Need I say anything but: CUTE!!!
Well, let me tell you what happened here… This was in the morning, even before we went to school. It gets quite cold in the house during the night and Tobias said he was really cold. Of course the heater was on so I suggested he’d sit on the heater. Well, the heater is underneath the windowsill so, he sat in the windowsill. Of course Lorelei wanted to copy him again, so, she did.
Like I said: CUTE!!!
For Lorelei’s Birthday we gave her a walk-bike. At that time the weather was not so nice, and also Lorelei couldn’t quite master the thing yet. Well, that changed over the past week or two… It is spring so we have been playing outside a lot. I decided to get the walk-bike out and have her ride it. Well, that was quite the success… It was much harder to get her off that thing than to get her on it 
So, she is quite the biker chick, isn’t she?
Quite often, at some point on my daddy day, we end up playing upstairs with the three of us. A lot of times it will be Tobias doing something and me playing with Lorelei or reading a book or something like that. Lately I found that Tobias end Lorelei can do more stuff together, especially because Lorelei wants to copy what Tobias does.
That was also the case here. We were all up in Tobias’ room and Tobias decided to show me some of his cool jumps on his bean bag. Well, of course Lorelei found that quite interesting and wanted to copy him. They ended up taking turns jumping on the bean bag, and I got to be the photographer 
Lorelei LOVES shoes. She loves her own shoes, but recently she has started to take a liking to Lisa’s shoes. She can be really helpful and get your shoes for you, or remind you that you also have to put your shoes on. But, regarding Lisa’s shoes she has taken things one step further: She wants to wear them. Here she is walking around the house in a pair of Lisa’s shoes, and as you can see she is having great fun! She was walking around for quite a while with these things on and she fell like only once…
Lorelei is similar to Tobias in many ways, but different in many ways too. For one thing she is much more physical than Tobias. Also she is much more restless. She is constantly moving around. I am somewhat sad about that, because one of the consequences is that it is hard to cuddle with her. I have such fond memories of cuddling with my little boy, but cuddling with my little girl, if at all possible, usually lasts less than two minutes…
Anyway, maybe because she needs to be moving all the time, she seems to be somewhat more naughty than Tobias ever was. She is now tall enough to reach the door knob, and hence, tall enough to open and close (“tose” as she says is) the door. Of course it is cute the first time, and then the second time, but the cuteness kind of turns into annoying-ness by the one-thousand-and-second time… 
Fortunately Lorelei has a big brother and wants to do everything her big brother does. So, sometimes Tobias will go: “It’s ok, I’ll distract her.” and then he gets a toy he knows she likes…. problem solved
It has taken her a while, but recently Lorelei has gotten into the Lego’s. At first she didn’t really know what to do with them, but in this picture she is making a “Tower”, in other words, a stack of little blocks… It is so much fun watching her play like that. I took this picture just a few minutes ago and like pretty much like anything else, when she gets into it, she is into it quite seriously. Every once in a while I will hear: “Papa, tijt” (which is supposed to be “Papa, kijk”, which translates to “Papa, look”). I look, and she goes back to work 
(I have to mention this… As I am typing this she is emptying her bookshelf. Right now there is a pile of books on the table and she is looking for a particular one she know she has already read. The funniest thing is, she is whispering to herself what she wants and what she is doing… Sooooooo cute!).
