Pieten

Sinterklaas

It's that time of the year again and Sinterklaas is back in Holland. We watch the Sinterklaasjournaal every night to keep up to date with the happenings leading up to Pakjesavond.

We went to watch him arrive on his steamboat, (along with the rest of Rotterdam!)

We sang and danced with Disco Piet!

Dylan even got to shake hands with the man himself, after his Sinterklaas party at NN.

Because we have no chimney, we leave our shoes at the door to the balcony, this time with a carrot for the horse and Dylan's wish list.

Time to sing, as loudly as we can, in the hope that we will be heard by the Pieten. Travis thought this was all great fun and marched around Dylan and Papa singing along merrily.

Surprise! A (shoe)present and pepernoten! (The 5th shoe belongs to Pam.)

Travis gets more excited about the pepernoten and sweets then he does about the present.

Ok, we might have done all of this more than once so far...

 

Hey, that's for Amerigo!

Zie ginds komt de stoomboot...

autumn

Kralingseplas is a great place to wander around, whatever the season. We had a lovely time last week  but I gave up trying to take photos after the first 15 minutes. This time around Travis was keen. So keen that he sat down in the pathway every few minutes and smiled nicely, saying: 'photo, photo, cheeeeeese.' Dylan decided he would pose...

 

 

Aaarghh!

The boys love playing pirates and Friday morning I convinced them to let me take a couple of photos.

 

Come on Travis, smile.

 aaargh!

Then they read books,

 went to the shops, to school, on holiday and to work,

 and in between all that there was time for a few kisses

 and cuddles.

 Gotta love 'em...

flashback to 23 months old

Somehow I managed not to publish this blog... So this was Travis 5 months ago.

what concentration

puzzling

but what a happy face once it all fits together!

time for a happy dance!

still loves music and loves to dance

more tower building

another favourite, squash Papa!