Happy birthday Joff & Kyle!

Mom and I were real busy yesterday getting all the presents together for Joff's birthday, and also for Kyle because his birthday was the day before. On our way we had to drop by the Fantastic Man office to say hi to mom's friends Gert & Jop and pick up some stuff. Gert & Jop think I'm a Fantastic Baby Man ;-)
Unfortunately I couldn't join Joff's surprise dinner party because it was way past my bedtime but mom said it was great fun and Joff was very happy with all his presents. I'll drop by for that birthday cake soon! ;-)

Superfood

Mom finally found a specialist on digestive issues for babies. Apparently the antibiotics I had in the hospital right after my birth have damaged the bacteria population in my tummy. To solve my baby-eczema once and for all (otherwise I'm stuck with that the rest of my life) mom got me a range of fancy baby food supplements. She just has to figure out what to give me before bedtime. In any case not the Greens stuff cause it made me hyper energetic and I stayed up until 22.00! ;-)

Cosy cold weekend

We actually had a great weekend although we can't tell by the pictures mom took, all dark and out of focus, but anyway... grandma and grandpa came to visit cause they missed me so much (grandma's been real busy with her theater make up and ice skating stuff) so that was lots of quality hugging for me. And today we escaped the city with Mr.Peter-the-fashion-illustrator for a nice walk in the big Amsterdam forest. It was real pretty and sunny but still super brrr. Then just when I was having my dinner-before-bedtime ritual auntie Esmee and her guy Christiaan dropped by to tell us some real big deal good news (surprise surprise!!) that we're not yet to tell to the whole world but I guess you can guess ;-)

Bube Illya in Amsterdam

Today mom and I finally hooked up with the bube from Berlin, and his folks Berber and Tjebbe of course. After a week in the homeland seeing all the family and friends, Illya was a bit exhausted so we played for like 15 minutes and then we both fell asleep. Babies can only take so much of other babies, but bube Illya is great! He's only 3 months and he can do just about everything I can at almost 7 months! Hmmm one of those guys ;-) So when we got home mom came up with this cardboard box to stimulate me to sit up a bit. Great fun actually, the box that is... I don't know about exercise, I'm more like a hide and seek kind a guy ;-)

Week 29

Another week another milestone? Well let's see; I'm getting more and more restless, always attempting to go places but, I still can't crawl properly. So this week I fell of the couch for the first time, which freaked mom and myself out, but I am fine ;-) Oh and we had a mild stomach flue mom and I, no fever or anything, just a bit nauseous and funny poop. It's getting mighty cold outside so I look like a little Michelin-guy half of the time. I eat like a woodworker though and finally got the hang of drinking water from my special Barbapapa tumbler cup ;-)

Great Canadien Plaids

Oh goodie look what uncle Kyle brought me all the way from Canada: snug flannel plaid Hill Billy shirts! Joff & Kyle looked real hard to find these but look how fab I look in plaid! And what about those fun mittens? Wow, this must be 'spoil Deven'-week! So happy Kyle's come to live in Amsterdam, now Joff and Kyle can babysit me together, yippie yeah!

Alpha Baby

Rob just send us a nice present via the chat on moms laptop. It's a computer program especially for babies so I can slap the keyboard without ruining mom's work or anything. It's called AlphaBaby and you can get it here: http://www.kldickey.addr.com/alphababy/
Great fun I tell ya, I even tried it with my feet! Mom's not so excited about it, but she says she has an old laptop for me to play with, hoping I'll grow into a wizz kid ;-)

Cool cat

Monkey is the coolest cat ever, he doesn't mind if we make fun of him at all ;-)

Present time

...again! We got this mysterious package in the mail and it turned out to be a present for me from aunty Angelique & Barbara all the way from Switzerland! I got this real cool eco coton sweater, it's a bit to big but mom says I can wear it in a couple of months already. Yeah!!

Couture bear

Hey that bear's got my name on it!! Mommy's lovely friends Dirk & Stef brought it all the way from south Afrika especially for me. It was hand made by African mommies and I can tell because only mommies know how to make such a beautiful bear that you want to hug for the rest of your life ;-) I hope I meet Stef and Dirk soon so I can personally give them a big hug too!

Fabulous fall

This weekend mom finally took me to the big Amsterdam forest for a long long walk. I've never seen so many trees so you can imagine how happy I was and the colors were really pretty, all golden and red. At the end of my royal ride I was covered in leaves and I felt very zen the rest of the day *^_^*

Dutch Fashion Award afterparty

Good thing mom and I both fell asleep at 17.00 today so when we woke up at 19.30 I was fit enough for a surprise; mom put me in the car and took me to this wonderful private party to celebrate the happy endings of this Dutch Fashion Award (which took place yesterday evening, and apparently mom was there but I never even noticed she was gone!) So here I'm posing with the winning design team Niels Klavers and Astrid van Engelen who won a whole lot of money so they can make a lot more beautiful clothes, so mom's really happy too ;-)
Niels is a real swell guy, he loved holding me so I could have a good look at mom kissing everybody at Angelique's amazing new house (she's like the big boss lady of Dutch fashion talent). We were back home at 21.30 and mom tricked me into eating a whole jar of vegetables (very funny, every time I wanted to take a bite of the remote control there was a spoon in my mouth) and off I was, back to bed, back to happy dreams.

15 minutes of fun

oh look mom and I made it to this flyer for the closing party of the Andy Warhol fun project. Guess I'm a bit famous now hey? ;-)

Check up time

This morning I woke mom extra early so we'd have plenty of time to bathe and stuff before going to our appointment at the childcare center for my check up. After my bath I got to wear this new super neat bathrobe from aunty Elle and watched Teletubbies.
The check up was fine although I have to go see a doctor again about my itching skin, get some special creme or something, nothing serious. The only bad news for me is that I shouldn't get any more comfort food! I've been craving a nice warm bottle in the middle of the night again lately because I am getting new teeth and my gums are itching. In fact the doctor said I should only get 3 bottles from now on and eat even more fruit and veggie meals and even small pieces of bread. Hmmm, we'll see how that goes. Size wise I'm still topping the charts; I'm 73 cm and weigh 8,92 Kilograms.

Funny face guy

Yesterday mom's dancer friend Martin came over and played with me the whole afternoon, making all these highly interesting funny faces, I couldn't take my eyes of this guy. That is, until I finally fell asleep, exhausted. I hate to miss out on fun though so I decided to wake up again and join the conversation in the kitchen ;-)

Growing pains again

According to the baby books I am hitting a very tough phase right now learning major new skills like controlling the distance between two objects (including the distance between me and mom) or the relation between two happenings. These new insights can make me extremely cranky like the other day when I got real angry at these kids running around in the playground. But I am fine as long as it's a one on one learning experience and I am lucky our house is quite small and open so mom's always near and in sight. I spend most of my day learning how to crawl and stand on my legs now and I had the best time playing with little Sef at the zen dojo creche yesterday cause Sef is a really sweet boy showing me how to sit up solo or walk around without causing a stampede. I finally crashed on the zen couch after two hours of intense exercise while mom had her well deserved coffee with all the nice nuns and monks.

Cookies!!!

Now I'm 6 months old a whole new box of goodies opens up for me. This week I got my first cookies! Mom got me these bio organic baby rice waffles and grandma gave me this delicious Liga cookie to mush on. One thing I don't get though, since I have this new hobby of throwing things around, is why they don't pick up and return these cookies to me... maybe it's wiser to hold on to something yummy ;-)

Party party party

Today my big friend Jop turned 2, exactly on the day of my 6th month (1/2 birthday) so that makes him exactly 1.5 years older. See, I can do my math alright ;-) It was a pre birthday party with just a few grown ups and mom guessed I'd enjoy that more then a room full of loud kids. Either way I had a swell time and Jop was real sweet to me. Jop got this huge police car with all kinds of noises coming from it, but that was also the cue for me to leave. I fell asleep on the way home -it was already getting dark!- so my evening schedule was a bit messed up but that's cool 'cause mom got this e-mail from auntie Yuko in Barcelona telling us that her little boy Tai is going to have a little sister or brother next spring! So on that extra festive note I hit the sack, and off I was. Lot's to dream about!

The only way is up!

It's official; I am going places. These days I have to be tied to my 'wipper' chair or I'm off! And when fooling around with mom today I was actually standing! She better start baby-proofing the house because once I am on to something.... ;-)

Next level ride

ps. Have you noticed my new ride? Yep, I was promoted to this seated version which I love and when I get tired from looking at the worldly affairs going on around me mom flips it back so I can sleep. Good design! Better then grandma's old ragged version which is so shaky mom dismissed it deciding she'd rather pack our Bugaboo to go for those long walks over the dikes in riverland.

Lunch with Jadie Moon

We went on a long tram ride today (yippie I love riding the tram!) just to have lunch with auntie Saskia and tiny little Jadie Moon. This babe's only 5 weeks old but ain't she the cutest? Of course the mom's had to go for some shopping which is oké as long as it's in a toy store ;-)

Mobile art

Mom's really excited that the maternity present she bought for herself -and for me of course- finally arrived after waiting patiently for 6 months. Mom likes these arty things but figured this is something I'd appreciate as well without interfering with her 'good taste' (whatever that means ;-) Well I happen to love it, just a shame mom put it up so high! Well done mr. Matt at Konrad's mobiles in Portland, America!

Warhol fun

Yesterday mom took me to the opening party of a real nice exhibition in honor of this famous dead artist called Andy Warhol. We got our picture taken by this lovely artist called Simon Wald-Lasowski who put us in a photo booth with all these fun props. Mom framed the photo series and put it next to an illustration of her in bunny ears. I wonder what my next disguise will be. I look sort of handsome with a mustache don't you think? ;-)

Ganz toll!

Ich habe ein ganz tolles buck bekommen von die bube Illya aus Berlin den ich muss mein Deutsch üben! Illya wird nack Amsterdam kommen in einem monat oder so waß so meine mutti muss von heute ab Deutsch mit mir reden ;-) Dass macht spaß!

Horse milk

Yesterday Mom and grandma took me to a horse milking farm in Dreumel near where mom grew up. I'm gonna get a little horse milk every day with my bottle so maybe my skin rash (a typical baby allergy called 'dauwworm' in Dutch) will go away. Apart from that, no more wool on my skin and Monkey gets serious spanking for sleeping on my bed and in my crib and stuff. Hope it helps. If you wanna know more about horse milk check: http://www.paardenmelk.nu/

Air time

No complaints about my air time these days. Today we went out for the longest walk, we watched boats and birds in the river and ended up sunbathing in the park for a bit. Tomorrow will be the same, weatherman says, yeah!

Pretty in grey

In the extended series "look what a pretty baby I am"; me wrapped in grey sweaters ;-)

Best Toys

The most exciting toys are definitely the new catalogs of Intertoys and Bart Smit. But after playing with them for an hour they're completely trashed which is a shame. Not very sustainable, but all the more fun!

Pap-baby

Today mom made me some nice warm 'pap' (bio organic millet porridge) which went down very well with the foggy fall weather outside and the both of us still recovering from our colds. This 'pap' for sure is feel good food, mom finished my left overs with the happiest smile on her face ;-) She used to be such a pap-baby herself!