It has fascinated me since Olivia was born, how the nature works. Small wounds, irritated skin, red patches when sweating, sore eyes or small rash … there is no need to have a wound cream or drops, just use your breast milk and everything disappears quickly. I also successfully solved Dominik’s running nose only with my breast milk. Not to mention how enthusiastically he drinks and when he is full enough he smiles at me and he gently bites me.
Time flies and you can’t do anything about it. Olivia has already learned it too. Only with Dominik, I feel like it flies at least twice as fast. Our “little” one is 8.5 kilos and about 66 cm big and he looks like 6 months old children, he only doesn’t move so much. We started going to the gym with Olivia again. She enjoys a trampoline and climbing on a bench the most.
I’m not sure what was a more significant change for Olivia, brother or moving to a new house, but in any case it slowly begins to influence her. She’s much more sensitive than before and we’re never sure how she responds. We haven’t had many opportunities to walk around the neighbourhood yet, but we tried at least a playground in the near forest and we met one wild boar. Olivia enjoys a ponies riding on a nearby farm.
Domink grew by 3.5 cm in the first two weeks and he already weighs over four kilos. He begins to smile and watch what is around him. In the morning, we manage to prepare everything and go to the nursery with Olivia quite well. We still need to fine-tune the evening so that Dominik would sleep and I could undisturbed put Olivia into her bed.
Lately, the best game is to run, no matter whether we are inside or outside. We take a break only while waiting for a traffic light. Besides running we play soccer or dance. Olivia likes to ride her balance bike everywhere. She is fast and lift her feet off the ground so I run and run after her. The best afterwards is to sit on the couch at home waiting for her to explain me what everything she cooks for me and let her bring it to me.
Olivia likes the postman or better to say she realized that the cool stuff can be delivered per mail. First, she got a duvet with a pillow (I think I give them to her this weekend), then nice bedding sets with pictures of teddy bears and owls were delivered and finally, she was waiting the whole weekend for Monday, when the postman brought her a bed. Now when the door bell rings, she runs to the door and says mail is here.
The grilling season began and this year we decided to actively participate in it. Olivia is excited about eating outside in the fresh air. She is also interested in everything our neighbours do. And when nothing interesting is happening, she draws with chalk on the balcony. She likes drawing in general and she can draw nicely a round face with eyes, mouth and nose and she is very enthusiastic about brush painting so we made a cardboard house together.
This year, we survived the Easter holiday :) I was cold (I don’t remember when I was so sick last time) and for Olivia it was too muchgoing on with too many people and after a week she wanted to go home. But she often sings “hej hou hej hou” because that’s whather grandfather and grandma sing and after a couple of days spent with them she can go down a slide forwards by herself.
The snow is slowly melting and we’re looking forward to the spring, but I’m glad that we had so much snow and that we could sleigh, trudge through deep snow and make shoe tracks in snow. We learned to make “whoopee” sound by tobogganing and we watched the skiers on the slope behind our town, so now Olivia knows at least what I’m talking about when we read about winter fun.
After Christmas, Olivia is excited about her push bike, which we got from our colleague. First, her hands were shaking and we could see that she tries to mantain a balance with all her strength. At the beginning, we held her a little bit and helped her to master the curves. Now she can already get on the push bike herself, she rides faster and at the and of the hall she can ride backwards to the bathroom and then further on.