafic has been terrific since uncle Paul got me this cool sled last Friday (just in time!). may there be more and more snow (except for the Xmas weekend when we have to drive to the grandparents for the Xmas stuffings and ... presents!)

Our 3rd Sinterklaas welcome

I can hardly believe it's already the third time me and Jopje welcome Sinterklaas in Amsterdam in the same spot near the marine museum. And everyone was there, Nolan and Papa Theo, uncle Paul and auntie Nienke of course, and many more. The Pieten were cool as always and Sint looked in a real good mood. That's probabbly because I have been super sweet lately ;-)

My very own stamp

Mom is so beside herself with pride that I made it to the 'Children's Stamps' collection of 2010. Of course it is great to be photographed by moms friends Niels Schumm and Anushka Blommers, they are great with kids, but I don't think I like being a celebrity kid. Guess I'll be wearing sunglasses for the next couple of months and maybe get a radical haircut or something ;-)

Texel holiday

The second week of october mom and I went for our long awaited holiday break to Texel. Lucky us: it was the last sunny week of the season and right before the regular school holidays. We took the car and discovered the whole island, all it's beaches, museums and kids stuff like the tropical swimming paradise and the amazing playground at the Krim resort. We stayed at a super cool old Texel sheep farm, in an apartment up in the attic, but we enjoyed long days outside and around and went out for diner every night. My favorite was the 'Sommeltjes pad' through the woods, with countless little fun creatures called Sommeltjes hidden between or in the streets. I got so excited I didn't even notice that I walked for at least 1,5 kilometers!

weekend excitement

We had another great weekend playing badminton, spiderman and kung fu but the highlight was our late fish and ships dinner at the beach last night. With our tummies full we took a stroll on a dark beach, just after sun set which was pretty spectacular, a bit spooky for me, and very pretty indeed:

Fairy Tale Wonderland

Look, last sunday we went to fairy tale wonderland in Enkhuizen up nort, together with auntie Nienke and Jop. It was a super nice day, very sunny and warm, so the moms were as happy as us. It was amazing in fact, all these little houses playing all the fairy tales I know, and more. The best part was the boat ride I took all by myself, even though we had to wait in line forever. When wonderland closed we went to Enkhuizen to eat fish and chips and we had a nice stroll through the harbor with all these big pirate ships, before we had a super yummy ice cream. It was all so good both Jop and I fell asleep in the car and didn't wake up till next morning!

New hair

So here are those long awaited new hair pictures. It's the cutest 'do' I've had since my baby-curls got cut off. Apart from that you'll see we lot's of fun at the beach, the zoo, the playground... oh tomorrow we're going to see a real castle! keep you posted!

I'm so cool

ha, look at me, being totally cool sitting still at this totally cool hair dresser yesterday. He has the coolest long rasta haired dog called Rocco but mom was too busy snapping me. I got me a very neat tomboy-ish cut and mom is all kissy 'n cuddly about it since.

toilet supplies

So mom figured I needed some cool stools to climb our super high toilet for instance. The stools are indeed wonderful and with one high and one low I can get pretty high up around the house, but it didn't motivate to try poopoo on the big potty sorry ;-)
Loved the box they were delivered in as usual, played the thing to bits!

king of the potty

So yeah it happened twice; I did pipi in my potty, once sitting down, once standing, both times after taking a bath. Big deal. Mom got all crazy about it, had a big present for me (a bouncy remote controlled Tonka car which doesn't seem to work inspite the fortune mom spent on re-chargeable batteries). So that did it. I went on strike again. I'll do the potty when I feel like it, when nobody is watching for example ;-)

reminiscing summer

So it's been a very Dutch august so far. Here's some good hot memories of last month ;-)

M is for Mom

Monday morging mom had to go to an meeting so uncle Paul stayed to babysit. So I took for for a tour of the neighborhood, me on my bike, and we checked in on a couple of playgrounds and the bakery. We ran into this sign and I surprised uncle Paul with my literary talent when I pointed out mom's name. We had a great time, I didn't miss mom at all but when the monthly test-alarms went off I did get a bit worried and started to call out for her real loud so then she came home.

Blue in the face

Ha look, we went to the beach with auntie Annette last saturday. The weather turned on us and we had some rain and it got a bit cold and on top of that I could not play on the big trampoline so to make up for all that I got this crazy ice cream with blue sprinkles. In no time me and mom were blue in the face and soon the whole thing dropped on the floor but it was fun while it lasted!

Te Pletterpet

Yeah we're going to the finals!!!!!!!!

Family matters

Grandma is having some siblings over from Canada, like first the 'real' uncle Paul and his wife auntie Audrey (here with the other uncle Chel who lives in Holland) and now auntie Ella is staying over for the summer. Lot's of ginger haired genes in da house!!! and lots of extra attention which I love of course ;-)