Today is Kings Day in Holland so it’s tradition to go out in Orange, sell second hand stuff and play games 🙂 This year we went to meet some friends in a local village center. However we started the day off with some cuddles!

Then in order to prepare you for the day ahead we did some early morning exercises 🙂

The village we all went to was Ransdorp, just north of Amsterdam. You were too young to join in for the games however you seemed to enjoy yourself, pretty in Orange 🙂

And as a bonus in the evening I played ‘Music Teacher’ and tried to play to your musical interests. Unfortunately I’m not the greatest single but I do a mean rattle! 😀

Daddy

You managed to confuse me while changing you today, I couldn’t work out how suddenly you’d lost a leg. I was trying to put your onesie back on and I just couldn’t find it… until I worked out you had grabbed it to play with 😀

Daddy

Today I tried a new technique to put you to sleep, something we’d seen on the internet and was deemed as the ‘miracle cure’ 🙂 It was highly overrated!

You have a habit of crying when your milk is over, no matter if you’re full or not. Am I a bad Dad for filming this? And… sometimes when you cry it sounds like an evil laugh or something, this in turn makes me and Mummy laugh.. are we bad parents? 😀 Lol

Daddy

Today we had a game of ‘Name that tune’ 🙂 You were extremely good at it and won by naming Old McDonald! You’ve actually learnt a lot of tunes from YouTube… I’m not sure if that’s good or not 😀 However it really does show how your brain is developing by connecting things together! Now let’s see how long it takes you to connect ‘Daddy’ to my face 🙂 Once you do I can never shave my beard 😀

Daddy

So you’ve been at the creche now for 3 days and we only just noticed that they had a welcome message for you 🙂 I guess you could say we’re not very observant 😀 It was extremely nice of them to welcome you to the group, I’m sure you’re going to have a lot of fun there!

Mummy & Daddy

A Steiff Teddy Bear is extremely famous make of bear, a collectors item in fact. Grandma & Granddad got you one labeled ‘My First Steiff’. Like Mummy you can now be proud you have something ‘branded’ 😀 You’ll be the envy of the creche! It’ll have to stay at home though, safe and sound!

Daddy

It’s a very exciting day today, your first day at the Happy Kids Creche! Lots of new friends to make, lots of new toys to play with. I think it’s going to be sensory overload for you.

It was extremely hard to leave you there and go to work. I’m sure it’ll get easier in time once we see how much you love it there. Below are some pictures they took and uploading to their website, they helped calm our nerves throughout the day.

You had a great day, swinging & sleeping in the hammock, getting lots of attention from both other children and the carers. I think you’re going to have a wonderful time there over the next few years.

Mummy & Daddy

One of our favorite outfits for you is the little Unicorn outfit 🙂 You look the cutest! It’ll be a shame when you grow out of it. However we have seen a onesie that you’ll fit into when you’re a little older, we can’t wait!

In the evening we both sung along to ‘Old McDonald’ 🙂 One of your favorite songs!

Daddy

What’s better to do than learning to crawl with Daddy. This morning we had some spare time to try and teach you the basics of crawling. It didn’t really work out as you’re only 5 months, but we had a lot of fun trying!

Daddy

Nothing to do outside, nothing on TV…. so we played around on the carpet and in the swing. Lots of pictures to be taken of our little cutie!

Daddy

It seems like someone wants to go for a walk 😀 While waiting for Mummy to get home from work I took you out and about, to see the neighbourhood.

As always you don’t tend to say much when you’re out, the occasional moan or urgh when you see something interesting. You look so cute in your mini-mouse coat!

Daddy

With Mummy still away I had to balance everything, literally. It seems you have a fascination with me brushing my teeth, you had a lot of fun trying to grab it out of my mouth!

Don’t worry sweetie, you’ll have a nice pink toothbrush soon enough, we’re expecting your first teeth to come through very soon!

Daddy

I think you could sense that I needed extra help with Mummy being away so you were being extra good this weekend. You even helped me sort out the shopping when it was delivered in the evening.

You tried your best and that’s good enough for me! You especially loved it when we came to your milk 😀 That made you happy!

Daddy

This weekend Mummy went to Romania for a quick visit, leaving you in my capable hands. We had a lot of fun together, starting with a nice relaxing sleep in 🙂

Then we had some fun on the changing table where you said ‘Hi’ to Mummy in a cute video. You were missing her

We then went for a walk around Hoofddorp, visiting a few places where I’ve never been before. We had some interesting chats, very one sided as you were too busy looking into people’s back gardens, you get that from Mummy!

You eventually fell asleep so I took you home, safe and sound 🙂 And in one piece…. 2 arms and 2 legs 😀