In our case, it's pretty close, but it's official...Little Man looks more like his Mommy!
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Fels Look-alike Meter
Thought this was fun to see, and answers the age old question "Who does the little one look more like - Mom or Dad?"
In our case, it's pretty close, but it's official...Little Man looks more like his Mommy!
In our case, it's pretty close, but it's official...Little Man looks more like his Mommy!
Sunday, January 18, 2009
New Year, New Skills
In the last few weeks, Kevin's language skills have grown by leaps and bounds. Since we've been back from the US, he's really taken to English. He loves to ask me out of the blue 'Do you speaka English momma?' and then when I say yes he asks me (in Dutch) to 'say something' and then laughs at whatever I do say. Besides the Q&A, it's really struck me how much English he picked up with just two weeks around Oma, Opa and Vivi.
Seeing him in full sponge mode has made me aware again of how intelligent he seems to me - I guess every mom thinks that - but I see such potential in him to be an all rounder. It not that he's writing symphonies or recreating the Sistine chapel frescoes with his finger paints, but in general he can count very well, he's got good hand eye coordination, a good vocabulary (starting now in multiple languages) and I am very lucky that he's been blessed with a basically happy personality. All these observations have a point, I promise.....it's almost school time!
Since we've been back, he's started his first,(for lack of a better term),internship at school. I don't know what else to call it, but for up to 10 weeks before a child's 4th birthday, they can have 'trial days' at the school. He's met his teacher, (Mister Bram), he has his chair with his name on it, and between now and March, every Friday is his school day.
He still goes to pre-school 1 day per week, so for now he has two school days. As of March 4th, He'll be full time in kindergarten. The school schedule will be half days on Wednesdays and Fridays and full days (8.30am - 3.00pm) on Monday, Tuesday and Thursdays. It seems a lot for such a little guy, but I've noticed that there is less homework here...they get more done during the day to allow for kid time outside of school hours, and the school system here overall is excellent.
I have no doubt that, should we ever move to the US, that he would be at least on par if not advanced to most of his peers, plus have languages he'd not be exposed to otherwise. It's funny for me as well to find myself thinking so much about his future, who and what he can be, the options I hope he'll have....It seems he's hit this kind of magical age where you not only think about and enjoy the moment - (which is where I think I spent most of his 'babyhood') - but now I see the little person within developing and coming to the fore. That makes me think longer term, too.
On purely a fun note, we went to the indoor play area two weeks ago, and at 11.30 in the morning there was a children's disco. Here is Kevin dancing away.
Seeing him in full sponge mode has made me aware again of how intelligent he seems to me - I guess every mom thinks that - but I see such potential in him to be an all rounder. It not that he's writing symphonies or recreating the Sistine chapel frescoes with his finger paints, but in general he can count very well, he's got good hand eye coordination, a good vocabulary (starting now in multiple languages) and I am very lucky that he's been blessed with a basically happy personality. All these observations have a point, I promise.....it's almost school time!
Since we've been back, he's started his first,(for lack of a better term),internship at school. I don't know what else to call it, but for up to 10 weeks before a child's 4th birthday, they can have 'trial days' at the school. He's met his teacher, (Mister Bram), he has his chair with his name on it, and between now and March, every Friday is his school day.
He still goes to pre-school 1 day per week, so for now he has two school days. As of March 4th, He'll be full time in kindergarten. The school schedule will be half days on Wednesdays and Fridays and full days (8.30am - 3.00pm) on Monday, Tuesday and Thursdays. It seems a lot for such a little guy, but I've noticed that there is less homework here...they get more done during the day to allow for kid time outside of school hours, and the school system here overall is excellent.
I have no doubt that, should we ever move to the US, that he would be at least on par if not advanced to most of his peers, plus have languages he'd not be exposed to otherwise. It's funny for me as well to find myself thinking so much about his future, who and what he can be, the options I hope he'll have....It seems he's hit this kind of magical age where you not only think about and enjoy the moment - (which is where I think I spent most of his 'babyhood') - but now I see the little person within developing and coming to the fore. That makes me think longer term, too.
On purely a fun note, we went to the indoor play area two weeks ago, and at 11.30 in the morning there was a children's disco. Here is Kevin dancing away.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Videos From The Holidays
Here are a few recent movies I've shot with my digital camera. I know every parent should have a real video camera, but in the meantime, here are a few short video clips from the last couple of months.....Enjoy!
Fireworks on New Year's Eve back here in NL......
Kevin on Sinterklaas (december 5th) dressed as a 'Zwarte Piet'
waiting for the knock on the door with the presents!
Fireworks on New Year's Eve back here in NL......
Kevin on Sinterklaas (december 5th) dressed as a 'Zwarte Piet'
waiting for the knock on the door with the presents!
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Vacation Pictures
This Year, I couldn't resist....I bought Little Man a four piece suit for Christmas. Velvet vest, clip on tie, the whole nine yards. As his mommy, am I allowed to call him adorable?
Posing for photos is something he's getting better at, or at least he now has a *little* bit of patience for.
Here he is 'working out' with Vivian on Oma's treadmill
This trip he was even more Vivian's Little Shadow.....when it came time to leave, he first spent almost 30 minutes trying to convince everyone 'Vivi' needed to come with us, and when that didn't get a yes, he next option was to say he wasn't going to go if Vivi didn't go, because he wanted to stay with Vivi!
Together in their OSU sets from Oma for Christmas.....
...and playing with "auntie' (Andrea)
The Big hit this Christmas was his Singing Spiderman and echo microphone......
Almost the whole family was together this Christmas......3 of my 4 aunts and uncles were all together on Christmas day to spend time with Nana. Aunt Cathi, Aunt Carol, Mom, and Uncle Jeff are here with Nana. Only Uncle Mike is missing from this family photo.....
Monday, January 5, 2009
Happy New Year!
Wow.....2009 already?!..............It's hard to imagine that in March (7 weeks, give or take), Kevin will start school.....and the last little bit of 'baby' will be gone once he hits that magic age of 4.
This was our last chance to plan our vacations whenever we wanted......soon we'll have to follow the 'school vacation' schedule (like 15 million other Dutchies).
We took advantage of this last year of freedom to plan an extra long, 3 week break. 2 weeks with Oma, Opa and Vivi, and a few days back home. Today was the first day back to work and daycare and it was hard for both of us........
Pictures of the vacation to follow soon, and to everyone a Happy 2009!
This was our last chance to plan our vacations whenever we wanted......soon we'll have to follow the 'school vacation' schedule (like 15 million other Dutchies).
We took advantage of this last year of freedom to plan an extra long, 3 week break. 2 weeks with Oma, Opa and Vivi, and a few days back home. Today was the first day back to work and daycare and it was hard for both of us........
Pictures of the vacation to follow soon, and to everyone a Happy 2009!
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