Momentous occasion

Today Emile ate a HUGE dinner. This is so unique, that it's worth a special blogpost. On top of a few bites of lasagna (which might even have contained a few vegetables), he ate a whole young man portion of spaghetti carbonara. I mean, it must have been at least a baby bowl full, 10 bites or maybe even more. And this is about 8 bites more than his average dinner, so we were very happy and rewarded him with one of his very favourite deserts: ijs (which not only he can eat all by himself , he can say it and knows exactly what it means). Now then. This looks a lot more exciting than it is. But sitting there (and occasionally accidentally leaking something in there) is a great start. And it looks so cute! Last weekend we had a play date with Emile's little friends from the new-mom's club. 5 little toddlers playing, chattering and just being generally all-round cute. 2 weeks ago Oma was visiting Belgium (of course she took all these great pictures -and about 200 more - that she actually isn't featured in very many of them)so we went to see the whole fam down there and had a jolly old time. Emile showed off his walking skills, discussed football with cousin Thomas, received lots of cool gifts, such as this little fireman raincoat from tante Ellen and Uncle Marty (matching boots will fit in a year or so) ;) and played, played, played, to his heart's content, with Oma, with 'lala', and of course with his bestest friend.... We loooove our babbit!! Oh right - new words. Emile can identify and point to his oren and his ears, his neus and nose, his mondje and mouth, his haar and hair, his buikje and tummy, his voetjes and feet, his teentjes and his toes!