Here we go, put up your hands because Carlitos reached 8 months and many improvements
Since I am lately not managing to write the posts on time, I try to remind myself by pictures what have happened that time. Though this month was special just because it was Christmas time, because of our New year Eve party with Checo-Latinos friends, because we have spend our first Christmas as only our family and also because I ended my work in Skupiner.cz and focussed fully on Lyoness.
And in the meanwhile Carlitos was growing and unbelievable improving his skills
his weight is now 8,150 Kg and still growing
He is crawling perfectly
He started to sit on 24th of December, he probably decided that to keep checking the presents is good by sitting among them as one of them
He grown one more tooth, so now he has 3 of them,
He decided also to stood up and he is about to walk
He is still very smily baby and he will always be as I see. He love to be caressed by me, he loves to be carried too to see what is happening
He is not that kamikaze like Edie was, he is more careful and even though he loves to observe Edie jumping and making crazy stuff, he is rather sitting and being calm. If i try to through him into the air he looks scared.
Even since little they have such different personalities. Carlitos is calmer, but bigger pain cryer. Edie while punching himself cried always just a bit and then he contined playing. Carlitos not. He wants to be hugged, touched and maybe after a while he will stopped. He is we called it “Mr. Bolistka”
His favourite toyes are Tupperware boxes which I have in the kitchen shelf prepared for him and also draws. He loves to be opening them and closing all over again and again. He also loves to be hitting the floor with something hard so that it can make loud sounds.
Now he is eating 3 meals per day, He is eating a lot, more than 300g vegetables and fruits, he likes mainly everything and he preferes things which I cook for him rather than can food. And no wonder
Regarding to a sleeping. He is able to fall a sleep on his own during the night. During the day he goes once maximum twice per day. In the morning just sometimes, usually he has nap after lunch. During night he is still waking me up 3 to 4 times. He want to know if we are there. I try to feed him only 2 after midnight and then in the morning. Though he is night bird. He is able to stay until late night. During the new Year party he was up until 10pm with the smile and keeping active.
Edie and his life path
Edik is very nice boy, growing and improving many skills
He still drives as crazy because of his crying mode, always if he does not want something he starts to cry a lot but we try to be resistant
He loves kindergarden KMC Knoflik now, so I always here that we have to go to see the teachers “deme za pani ucitel” and if I am picking him up he is alway welcoming me with words “I do not want mamy, I do not want to go home” every day the same story. So I start to think that I am a Herodes.
Edicek also started to communicate more and he loves to read a books. Before going to bed we try to read him every night. It is demanding but I love his gase, his staring eyes which keeps sliding on my face and are ready to hear the stories which I am creating. He likes also singing but sometimes he just ssssss mum and puts the stay quiet sign on his face. So I respect that too.
He loves to read letters so I went with him through the ABC and by linking different words to the different sillabubs he will soon be able to recognize most of them.
Edi has already his characteristical behavioral patterns which are also sharing with me his teachers from kinder and it is given on our family behavior. For example if he shows affection he is licking the another child od he tries to kiss him/her or he tries to go close enough to touch by noses.
Affection towards Carlitos is shown also by lickig his face, chewing his hands, riding him as horse, playing with him. Doing hide and seek. And in general I have to say that if Carlitos wants to cry Edie always tries to come with something silly to cheer him up. Carlitos sometimes has total laught attacts because of Edie which makes to laught us too.
Edik is also very attached to his grandfather Josef, my dad. Always if I mention his name he want to cal him, to be with him and do silly stuff in general. Dad is also great grandfather he is teaching Edie all the forbidden fun stuff, such as “plazit jazyk” , roll the stairs on the bicycle, jump over stuff, destroy something, eat tons of chocolate etc. Simply spoiling him as grandfather. I can also see how attached they are by the invisible connection.
Edie and his dad Carlos. They are very good friends. Edicek though has many times momities so only me can help him to go on toilet, to bath him, to feed him to read him books etc. There is nobody in the world and he does not want dad to do it for him. But if I am out of home they are the best friends. Playing together and he is following Carlos nicely. But if I am at home……..achhh momiiiii ONLY YOUUUUUUUU…..I think that most of the mothers understands.
And story is over, I mean this month story, the other once are being written by every day and I am just sometimes sad that i can not share everyday moments, because if I am just observing how my angels are growing under my hands it is unbelievable. And I believe that one morning I will turn and I will be already a grandma which will be reading this lines with grand kids and just having fun about their fathers………..
I try to teach that also to my kids. Thought the best learning is hand on learning, so by showing them that sport is fun and demonstrating on my own I believe that once they will love skying same as I do.
Nevertheless the question is now, winter is finally starting and I want to go to sky for one day maybe weekend with whole family close by to Prague. So I did quick search on different portals and what appeared are these possibilities which I want to share with you now:
Tak nejblíž bude asi Chotouň, je to u Jílového u Prahy. Je to malá sjezdovka, jezdí tam hlavně rodiny s dětmi, ale pro ty je to super. Jsou tam dva vleky a dětský svah. My tam jezdíme rádi, je to blízko a ceny příznivé, můžeš si vybrat od hodiny do celého dne libovolně jak dlouho budeš lyžovat nebo mají bodovky.Tady najdeš podrobnosti: http://www.vlekychotoun.cz
Nebo Ještěd, sice je to není zrovna u metropole, ale po rychlé silnici, z Prahy za hodinku. www.skijested.cz
z Prahy na Severák (Hrabětice, nad Janovem nad Nisou), přijde mi to pro děti z daleka nejlepší, co může být…školička, dětský park s koberci a kolotočem….za 1,2h tam jsme…jezdíme na den, i na víkend s ubytkem v Janově, 2km daleko. Parkoviště tam je zdarma. http://www.skijizerky.cz/ski-arealy/severak/
And for those who are still attached to the Austrian alps, there is also nice article with some tips how to enjoy close by Austrian Alps skying with some Czech advantages.
Padák v Příbrami http://www.skipribram.cz/
Skyareal Kozinec http://www.snowhill.cz/kozinec/kontakt?menu=1, cca 132 Km od Prahy
Soo let see if we will manage this or another weekend since Edie started to look sick today. But I believe that if we do not manage now we will manager later.
SPORTU ZDAR A LYŽOVÁNÍ ZVLÁŠTĚ
So once I will be happy to enjoy as this sporty mom with her sons GOOD EXAMPLE
Today I have failed, but I missed less than I have learned
Curious conotation. I just have one of my daily mtgs because of my Lyoness business. I know it already quite well I think, to be able to explain. But after Christmas time and new years celebration, more than one week gap, I feel that I need new practice in rhetorics
Do you know how does it feel if you fail? How many times we have to fail in our life in order to gain something big? How many times had to fail big inventors, sportmen and thinkers in order to bring and achieve something big in this world?
Just today I had my first after new years mtg and I failed in explanation of the business. But with smile I have learned many new things:
I know why I failed, in which part of my sales explanation
I have learned a lot about the business i spoke with
I created nice connection with the owner, even we will not have further business together
And i have practiced and mastered my YES/NO answeres
I also mastered preparation of the things I have to bring while having business mtg with a child
I also improved my presentation skills relating to a time, I was effective able to explain the idea in 18 min, because it was the time in which was Carlitos sleeping in the trolley
And in the end I have remind myself how feels the failure…..in some ways it is sweet. It just mean, you are fine, and you need to keep going and improving yourself. FAILURE IS GOOD, FILURE is sister of learning process, FAILURE is the most effective way of on hand learning.
Emily Hickey, Hashable: “Meditating, my great husband, my great nanny, my naturally relatively mellow son, and keeping an eye on the soft factors of my work are my personal success factors.”
Emily Hickey, CMO of Hashable, mother
Her career:
Emily Hickey is chief marketing officer of Hashable. Before that the Stanford graduate was chief operating officer of PhotoShelter, cofounder of Yeah! Wireless, and VP of product management at Hot Jobs.
Her advice:
I think being a working parent at a startup is a pretty tall order… AKA it’s a total bruiser/ass-kicker! but its doable and you can ‘have it all’ if a few variables are right.
For one, you need not just a great and helpful spouse, but a great marriage. Nobody can be taking things too seriously, stuff can never get blown out of proportion, there can’t be a lot of resentment just below the surface, etc. Humor and lightness really have to be at the core of the family and you have to be psyched that you have a family and sort of constantly aware that you chose to do this and be pretty joyful about that choice. I actually think it’s sort of a trick to be enjoying your family at that level on a daily basis versus just being overwhelmed by logistics and lack of personal time.
Also, you need to love your job and your company. Not just be passionately committed to them, but really have warm relationships with the people you are building your company with and have great ‘soft’ factors at work. The work volume is always going to be intense and your daily feelings of success vs. illusion are always going to be fluctuating, so the bottom-line relationships just have to be great and enjoyable.
You also need to be a complete workaholic with a lot of energy. Most people at startups are definitely that, but throwing a kid into the mix means you have three hours of every weekday that you can’t work, which means you are staying up later to get things done, and then you don’t have a weekend to relax and catch up on stuff, so you have to find more energy internally… So the time sitting at your desk has to be really efficient and you have to be willing to crank late at night, without the possibility of sleeping in – ever – for the next 20 years.
You also need a great outside support system. For us that basically means an awesome, awesome nanny since our family is not local.
To sum it up, there’s nothing you can do at a startup to lessen the volume of work or smooth out the emotional cycles, and being a parent is completely consuming and erratic on top of that. So it’s basically a double startup! All you can do is make sure that at home and at work you have great ‘soft factors’ – otherwise you’ll be in nervous breakdown territory!
One thing I’ve personally spent a lot of time on in the past couple years is meditating and really working on that as a way to keep my mentality light. I would say meditating, my great husband, my great nanny, my naturally relatively mellow son, and keeping an eye on the soft factors of my work are my personal success factors… and I guess I probably drink a few more Bud Lights a week than i used to .
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I hope that your time spend with your families will be as nice and calm as we had it with our darlings. And I hope that we will see each other also in the next year.
7 month……does it sounds lot or just few days are left behind
It is just few days ago when I realized that I need to stop doing hundred and one things at once, because I realize that that sense Carlitos will just grow besides me and I will even not catch all his special moments and will not enjoy my little once fully.
So what have happened since last month I have been wiring. And I am going to talk only about milestones for now.
Carlitos:
definatelly grown and is more heavy, he has still less than 8 Kg, but my hand said no more, so he spends most of his time on the floor playing with the toys, so he actually became more independent
He has two new teeth, they just grown after he reached his 7 month and yeah I can feel it now while breastfeeding, but the curious think is his reaction. While he bites me, sometimes for fun sometimes because of his gums are itching he always smiles at me. Even I punish him by words or I touch his face with DO NOT DO THIS AGAIN…….but he is our smily boy anyway
He started to crawl, but even in 7,5 month he is standing, it is visible how much he wants to be running already with Eduardo, Floor is good and safe to be but running is much better. I can see it in his eyes.
Carlistos is for sure the lovely baby, whenever we are he gets all the attention of girls, ladies even guys. He is always looking to the souls of the people and can touch the good insight of us. So even in my case, I love to make him happy and to do maximum for him.
what is also important is his sleeping habits. Since we were teached by Edie not to spoil our child too much, we started to let Carlitos fall a sleep without chewing me or bottle. So he started to be used to fall asleep on his own, which makes easier our life too. I can go out, I can continue my business or just to hang out with my friends.
Also Carlitos likes to eat and I am happy that he is accepting nicely his baby food vegetables which I am preparing at home. I realized that whatever vegetable mix I am doing, it is good to put inside to boil also onion, because it makes it antiseptic and help his digestion and also has nice effect of sweetening the dish. So he really likes everything I cook for him. Ufff that is easy to see him enjoying. Now he is having 2-3 dishes per day, vegetables for lunch, fruit for snack and puree for night, he is still drinking mother milk, I am fully breastfeeding him so since we have winter now, I do not have to give him extra tea, just mother milk. So far so good
Eduardito
Edik grown also a lot. Became step more independent
Now he is going on his own to the toilet, he wants to have his private time although there are many accidents happening, so probably our toilet will be the cleanest in the world because I am cleaning his desastres nearly every day BUT LEARNING BY DOING is the best way to improve
He started to speak much more, he is putting words together and now we push him to speak more in sentences. He also like to learn word so me and Carlos wetought him already these letter using whole words T-tata, M-mama, O-oko, R-robot, A-auto, B-balon, C-cibule, D-dedecek/domecek, E-edicek, F-foukat, K-karlicek, L-lod, N-nos, S-slon, U-ucho, Z-zlata. I know there are some stil missing, but it will come in time. I just enjoy that he used to bring the magnetic board and he asks for to be thought.
In the kinder they told me that he is sometimes challenging other kids to get to conflict, just because he enjoys to complain afterwards. It is not always but many times. I have observed this behavior on him also. But not that different from other kids as I think.
He loves to read books, I mean to go through different stories with us, and keep listening. He likes theater and also TV as such. Those are things which keeps him calm.
Still he loves to help with with eveyday things. We are doing everything together, hanging clothes, cleaning, cooking, shopping, learning, working. He enjoys to talk to phone with grandpa and father. It is funny to see that he is explaining there something but the other side can not see it
He still wants to go to PISEK, sand yards even outside is cold, freezing and wet, but he will spend his life there probably. So luckily in Prague we found nice indoor playgrounds with sand where he can enjoy to play with other kids.
He is sweet, loves to kiss me, Carlos and Carlitos, he still likes to be hugged and caressed by mommy
And because video tells more than hundreds of the words, I made for you again short video.
I just like to share, you know me that’s why I decided to mention this new news. Carlitos got his 1st tooth when he was 6 month and 7 days old and his second tooth just three days after. It is so exciting to see how is he growing. Not just his length I mean but also other parts of his body are developing.
What is good
no fever
no cry
no pain
no hundred litres of salivas like Edie
Just he is biting everything what comes to his mouth. And he is STRONG and I mena really strong.
So he will chew while world and he will grown his teeth faster and painless
We are the first generation which is scared by its parents and terrified by its kids…..
That is very interesting thought from the well known Chilean kids psychologist Pilar Sordo. She had mentioned couple of interesting points relating to the nowadays rising up style of us as parents and also about what we are actually growing from our kids.
But I will just let you listen and evaluate by yourselves. It is though in Spanish so good luck, but worth to hear
Half year and more that 2,5 year report of our angels
…..achh finally I have some spare time to write few lines about our guys, so lets be breaf and now I will try to let pictures and videos talk on behalf of me Imagine that
Carlitos 2 last monthes of his life
Carlitos weight is currently 8 785 g and his length is 72 cm……I was just wondering that I can not fit him into most of clothes which belong to his age
Carlito is still very smily and very talkative, he started to do grrrrr and also he is screaming like the root of mandragora, if you remeber Harry Potter movie, so exactly like those little things which make you def
As we know he was already turning but now he added also few falls from the bed (I know mean parents) and the recent movements are that he is training to hold on his four and by jump he is moving forward, it is quite funny to see him how much is he enjoying the life from this position
He loves but really loves to be caresed, kissed, touched, tuli tuli and simply while we are spending time with him, talking to him and showing different things. He also loves to observe Eduardo and many times they are just playing together. Or if we can call Eduardos crawling over Carlitos games as games But usually both are smiling.
Carlito started already to eat, he had his first spoon of carrot, he looked surprised but he was not refusing, but still he preferes booobie, and his milk
From his travelling adventures he visited Budapest together with me and Carlos on my 28th Bdays and he celebrated with us by attending the huge conference of Lyoness Sensation.
In general he loves to meet people, to do something, he loves strangers and he likes a lot smiling women. If there is some women which wants to play with him and smiles at him he is giving back all his smile
Carlitos loves mirrors, he loves his picture and he is able lo laugh loudly on himself.
Simly he is social, talkative, smily and very cute
Edik
The last measures were 13 kg and exactly 90 cms
Edik survived moving of his things to the Prague, considering that he did not understand what was happening, I now can start to understand more the feelings of the kids of parents which are getting divorce because they feel uncertain. Eduardo was also overstimulated and manytimes he was reacting more attached to his things, like we are taking everything from him and he does no know why. Also that I was going to Prague and moving stuff only with Carlitos so he was a bit lost. But now he is happy back with his things
Eda started to attend kindergarten, he loved that since the first moment and after some time he is the one who is provoking the others and he is a bit the rebel as the teacher told us. Not all the time but sometime he just like to challenge us.
He became very skillful. Finally he is telling us eveytime he need to go to pee or pooh so he is 100% fine, just at night we used to give him diaper for his comfort. He loves to do everything on his own to put his shoes, to dress himself, to put shirt and socks and dress jacket and cup. He does not like to feel cold and start to be a bit more comfortable.
The words I always hear since early morning is pisek (sand), moto (motorbike), masinka (train) and caj (tea). He is speaking mostly in Czech but adding more and more words in Spanish. I like when Carlos is talking to him amd explaining things in Spanish because that way he is learning the most. So he is saying mariposa and azul as his favourite words and he can understand a lot what is he saying just doest not speak that much yet.
Edicek is simply independent unit, he likes to play with strangers and he does not like them in the same time. He does not enjoy much changes, while we are together he loves to stay with mom, but if I am going with him out together with Carlos he is fine with exploring new places and meeting new people.
