Cuddly cuddly...

Thijs is so adorable, we love to hold him as much as possible, and so does he!

Shopping with Master Thijs

Shopping with Master Thijs is a new experience.

Thanks to the very generous colleagues of Ploy we have very good car seats (2!) and Rob has bought a baby stroller in Malaysia.

That means that half of the car is full of Thijs's stuff and we can just fit 4 people extra....

Besides that we have to prepare the needed diapers, clean wipe's and towels, blankets etc.

For breastfeeding Ploy has bought a "HooterHider" (the real brandname, really) which she demonstrates here:

After the feeding I get to burp Thijs on my shoulder.

In this case we are in a coffee shop at the bookstore.

Her we are buying the books how to raise babies and children as that is still unknown territory to us!

Thijs gets his identity

Thijs is the result of our love and marriage, 2 people from very different countries and background.

That means that we have to give him the right papers and identity for his future.

Being born in Thailand from a Thai citizen, he is automatically of Thai nationality and he already has his personal ID number.

The hospital did the first work, as they have to submit the birth details to the Thai office.

Then Ploy's mother went with the papers from the hospital to the Amphur, the "Gemeentehuis" van Rangsit because Ploy is still registered there.

Thijs will get his ID card when he is 15 years old.

After that we went last week to the Dutch embassy to submit the application for the Dutch passport. For that we had to make passport pictures and that was not an easy task. At first I tried it myself, but the background was not right and we could not get a good picture with Thijs sitting up straight and looking into the camera.

So we decided to go to an official photoshop and there we got the pictures from above.

Still not perfect but good enough. They had to "Photoshop" my thumb away behind one of his ears.

Tomorrow we will go the the Thai Consulate, to apply for his Thai passport. We have to make new "approved" pictures there and again, that will not be easy. Thijsje can hardly keep his heavy head straight.

At the end of this week he will have double nationality! He can travel all over the world!

Happy at home!

We arrived on saturday 24 July in our house, with the "whole" family.

The hospital has been really helpful and nice, but going back home is always the best!

Here I am burping Thijs after breast feeding, notice how I am still uncertain how to hold him, his nose is buried in my shirt and he can hardly breath.

Luckily for him I improved my technique so he does not bump his nose against my shoulder anymore and burps freely...

For the first 2 weeks we will have the help of Aunt Ja and Khun Mae.

They are so happy with the little man and with them around Ploy can focus on breast feeding and her recovery of the operation.

2 very proud women !

Here we have a large part of the family together in our our house. With Thijs in the center, of course!