Kid's corner

For now, and I hope, also in the near and far future, Elias and Nathan really enjoy themselves playing together.

They have fallen behind the DOF when Elias decided to shift, causing Nathan to roll off. Nathan is laughing, in case you are not sure.

Nathan really likes to eat pasta. While he is particularly fond of spaghetti with Bolognese sauce, he can also appreciate more basic stuff, such as macaroni with béchamel sauce, ham and cheese. And ketchup. Boy, does he love that!

Nathan is semi clean during the day. On December 23rd, he was circumcised (due to medical reasons), and to aid in healing we decided to leave off his diapers as the fabric got stuck in the wound, and it was painful to clean it out again. Besides that, Nathan also had been indicating for a while when his diaper were ... erm ... full, so to speak. So we took the plunge and in two weeks time, we made a lot of progress.

Yesterday, Nathan was examined by our pediatrician, and was found to be in good health. He weight (while holding on to Doc Hudson) 11.960 kg and measures approximately 84 cm. Head circumference is 48.5cm.

This weekend Nathan took four steps all by himself, without any means of support. After that, it turned out to be faster when going down to all fours :-)

He also got new shoes, as the old ones were clearly too small. Two sizes too small.

The last weeks, Nathan has steadily increased the times he tries to walk around. He is mostly still holding on to his surroundings, but he does manage to stand up all by himself. The first step following that ... not quite yet. But when a man cannot walk, he can surely climb. He can get up the staircase all by himself (with either me or Veerle standing behind him, just in case). And today he demonstrated why it is not a good idea to leave Elias' (small) chair in the vicinity of the table. Clearly, if the table it too high to climb onto, one needs to use the object in the middle: the chair.

The highest tower Nathan built today, before deciding that allowing gravity to exert full control over the blocks used, was 5 blocks. The trick to keeping him building lies in providing him with new blocks before his brain can decide that his hand needs to hit something. Preferably something near the base of that cool tower.

Nathan is really, really happy to see his mom when she comes home after a hard days work.

After having been ill for the past weeks, both Elias and Nathan have regained a number of hit points. Sufficient to allow them back to school and kindergarten, respectively.