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.

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!