Clogged toilet and running water — bad combination. Water was flowing for one hour from bath room floor to the living room…. damage seems not too bad. Good I woke up at 3am, could have been much worse in the morning.
Water
Game Time
Cold winter evenings when it is dark outside and nothing much to do, our living room turns into the WII gaming hall. The dress code is not exactly formal but we do have standard while enjoying ourselves. A picture of how Markus and Ivan today took on all other teams in dodge ball and won the Tournament.
Art Work in the Office at MIT
Today Ana is going to the doctor and left me the three youngest…. This was of course during a Higgs to Gamma Gamma meeting but that was not the worse. Blaki just pooped into his diapers so hard that it had been flowing out for a while. And Ana just indicated he might need some cleaning. Well, he ended up running around in a diaper, his jacket and his shoes 🙂
Meanwhile though Gisele and Markus became productive, they painted two wonderful pictures which I attach below.
Blake – Bath Room Pictures
Blake in one of his favorite places — our bathroom — with his favorite bathroom toy — our toothbrush.
Shoveling in the Blizzard
February 1 and 2 we had a hole lot of snow coming down. I had just returned from CERN and was glad I could help Ana take care of some of the snow of this pretty rough season. While I had been away Ana took care of good 2 feet of snow and it made me feel bad that I could not help her while at CERN.
So it was a great opportunity to work on my guilty feelings, and my shoveling went much easier.
Ana&Blake undated
The Holy Spirit
This Sunday Ana brought Ivan to Sunday school which just started again after the break. Ivan was not very motivated coming back from Sunday school. He does not want to go back to Sunday school, and does not want to talk about it. Finally Ana asks: “So what have you been talking about?” Ivan: “The Holy Spirit.” Ana: “Hmm, so what is that?” Ivan very tersely: “That’s some stuff which takes care of us, you know.”
Tempurpedumania
Our son Blake is pampered because we bought a new bed with a brand new Bobopedic (cheap version of the famous Tempurpedic) mattress. After more than 10 years of being married, Ana and I finally decided to buy a decent mattress.
We went for the memory foam version, probably heavily influenced by the ‘never falling wine glass’ advertisement in combination with the aggressive Bob’s furniture advertisement. Blake noticed that our bed is real comfortable and once we took him in for a few times he did not go to sleep in his own bed any more but would only be quiet on ‘his’ Tempurpedic. Even if we move him to his bed he will soon wake up and miss his tempurpedic comfort and wakeup the house to make us notice.
On Early Girlfriends
Recently Max (our neighbour’s son, 2nd grade) was watching TV with Ivan. Ana was overhearing the following short conversation between the young studs. Note the terse style of exchange.
Max: ‘Ivan, do you have a girlfriend?’
Ivan: ‘Oh no, that’s gross!’
Max: ‘Not for me either.’
On the other hand when Emma, one of the two girls who have a crush on Markus came by to sweetly ask Ana: “Could I have a playdate with Markus?” Ivan was all upset that girls never come to ask to have a playdate with him. Ana just needed to remind him about the fact that Grace was regularly writing him notes (recent one I have seen was: “Ivan you rock!”) and he was content again. So you can’t go with them but not live without them either.
At home
I am sitting on my coach and enjoying myself after 10 days at CERN.
10 days CERN, 10 days at home.