Wie is wie? Who is who?

Kijk heel goed en zeg maar welke foto is met Niels en welke met Nina?

Look good, I mean really good! Then tell me which photo has Niels and which has Nina?

De winnaar krijgt een heeel grooot...!

The winner will get a very big....!

Playful Mama Neri

Welcome Stig!!!

Congratulations again to Peter Pan and Tinkerbel

for their second wonder!

And to FEE...congratulations as well.  You are a big sister now!

Welcome little STIG!

Birthday: 11 February 2011

Weight: 3,390 kilo

Length: 50 cm

And here we present:

Stig Pannemans

And the proud godfather-for-the-first-time:

Ninong (Peter) Nico with his first Godchild (Petekindje)

Blessing in disguise...

The last months Niels has been getting more and more attached to his "tutje"  We have been telling him over and over again that he only has to use it when he is going to sleep...and still while he is playing, he puts it in his mouth and sucks it in.  It was starting to bother me...the sight of seeing him, a 3 years old, going to school and still has a "tutje" in his mouth.

But last thursday night, the unexpected happened.

We were in the bathroom, I was preparing Niels for his sleep.  He said he needs to go pipi first before we put his pyjama on...that time he has his "tutje" in his mouth.  He wanted to pipi standing up like how they do it in school...so, we were facing the toilet bowl, he was peeing, I was waiting till he was finished.  When he was finished I asked him, "So, are you finished?"  And he immediately yes "Yeah"...and suddenly PLOP!

I looked into the toilet bowl and sees the "tutje" floating...looks like his "tutje" fell out of his mouth when he said "Yeah" and then into the toilet! I quickly took it out and threw it in the sink.  He was quite shocked though but I told him we will try some of the reserves that we have here at home and he can test if they are ok or not.

We tested a few but he gets tickled with it cause they are too small.  They are FOR BABIES!  So he said, "Mama, just get me one from the store tomorrow".

The next day, friday, when we got home from school he asked me, "Mama, did you buy me a new tutje from the store today?" And then starts my big white lie :-)

I said, "Yeah Niels I went to the store.  I asked the woman if they have tutje for 3-year-old kids and she said...Sorry Mama, we dont sell that anymore."  He was a little bit dissappointed at first, but it only lasted a few seconds and then he said to me "Ah, but I dont need that anymore"

So since then, Niels doesnt have tutje anymore.  He still sleeps good at night.

So our big boy has proven to us once again that HE IS A BIG BOY!

Once in a while he asks me, "Mama where is my tutje?"  And I say, "Yeah, it fell in the toilet remember?"  "Oh yeah" he will answer with a laugh :-)

What a blessing in disguise.

Nielske's last few days with his "tutje"

Nina, 4 months

Met een brede lach opende Nina haar mondje voor haar eerste groentepap!  Maar na 5 kleine lepels is haar geduld op en wil een snelle vloiebare oplossing voor haar honger.  Opdrinken van 200ml melk duurt normaal 30 minuten, deze keer was het in 15 minuten op!

With a big smile and her mouth open wide, Nina, our little girl of now 4 months, has eater her first spoon of veggie pulp!  Although after 5 small spoons she let her voice heard..."IM HUNGRY!"  She wants a fast and liquid solution to her hunger...MILK!

Normally, it takes her about 30 mins to finish a 200ml bottle of milk.  This time it took her half the time!  She was drinking...gulping I should say...her milk as if its the first time she ever saw milk in decades of hunger!

But as soon as she gets used to it she will for sure eat a lot of that stuff!



Nina en haar eerste groentepap hapje



And she enjoys this stunt!  She starts getting more and more curious about Niels' toys...she starts grabbing them and TASTING them.  And Niels of course, first protective of his toys, but afterwards (after my long explanation of why Nina grabs his toys) he was OK with it.  He knows that Nina would not get them, she just wants to touch and get to know what a toy is :-)

And our playful little Nina could laugh hard now! She likes it when we put her high in the air, when she gets tickled, when we play with her legs and arms and oh she likes to TALK!

Playtime with Oma

Princess Nina: almost 4 months!

"Kijk Papa, daar is broer!"  Niels said to his Papa this morning when I went downstairs after picking hungry Nina up from her bed.  All I can do was laugh and told him that he is the "broer" en Nina is the "zus"  And Niels said "Oh ja!" Ha ha ha

Anyways, I would like to share to you some of the progress our little princess is undergoing:



Whatever she grabs...



...she puts in her mouth



She listens good to Kuya Niels' storytelling

 

Can't resist smiling to the camera
(even while drinking milk)

And most of all...she can sit now like a princess
(for a few seconds at least)

So you see, babies grow so fast. Faster that we think.  And I say, here is a piece of advise to all the Mamas and Papas out there: Spend as much quality time with your babies and enjoy being with them while you can cause they wont stay babies forever :-)


Mama Neri