The Snotees are Back

Just a quick post. We have all had the most awful cold/ flu thing for the past week or so. Edward caught it on the train to Germany, and has progressed from last Sunday's fevers & bad temper, to well over a week of clear interspersed with green snot dribbling out of the Left Nostril Only, unable to breathe at all through his nose, to this morning's River of Green Snot (from Right Nostril - very well done Edward), brought on by my steaming him in the shower. This afternoon he finally stopped being bad tempered and now has a cough. I am giving him German cough medicine (NL only lets babies have homeopathic rubbish) and this at least helps him get to sleep.

Adam caught the germ first from Edward, but he only suffered 5 days or so. I was next to succumb and it has been quite vile. However I have great hopes that I will wake up tomorrow morning and feel better. Ha!

Some nice things have been happening though. I had a lovely day last Wednesday as we had Gabrielle (NZer married to a NLer) and her almost 1 year old daughter Isabelle over for a play. Edward needs to learn to stand up for himself when a girl takes his toys! Ah, but it was lovely.
And then today I had Copper (an American who is married to a NLer) and her little son Maddox over for a play. Edward was quite intrigued with Maddox and even lay next to him on the mat pretending to be a little baby. I love my little man.

Adam is in Houston at the moment. I am (just) managing to keep sane while he is away although why, oh why did our hot water stop working yesterday morning? Thankfully Adam gives great handyman tips on email.

In one week's time we are on holiday in the UK. Hooray!

I love second hand books!

You may have noticed the written part of our blog entries getting shorter and shorter. This is because I (Dorothy) write those and Adam does the photos and videos. Well, a few weeks ago I visited Jan-Maarten and Leo in Den Haag and we went to a lovely 2nd hand bookshop. I ended up staggering home with a few dozen books, incluing a load of old Agatha Christies from J-M's attic. So I've been on a reading frenzy. And when you spend every spare minute gobbling up a novel, there isn't much energy left to write a blog.
The good news is that I'm (as of last night) onto the last book.

Edward's Backyard Adventures

Here's a video of Edward in the back-yard with Adam. We were trying to video him throwing a ball... but managed to video Adam throwing balls instead.

It's a blogging frenzy!

Here is a lovely photo of Edward in his new Size 2 Bonds vest.

From Damiens Photo...

And if you click on the link there are lots of other photos of Edward. There is even a photo or 2 of him wearing his first pair of shoes. He HATES them. And won't walk a step in them.

Magee Brothers in London

Adam came home late last night from London. He and Damien had a wonderful time seeing the sights, eating curry and enjoying hearing other people speaking English.

Edward's Walking

Well this will just be a quick post as there's lots to do over here.



We have Adam's brother Damien visiting and it is extremely nice to have him over here. We collected him from Schiphol yesterday morning & got stuck in a traffic jam at just after 6 in the morning. Luckily it took Damien ages to get through Customs etc (bag full of Tim Tams, Vegemite, Cheezels, Cherry Ripe bars ...) so we were there to greet him when he came out of the gate.

Tomorrow morning he starts a month long bus tour of Europe. Goodness me, I would LOVE to be on a bus for a month with hotels, food, where to go etc all worked out.

Now before I forget, Edward started real walking last week. It's the end of an era. Our little baby is now a toddler, but I know he'll always be my Little One.

We really do have to buy him some shoes, but I'm worried that his feet are so big that there will be nothing that fits him in the baby shoe section. I managed to get him socks in Germany last month and they were the biggest in the baby area - any bigger and he is into the big boy section of the department store. He's had another growth spurt and the size 80 baby clothes don't fit him any more. Charmaine sent over a lovely size 2 Bonds vest for Edward and it fits very well in the body length, but I have to roll the arms up almost to the elbows. My sweet one has the same long body as his dad.

Will post video/photos when Adam is home and takes them off the camera for me.