Workbench

During Nonny's visit, Tobias got spoiled. I guess that is something grandparents are supposed to do, or genetically inclined to do, or have an uncontrollable urge to do. Anyway, Tobias got spoiled in many ways. He got loads and loads of attention of course, he got to eat candy, chocolate, cookies and stuff, but he also got some toys!

In the previous post I talked about a stuffed animal from the Zoo, but he also got a workbench! He loves that thing. From the first time it came out of the box, until pretty much last weekend (that is when I bought him a drill, which might actually be on my next post :-)) he played with it non-stop! He especially loves hammering the nails, and he is quite good at it too... He holds the nail at first and hits it very gently and then he lets go of it and hits it harder, just like a real carpenter I guess... Is also had a wrench, a screwdriver, and a vise.

Anyway, this was a very good gift and Nonny got to see Tobias enjoy it quite a bit!

Nonny's Visit

Nonny came over for a visit. We all enjoyed that very much! Tobias still talks about her all the time, like "this is Nonny's chair" or "Nonny's on the airplane" and such. Nonny, Opa and Oma took Tobias out to the Zoo one day. This picture is taken there. They all had a great day and Tobias got to pick a stuffed animal... He picked a green snake!

Nonny was here for a little over two weeks and her intention is to be back in August, together with Granddaddy. We are all looking forward to that.

Grass in our Yard

One of the purposes for moving was to have a bigger back yard (so that Tobias has room to play. Well, we do and we recently put some grass in there. Also we had some very nice weeks, weatherwise, so we, and especially Tobias (and the cats for that matter), have put our new grass to some good use!

Tobias played soccer, golf, and as you can see in this picture, the harmonica on the grass. Very nice. It is our intention to put a swingset on there as well, but we haven't gotten that far yet. I hope we will be able to have one this summer though. We are also going to expand our yard this fall and perhaps we will add a sandbox then too. After all, like I said, we bought this house and this yard for Tobias to play in...!

Fortunately, so far he has been loving it!

One in a Million

This is one of those one in a million type pictures. It is so hard to capture just that giggle, laugh, face, cry, shout, step, jump or whatever on CCD, but every once in a while you get lucky. This time Oma got lucky because she took this one.

This one was taken in her back yard where Tobias was playing with this garage. He had just discovered that you can jam the lift up and the car will jump up in the air. He had to laugh so hard every time that happened... as you can see in this picture. The car is still airborne and Tobias just burst out laughing!

Easter Egg Hunt

Easter has already come and gone! Time flies when you're having fun.... in your back-yard. Like our entire house, the yard needed quite some work too. The day before Easter we did a lot of work and my parents helped us a lot. In return we made them a big dinner and had them spend the night in our new house, so we could give them a big Easter brunch too. That was loads of fun, and Tobias got an Easter bunny and a lot of Easter chocolate. But, in all this activity we totally forgot about the Easter Egg Hunt!

Fortunately we have two Easter days in the Netherlands, so we had an Easter Egg hunt on the second Easter day instead... Tobias was so surprised to find all these eggs in the yard! That was funny. In this picture we are opening up the harvest...

This Easter was pretty much Tobias' first encounter with chocolate... All this Easter chocolate may very well have turned Tobias into a chocolate addict because he is asking for chocolate eggs pretty much every day now!

Tobias' first Haircut

It is unbelievable but true: Tobias had his first haircut, from Oma. She used to be a hairdresser, so it was a professional job, and fun because Oma was playing with him and enjoying every minute of it. Of course we saved a couple of hairs....

I think I had my haircut when I was just over one year old and judging from the pictures I had a lot more hair by that time. I was a blonde too, but Tobias' hair is so light that it seems that he still doesn't have a whole lot of hair. But, after his haircut it did look a lot better :-).

He is growing into a little boy so incredibly fast!

Riding My Bike!

For his birthday we gave Tobias a tricycle. In the old house we stored it in the attick, but in our new house we keep it in the garage. That makes it easier for us to take it out, so we have been using it quite a few times recently...

This picture was taken the first time we took Tobias out on it. He loved it and so did we of course. Recently the weather has been really nice out here so we have been taking him out a lot. Tobias is not yet able to paddle it all by himself, but he is gradually getting there. I am sure he'll get the hang of it soon.

Obviously we will be taking him out on his tricycle a lot!