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 🙂

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

Poor me! Soon I’m going to have to put my laptop away as someone wants to get their sticky little fingers all over it! It’s funny as with others things when we shout ‘No’ you tend to listen and stop, if only for a few seconds. However with my laptop you just won’t let go and when you realize you’re fighting a losing battle, you turn your sights to something else, in this case the remote controls.

When we play together in the living room and I’m sat down and you crawl over to me, my first thought it always… ‘what has she seen?’ 😀 It’s normally my phone or a remote control that is sat next to me. You’re very friendly, edging your way closer and closer until you can grab what you’ve seen, my sneaky girl! 🙂

You may remember 2 months ago you turned 12 months old and we celebrated in style in Romania. The photographers we hired eventually got back to us with the video they took stitched into a 5 minute montage, enjoy Little One!

If you’d like to see all the fun you missed while sleeping over the New Year you can view the shenanigans below 😀 I think both Oma and Mummy were hoping that you’d wake up… but no… you slept like a log!

Mummy saved a firework for the next night so you could at least

Happy New Year, Happy New Year & Happy New Year! We celebrated all 3 New Years, first the Romanian, then the Dutch, and finally the British 😀 This of course meant we had to have 3 toasts with 3 bottles of champagne. You stayed fast asleep while the fireworks were going off, quite amazing really as you normally wake up at least once on a normal day!

Below you’ll find some pictures of our New Years dinner, we included you of course 🙂

It’s 8 pm and it’s nearly your bed time 🙁 This means you’re not going to be awake for the New Year. Luckily the fireworks that Mummy bought also had some indoor party ones so we decided to see how you would react to them. You didn’t even flinch when they went off, probably due to the numerous times we’ve scared you since you were born 😀 Let’s see if the fireworks at midnight wake you up!

Mummy hates a dirty house, especially a dirty house going into the New Year. Today she roped Uncle George into hoovering the house while I looked after you and she cleaned. He left the hoover next to the tree and you couldn’t wait to ‘help’ him out a bit 🙂 You’re at the stage in your development where you’re able to watch a task and break it down into its individual actions, you love to try and do them all yourself!

It’s not exactly a Christmas dish but we do love a good curry 🙂 This evening we treated ourselves to an Indian at the Indian Kitchen restaurant! We had a somewhat private table in the back where you could make as much noise as you wanted… well I don’t think that was their plan but you made your own as usual 😀 We all opted for mild curries this time so no mouths were burnt 🙂 It’s nearly New Year and we have a lot more eating to do!

If there’s one thing that will never change with Oma is her desire to have fun with you, at every opportunity! Over the last few days while you’ve been sleeping she sits there watching the screen, patiently waiting for you to wake up. She virtually jumps at every strange sound you make, thinking you’re awake and you get to play again. I was getting some rest, i.e. drinking coffee and I came back to the sound of giggling 😀 Of course it stopped the minute you saw the camera. Then it just turned into a shouting and screaming match for some reason 🙂 Don’t argue with Oma!

In the UK the 26th, Tweede Kerstdag, is called ‘Boxing Day’. Apparently this was when the rich boxed presents for their servants… so what are you giving us today? 😀 We didn’t want to be cooped up in the house all day so we all went into the center together to see what we could find. We found a wonderful carousel in the shopping mall, well… it was kind of hard to miss 🙂

I don’t know what it is with over-sized toys and you… they just seem to be attracted to you for some reason 🙂 I don’t know how it happens, they just magically jump into your pushchair while I have my camera out, weird coincidence right? 😀

Just before we were about to start opening presents I heard the sound of hoofs on the roof. I decided to go investigate and was passed on the stairs by Santa!!! 🙂 He asked me to look after his reindeer while he delivered some presents to a very special girl! Upon seeing his you were very suspicious, watching him throughout the entire encounter. You were however very happy with what he brought you. This year you were extremely lucky, virtually all the presents under the tree were yours!

After a Romanian themed Christmas lunch, and as the weather was nice, we decided to head on out to work off some extra calories 🙂 You were in your pink bike so it wasn’t much exercise for you but you did enjoy yourself, Uncle George did most of the pushing. By the end of our walk we increased the pace to get home quicker, all those presents underneath the tree wouldn’t open themselves 😀 Plus I had a message to tell me there’d be a special guest dropping by with a personal delivery for you!

Hoofddorp isn’t quite at the North Pole but we wanted to make sure that the house was somewhat festive for your first Christmas at home. Mummy and I spent a lot of time decorating the window, the living room and of course, putting up the Christmas tree. She did most of the work in decorating the tree, I organised and directed 😀 … something like that. I thought it would be nice to show you what the place looked like during this joyful period.