Charlotte

Charlotte es Leo egy csoportban vannak az oviban, es egyre jobban elvezik egymas tarsasagat. Mig nyaraltunk, Charlotte allitolag sokat emlegette Leot, es mikor visszaertunk, o volt az elso, aki odaszaladt Leohoz az oviban, hogy atolelje! Tegnap egyutt ebedeltunk es nagyon viccesek voltak: sok vihogas, koccintgatas, egymas konyvenek olvasasa, lufi csata.. A fagyi a vegen kisse megdobta a cukorszintjuket, es hat igy vegzodott a vasarnapi ebed..

Charlotte and Leo are in the same toddler group in the nursery, and they increasingly enjoy each other's company. While we were on holiday, Charlotte kept asking about Leo, and when we first went in, she ran up to Lej and gave him a big hug! We had lunch together yesterday, and they were hilarious: lots of laughs, cheering, reading each other's books, and even a balloon fight! The ice cream dessert got them into over drive though, and that's how our Sunday lunch ended...!

Pebble painting / Kavics festes

Ma reggel becsatlakoztunk a gyerek animacios csoportba amint a tengerparton gyujott kavicsokat festettek. Delutan ujbol megy Leo, biztos tetszeni fog neki mert kezzel festes a program! (Itt vegig vele vagyunk mert 4 eves kor alatt csak szulokkel maradhatnak a gyerekek.)

This morning we joined the kids club as they were painting pebbles from the beach. We are going to join them again this afternoon as the program is painting by hand! In this hotel Leo can't stay in the kids club on his own as they wouldn't take babies below the age of gour, unless accompanied by a parent.

Princess Andriana

Hotel #2 Rodoszon, 4 nap virusozas es nem alvas utan vegre ujbol kezdenek helyreallni a dolgok. Itt Leo ismerkedik az uj agyaval - lathatoan tetszik neki :-) persze nem itt aludt, az agyat atvittuk a masik szobaba, egyebkent Leo horkolasa miatt egy pillanatot nem pihentunk volna! A hotel szep es jo, bar a bufe reggeli/ebed/vacsora folyamatos kuzdes mert Leo nem akar a szekeben maradni. Tegnap is vacsi utan este a jatszoteren nyomott le egy halrudat, az etteremben csak dobalta a kajat (rossz szokas, probaljuk leszoktatni).

Hotel #2 in Rhodes after 4 days of exhaustion and non-sleeping due to a nasty virus that Leo caught somewhere. Here he is getting to know his little bed, and is seemingly a hit. We ended up moving the bed to the other room as otherwise due to Leo's snoring we would have got zero sleep ourselves. Otherwise the hotel is beautiful, the only caveat is that Leo is real difficult during meal times for some reason - he is probably overwhelmed by the selection and all the choices. He would not sit in his chair in the restaurant - he just keeps throwing food everywhere - a real bad habit that we are trying to get rid of. Last night he ended up eating a fish finger at the playground after dinner!

Napszecsos / Sunglasses

Erdekes modon Leo egyaltalan nem banja a napszemuveget, sot!

Interestingly Leo has nothing against wearing sunglasses, quite the opposite!

Georgia

Georgia volt Leo nanny-je a Mark Warner-nel. Csinaltunk fotokat mielott elbucsuztunk tole. Georgia teljes allasu nanny aki a honap vegeig van Rodoszon, utana megy haza Angliaba.

Georgia was Leo's nanny at Mark Warner's, and we took a few photos before leaving. She is a full time nanny who stays in Rhodes until the end of the month, and returns to England after.

Apa nyakaban / On Daddy's shoulders

Egy ujabb fajta utazasi mod. Mostantol Igy jarunk majd a Waitrose-ba.

A new way of transport.. And this is how we'll do our weekly Waitrose shop from now on.

Watermelon / Gorogdinnye

As we discovered, is a solid favourite dessert

Felfedeztuk, hogy milyen igazan finom is desszertkent!

Rodosz / Rhodes: Mark Warner

Rodoszon nyaralunk eppen egy Mark Warner uton. Mark Warner gyerekbarat utakat szervez mindenfele, es ugy dontottuk az iden kiprobaljuk.. A tavalyi Barbados-i utbol tanulva gyerek klub nelkul nem nyaralas a nyaralas! BA-vel repultunk a Heathrow-rol, 4 ora az ut Rodoszra. Teljesen kulturalt volt az utazas. Leo-t mar elore be kellett iratni a gyerek klubba mert gyorsan betelnek a helyek. A Starfish nevu toddler csoportba kerult, es Georgia a nanny-je. Egy nanny-re max 3 gyerek jut. Reggel 9-12.30 es delutan 2.30-5.30 kozott mehet, es a legjobb, hogy van esti gyerek klub is! A legtobb gyereket meg ebren beviszik es ott alszanak el. Na ezt mi meg nem probaltuk ki - mi babakocsiban, alukalva visszuk be es utana megyunk vacsorazni. Nagyon profin meg van oldva a dolog - van 4 szoba kortol fuggoen es agyak vannak felallitva vagy persze babakocsik parkolva. Az idosebb gyerekek oriasi babzsakokon filmeket neznek (Nemo stb) es latszik rajtuk, hogy nagyon elvezik mert egy kaland a dolog. Eddig nagyon bejott ez a felallas nekunk mert Leo total elvezi a klubbot, azonnal rohan be es epp hogy csak koszon nekunk, hogy 'y bye', azaz 'ok vagyok, mehettek' :-) Festenek, rajzolnak, enekelnek, bicikliznek, furdenek, dinoszauruszt keresnek a tengerparton (barmit is jelent ez), stb. A lenti kepeket lesiben kaptam el a hotel kulonbozo pontjan.. A masodikon kozepen setal, a medenceben jobb oldalon van, kanna a kezeben. Matol csak delutan (es este) fog mar klubbozni es a delelottoket majd egyutt toltjuk!

We are in Rhodes on a Mark Warner holiday. We decided to try it as they specialise on child care, which we learnt the importance of while we were in Barbados last year. We flew BA from Heathrow, and the flight took 4 hrs - it was perfectly fine/doable. We had to book Leo into childcare in advance - he is in the toddler group named Starfish, and his key worker is Georgia (up to 3 children / nanny). He is booked in between 9-12.30 and 2.30-5.30. They do all kinds of things: painting, drawing, singing, bikes & trikes, swimming, dinosaur hunt on the beach (whatever that means), etc. Leo loves being there: whenever we arrive, he runs in, and barely says 'y bye' to us - he is ready to go straight away. The best thing is, they have an evening child care service where kids can be dropped off to sleep while the parents have dinner/drinks (open until 11 or 12). Most kids are dropped off still awake, but we haven't tried that yet.. We always just left him there sleeping in the pram. It's really a fantastic set up as you can have a proper evening while you know that the kids are well looked after (there are 4 rooms based on age, most set up with beds or place for prams). The older kids watch movies like Finding Nemo on giant bean bags, and you can see that it's like an adventure for them. I've taken these photos in hiding when we spotted Leo around the hotel with Georgia and the other kiddies. On the second one, he is walking in the middle. In the pool he is on the right holding a watering can. As of today, we have him in the morning and he only goes to the crèche in the pm. More swim time with Mummy and Daddy (Apa)!