Enzo

 Today, mommy bravely came along to the zoo with us boys (daddy, Brad, Ollie, Charlie and me) while Rebecca stayed behind to do some super secret party preparations for Ollie's birthday on Wednesday. I really liked their zoo because you could get really close to lots of the animals

 The lemurs were especially cool because you could walk right into their enclosure and even pet them if you're brave enough. I said, "Look! That's an aye aye!" which impressed mommy and daddy because they do look sort of similar and I've never actually seen an aye aye in person, just on one of my favorite nature shows.

Right at noon like clockwork, all three boys (even Enzo) decided they were starving and wanted lunch. After some zoo cafe happy meals complete with zoo animal toys, the boys enjoyed some ice cream.

This trip may be referred to as "the trip that got Enzo eating ice cream again." Thanks for making it look so yummy Charlie!

 Today we visited a merchant and shipping museum, and got to learn all about the merchant history of Amsterdam. We didn't care about the history too much, but we loved climbing on the big whale that highlighted Amsterdam's whaling heritage. We got to play in the undersea room, and watch a small play in Dutch - I clapped when the characters were clapping, but none of us really understood it, but that's okay.

Here I am walking on a replica of The Amsterdam, a three masted merchant ship.

As of May 3rd, 2012 at 5:43 PM EST, I am 1000 days old!

Mommy and daddy say they've been the best 1000 days ever!

Today, we took a tram to the commuter train to Utrecht to the train museum (Het Spoorwgmuseum) to see and climb on tons of cool old trains.

The dads took the boys while the moms went shopping in the cute little city center. We also stopped at a Nijntjy (aka, Miffy) Museum, but I was napping.

After, we had a really nice dinner that Ollie and I refused to eat, but Charlie clearly enjoyed his meal.

Yes, the date on this post is correct! Another playground on May 2nd! After lunch we shopped some more at Hema (the Netherlands version of Target) and then went to see the cool plaza and playground outside the world famous Rijksmuseum.

When I was climbing (like a daredevil as usual) up the crazy log climbing structure I told mommy, "I be gecko!" Then, we went to climb the cool I amsterdam letters! I picked the letter e in Amsterdam of course!

This is mommy's favorite photo so far!

After getting some climbing out of our systems, we went to one of the world's largest outdoor markets for some street food lunch and shopping

Today, I caught my first ladybug at a super fun playground with a really deep sandbox. She let us examine her for about five whole minutes before she flew away.

After finding the ladybug Ollie, daddy and I continued to dig a really big hole as deep as I am tall! It was awesome!

I LOVE taking baths in the evenings now! Doesn't it look like fun?

WHOA! Millions of people wearing orange (literally. Mommy and daddy say they've never seen so many people in one place). The people of Amsterdam really know how to party!

There were people dancing on boats going down the canals, tons of street food and drink, and a giant tag sale all at once. we had to step away from the crowds more than once to let the kids burn off some stream. Here are Enzo and Charlie running around in circles in Vondelpark.

(these photos don't give you a real feel for what it was like because all of us were holding on to the kids and trying to stay together through huge crowds and were unable to take pictures. here's a video of just one intersection in the city, on the outskirts of the city center)