Push Milou, push!

What a lazy guy is Thijmen. He sits in the little cart and his little sister Milou has to push him!
But Milou seemed to liked it. And Thijmen´s weight helped her not to go too fast.

Melaka, Malaysia

Last week we went for a long weekend to Melaka, in Malaysia. It´s only a 3 hour drive from Singapore, so we could just make it without having two whining children in the back of the car.

It was nice to be outside Singapore again and stroll around in a small colonial town. It was not as relaxed as we had hoped, because both Thijmen and Milou where sometimes a little difficult to handle...

They both didn´t want to sit at the table in their high chairs during breakfast, lunch and dinner time, Thijmen didn´t want to eat and he kept on saying that he needed to go to the toilet. But every time we took him there he said: "don´t want", or he squeezed his nose as to say it was too dirty. But in between his tantrums and Milou´s fits of crying we had a nice time.

Melaka was in Dutch hands for 150 years and you can still see some typical features of Dutch colonial architecture. So we felt a little bit like walking along a Dutch canal in Leiden. Main difference was the weather, it was very sunny and hot!

Lily and Sofia

Our upstair neighbours have twins; Lily and Sofia. Two very cute girls, a few months younger than Thijmen. Thijmen is very fond of them and likes to play with them. When we come home and go out of the elevator at the 4th floor, he just runs to the staircase and goes to the 5th floor. There he takes of his shoes, puts them in the shoe rack and goes in. Before he used to knock on their door, but not anymore. Last week they went on holiday, so he has to miss them for two weeks, but he seems to understand that they are not there. The first day they left he went up, but after we told him they weren´t there, he hasn´t gone to their door anymore. Lets see what he will do when they are back. Maybe they will give eachother a big hug and a kiss, like they use to do when they say goodbye to eachother.

Thijmen feeds Milou

The other day when Milou was eating her fruits and Thijmen was sitting next to her, he suddenly wanted to feed her. So he took the spoon and started to feed her. Surprisingly it went very well and Milou seemed to like it. He just copied what we do when we feed him and he also got a little irritated when she didn´t open her mouth. Now he knows how difficult it is when someone doesn´t cooperate, because some days Thijmen just refuses to eat although he is very hungry.

Milou 9 months

Time is flying and Milou is 9 months already. She is getting stronger and wants to stand al day long. She loves to play with the leaves on the balcony and chew on them. As she likes to put everything in her mouth and chew on it. Another thing she likes to do is play with all the plastic cups and plates in the kitchen cabinet and sometimes she even climbs in the cabinet. One thing she doesn´t like is to be left alone, so when you leave her alone for one second she starts to cry and follows you everywhere. And she is getting very fast crawling!

Milou latest trick

The latest thing Milou can do is pull herself up to a standing position. And she just started to make small steps along the sofa or the coffee table as well. Sometimes she gets overconfident and holds the sofa with only one hand and starts to wave with the other one.

Thijmen and the MooMoo

Thijmen is telling us a lot of stories lately, especially about the "MooMoo". We don´t understand much of what he is telling and we have no clue what a MooMoo is, but it´s definetely something that has made a big impression on him.