Enjoying his time with Antonio

When Gaizka laughes, you start laughing yourself. We made some short videos of him playing and joking with Antonio.
One we like to share with you.
He really is joking around. Watch when he points at the picture at the wall. He is distracting Antonio.......and then.....yes!! joking again.

The making of............the Hirst painting

A couple of weeks ago we published a blogpost about the art that Gaizka made for my birthday.

Well, here is the making of.............

XL & XS

At the current time, Gaizka is the youngest and also smallest familymember of the HUBERT-clan.

His nephew, Jeroen, is the oldest and at the same time longest familymember.

Gaizka Hirst......

Yesterday when I brought Gaizka to the daycare,they asked me what we were going to do that night. Since it was the 5th of december and then we have 'Sinterklaas" in Holland. It is a sort of Santa Claus, but a typical Dutch tradition. The children believe he comes by boat from spain and has a big book in which he keeps their behaviour up to date. He has presents, but if you've been bad he will know.
I told them that it was my birthday and since Gaizka is still too small to understand the meaning of 'Sinterklaas' we would invite friends for dinner.

Well ,Femke, the girl who works there, told Gaizka right away that he would make something for my birthday at the daycare.

And look what our Damien Gaizka Hirst made for me......!





We will let you know when the auction will take place !!!

Gaizka in the playground

Everyday we go outside for a walk. Most of the time we go to a place where Gaizka can walk or play. Today we went to a playground in our neighbourhood.

Breakfast at the park

At the Inn in st. James park. A good breakfast for a day of travel.

Rotterdam-brussels-London

First leg of our city trip to London!

He won't stop helping!

A couple of days ago, I changed Gaizka. And to prevent our house from 'serious smelling' I put his diaper in a plastic bag. So ( I thought) he took his diaper to the trashcan, but no he couldn't say goodbye yet. I took some persuasion tactics to change Gaizka's idea of walking the whole morning wiht a dirty diaper through the house into putting the diaper in the trashcan.

Our new 24/7 help - Nieuwe hulp in de huishouding

First do the dishes...


Yes, indeed the dishes...


Then of we go to the supermarket.....


No time to loose, because we have other places to go as well........

We are starting to get use to it. Gaizka is helping out a lot in our household.
So whenever he is going to the daycare we miss the extra hands.

Who is your daddy???

Hola Gaizka!!!!!

Who's your daddy ????

Action man!

Saturday's walks in rotterdam are always fine with Gaizka. He's already known at the barber shop, several cafes and restaurants, the butcher's shop, the bakery...
Here he is at the legendary Wester Paviljoen or WP. A part of our history in rotterdam.

Gaizka's babywalker.....

Finally we have a good video of how the babywalker should be used correctly according to Gaizka and Antonio.....










Or maybe it should be used like this.............

Our baby walks!!!!!!

Since a day or three Gaizka walks on his own!

He started a month ago with two steps, but rather than coordinating himself he threw himself to a couch or to me or to Antonio. But then, 3 days ago, he walked really carfully for 5 or 6 steps.

A day later we got our proof on film:

Gaizka 1 year old !!!!

After a birthday party with some friends, a party at the daycare and last but not least a party with the family, Gaizka is definitely one year old.


For his birthday he got some beautiful presents. Some nice books, a mobile phone,a xylophone, a wooden train, and a babywalker full with wooden blocks. We keep the wooden blocks for next year, but Gaizka really likes to walk with it.


Here we have some pictures of his birthday:

The perfect gift...
Gaizka used everything to walk with; from babygym to blocks, till small toys: Gaizka wanted to walk with it.
Now Gaizka has his walker!


Margreet and her sister during the festivities....


Where is our birthdayboy....?
Oh, he's busy on the phone...........


After a lot of cake and colorful garlands around the livingroom he really enjoys playing with his toys.

one year old

Gaikza is now one year old. He had his little party, his cake, cards, visitors and lots of presents. From the start of the day, until the last minute it was a big special day for him and us.
He got a toy telephone from Margreet and me. He loves it. So, some time soon, he will start making those distance calls to say hello...
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Gaikza at the Bijenkorf's restaurant

Sometimes we have lunch at the Bijenkorf. We walk around the city centre, shopping, looking around, having fun. I have a nice sandwich or a strawberry tart, Gaikza has his fruit, sandwich or bottle. Anyway, he always gets a bit of my food... he likes strawberries.

Gaizka and Mila

Mila and Gaizka were born on the same day, in the same hospital. Their mothers, Margreet and Ciska were roommates at the hospital. On those very first hours we realised that Mila and Gaizka were neighbours. Mila and her parents live right across the park where Gaikza plays.

A couple of weeks ago we got to Mila's house for coffee (and cookies, of course). We were there looking at the house, their appartment is for sale and we were looking around to see if it was interesting for us. Margreet loves it! She wants to buy it. But how do we get the money right?

Gaizka at the library

Here's Gaizka in the reading spot at the city library. We are having fun!

Vacation with Gaizka pt. 1

The three of us are on vacation in the southern part of Holland. That's where the boat is, so that's where we are.

Of course our main goal is to go sailing. So far we have not sailed a bit. The weather is fine, but the winds are too strong and for Gaizka that is no fun. So we go to the beach and visit some little villages.

Tomorrow will be our first sailing day.

A little vacation

Just this week we went to the boat for a couple of relaxing days. The weather was fine, some good days, some days okay.

Antonio brought my bicycle with an extra seat in front for Gaizka. Then he went working and came back two days later. Meanwhile, Gaizka and I had a good time biking, bathing and playing together.

Aren't they cute together?

I am proud of my two men. I love to take pictures of them together and often they turn out just great, just like they are in reality!

Who is babysitting Gaizka during the sailingcompetition?

Of course, we are still active in the sailingcompetition. We, as in Antonio. It is not an easy thing to leave your child with a babysitter, especially not in a harbour with all the water nearby.

So since Gaizka is in our lives, I am still taking care of him during the matches. However I would like to compete again. But I also enjoy my time with Gaizka. Now the weather is getting better and it is nicer to be outside. So Gaizka and I went along with Antonio to the boat and during the match we had our own plan.

We went to the Northsea were we took a stroll and Gaizka had his first experience with a lot of sand and with the oceanwater(way too cold for his Southamerican taste.).

And after a while he fell asleep, with the sound of the waves as a nice background melody.

And the next day of the competition?
Yes, we found our babysitter. It was a tough decision, but in the harbour all the mothers, grandmothers who do not join in the competition have an extra eye out for the litle ones.
And our little one did have a splendid time in the harbour while we went sailing!

Stampersplaat

A short holiday and two happy faces on a small island called Stampersplaat.

9 months

Gaikza is now nine months. He can crawl, he can stand, he talks and talks in his own baby language, he is fine.
He is growing very fast, he has 4 teeth now. He eats his food in a splendid way.
He is the happy Gaizka. Always smiling. Margreet and I are the happy ones too. Always smiling with Gaizka. He is nine months.

Happy in the park

A nice sunday, Margreet went for a family visit, Antonio went to the boat for maintainance. And still we got the time in the afternoon to spend an hour on the small park in the neighbourhood, Witteveenplein. Gaizka is very happy...

Dancing days

A couple of weeks ago (17th of may) we went downtown with Gaizka. To our surprise there was a modern dance show in the shop window at the Bijenkorf, a big department store in Rotterdam. It was about the dancing night event later on that day.
Perhaps Gaizka gets inspiration and gets music, dance and rhythm in his life. Just as he has wind, sea and love.

ps. The music was from Gotan Project..

the little sailor

Last weekend (friday and saturday) we sailed the altopana from Stellendam to Den Osse, the home port of the boat. This was the first time for Gaizka Wibo!
Margreet and I got everything ready. With wonderful weather, and a little bit of wind, we could sail the first day to Willemstad, and sleep in the boat at the harbour.

The second day we got plenty of remarks at the three locks that we had to pass to get to our destination. At the locks, many people looked at the sporty boat, and they were surprised and smiling when they saw the baby there in the cockpit. Nice, Gaizka is already known in the sailing world!

It was fun but it was also hard work. We were always careful with Gaizka, we had to think how to fix his chair, how to get him clean, and plan ahead to give him his food on time.

In his first journey he did very good, our little sailor!

family dinner

last saturday we all had dinner in a Wok restaurant in Amsterdam. With the whole Hubert family. His aunts and uncles, grandparents, nices and nephews...
The family count: 2 Paiva Aranda, 13 Hubert.
Gaizka for the first time in a baby table chair, a little bit too soon, but he (we) managed alright.
We had fun, and Gaizka loved it.