At the carwash

Gaikza is most of the times a brave guy, with little fear for jumping and crashing. But he can get a little bit scared of humming sounds, electric vacuums, and the sort.
At the carwash he enjoyed looking around, untill the big brushes came along the car with their rattling sound. I have to agree, it is a little bit scary. later we found a way of sending the cleaning rolls away. We just said: "weg!" (go away!) it worked.

first shot at H1N1

This is a serie of pictures of the morning we went to Ahoy Rotterdam to vaccinate Iker Alvaro and Gaizka Wibo against the influenza virus H1N1 aka "mexican flu"
It went okay in a very rainy morning. We were wondering if the kids would catch a cold from the rain...
In the Netherlands this has been a huge national health operation, with massive vaccinations for risk groups and children.
So, we still have to go for the second shot in a couple of weeks!

Autumn in Rotterdam

Gaizka is playing with the leaves and running through them

Throwing the leaves around

Exploring them.......

Then he decides he want to transport all of them to another location......

I think it is time to move along....

Gaizka is biking around in Rotterdam; be aware!

When Gaizka became 2 years old we gave him a 'walking bike' : Firstbike (see our post in october).
We had to use a special tool to downsize the bike ust a little bit, because he is not too tall.....
But in a couple of weeks time he bikes around like a motorbiker!! He started by just walking on the side of the bike just a couple of weeks ago. It is amazing how quick children learn.

Table manners at the Vuurplaat

We really feel like a family. Especially at dinertime when we are all together at the table. Yes, even Iker is present at the table. Or is it 'on' the table.......

thee-time

dinner-time

Gaizka 2 years old !!!

Not long ago Gaizka turned 2 . It was a birthday with a lot of Bumba presence. He likes this Belgian clown on tv. Actually it is almost the only thing he watches. During the day Oma Emmy en Opa Wim came by to celebrate his birthday. They bought him a nice chair.
As a coincedence Antonio was late that night. So we started with dinner right away when he came home. After that Gaizka was already tired, but we had a big present for him. But just when we wanted to give our present Gaizka fell on the radiator. He cut his chin and to be sure we went to the docter. A bandaid later we were home, but by then it was 21.00 !!! But we still had our present and we had a smiling and happy son in the house. So we give him our present and he was, and still is, very happy with it.

Crazy picture