Nadja walks. On her own. Without helping hands, without supporting herself on the wall or table, without her pram or Bobby-Car. Just on her own. Yesterday she made the first three steps, from free standing into her mom’s arms. Today 4,5 steps into daddy’s arms. It will be documented on video in the next days for sure (and then published here of course!). So come back soon ;-)
A new little video showing Nadja – she started to walk up’n down the corridor with her doll’s pram made by HABA. Mostly “on the double” (speed) and yelling, from one end to the other. Even turning the pram is working fine – sometimes :-)
A short but warm season greeting on the eve of the Christmas eve from all the Three of us. We did not manage to greet all we wanted personally or with regular mail. And as I am not a fan of X-Mas (or season) greeting mass mailings, we did not use this communication method, either. Instead we post here a small greeting: Have lovely, joyful, peaceful and relaxing holidays!
Nadja likes fruits, best bananas. Sometimes also apples, peaches or mango. Now, in (pre-)christmas time, we bought some oranges. Nice mellow Navelina oranges from Spain. Usually juicy and sweet. Nadjas first contact with this fruit – which was not that sweet after all – we recorded. Enjoy!
If you have a good internet connection, here is a high resolution version (after the break):
Probably it is not really fair to post about that topic here. Especially if you have a little child as well. We don’t want to show off with Nadja. Well… maybe… a little bit. ;-) Many parents just can hardly believe it. So that’s why here is the proof: Nadja is a late riser, especially on weekends. Usally she doesn’t wake up before 8:30 am, sometimes not before 9 am. Or, like today, she even sleeps till 9:30 am. Maybe she would have been sleeping even longer but we got a bit nervous. So we made some quick shoots with the camera and then woke her up softly.
Our Grandparents – what would we do without them? Both families help us a lot and make daily live much easier for us. Monday for instance is “Grandma-and-Grandpa-Day”, they collect Nadja at the kindergarten and take care for her in the afternoon. Lea, my 9-years-old nice, is usually also joining (or making? ;-) ) the party. This way Christiane can start relaxed in her working week, organizing her schedule without time pressure. Same applies if Nadja is ill and can or shall not go to the kindergarten. Just one call in the early morning and: “Of course, bring her to us, we nurse her!”.
Christiane’s parents (and brothers and sisters) cross half of Berlin just to see Nadja, to collect her at the kindergarten and to spend the afternoon with her. Or they stay overnight to take Nadja to bed while Christiane and me are going out. My parents live “just around the corner”, half way between our home and the kindergarten. And because both have retired already they can spend a lot of time with her.
Since last friday the “test” was successful – Nadja slept the first night at my parents home – today is premiere: Christiane and me will spend the weekend at the Baltic Sea. First holidays without Nadja. I am used to it from my business trips where I am away two or three days from home. For Christiane it is the first time she is separated from Nadja for 2 days and nights. I hope she can relax as much as Nadja who gets pampered by her Grandparents…
We got some new babies! All right, not exactly “we” but friends of us gave birth to two little ones. Now (nearly) all friends of us are parents, some even with two children.
Of course we already made our “inaugural visits” to the two new babies. All are well, only the parents looked a bit tired. Dirk, the fresh (first time) daddy offered a trade: Some hours of sleep from Nadja in exchange to some hair from his daughter (she was born with full hair).
Nadja could indeed donate one or two hours of daily sleep. It is unbelievable how many hours she sleeps. Looks like the kindergarten is really “exhausting” for her, although she obviously loves it. Probably comparable to our work. We regenerate on the weekend, and so does Nadja. Last sunday she woke up around 9.30 am (after being asleep on Saturday at 7 pm). Allright, maybe she was awake earlier but she made her self felt only at this time. And Christiane said that when she opened the door to Nadjas room, Nadja was cuddling her frog (her favourite soft toy) and let herself fall down into the pillow again – typical signs for “just woke up”. Really unbelievable, isn’t it?
The time goes by so quickly, it’s October already. Time to share some new pictures of Nadja…
Nearly a month has been gone since my last posting. Unbelievable. It’s ages measured in internet time, isn’t it? Well, what shall I say. My “parental time” took my full attention. And, to be honest: playing with Nadja is much more fun than blogging here;-)
In the meantime we are back to “business as usual”. Or, better, the “new” business as usual: Nadja is in the Kindergarten. She likes it very much. No crying anymore, she smiles when we arrive. And she smiles, when we come to take her home. A real dream girl, still! Christiane is working for three weeks already (of course “only” part-time), and starting last monday I am back in the office as well. This is our new “daily business”: Nadja in the kindergarten from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., Nani working 30 hours/week and myself… well. I try to keep it below 50 hours. Hopefully my boss does not read this post *smile*
And, not to forget: Nadjas first birthday. But there will be an extra blogpost. Dated back in time ;-)
Today is Nadjas birthday. Her first birthday. Not really something special for her – she does not realize yet what that means. But we as parents do! Especially for Christiane it was something very special and so she developed an enormous verve and plan for that day. And I could not stop her. Originally I wanted to keep it rather “small and neat” as I was afraid it could be “to much” for Nadja. On the other hand I thought about inviting the whole world to share this special day as well. Or, if the “whole world” is not possible, at least all our family and friends :-)
Finally we had a guest list of around 40 persons. Not as much as it sounds as a big part of it (around 10) were the children of our friends. And the combination of a well prepared cake logistic – Christiane selected the cakes by timing aspects like “can be frozen” or “can be baked two days before” or “quick and easy” – and some “bring your own cake” from friends and family gave us a rather relaxing sunday with much time for Nadja. Another important reason for that are our friends which are most affable and handle such a little chaotic environement easily. In the early evening we were on our own again so we could start the daily evening routine with Nadja, including her sunday bath.
Most important for us: Nadja really enjoyed the day – the attention, the presents, the guests. In the evening she was happy, tired and slept very well.
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