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.

the flu

Gaizka Wibo is most of time a strong healthy baby. Even now that he has a little cold he keeps his good spirit.
This morning I brought Gaizka to the doctor, because in recent nights he has had a running nose and some coughing. Fortunately, there is nothing to worry about. It is just the flu (that I also got!). Now that Gaizka is going twice a week to the crèche he has more contact with other babies, more people, and of course, more chances to catch a flu.
But apart from that, Gaizka has no fever, he eats well, he plays, he smiles as always and he is happy. The only thing is that we have some difficult nights. He'll get better!

We are all waiting for a little bit of nice weather, to get healthy and strong again!

six months old!

Tomorrow is Gaizka six months old. He can roll, and he can eat a baby biscuit. He eats baby food; like apple, carrots, peas, pears, and bananas. He is as happy as always.
And he sleeps now in a new bed! We got the Leander bed, which "grows" with the baby. It is a present from his grandparents Hubert. Thank you opa and oma!

this baby is rocking and rolling!

Just to say that little Gaizka officially rolled!
Last week we had this feeling that it was about to happen. Margreet a little bit worried that she would miss it because of her meetings and flights. But still, Gaizka waited until last friday (14 march) to give the primeur by his mother.
In a typical ninja fashion (ninja means: shadow warrior), Gaizka rolled when Margreet was not looking. Later in the weekend, on saturday, he did it again for me when I was not looking.
On sunday he just did it in front of our eyes. We shared his struggle, and we looked excited untill he finally did it. from then on, it has happen several times and our kid is very happy with his new found mobility.

Strolling in the park

Gaizka is 5 months old, it is sunday, and the weather is nice.
So we went for a short stroll in the park. It is just 12 degrees Celsius (it would be a freezing time according to Caracas' standards) but for us down here is wonderful... and it isn't March yet!

saturday's round with Antonio

If is possible, Gaizka does a saturday's morning round with Antonio.
We go to Fitness First across the river, that's a walk of about 25 minutes. Then I drop Gaizka by the babysitting service at Fitness First and I go for an hour of exercises. Every now and then I check with Gaizka if everything is going alright.

After that we go to the central library of Rotterdam and go to the centrale discotheek, a huge music CD library where we loan our music. Then we go to the Coolsingel, the main commercial street of Rotterdam. Sometimes we go to the Bijenkorf and have lunch there, sometimes we meet with Margreet somewhere and have lunch with her, it can vary, and it is nice fun.

The last couple of times we have come back home with the metro. Gaizka is a city baby, so why not? There is always someone who smiles at Antonio and Gaizka. The metro father and the metro baby?

Beurs station in Rotterdam's centrum

A metro passenger and Gaizka

Wilhenminaplein Station at Rotterdam Kop van Zuid (where we all live)

Gaizka in the newspaper!

Yesterday the Algemeen Dagblad (AD) ran the article about the dunstan method in their Family pages. Remember that a few months ago we posted a blog about this? Gaizka and Margreet for the first time together in a newspaper article. Cool, isn't it? Here they are...