at the supermarket

I guess this is something that my parents did with me too..

At cafe Floor, Rotterdam

Sunday's walk around the city found us having lunch at cafe Floor, the place of the first date between Margreet and Antonio many years ago (2004).
Gaizka likes the place, of course!

tumbling down, getting up

Gaikza likes to ride around, sitting in his car, or driving it. Sometimes he stumbles..



But he quickly gets up, and rides again.

second winter on ice

Here in Holland most of the kids had to wait 12 years to really be able to skate on the ice.

But for Gaizka it is already his second winter that he had been standing on the ice. Last year with his Grandfather at Christmas time.
This year, just one week ago. It is still freezing in Holland, but tomorrow the weather starts warming up, so no more iceskating. I missed my chance to make a tour on the many frozen pounds and waterways in Holland. But happy with my pregnancy, I can wait another 12 years. And than I will be skating with two children!!!

Here some pictures of Gaizka and the frozen ports in the city of Rotterdam in our little neigbourhoud.










In the background you can see the top of the famous Erasmusbridge of Rotterdam.

Gaizka playing with the Giraffe

Everyday we try to go outside for a little while. Today we were visiting ' our ' Giraffe at the Witteveenplein like we often do.

Gaizka takes The fifth........

No does not have legal problems.

He took the "fifth disease" as they call it here.

He had two rough days, probably his joints that were bothering him.
And he had red spots on his back, belly and on his face.

He's doing fine now and the spots are fading away.

We hope that I don't get the disease, because it would not be good for the new baby. So far, it seems that I am oke. To be certain, we are calling the docter tomorrow.

Een 'nieuwe' box voor Gaizka

1 januari hadden we vrienden op bezoek en we hadden bedacht dat we wat meer zitgelegenheid in de woonkamer konden gebruiken. Dus de kleine bank uit de 'lounge' gehaald en toegevoegd bij de banken die er al stonden.
Dat werd met name gewaardeerd door Thierry (zoontje van vrienden) die heerlijk over de banken kon rennen. Wij hebben uiteindelijk de hele tijd aan tafel gezeten, haha.

Het was een uitgelezen gelegenheid om de 'lounge' om te toveren tot box voor Gaizka. Anders werd deze alleen gebruikt om de was op te hangen. Toch ook zonde van de ruimte.




The 1st of januari we had friends over and thought it was a good opportunity to have an extra couch in the livingroom. So, we took the small couch of Antonio out of the 'lounge' and put it together with the rest of the couches.
Thierry, the son of our friends liked to run over the couches and probably thought it was a very good idea of us. In the end we all sat at the table all of the time, hahaha.

It was a good opportunity to make a big playing ground for Gaizka in the ' lounge ' . We only use the space to dry our laundry. So it has better use now.