Here are some latest pictures. Some from Singapore, some from Discovery Bay.

I particularly like the one on which he’s lying on his king-size bed in a 5 star hotel in Singapore.

Matthijs was in a crazy mood this evening - playing with my shades.

He looks like Ray Charles…

Folks - have a very good new year.

Ours started with a beautiful day - clear blue skies and a pleasant 25 degrees. We’ve spent it lazing around in Discovery Bay while getting over the mild hangover of the eve night’s champagne.

Matthijs was feeling ill but in the video you can see he’s happy to be outside the house for a while and enjoy the sun.

He’s now starting to say more and more words, and for instance every time he sees an airplane, he’ll point at it and yell “a ba”. Which indeed is the right baby language word for airplane I believe.

Here’s a video we created from recordings on one Sunday in the house.

We’re back from our holiday in Boracay and Cebu, and have now uploaded all the great pictures we made there.

Our holiday was great, Boracay was beautiful although quite different from the Boracay I visited 13 years ago.

Main differences: more pollution in the sea, more pumpboats anchored in the sea, and the hum of jetski’s in the distance…

But I’m not all negative - I still like the Boracay atmosphere and especially when staying in Friday’s Beach Resort you get a really relaxed beach atmosphere. We enjoyed the strolls over the beach to the small towncenter, and enjoyed the food in the restaurants - although we didn’t eat much local food though.

Below links will bring you to two slide shows, one of Matthijs first birthday party:

http://www.marcdelange.com/matthijs/1st-birthday

The other of our Boracay holiday:

http://www.marcdelange.com/matthijs/boracay-holiday

Enjoy

I just uploaded the 11 months gallery of Matthijs.

http://marcdelange.com/matthijs/11-months

See also the previous post about our weekend - it gives some background with the pictures!

Marc

I just uploaded the pictures of Matthijs’ 10th month. This time I used flickr.com as the engine behind the album. It’s very easy to use and straight forward to integrate the flickr.com photo albums in a posts in Wordpress.

Click on below title to go to the page with latest pictures:

Matthijs 10 Months Album

The playroom in the resident’s club is one of Matthijs fav hangouts. There are always lots of other kids to play with and there is a “ballenbak” (no idea what that’s called in English?) filled with loads of balls to play around in.

Floors are well padded and as you see in the video - when Matthijs drops at one point, he just gets up and continues walking - without a shout, cry or tears. That wouldn’t be the case back home on our hard wooden floor…

Enjoy the video.

I was at the club house y’day for lunch. I decided to check the view of the club pool from the terrace. And gee, i thinks it’s really great! And hey! There’s this man in an orange shirt who keeps following my every movement! He’s getting on my nerves! Don’t you have anything better to do than to stalk me? Like, talk to mom? Where is she by the way?

Well, since today the little King is really walking by himself!

Two weeks ago he started to realize that he could stand up by himself, without holding anything. Since then he’s tried to make one step, two steps, three steps, but always quickly fell down to hands and knees.

Today he suddenly realized he can actually walk if he wants to, so he’s been taking some strolls around the plaza.

Mum Nadine was delighted it happened while she was here and not on a flight somewhere else! As for dad - I had to do with the video of the whole thing upon coming home today.

Here’s the video - by chance I have just found out how to get video on my site using Youtube.com. A great opportunity to share with you Matthijs first steps!

(just click on the image below and it should start playing)