My giraffe

My favourite toy now is the giraffe above my changing table. Changing diapers has never been so much fun! I lie there and watch the giraffe, and watch it, and watch it.... and then I am clean.

Ces laughing

I make some gurgling sounds, it is hard to speak, you know. Ces is laughing about them, because they came out so funny!

Me

Grandma's birthday!

It is Grandma's birthday, and we children don't let a birthday slip by. A chance to sing and eat pancakes? Never. Last year we had just such a nice party at the Oasis restaurant in the dunes, so we'll try it again this year. Only the forecast isn't sunny weather, like it was last year. The day starts of ok, but by the time we get there, it is definitely showery. We wait in between showers, but as we walk in, one shower decides to hit us. And hits us well! Like drained cats we arrive, with the rest of the crowd sheltering!

But it is worth the waiting for the pancakes, the gifts, the singing. And I drink and sleep in my usual rythm through it, taking in the noise and the stories as they told around me.

Talking after drinking

Growing well!

I have gone to the children's doctor again, 5.7 kilo and 58 cm! Growing nicely. I get a vaccination and sleep the rest of the day. Well, it is grey and dull outside, so nothing lost.

The old town hall

We have just brought Ces to day care. Because of the holidays it is in a different location than usual. On the way back we pass the old town hall, where my mama and papa got married.

Simon and Ces are climbing

Simon comes to play on Monday, and he arrives already on Sunday evening: a stay-over party! It all goes well, and in the morning we walk into town and Ces and Simon get to choose lunch: pancakes (Simon) and poffertjes (Ces). The day can't go wrong anymore!


Ces and Simon learn to climb the pole. There are good games to invent. If we reach the ceiling we get a balloon. If we don't get to the ceiling we get a candy! But mama thinks the second part is not so good, the balloon they get when they climb two more times!

Gabi and Ces

Groceries from the market

On Saturday we often go to the market to buy vegetables and fruit. It is summer and the abundance needs a place, on my pram!

Ces, the motor cat

Ces was painting this morning. Some paint ended up on her face, and it was only a small step to turn her into a real cat. In our town people comment on her beautiful paint, and she rides motor without a coin.

Me in my bed

Sleeping in the sling

In the early evening, between four and eight, I am often unsettled. I just can't get into the mood of the night, the day is too exciting, and will mama be there tomorrow? Besides, all the fun of cooking and eating I wouldn't miss for the world!!

So, if mama puts me to bed, I cry and cry untill she gets me out again. I sometimes get to rest in the 'sling'. In the sling I am all curled up, arms tucked in, can't move. I fall asleep.

3D cards

3D card making is the hip thing under the card makers. Mama has bought some prints cheaply and now Ces can use her sissors with no end. Perhaps not in the way it was intended, but mama and Ces make some nice pictures.

Ces has made Simon's house, with their house number 30 at the top, with Simon's bedroom window in the top, and the flowers in their garden with Aunt Hannie's hand. And of course birthday cake!!

Hip check in Amsterdam

We go to Amsterdam to check my sister's hips in the hospital she was born in. Afterwards Ces sees a Snow white balloon and Snow white is a princess and princesses are great!

By the time we're finished, I want a drink, and then mama thinks of the play ground in the Oosterpark just outside the hospital. Ces can run around and I have a drink from mama on the lawn.

The hips need a further check next year.

Ces eats cherries

My sister Ces likes cherries, but only the big sweet juicy cherries from the market, not our own small sour cherries. But they go well in the jam.

Loes birthday

Loes turns seven and my family goes off to celebrate with her. It will be another party for me!! Meeting my cousins and cousines. I sleep for a long while in the arms from Anja, family from 'the other side' from Friesland. They are always so sweet, my mama tells me.

But the best fun, I thought, was to see my cousine Noor when she ate her first ice cream. Not sure if I want one when I am grown up!!

Raphael and Ces play in my room

Raphael drops by to play with Ces. They play everywhere, but also in my room, while I play with my red seahorse. I like hearing children's voices, but they shouldn't shout. As you can see Raphael and Ces play very nice with the pebbles in mama's old game.

My hand

It is my daily restless hour between four and eight. I am downstairs in the pram. 'Hey, what is that? Is that mine?' It moves when I move my hand?

You see what my sister Ces did when she was my age?

Repair of the cloth

Ces is in distress: "Mama, I cut in my cloth! I didn't want to cut my cloth! " Luckily my mama can repair it! And the cloth is even the better for it.

These days nothing is save for the scissors in Ces' hand, but sometimes it seems to have lived its own life!