nutella!

Sometimes a bib is really necessary... this time a balaclava may have been better.

van mij!! (mine!!)

Dylan has got very possesive and can often be found hugging something to his chest saying mine, mine, mine! Here he is with 'my' rugby ball, ' not yours mama'.
My best happens after swimming. While I'm getting dressed, he gets a juice and a biscuit. He glares at whoever is nearest him and proclaims 'van mij, niet van jou!' (mine, not yours!) until he gets their attention, then he repeats it again, louder. He doesn't take his (evil) eye off the poor child until he is finished.

plu-pla kaartjes

When you spend 10 euros on groceries at our local supermarket (Albert Heijn) you get a pack of 5 football cards, the idea being to collect all of them and fill the book for this season's teams. We call them voetbal kaartjes (football cards), Dylan calls them plu-pla kaartjes or plakplaatjes (stickers). He unashamedly begs for them everytime we get to the cashier and he generally gets away with 3 packs or so which is certainly helping along his (ok, Marko's) collection!

don't ask

And then one day Dylan decided to balance Schaapie on his head...

...mission accomplished!

happy birthday to yooooooou!

Dylan was totally spoilt on his second birthday, the party lasted for 3 days! He loved every second of opening presents, singing happy birthday, playing with everyone who visited and of course, eating cake, biscuits, cake and more biscuits! (more photos in the 3 blogs below...) The little monkey now weighs 12.4kgs and is 88cm tall!

To add to the fun, Martin, Faye and Nicholas came to stay for the weekend. Pity we don't get to see them more often.

party, party, party!

The party was on Saturday afternoon. Dylan, Nicholas, Joost, Manon and Lisa had heaps of fun, along with Rosalie, Rodney and the rest of our family and friends who could make it.

pre-party

Sven couldn't make it to the party so he came to play on Friday afternoon. It was great fun watching the boys run around like crazy but I must confess that I am quite relieved I didn't have triplets!

the start of Dylan's 2nd-birthday celebrations!

On Wednesday I charged the camera battery and then managed to put it back in the wrong way... this means no pictures from his party at school on Thursday morning. Thursday evevning, oma and opa came for dinner.

happy birthday papa!

Dylan loves birthdays, who doesn't!? The fact that it was papa's and not his didn't make opening presents, playing with 'blabloons' or eating cakes any less fun. In fact the sight of 'cakies' makes him jump up and down with glee.and what about a cake for papa?oh ja...and a nice crumby birthday kiss!