Time flies and Blake is already at home fro more than 24 hours. Today at 13:00 we had a doctor’s appointment with Blake at MIT in Cambridge. Ana had a bad night, of course, and Mum and I dressed the kids had breakfast with them and went to the playground at Brackett (the one with the long slide). Before going there we check out the roman catholic church of Saint Agnes. The path according to google.maps is about 1.2 miles (~1.9 km, 23 min walk). Mum thought that she could walk there easily. We will drive her of course if it is cold or she does not like the exercise.
After the short trip to St. Agnes we continued to the playground and noted that the place was completely deserted. After we got out of the car we quickly understood why: It was amazingly cold (at least -8 C) and there was a stiff wind blowing over the playground which is right on top of a little hill. Even with a very decent wrapping of everybody and some running we were not able to stay longer then 20 mins when everybody was glad to get back into the car. We decided it would be a great day to enjoy the jungle book from Walt Disney, which we did.
Ana had meanwhile recovered well and gotten some Zzzzs to help her over the rest of the day. We let the kids watch the movie and minded our own business for a while. Cleaning the kitchen, printing some photographs and reading e-mail. Jodie came by and left us a pre-cooked dinner — spaghetti with cheese to be just put into the oven — how nice of her. At 12:15 we got everybody ready to drive to MIT medical, where we arrived in time for our appointment with Blake. Blake is in excellent shape, he had turned slightly yellowish, as babies usually do in the first days, but otherwise everything was fine. The little murmuring heart noise the pediatrician heart on the first visit was also gone, as expected.
For lunch we went to Chipotle which has recently taken over the first spot in kid preferences over McDonald. The lunch was great, with the usual complications of who wants what 🙂
Afterwards we went home, Mum got a good rest, the kids played Didj, Leapster and dressed the dolls. A relaxed afternoon everybody minding their own business without much interference of conflicts. I have to say, having your own house, which has lots of room for minding ones own business is fantastic and keeps family peace. In the course of the afternoon I finished a large fraction of the photo album for my parents and I made some nice photos like the one below of our FOUR kids.
Here is the short description of our little quartet.
Das ist aber ein netter Eintrag. Schoenes photo, aber eine Sache ist nicht ganz korrekt, denn es waren in Wirklichkeit -10 C auf dem Spielplatz.