Leon after a month

Our kid is a month old. He has grown considerably and eats more frequently as well. This makes at least two pit stops every night. With time one can get used to it :)
The good thing is he really behaves well when we go out. It is quite easy to go with him to a restaurant or take him for a longer trip. He sleeps through the whole event. Actually he likes noise very much - whether it is a vaccum cleaner or car engine noise. All sorts of music also help - classical sky radio seems to be his favourite.
He also loves to be warm - either in his tummy tub or under 5 blankets. It does not matter. Last week he actually started his swimming classes:)
I guess after the first semester we will be able to go swimming together. He is already a great partner for me to watch Champions League :) Anyway the guy is definitely making us busy.


Apart for this change in our lives we are looking forward to spring. The snowfall this year has been exceptional. The best since 1979 in this region so I guess the next such winter will come around 2040. The three of us might still go skiing this year and I must say I really look forward to it. Even if I will be spending every other day baby sitting and it is not always that easy with Leon. He clearly so far prefers to listen to Rita but I am trying hard to win him over.

Home again

We made it home and so far we have it all nicely under control. Or that is how we felt until we got home safe and Leon was asleep. And then a chain reaction started: after the first feeding he got hiccups which prevented him from falling asleep until Rita put him in the baby sling. There he passed out in a nanosecond till the next diaper change. Soon came the second faux pas, when Rita managed to put accidentally the nappy rash cream on his ass causing big shouting till washed away :) Thus arrived the second feeding round for another hour with lots of screaming, then expressing milk, which Rita wanted to save for the night. That was the plan - he finished it all right after Rita completed expressing it. And the hiccups started again.... And here I stop listing all the "first night" challenges before you think it is all a nightmare. Actually despite of all these difficulties it is very rewarding to be with him, seeing his fulfilled expression with a half-smile driven by a staffed belly and then an extended yawn with a big stretch. So far not much else makes him so content, but it is good enough for now. Finally he went to sleep at 11 pm and gave us a good 6 hours rest with a good feeding at dawn since when he has been sleeping "like milk".

By now we know the secret to make him sleep -enough food makes him let everyone else rest. I guess the next big challenge will come once he gets sick - we will not have a clue how to handle him. The only thing we have not figured out is why he gets hiccups. 

Lastly on his behalf - thank you for all the wishes from around the world!!! Forgot to mention that right from the beginning our little boy became an illegal crossing the German-Polish border without any papers as we have not managed to get him a birth certificate yet... It will be another funny experiment to get him registered first in Germany, then in Poland and finally in Hungary...

Our kid already with us :)

Good that Rita made the photos last week. She has stopped working on Friday and must have relaxed so much that the birth started already on Sunday night. By Tuesday our little kid Leon was born...
Until now he seems to be a very relaxed guy taking easy the new surrondings - not too much crying and quite easy to figure out :)