Our elfin

Where do I even begin? Yasmin, like most 1 year olds, is genuinely excited about life and just raring to go the second her eyes peel open in the early morning. We thought we had some experience with Sera, to prepare us for Yasmin but she is a different 'creature' all together! She has double, even triple, the amount of energy and determination. And this one has absolutely no fear!

Nothing is impossible when it comes to Yas. Nothing is un-touched, un-climbed, un-jumped un-opened, un-dug or in many instances, un-broken in this house. NOTHING! As I write this post, my kitchen looks like a typical Yasmin 'war zone', and all done within seconds. But she does it all with much glee, enthusiasm and she always exclaims 'OHH-ooh', without fail, in an almost mocking 'did I do that?' expression. Yes, very cute?

We pretend to be angry or fierce so that she can start to understand discipline but we have to quickly turn our faces so that we don't reveal our big grins. Ahh, Yasmin you are a handful for sure, but we love you still ... much more than a lot!

She looks forward to some play at Sera's school playground.

If I had to photograph her every act of mischief , I would be behind the camera all day long! An incident that happened last week, which left me speechless, was when Sera discovered her smearing my thick body lotion on the floor, on my standing lamp and of course all over her body, face and hair. It was a complete mess!

Of course, she had to do it 5 minutes before we were about to set off to Sera's school. Just check out her oily, glistening body courtesy of my (expensive) body lotion. As you can tell, I haven't gotten over it.

On top of the table, that's where she likes to be. Check out the 'fierce' expression from oma and Johan. Does it work? Not one tiny bit!

Oh Yasmin ...