Liam in Rotterdam - 1

Liam spent his first 18 months living in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands.

He was a hilarious baby, ludicrously active and impatient with things - not one of those babies whom you could give a scrunched-up ball of coloured paper to keep them occupied for hours... When we visited other people's houses, he would charge around, to the bewilderment of other kids. Maybe Dutch kids are just more mellow...?!

Here he is in what is called in Dutch the 'kinderbox' (literally "child's cage" - kidding!) We could put him in there and he would sit among all the toys and amuse himself by piling them high on the edges and pushing them off onto the floor. The big fluffy dog drooped over the edge was bought for us by my boss at Erasmus Universiteit, but Liam never particularly took to it.