{"id":228,"date":"2010-01-24T11:18:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T16:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/?p=228"},"modified":"2010-01-25T09:54:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T14:54:54","slug":"blake-is-now-four-weeks-old-time-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"Blake is now Four Weeks Old (Time Flies)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blake today passes the four weeks and he is doing very well. He has almost lot all his yellowish skin color and his eyes are almost white as well. He is also already following what is going on to some extend. He can look at something and stay focused.<\/p>\n<p>When he is sitting on his little rocking chair he seems to be watching the least interesting part of the chair, not the flashing lights or the wonderful little goldfish inside the turquoise fluid&#8230;., he looks at the blank metal structure (as he is becoming an MIT educated engineer, it is the most obvious thing to watch of course). He loves to take a bath with me and he also enjoys bonding with his Papi.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-231\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/cimg0875.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-231\" src=\"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/cimg0875.jpg\" alt=\"Blake-Papi bonding.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blake-Papi bonding.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His brothers and his sister love him very much and always want to take him, just for a minute \ud83d\ude42 Ana and I are very happy that this part works out so well this far.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_234\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-234\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/cimg0840.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/cimg0840.jpg\" alt=\"Kids love the new family member.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-234\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kids love the new family member.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nJust as a little update on everybody else, here are the most remarkable things to remember: Markus is still not excited about his pre-school experience, but he does now go there without a big scene in front of the Fidelity Building. Once in the past it was so bad that a policemen at the scene helped struggling Ana. He took Markus in his arms and carried him into the building. It left an impression, Markus got all quiet and watched the policeman attentively, just a little scared. Good he did not hit him \ud83d\ude42 as you remember Markus hands sit pretty loose.<\/p>\n<p>Markus is going to the bathroom by himself, but he is having some issues. Wiping can turn into disaster and he does not call for help, at times he does not get his pants down quickly enough and a distinctive smell of urine clouds him as he does not tell anybody about his little mishaps. Sometimes he tries to fix them himself (you will find the damp clothes in a corner of the wardrobe) other times he leaves his clothes on saying it is not so bad: &#8216;Das ist nur ein bisschen, das ist nicht schlimm Papi&#8217;. But don&#8217;t get me wrong here, he is an adorable little happy fellow speeding around on his race track through the entire first floor (kitchen-living room-sun room-living room-entry-dining room-kitchen and so on).<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-236\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/cimg0739.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/cimg0739.jpg\" alt=\"Our boys and our first snowmen.... they came out pretty dirty.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-236\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our boys and our first snowmen.... they came out pretty dirty.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nGisele on the other hand is a sweet girl, completely different from the boys. She loves to drink tea with her mum or even with Papi, but at times she throws a fit and that with all her forces. She has definitively a dark side: her voice becomes very dark and full and she screams with every fiber of her body, getting all stiff, clenching her fists and throwing herself on the floor. It can go on for a while. My best way to get her out of it is to let her be for a while and then giving her to opportunity to snap out of it by offering her the favorite pillow&#8230;. often it works, sometimes not.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-238\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/cimg0815.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/cimg0815.jpg\" alt=\"Our kids, as instructed, with monsters faces.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-238\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our kids, as instructed, with monsters faces.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nIvan is doing great all together. He is the oldest and most reliable. He does not need help with pretty much anything. He likes to go to school and the teachers in Kindergarten love him, pretty much as they did in Geneva. The homework though does not excite him too much &#8212; _boring_. Also it seems that he has a slightly week stomach. He has been having some troubles at times and vomits at nights (well correlated with excessive eating).<\/p>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blake today passes the four weeks and he is doing very well. He has almost lot all his yellowish skin color and his eyes are almost white as well. He is also already following what is going on to some extend. He can look at something and stay focused. When he is sitting on his &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/?p=228\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blake is now Four Weeks Old (Time Flies)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragocolosus.dyndns.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}