Today you had a special package delivered, your new chair! As you can see it’s a dog that is rather yellow 🙂 One of the first things you did when you got on it was to kiss it. This will live in the front room and act as a chair for your desk. I’m sure you’ll also insist that we let you watch cartoons in it, let’s see how good you are!

Our little entertainer! Today at dinner you decided to perform a party trick for us. You showed us how to pick up a sippy cup and put it in a bowl… with your mouth! 😀 It’s funny as sometimes you have more coordination and dexterity with your mouth than your hands 🙂 You even graced us with the funny face you’re pulling at the moment.

As it was just you and me at home for the day I thought I’d treat you to a play fort. Mummy and I have been talking about getting you a ‘Princess Castle’ when you’re older, this will have to serve as an interim 🙂 I made it in a way that you could access your toy cupboard, all the amenities you could need right? The only problem was you could not sit still in there… after a few seconds of admiring my handy work you’d be off exploring the outside again… then 5 seconds later you’d be back!

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For you it should be ‘Working 5 to 9 seconds’ 😀 Actually you lasted longer than expected on your make shift chair, I think it was the TV that kept your attention. This is your first experience of an office type job, just imagine this is what Mummy & Daddy do for 8 hours a day! The only difference is our desks aren’t as musical 🙂

At creche you love to crawl around with all your friends, we know this from the color of your clothes when we pick you up 😀 At home you don’t really have anyone to challenge you… until today! I took you on in the greatest race ever, from the kitchen to the front door 🙂 I don’t know how you do it, my knees were hurting after one race, you do this all day!

A common phrase the neighbors can probably hear each night is ‘Emily… go to sleep now!!!’ 😀 However tonight I decided to film you a bit on the baby cam, just so you can see what you do instead of actually sleeping! I’m not sure what you were searching for in the headboard but as you couldn’t find it you stood up. If you’re wondering about your cry… totally fake 🙂 We’ve got a good ear now for telling the difference now.

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… you’ll be stuck like that! One thing we’re learning is to not laugh at anything you do that we don’t want you to repeat. One day over tea Mummy gave you something that you didn’t like and the face you pulled… well… it was incredibly funny. When you realized what we were laughing at you wouldn’t stop! So yeah… we have to be careful what we laugh at from now on.

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In the UK there is a game show called ‘Supermarket Sweep’ where the aim was to run around the aisles grabbing items. You’re now in training with your mini shopping cart 🙂 Unfortunately you don’t have to ability to take your hands off yet, so grabbing anything from a shelf is going to be a problem! 😀 In the second video you’ll see how fast Mummy reactions were when you fell. Don’t worry you didn’t hurt yourself, you were crying more out of shock.

While in the kitchen crawling around you’re always playing with our dustpan and brush, it seems you really want to help out. So while out shopping we took a quick visit to the toy store to buy you one of your very own! Sometimes you use the brush correctly, sometimes you use the pan to brush, you’re still learning. You also like to clean my leg, probably full of those alleged crumbs that Mummy says I keep dropping. Oh BTW, in the toy store they also had hoovers, ovens, microwaves and every other home appliance you could imagine. Let’s see what your next desire will be, probably the hoover.

This is one of the moments I think you wished we had a ‘no phone at the table’ rule 🙂 Well, let’s be specific and make it a ‘no filming Emily while eating at the table’ rule. We still have moments when you finish your food rather quickly, we need a way to entertain you right? I was actually a little surprised as to how patient you were! 😀

Speaking to Oma on the phone has become somewhat of a daily event 🙂 As you like to pretend everything is a phone when Mummy gave you her phone, you treated it as such. It’s cute as always wait till she stops speaking before you speak, it’s like you two are having a proper conversation. She loves it as you can hear in the video, laughing every time you say something. I would love someone to invent a translator, ‘Baby talk to English’ 😀

It’s a little wet outside and the fridge is looking a little bare so we decided to take a trip out to the ‘Speelkasteel’. A combination of great food, pancakes, and enough activities to wear even the most active baby out! 😀 As you can see from the videos you had a great time there, dusting the floor with your white stockings… 🙂 You really enjoyed the slide and if Mummy hadn’t of held you at the top, I think you would of ‘run’ off after the other children there.

There was a previous post, I believe on your 1st birthday, where you received some new boots. Unfortunately you kind of grew out of these very quickly, before we even had much chance to use them. However we bought you some nice shiny red ones which you love to wear everywhere! We’re trying to help you walk everywhere to stimulate you to do it by yourself. Here is a small clip of you walking, slowly, from the car to the house. This is why Mummy and I have bad backs and why we keep saying we need a massage 😀

Some of the things you love to grab around the living room are pencils. As we also have a notebook Mummy gave you the chance to let out some of your inner creativity, what could go wrong? 😀 As you can see… quite a bit 🙂 Drawing on the notebook wasn’t for you so you continued on the table! Luckily it was quite easy to get off with a cloth and some elbow grease.

While out shopping we bought you some crayons, easily washable ones 😀 As you can see from the picture below your creativity bloomed within a few hours… 🙂 What a great train!

Lately you’ve been getting a little annoyed with your hair constantly falling in your eyes. Mummy saw this and made sure we dropped by a hairdresser while out and about, just a little off the front and sides right?!??!… Well, they took maybe a little too much off and Mummy’s first words were, ‘she looks like a boy’ 😀 So now we know what your brother will look like, when we have another… and if it’s a boy 🙂 It’ll be like having two bosses at work.

You’re still and will forever remain extremely cute! Mummy says the only way we can fix this is to get you earrings 🙂 I think she planned this all along to get her way! 😀 Oh, we also tried you out in a new coat, one you got for your first birthday, just to get the complete experience. Don’t worry we’ll go out in the center soon to get you a very flowery and girly coat to wear.

Today you’re having your last vaccination until you’re around 4! There are obviously quite a few mixed feelings as this one is supposed to be the worst one… but just think… no more injections for 2-3 years 😀 I had the job of holding you while you had both of them and I was amazed you didn’t struggle. You were so brave with only a few tears! We soon had you back to your normal happy self in a few minutes. Check out the All About Me to see what you weighed and how tall you were.

This will be your 4th toothbrush and probably the 3rd or so post on trying to brush your teeth 🙂 As they’re getting larger, and with us using the finger brush, it was getting extremely painful when you bit us 😀 Mummy picked one out from Amazon that came with a light and vibrated, anything to try and get you to open up. There’s still some work to do but I’m confident as you get older you’ll come around 🙂

In the words of MC Hammer, ‘you can’t touch this’…. 😀 If YouTube is still going when you read this, which I hope it is as all your videos are on it, you should search it to get the meaning 🙂 Anyway, while we were out shopping Mummy grabbed you something to play with, something destructive and in the wrong hands, very dangerous!

Baby (in this case you) + Hammer = Ensure 112 is on speed dial

I’m not even going to try and guess how many cups we’ve now bought for you but I think we’re onto a winner now with this one. As you really want to drink from a normal cup Mummy grabbed a Nubby training cup, it seems to work and it’s quite ingenious! The bonus thing is you also seem to love it, it’s just a shame Mummy puts water in it and not juice? 🙂

If you’re wondering about the mess on the table, that’s from Mummy’s Noodles, she thought you might of like them… you did… but not in the eating way 😀 You preferred my ribs 🙂

Don’t worry we didn’t really feed you ribs. You did however enjoy the small lump of meat I gave you so you got to know the taste. It’ll be a while before you and I can enjoy a ‘all you can eat ribs’ meal together 🙂

We weren’t going into Albert Heijn today so you couldn’t ride with the Hamster as you love to do on EVERY visit 😀 However after a little searching we found another one for you, one with a TV screen in the it! Be warned though as this TV screen makes you work for it, asking you questions while at the same time rocking back and to. Don’t worry though as Mummy and I were there to help you get them all correct, your method of randomly hitting the buttons was not working 🙂

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After a long day outside all 3 of us relaxed in-front of the TV, for some reason I was seen as a cushion…