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 ;-)

Natural Born Stripper

At least once a day I like to run around completely naked, not even a nappy on. Mom usually grants me a moment, after heating up the place, when I get out of the bathtub or before I get into my pajamas. It's delicious, I get all funny or indulge in mom's big bed. We have tons of pictures of me doing the nudie but mom's a bit hesitant to post them in this day and age with all those ugly-spitited people out there on the web so you'll just have to imagine my bliss.

Welcome to my new office ;-)

Look, Mom installed a real nice home office in our little front room and she put in a little bureau just for me. It's a vintage school desk with matching chair that mom got from an old friend of grandma's and it has all my drawing equipment in it. Ok, it's still a bit big which figures because I am not due for school for another couple of years but I love it already! Now all I need is my own laptop 'cause mom and I keep fighting over using hers. I'm pretty hooked to playing Bob the Builder games for example ;-) Anyhow, Monkey is also happy with the new office, he got a spot all to himself. By the way, did I tell you that I can finally say "Monkey" now? Yeah I'm a real talker these days, I just keep forgetting my own name. Confusing. Am I supposed to say 'I' or 'me' or 'Deven'?

My first lampionnenoptocht

There was a real cool new year's party at the daycare center a couple of week ago (yeah, mom is a bit behind on this blog of mine again). We got to make our own lantern from an old milk carton and some colored foil, and there was lights on batteries (no real candles like mom feared). Then there was a cool saxophone player playing the pink panter theme and other nice songs and all the kids and the parents walked over to the kids farm around the corner for drinks and party food. It was real pretty but hard to photograph, sorry ;-)

Chasing Butterflies

With the cold and all we spend most of our time at the zoo in the butterfly garden. It's so nice and warm there I get to take off my coat and chase butterflies (but I'm not touching them, don't worry ;-)

Bedtime story

My favorite time of the day is the bedtime ritual when I finally get to rumble around in mom's big bed without all those clothes on. We brush my teeth, read some books and do pillow fights until mom says it's time to zip up in my sleeping bag. I usually do not agree... but alas...

Boxing Deven

Mom got a big present from a nice UPS man the other day and while she was raving over this new designer bag by Vlieger Vandam I was delirious about the box with paper. I played with it for a couple of hours and then Monkey took over hiding in the box under a mountain of paper. Great stuff!

Ice Ice Baby

The whole country seems ecstatic since the new year starts off with the finest winter weather thinkable. There's actually snow and all the water is frozen so yesterday grandma took me to this frozen pond where mom learned how to ice skate when she was a kid. I kept to the sled and shuffled my way across this cold surface but boy was this fun! I don't care about the cold, this winter fun is just too good!I even helped to shovel some snow in the garden.

Happy New Year!!!

Whah I saw fireworks for the first time in my life and I think I am addicted! Mom had told me all about what was going to happen that night while she got dressed up for a little private champagne party with aunty Karen. I woke up shortly after midnight and mom and Karen took turns showing me the fireworks, warm and snug inside behind the window. I was a bit drowsy but I liked the party and had some snacks before mom and I went back to bed an hour or so later. Mom says it's going to be a good year, the year of the Earth Ox, so let's see. We already had a real productive first day of the year, cleaning out the garden and stuff. So... Happy new year and hopefully more fireworks soon!