Picture Friday!

Happy St-Patrick's Day!

As customary lately, I shall lead with wake up time. Jake woke up at 5am, but my parents are in Dublin for the week-end, so I just stayed in bed. Jake cried a little, whimpered, whined, blabbed, yelled a little, and eventually settled back down around 6am and then slept until just after 7am. But he wasn't crying then, just talking, so I stayed in bed. At 8am, I got up, and Jake was having too much fun in his crib and pushed me away. So I went back to bed and lounged for another 20 minutes before going back to get him up for the day.
We spent the morning playing, we went outside for a little bit, and played a lot with mega blocks. He really likes to build!
Jake went to daycare this afternoon in his St-Patty's day pajamas. I thought it was really cute. He got them dirty, so ended up coming home in his spare outfit.
Then we had supper, and Jake got to see his cousins Nicole and Kim on Skype. I think he liked it, the internet was being silly, so it was freezing a lot. Plus, he was very into his phone. But he said hi and gave some kisses!
I hope everyone else has a great day!

De Balloon and the hairdresser

This morning was playgroup. We went to a indoor playground called De Balloon in the Netherlands. It actually wasn't too far from where we live, only about 25 minutes. Well...when you don't take a detour. I incorrectly entered the address into the GPS. I was on the highway when Mr.GPS said I arrived at my destination. Umm...I don't think so! Luckily I was only about 5 minutes away from the real destination.
It was a great place. There was a big playground thing that was all padded, had fun stairs, platforms, slides, balls, all sort of thing. At first Jake wasn't too sure, he fell asleep in the car, and it took him a few minutes to get adjusted to everything. There was a little toddler area, but it wasn't long before all the kids were climbing on the big toys!
The first time Jake went down this slide, he went down first. There was about a four feet platform...well, Jake just flew down the slide, flew across the four feet, then went out of sight! I swear, my heart stopped. But it was just a little more than a foot drop, and everything is padded, so he was fine! It didn't stop him from going down the slide again multiple times.
Oh, and the second time, I went down first, and I thought Jake wasn't going to follow me! It took a lot of prompting!
He absolutely loved the ball pit. He would jump in the balls, and he loves when I covered him up. He probably played for at least a half an hour here.


These were technically stairs. But the kids were climbing up, then sliding down them.

We had lunch at the venue, they had nuggets and fries, then we Jake had a haircut. He was in pretty desperate need to cut his hair. It was his second hair cut. I didn't bother with the cape to cover him, he hates it, I just brought a change of clothes since I knew his other clothes would be covered in hair.
He did freak out a little bit when the hairdresser was getting his hair wet and was just starting. But a box of raisins and a couple of songs later, he was content to just sit in the chair and smile to himself in the mirror. I think he looks so handsome now with his hair nice and short!

Hide and seek!

This is going to be a quick post. Jake was up at 430am this morning, and just ready to play. He's napping right now, but he'll be up soon, I can here him stirring already.
Jake does a few funny things lately.
He has a cold, so his nose has been runny for the past few weeks. He loves to blow it himself, so he will purposely blow until he has snot coming out of his nose, then ask for a kleenex, when we give him one, he wipes his nose, then runs to the bathroom or office door so he can put it in the garbage. Then, he walks back to the living room blowing out of his nose so he can start over.
He also likes to play peek a boo from behind the kitchen door. He'll carefully hide behind the door, then wait until I ask where is Jacob, then he'll pop out with the biggest smile on his face!
It's really adorable.

Quiet Sunday!

We had a quiet Sunday at home today. Jake got up at a very reasonable hour, around 730am. He's always in a pretty good mood when he wakes up in the morning. And he likes to play around in his crib. I go to get him, and he runs away from me. He's a silly boy!
We played this morning, then went outside for a walk, then played at the park. He loves the park. Today, he discovered that eating sand was yummy....but mommy this it's gross!
He took a very long nap this afternoon (over 3 hours!), I even had to go wake him up. I found him asleep in his crib, with all his stuffed animals and blankets thrown on the floor. But he was curled up with a little blanky with his butt sticking up in the air sound asleep.
It was so cute!!!

Early Day Again!

Jake was up early again this morning, 530am. He was ticked off that his Teddy Bear was on the floor, it's an unfortunate game. Jake throws him bear on the floor, then wants it back, but obviously can't go get it.
We got up and watched a couple movies while Jake played with his toys. Or played with the furniture he isn't suppose to play with. After my mom got up, she watched Jake and let me go back to bed for an hour. It was great to have that morning nap!
We went grocery shopping and out for lunch at the American Base. Jake likes his Burger King meal. He has the nuggets and loves to dip is fries in the ketchup. I normally don't let him keep the toys, but today it was a little stuffed animal, so I let him keep it. He was either hugging it, or throwing it on the floor of course!
He stayed awake on the way home, just barely! So he did go down for a long nap this afternoon. That was really nice for me. :)
All in all, a happy Saturday!


This is the face Jake makes when he doesn't get what he wants. This time, he wanted the camera, but I wouldn't let him have it. So dramatic!

Happy Friday!

Jake loves to put on crocs that aren't his! He has these ones on the wrong feet, but he came out from the corner wearing them properly, and he just shuffles out. It's pretty hilarious.
We had company for supper, and it's already late, so I'm off to bed!
(I love his Elmo shirt, we got it at H&M yesterday)