slugs and snails

Dylan had a very busy day today! We got to the camping spot where oma and opa are staying at about 10am and he didn't sit still for a minute until we left again at 3pm. What exactly do little boys do to keep busy?

Play with tadpoles and snails with opa, play football, cycle, walk to the beach and back again, throw shells in the sea, climb trees, fly, cuddle, run, eat, go, go, go...

...it took him about 1 minute to fall asleep in the car on the way home!

ready for number 2

Among the things you need to get ready for baby number two, fixing another chair on my new bike was one of them. Dylan wasn't impressed when I sat him down behind me, but I am ready to cycle around town with two kids now!

I want to ride my bicycle...

It's just about the first thing Dylan wants to do when he wakes up in the morning, and in the afternoon, and every moment in between. In fact, I think he would take it to bed with him at night too if we let him but he settles for (very proudly) parking 'my big bike' in between mama's and papa's big bikes in the shed.

sleepover

Tonight we are off to a wedding celebration. Congrats Pat & Jet!

Dylan has been excited all day about his sleepover at Petra, Rob and Nadia's.

Dylan: Can I not sleep? Can we go to Petra's now? Mama, can I not sleep?

Here he is this afternoon, packing trunki and then pulling/dragging it to the car.

children's day

As far as I'm concerned every day is children's day but Dylan's school thinks otherwise. They don't make mother's day or father's day presents but they do hold a children's day. That was today and Dylan came home very excited. He had a parrot balloon from the 'lieve clowntje' (sweet clown). He had a fabulous day and had loads to tell us... no more complaints about children's day from me!

my fiets!

We spent Saturday in Rockanje at the camping with Oma and Opa (and Sander, Wendy, Manon and Rosalie) and had an early mother's day celebration. Dylan especially enjoyed himself because Opa and Oma had a bicycle for him and because 'Nanon' was there! When he wasn't following Manon around, he was PUSHING his bike around. I did manage to get one photo of him sitting on his bike though, thanks to Manon insisting he get on it. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera ready on Sunday when he got on and showed me how he could cycle on the big bike!! (Ik kan het heel goed mama...) Hopefully a film or at least photos to follow in the next week.

Little bed!

Dylan is slowly getting used to his new bed. For some reason he calls his baby bed the big bed and his new one the little bed. He loves it! Or rather, he loves being able to get out of it so you can imagine how long it takes him to go to sleep now in the afternoons... I say in the afternoons because he also has a new room. He loves the new room as much as his new bed but is still a bit scared to sleep in it at night. At night he happily goes back to sleep in the big bed.

Here he is 'helping' opa with the wallpaper and papa make his new little bed.

Could they be related?

Ok, so he probably won't thank me for this photo in 10 years time...

holiday in the berg

Thanks granny and granpa for organising a lovely weekend in the berg, at busman's nek, for all of us!

The best part was swimming of course, and what a pool to swim in, although it was a little cold! There was also plenty of time for warming up in the sun.

Easter (at sunninghill and in the berg)

About 5 seconds after I took this photo Dylan was in Marko's arms... he told us quite firmly that he was scared of the big bunny and avoided it the rest of the morning.

We left the bunny behind us and drove to the berg, Easter here was a lot more fun. First we hunted for eggs and surprises in our chalet. Which one first, the bunny or the egg?After that we had an easter egg hunt around the pool. Dylan was one of the smallest and didn't stand much chance but lucky for him we found one! (Ok, so I wasn't about to let the other kids get all the eggs and we managed to find one by running (or rather me dragging Dylan) very fast and me just about standing on the first egg I saw before anyone else could get to it... Dylan was very pleased when he 'found' the egg but one wasn't enough. Is it ever?

2 years, 2 months, 2 days

Dylan was 2 years, 2 months and 2 days old yesterday!

(no) sleep

We're in Johannesburg visiting granny and grandpa and enjoying the sun. We decided to let Dylan sleep in a big bed, mainly because the baby cot is a bit too small for him. He really enjoys this new 'freedom' cos after putting him to bed, he keeps getting out and happily comes back to the living room. Making him go to sleep takes long and requires mom or dad to be on the bed with him to convince him sleep isn't a bad thing for little boys...

One advantage of his room is that the doorhandle is just too high for him, so he can't get out of his room when the door is closed. Today, for his afternoon nap, he was 'locked in' and he was banging the door and generally being unhappy for over an hour, before he finally went to sleep. This is how we found him:

climbing is fun!

Dylan loves to climb... The only problem I have with taking him to play is that he generally expects me to join in. Luckily I was the one with the camera!Ok, I admit, he had a little help getting to the top!