Heute war Willems 2. Geburtstag. Wir konnten es schon gar nicht mehr erwarten, da wir uns so darauf gefreut haben, dass er seine grosse Lego-Duplo Eisenbahn auspackt, die seit Wochen im vorderen Zimmer auf ihren ersten Einsatz wartete. Das Warten hat sich gelohnt: Willem quietschte beim Auspacken vor lauter Entzücken!
Zunächst musste der Teppich im Wohnzimmer an eine andere Stelle gelegt werden, da das Verlegen der Gleise eine glatte Unterlage verlangte. Nachdem die Gleisbauarbeiten beendet waren, dauerte es nicht lange bevor Willem die Regie übernahm, den Zug auf die Gleise stellte und die batteriebetriebene Lok per Knopfdruck in Bewegung setzte.
Noch ein König - Another King
Auch beim Schlafengehen ist ein neues Kapitel aufgeschlagen worden. Seit heute hat Willem eine richtige Bettdecke und zum ersten Mal anstatt eines Strampelanzugs einen Pyjama an, und wie man sieht, er findet's fantastisch.
Guckguck - Peepo
Mittagessen bei den Grossen - big boy's lunch
After we had completed all the track works, it didn't take long until Willem would take charge by putting the train onto the tracks and managing to push the button that would set the battery operated engine into motion.
We've also opened a new chapter at bedtime: our big boy is now in big boy PJs rather than romper suits - and he's now got his own duvet courtesy of the Richartz kids who kindly donated this to their little friend. So kind! Thank you!! As you can see from the pictures, Willem absolutely loves it. And for once he didn't fuss at bedtime (probably at least partly to be attributed to the fact that he was too exhausted to kick up a stink. Even more exhausted than usual, that is). Fingers crossed for a quiet night!...
At nursery, Willem is in the process of moving to the big kids' room. He has been spending more and more time over there in the last couple of weeks and has taken to it like a duck to water. Today was the first day that Hendrik dropped him off in there without first going to the baby room. Until a few days ago this would have still caused tears, but today he was ready for it. A milestone. We're glad he likes it so much in the big kids' room, but we're also shedding a secretive tear that this means we won't see that much of everyone in the baby room, especially Dawn and Lindsey who seem to have become parts of our extended family... The move probably bothers Thea more than it does Willem, though...
Well, we'll now get the Häagen Dazs out and enjoy a quiet night on the sofa. All that sitting around on the floor perched next to rail tracks is poison to 40-year old backsides...











