Martins World

Today I want to publish a new blog post, finally! Well, even if you read this at the time of publishing, it’s been more than one month since I wrote this lines. Why? Because the family portrait which is the reason for this posting is a birthday present to my dad. While now, when I am writing these lines, is the 26th of September, his b-day party will be on 29th of October only. So I will use Wordpress’ publishing time feature to get this article live while we are partying with him in approximately one month time.

Well, what else should I say with regards to the picture… what else than “Time is running fast…”. Because this one feels like it was taken yesterday.

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.

What soccer EC can do to us – however, as long as Nadja loves it… ! :-)

In the beginning there was frustration. No, it was fear. Panic indeed – if there was water coming near to Nadja. We got a probe of bath foam for babies from a nanny. Written on the back of the package is “Our tip: Having a bath just before going to bed calms the baby down and prepares her for the night.” Well, that did not work for Nadja at all! She was crying and yelling loud and had a strong grip on everything she could get her little hands on to avoid contact with water. Step by step, with a lot of patience, distraction and joint baths with the whole family we could transfer it from fear to fun. Now Nadja LOVES water – not only at home at the bathtub, also in the garden wading pool! Have a look at the pictures and see yourself what else happened at the weekend.