Birthdays and bye bye

Last week was Ciro's birthday...D and I made him a cake. Dylan was super excited and sat in front of the cake for about twenty minutes as we eagerly awaited Ciro coming back from work. The weather is still warm but not the unbearable heat of summer so most of the weekend was spent outdoors.... Dylan rode his bike round the block too (well sat on it and kind of pedalled with a lot of help from mommy:)Finally managed to get the photos to upload!!
Maya is moving all over the place...she is into everything and if you dare remove something from her..a little tantrum follows!! . Maya has been making ba ba sounds for a while...then we noticed she began waving and the sound sounded more like bye bye...today when we dropped them off at school i wanted to show her teacher..so i said bye bye to prompt the imitation...instead of the mimic came floods of tears...this time she did not want to bye bye... Maya saying bye-bye

Maya is pulling herself up on things or people...she really wants to get moving.

Lots of running around and playing with Daddy!

Maya loved going on the slide...did not want to stop.

Dylan 2 take two

We had a second try at celebrating Dylan's birthday yesterday with his two little friends...Ivo and Adriaan and of course Ivo's brother Burl was there too. We even managed to re-create the cake. Dylan was behaving as though he really got it that it was for him, he ran around shouting and screaming with excitement from the time Adriann got there. He actually had such a sweat going at one stage that a change of clothes was required.

The boys had fun and as the morning went on they played really nicely together and independently of each other. The only altercations involved the high chair. It is funny, when we go to Ivo's house Dylan insist on sitting in Ivo's high chair and this upsets Ivo (even though he doesn't use it much) so when Ivo saw Dylan's high chair he decided it was payback time (pic below) Memories like elephants these boys.

Dylan got really excited with the candles on the cake , but proceeded to put a cookie in his mouth instead of blowing them out.

Adriaan in the ball pool


"My high chair"

Dylan with his "Toy story" figures

Dylan is two!!!!

Dylan turned two yesterday . I got my babycentre newsletter today and it said he is now a preschooler not toddler anymore..growing so fast..he is still my baby!! We woke up very early and he opened presents, he got a junior engineer set and a frying pan set (the latter due to his fascination with cooking) We set off to the Natural Science museum where he had a lot of fun running around the botanical gardens. It was a really hot day , if i look back to the pictures of his birthday last year we were all in winter gear and this year it is T-shirt weather. After a busy morning we came home for a nice nap. Unfortunately after his nap Dylan was very unhappy, he has been teething and initially i thought it was that. Turns out he has got a bit of a cold with an explosive nose. We were supposed to have his friends Adriaan and Ivo over to celebrate his birthday but we had to postpone. Adriaan is also sick with gastro and Ivo has a little brother in the house and we don't want him to catch anything from Dylan and pass it on to Burl. Still Ciro and I made his cake already, so here are some pics of Chicken Little

Dylan-back to schedule

The photos i wanted to add on the last post don't want to upload so i hope all goes well with this one. School started without too much hassle. Dylan was a bit upset on Monday morning when Ciro went to work..he wanted to hang out with his Daddy. Monday night we stayed up late watching teh rebroadcast of the oscars, i was very happy Scorcese won the director's award. We went down to Sandy's on Tuesday to play with Gail and Ivo while Sandy was at the doc... and then Wednesday was a holiday!!Yay , did some shopping for the little guy's bday and then relaxed. Ivo's little brother Burl was born yesterday evening . We will see them tomorrow.
Dylan's birthday card from his great-grannie in England arrived today. Two years ago tonight i was in the beginning stages of labour with Dylan..wow a lot of remembering going on...

At Ivo's

Fast asleep with his brazilian soccer bear Paul brought him back.

Asleep

Fooled you!!

Back to school

It is back to normal tomorrow...school again. We went in this morning to pick up our stuff for tomorrow and get sorted out with schedules and all that. I was thrilled to find out i don't work Saturday's this semester. Dylan came in with us and turned my classroom upside down in the time that we were there. He had great fun playing with the toys and i don't think there was a marker or crayon left in its container by the time he was done. He had a good nap this afternoon but then woke up soooo grumpy!!!! still getting over this sore throat / teething or just the grumps!! The pics are from the art museum we stopped in there the other day and as always Dylan loved running around the park.(these pics won't upload so will post them next time.. )We went shopping for his birthday pressie!! Don't think he suspects anything:) Can't believe he is almost two. And on that note here are some old pics of Dylan...

The first pic ...3rd March 2005 in the Jen ai hospital NICU.

Opening pressies on his first birthday. 3rd March 2006.

Our little one year old!