My mad hat collection (aka Daddy's handiwork)

Something to liven up the many diaper-changing sessions. See what you can do with a face towel and some dirty pants!

Lucas 0-2 months

Here you go, 50 photos in under 4 minutes, serenaded by Eva Cassidy's beautiful Songbird...

A Day Made of Glass

This could well be our future:

Thank You, Mommas

So what do these 4 cuties have in common?

If you said 'aunty-killers', you are right.  They charmed and entertained our moms while our moms were here in Den Haag.  Except for the last one, we could not get the other 3 to appear personally so we had to resort to the good old DVD.**


Our moms were with us for 2 whole months, putting their own lives on hold.

 And they bravely put up with the cold...

gamely wore funny hats at Christmas..

..and tirelessly helped us out everyday, for which we are eternally grateful.

Thank you, moms!

** If you are wondering about the 4 actors above, they are from left to right:

• Kang Ji Hwan as Hong Gil Dong in 'Hong Gil Dong'
• Park Yong Woo as Hwang Jung in 'Je Jung Won (The Hospital)
• Lee Byung Hun as Kim Hyun Jun in IRIS
• Lucas Lai as himself

Thank you, Amazon

One of the good things about being here is our proximity to the UK and Germany.  That means stuff we buy from Amazon arrives on our doorstep within the week.  And shipping is usually free.

So we had CDs, Blu-rays, milk-pumps and bottle sterilisers arriving almost weekly in January.  And some other cool stuff like these below:

We have been Dyson fans for many years.  This is our third, and by far, coolest vacuum cleaner.  If you've gotta suck dirt, might as well have some fun whilst doing it.

Kev's new toy, the Sony NEX-3.  Most of Lucas' pics were taken with this camera.

My MacBook Pro *love* *love*.  Thank you amazon.de.  We are officially Apple fans now.

The keyboard is QWERTZ instead of QWERTY.  It has some extra German letters.  I have to rely on memory to find symbols like @, *, ', etc.   It's still fabulous, nonetheless.

My 3am supper companions.

These are not from Amazon.  They are EUR15 Crocs from the factory outlet at Batavia Stad (www.batavia.nl) - certainly worth a mention.

Full moon

We celebrated Lucas' one month and Kev's birthday in early February.

He pretty much frowned and slept through the whole thing, so Kevin did all the candle blowing and cake cutting.

The little prince and his loyal slaves subjects.

He finally woke up for what mattered - milkkk!!

More photos here: https://picasaweb.google.com/110776657145071773017/LucasOneMonth#

Mr. Happy

More shots of Mr. Happy doing what he does best: sleeping.

Posing with the Den Haag mascot

Watched over by his cat nannies

Snoozing in his stroller, although he's not going anywhere

In his over-sized cardigan

He does entertain us sometimes, when he is awake.

Making daddy work in his unco-ordinated PJs.

He may not be able to speak, but he sure knows how to choose his pacifiers.