I just want to share with you one finding which I did, and I would be happy to let you think about it and share your opinion.
I have found that that if I am playing with Edie happens things like:
My head thoughts stop to run through my head
I focused on creative work
My mind relaxes and its frekvence slows down
I take energy from my son, he is like source of heat, of something special which can calm down your body
Kids has the gift to be focused and they are bothered only by the success or failure happening in close presents. They are actors of its presence rather than past or future.
To play with Edie and be able to create something by my hands gives me peace, calmness and creative feeling which results in great ideas afterwords
If I need to rest, to play with him is the best way how o calm down my mind and disconnect me from the outer world
To play with Eide gives me possibility to see world through his eyes, everything becomes micro, start to have formas and clear division. As he can tear a paper, cut the shapes, pour the water, cut a peace of food, create a building from the cubics…….something and nothing. Everything has its purpose and reason. Not like before. Nothing is obvious. Everything have to be tried and proved how it works and from what it consists of. It gives great deal to your analytical part of the mind.
I would just wish to everybody the chance to have a baby in your close environment and play with him in a way of observing it. You will relearn to connect with the world and its essence as kids can. We lost this opportunity long time ago, while taking things for granted. We are not asking that many questions any more, we consider things the way they are. Our curiosity can be restored and our mind can be blessed with new ideas and energy, which is based in the hearts and minds of our babies.
By playing with our babies we combat not only against our sick mind. The most importan effect in the end is the synergy which we are creating between us and them. The time spend together, the understanding and mutual connection, mind healing and heart linking. Never be so far from them. I wish you to have opportunity to spend such kind of the time I have spend with Edie. This time is ours, it appreciated and is being cared. Switch off TV, Radio and any disturber. Just be only you and your child. Observe, share,talk to him and sing your favorite song and do not let anybody to steal your time.
This I wish you from the bottom of my heart and mind. Enjoy every moment!
This title can express a lot from what I am going to tell you now. It is such unbelievable how fast he is Growing. When I started to go through the pictures and stories I have written about him I can not believe that he was little just 50 cm and weighted 3kg.
And now look at a big boy
On 23.10. he celebrated his 20th month of life. He is about 83cm long and 10,3 kg heavy. but sometimes I think that he is much more and now one month later it is even more. I think that since my belly is growing my hands are a bit weaker. But he still wants to ride me and he loves to do HOPY HOPY on my back, so I look like little monkie mom with him on my back lovely.
What to write about him:
his talking, such a fun……….hmmm ok talking it is not the right expression. He is definitely repeating words or he tries and loves some particular one.
papapuuu – these are “papucky” home shoes
piti – drink – for his bottle
caj – tea
agua – still favourite water
hopy hopy – momy show your back and lets jump together
papu, ham ham – food, hunger
jeste – more, one more
animals he understands and tries to imitate in Czech and Spanish – horse, dog, cow, goat, gorilla, dug, chicken, little chicken, cat, crab, pig – so funny I have to record him for you if possible
his motorical skills:
he is able to dress himself shoes, which does not have to be tight – rubber boots
he is able to put his cap, many times just for fun
he cooperates while dressing him up
he goes and gets things I asked him bring and treshes whatever I ask him to tresh
he like to help – cleaning, cooking (he loves to mix things in pot, he made with me egg bread etc)
he is drinking on his own from cup
he eats much better on his own by spoon, if he wants he does not lick
he is able to climb nearly what ever he wants – he climbed up from the bed, even is high enough, he found his way out——–uffff. you know how it feels if you put your baby into the bed, wished him good night and then suddenly he is coming back from the room dragging toys in his hands and saying hopy hopy……….better to laught or cry
he loves cars and engines – everything what makes sound is AUTO, no matter what
he is also able to put his big animal puzzle into the order
He is also able to ask “prosim” while putting his hands together and he does the same gesture like if you are asking for help. such a cute and effetive while I am sking him if he wants something more or I am teaching him not to scream at me but ask politely for the things.
His life in kindergarten:
he loves it there
he is able to forget me immediately we enter insight, he just kisses me and closes the doors in front of my nose, he waves me and kind of tells me go mom. He never cries.
they told me story: they went to dance “Mazurka dance” and he did not have teacher to dance with. So he grabbed close girl, in his age and started to dance with her…..he loves dancing and music especially electronic.
he is cooperative, nice to others – except time I am coming for him. He starts to kick and complain. He does not want to go home. He likes it there to play with another kids
I think that he brought from kinder also word “Moje” mine. Because now all the things around him are ”Mine” which is sometimes problem. He is able to get totally angry if we are not leting him not to do something or taking some toy out of him. He wants to hit me and starts to cry………..yep time of punishment. It is sometimes hard but we wants him to understand that this is not the way. We also started to put him to the room, if he is just crying without any special reason. He usually comes after and asks for Hopy hopy – that is like appology.
He is growing I can feel it, but we are still fighting with potty time. He is not telling me when he wants to go, But if I put him there he do what he is supposed to but I would love to get rid of diapers in his case. Also that soon we will need double pack also for the little one.
siblings love building: He likes my belly. If I say “Where is the baby” he used to touch my belly and caress him and sometimes kisses him. it is such a nice feeling. He knows that he can not kick me, but sometimes he does that.
Edie is loved and cared. I hope that we are giving him as much as we can, that is our life and our passion.
Edie’s picture gallery:
Pixie face
autumn dressing code – little dworf
Fishing out the pont
And after all playing our HOPY HOPY time ends with nice nap
Keep in touch with our improvements.
I loved one motto which gave me Carlos mom: Kids are borrowed to our life just for short time. We should enjoy every time we are with them, when they needs us and we can help them. We should be there as their guides and advisors. Because very soon they will go away from us and they will live their life. Our role will be not that strong but if we gave them everything now we will get it back later for sure. Time spend with our kids is the most important article we can give them”.Nothing can replace us!
Because our mind is more fragile then body of our kids and our fear is bigger than their passion to explore!
I need to share with you again. There have been some days and I faced different questions from my friends and family. I even thought to put Edie to the kindergarten because he is such curious and so social that to be alone with him is basically stopping him from development,exploration and interaction.
I felt that we such as modern society are putting more and more limits to ourselves and our minds which affects our kids. We think that we need lot of things to give them to sustain and keep their comfort. But it is not true at all! Try to imagine much happier kids living in a poor countries and why they live fuller childhood compare to our “modern society”?
When I started to think about this I realize that we as modern parents are too over-caring and too comfortable. How many of us is thinking………ohhh how much I would love to drink my coffee calmly , how much I would love to just sit on the sofa, put my legs up and read my favorite book or watch TV?………..but that is not purpose of our life! Just be comfortable in our own bodies because we took over the most important part of our life time here. Those who can have kids, the next generation should think how to be raising them that they will learn how to learn fast, how to explore, how not to be worry of changes and how to life cosmopolitan! We are not any more closed societies and we have to face different environment, different cultures and different thinking.
And not only because of that I strongly believe that travelling and exploring should be our parenthood mission for our kids. To let them explore their close environment, to let them burn and cut and hurt themselves is the best way to let develop their senses. To show them how to travel on their own, how to understand the different cultures and different behavioral patterns is the best way to avoid further conflicts, because they learn, they feel and the most important they experienced it live not by reading it in books.
So that’s why we should not be worry about ourselves to explore worlds side by side with our kids. They will enjoy, they will be happy to spend time with us, our of our homes. What they need is YOU, FOOD and your understanding while they are tired or hungry or you know………. (psssss mum just change me please!).
So in the end let me just share one little tip for going cycling with your child. We gave Edie as 17 month present cycling trip. He did not have yet his helmet but we managed anyway.
Have you ever taste the lake water…………brrrrr it’s fishy
How to sleep comfortably while parents are still cycling…..
If you think that Edie was too hanged then you are not right because he was fine and sleeping very deep. He even did not realize that we are moving
And after the while we went for lunch and Edie could have changed his moving bed for something more original
And I would say that the most relaxing was the after swimming party in the lake. I would wish you to be there with us. It was such a nice time, after cycling 55 Km in the 35 C we were very happy to cool down our bodies and relax in the lake.
And you know what: in the end of the day Edie was sleeping like an angel. He enjoyed the trip a lot and he tried many new things!
Today I will speak generally about the biggest improvements and changed which have happened in Edie’s life. You know as 1st time parent you are always surprised by your child. And because Edie is running like a hell fast, exploring every single thing around him by touching it, licking it, eating it he already know how it feels to be burn (just a little do not worry), he knows how to feels to be cut, how feels to have infection in his mouth because bad fountain water.
But the big fun is his talking. Yeah I know he is not talking fully, but he start to use simple words and practicing different letters, such rrrrr, sssss (he is able to spill thousand of salivas around by doing sssss or rrrrr). Also he is greeting Carlos in Spanish ” Hola!” and saying Agua for water, in Czech he continue to say papapapa (buy bye), he started to say “Auto” car or wheel,”nana” something like more or again”Ba Ba” is any kind of animal, because dogs and any other animal which can lick his hands or his face of just snoofe around him he will love. He loves animals in general and last week when we visited our friends in Prague he fall in love with their hamster. He wanted to touch him all the time until the little poor animal was only sleeping being tired from Edie’s constant care
But also Edie is running like a hell. He stopped to walk because it is boring already. And running is much more fun. So I started to run too. No matter where he is he always founds some water fountain, water tank, drinking spot for dogs and starts to play with the water. So it results in my runs after him, or just him being wet and happy and me constantly changing his clothes over and over again. I think already look like Santa, because my bag with spare clothes for him is being bigger and bigger. Yeah today for example he found these springs fountain running in the park and wash himself like in the shower. And you can imagine how angry he was when I took him away. He always lay down to the ground, starts to kick and bend himself that I can not nearly take him. But I always know the way how to combat him
I realized that: “If you know that your child will be angry from particular thing like Edie can be, PREVENT THE SITUATION OF ANGER!.I realized that for example, if he sees the fountain, and he is heading for it. I start to play hunting with him. I run against him and try to catch him with open arms. He understands it like a game instead of me being draging him away and instead of cry and anger I deserved laugh and smile! Ufffff one mission done!
If you want child to play with the things you think that they are for him, then surround him with them and keep them in your hands and show him their advantages and usage. Kids are following us and they will think that these things are something special worth to use them. SO if I am cutting vegetable or cooking than I put into Edie’s hands dining knifes instead of sharp one and peace of soft vegie like cucumber. Bot of us are cutting but since I am faster I can prepare whole lunch, Edie is entertained by fighting with his peace of food and happy to do something and learn.
So the basic rule is DISTRACTION, ENTERTAINMENT, ACTION. Always make fun from the things which he should not do. But If it does not work do not be worry to punish him. I have to show Edie his limits, or later he will not respect me, other kids and people.
And also something from his social life. He is more and more social. He loves people, he is not afraid to go with my friends away. He likes to play so anybody who can do some fun with him will be his friend.
Edie still loves eating and especially carrot, vegetables in general, fruits and yogurth. He does not like much bread, potatoes. But as we say that “The hunger is the best chef” I always make him hungry by and then he eats with full appetite. I do not like to give him cookies and other sweet stuff. So he learned to eat fruits rather than sweets and vegetable rather then chips. It is just matter of habit for the kids. What you get used to him, it will eat. He loves also fish meat and other types if they are soft.
And he sleeps very well already. Since circa 9pm until 7 am. sooo goood
He is still producing liters of salivas, but no teeth arrived. He has still 8 teeth.
And now some gallery:
Now we have harvesting time here in Brno, so we were picking some cherries…..hmmm sweet and tasty. Edie was eating them fully even with seeds from ground. But he was just fine, no stomach issues.
Before we cut Edies hair, he looked like and angel. So you can see him while he is exploring the animal world and hunting butterfly
I also recorded how active he is at home. Because when we are outside he is calmer and while playing with another kids nobody believes me that he can be also very energetic and hyperactive and he likes to take things out of shelf and draws. And if something does not go as he wants he used to shouts, cry or became angry.
So and since we are constant travelers we have done few exploratory trips with Edie. Actually I also wanted to show Carlos more from South Moravien region where we lived. And we also visited Slovakia, where lives my friends.
Porta Coeli
And after we went to watch tower in Tisnov, town just close by
We went also the the medieval festival in Cesky Krumlov, south Bohemia
Bojnice in Slovakia – in Tindas home land and house
And as I see I had soooo many things in my head to share with you , that I am already from short post writing long long story. But you know me. Life is fun and my blog is my relaxation, my passion, my share of my life with you. So stay tuned and let me know what you would like to know from me
Angel, the little hairy angel………… the story is over
The decision about the hairstyle is the think of parents, especially in the beginning of our lives. I have been listening many stories about my parents, how their parents destroyed their look by cutting their hair and that they have suffered a lot by looking too bold or with bad taste.
The best think is that babies will look great even we made any changes of their look. They are sweet, cute, cuddling and always looking great. They are special and whatever we do with their visage they will look like angels. But I have to confess that the biggest changes happened actually for us as parents. I did not expect such a big change.
I wanted to make the time of first cutting of Edies hair special, because as Avatar indigenous believed, that hair are connection to their nature, I believe that Edie’s hair were connection to his early childhood. AND SINCE the people around us were saying while meeting Edie………..ohhh that is such a nice “GIRL” I thought that it is peak time to cut his hair and make the change from baby girl to “BABY BOY”!
And as I was saying that we wanted to make the time special we decided to choose special saloon for first look change. So keep tuned and see learn whole story with us.
Edie: How they cut my hair
As you can see I had hair everywhere, I was growing them 15 month until my parents decided to change my look.
My parents chose very nice saloon with excellent services:
And look how the whole process of loosing my precious style happened :
And after the process I got one nice price to refresh myself:
And look at me now. I am a big boy and nobody will confuse me anymore with girl. Such a change.
Life is full of changes. The most important are those which we do on our own! Do not let the others drive your life or learn what can happen in the best case!
Time is something unmeasurable, unstoppable and the only thing what I am doing with Edie is to keep pace with his fast development. Many times I have been only observing my son with open mouth because he is constantly surprising me because his curiosity is opening my eyes and refreshing the daily routine.
What new things have happened?
Last measuring weight 9,2 Kg and his height 75 cm
He is in perfect mental and physical condition, is very active (sometimes too much) or at least comparable with his mom
He is eating like a king. He is able to eat similar portions like adult (I am not kidding). In the morning he is able to eat full big plate of flakes or full cup or musli, or one big bread. He loves fruit and vegetable (the most tomatoes). His favorite dish is pasta in any kind and and type. Also potatoes, he prefers meat over sweet things. He loves also little things such as peace and corn from can. He also loves soups. It is everywhere but he is trying hard.
He is eating by spoon and little fork on his own. He does not want me to feed him. of course sometimes he is adding his hands into the process too, but for 14 month baby he is very skillful.
He is drinking mostly water, does not like sweet things and juices just sometimes, depending on the fruit. He loves grapes so sometimes he makes the grape juice on his own by squeezing grapes in his little hands
Regarding to his behavior: He is very nice, active, explorative. He knows perfectly what kind of things belong to which shelf or draw. He loves to take all the things out of them and put them somewhere else. So no wander that thermomether is in the shelf for shoes, food is among the newspapers, toothpaste and toothbrush are usually in the wash machine etc. Although when he is doing something danger or destructive we need to show him his limits, and he gets very angry. He always wants to slap me into my face and yells out loudly. He got many times slaped over his bottom and over his hands. Not hardly but he needed that. 100 word of no, it is danger, you will harm yourself were not enough and sufficient. One slap worked better. Also works to hug him tight and stand his protests and lour shouting. He usually calms down in a while.
Since he was little he loves to be outside. Now even more because he is walking very well and he is exploring many things around constantly. He loves to play with dogs in the park and he is sending kisses to the ladies around him. He usually smiles to the people and wants to be center of attention.
He is saying just simple words such as mama, papa, baba, alla, alli, agua, and thank he is using his baby language something like glaglaglablue bla je ju gla gla gla
He has perfect sleeping time, He is waking up around 6 or 5:30. Now I skipped breastfeeding because he was too much used to it to wake up and be fed and he was crying for that a lot. Now since we stopped it is better. He has breakfast and after short nap around 9, than lunch and another nap around 2pm and than active time (with two snacks, bread, fruit, jogurt with frui etc) until 7 or 7:30 pm when we have dinner and after bath and around 8 or 8:30 he goes to bed and sleeps whole night. Sometimes he asks for drink nut not that often.
He has still long curly hair. We did not cut them but we should. People on the street are telling me “Oh this is such a nice girl” ups!
I am still breastfeeding him a little, Usually after afternoon nap, when he is supposed to play after. It is still our moment when we are close to each other and we can caress each other. He is able to give me also kiss after and caress my face. It is very nice and cozy moment. It will be hard to let him go totally.
I have been just checking my blog and I realized that I am going to write my 100th post and it is worth to celebrate!
I still remember the time when I was pregnant and I was thinking what would be the best way to remember, to share and not to forget all the moment I am going through. And in that moment Carlos gave me the guidance and persuaded me to start my blog. Just do it! Try it and you will see! And I did, and now I have already my online diary book, my mumteaching sharing space, my educational tips and educative articles. All what I want to have is part of my stories. I increased the readers base from the 75 readers in the Feb 2009 to the 1400 readers in March 2010. I got many positive replies and I wish to have more and more happy readers who can read life stories, who can learn and challenge themselves.
I just see that behind every success is hidden little failure. In my case it is reality that I started to fill the ordinary book “My baby life” for Edie and I will never finish it. But on the other hand I created and devoted this blog mostly to him
I have learned that many successful things are hiding big failures behind. But if you think how babies are learning, then you can learn from them a lot. Because they are learning by doing many mistakes. And curiously for every their failure they got appreciated and awarded by us, parents. Because by every mistakes they do they improve and move forward. When I see Edie how he is learning to walk. How many times he falls down on the ground and then he stands up. How he is playing and fighting with spoon in his hand and instead of his mouth he reaches his eye, his ear but he keeps trying to feed himself. And you can see that by doing failures he is understanding more and more the connections and he is improving much faster than those who are just sitting and doing nothing.
So I am simply happy that I have started this blog and that I failed by writing book. Because through my blog I can share with all of you what is happening in my family life. What I have learned and what I explored and invented.
Advice: “Anything worth doing well is worth doing poorly at first. “ (said: Dan Miller)
That is wisdom for all ages. We need to accept failure as a friend who is honest enough to tell us that we still need to work harder, listen to others, think more clearly, and learn more information. Failure has something to teach us every time. That’s what make people successful — learning from mistakes and persevering to the goal.
I think that there are not many babies who has possibility to experience that much as Edie had. During his first year he had traveled through 2 continents, visited Czech Republic, Austria, Venezuela, and as his present for 13 monthary he went with us to Colombia. We traveled for 3 weeks and he could see and visit many new places and meet his extended family and gain new friends.
But what have changed and which improvements Edie did?
Edie has now about 10 Kg and 78 cm.
He started to walk, his first steps are very funny but he did his few passes from one place to another one without holding anything except himself
He is eating like a king, whatever I serve him he eats. He is not picky and he started to eat on his own. He wants to try new flavors, new things and he likes to experiment. His favorite dish is fruit such as pear or banana or apple. He loves cheeses and prefer pasta and rice over potato.
He has still a bit of mother milk. I am breastfeeding him only in the morning. Such as our good morning. Little bit of caressing and intimate moment. True is if he is fussy during the day or has some pain I let him a bit more with his “boobie pacifier”. And why? Because I love him a lot
He loves to be outside and explore new things. He loves water and wants to swim and play no matter on place and time. If he is in my arms he is food friend with other people but he needs to have me close by.
He learned how to blink with both eyes (this kind of pixy blink for girls) and he can through a flying kiss. Which this two tricks he is making crazy every girl
He loves music, dancing, playing instruments, doing sports, outside action. He likes travelling too because outside he is much more calmer than insight. He likes countryside and playing in the grass rather than in the beton of the city. He loves to put everything into his mouth so I have to be careful of him. He loves to climb different things such as chair, table, wardrobe, box etc.
Edie is very curious about everything. If I do not let him to do some thing or I take any object from his hands he gets very angry. He starts to cry, he put himself on the ground and starts to kick his legs and wave with his hands. He always puts his head into everything I do. He needs to see what I do. He make me company even on the toilet just to be sure what am I doing? He loves to open things, to put one thing into the another one. He is trashing any kind of dirt to the bin but than he is taking it out. If he founds something on the ground he is offering it to me as great eating. He loves to take mobile phone or remote controls and pretend that he is calling with somebody. It is such a funny thing Simply he needs to see, touch and taste.
He is sleeping much better now and more balanced. He is waking up about 5am and with my “human pacifier” he is able to sleep about 2 more hours. Than we have breakfast and after he takes a short nap. About 1 hour max from 9-10. After he has busy time of playing, gym, exploring. We are having lunch between 12-1pm depend on the breakfast time and than he is taking nap from 2:30 or 3pm about 1 hour or 1,5. Later he usually has dinner at 7, after bath and goes to bed around 8 or 8:30. depends on his daily activity. He sleeps during hole night. He just wakes up to drink once or twice per night. He takes his water and falls asleep calmly again.
Edie got two new teeth. So he has 4 front upper teeth and 2 lower.
I thought that after one year there will be not many things to write. But there is always something happening and Edie is still developing and improving so much that I decided to continue with his development reports.
Keep tuned to hear more about his next month improvements. Coming soon …..
I have not been in touch with you my dear readers for some time. And there is one simple reason for that because I have been travelling with Carlos and Edie for 3 weeks through Colombia. Beautiful country with many colors, warm hearts people, great services, high safety, clean environment and magical nature and food.
I have that great opportunity to visit few cities and make picture for myself about Colombia. Once you enter insight you will have open mouth and eyes. There are so many things to see that you will never get bored. We have been very lucky, because our family is large and we could have stayed in their good hands and enjoy family feelings.
During our journey we have visited:
Medellin
Pereira
In the farm “Que pa que mas” near by Pereira
Near by the Pereira are located two theme parks. One is Parque del Cafe and the another is Pargue de Agropecultura “PANACA”. Both parks are introducing part of the Colombian culture. Parque del Cafe is talking about the production of delicious Colombian Coffee and PANACA is introducing the life and importance of village for cities.
“Without village there is no city” (Sin campo no hay ciudad!)
Salento – there was held our family reunion “Boterada 2010″
Bogota – as all capital cities Bogota is very busy, full of people, traffic and whole environment is too rushy for me. I prefer calmer places and nature. Although in Bogota U can find different museums (Museum del Oro, Botero Museum), famous Monserate monastir and various entertainment activities.
Near by Bogota is one of the biggest world attraction. There is located the biggest cathedral in the world. It is made from Salt.
And a bit further you can find the legendary Lake in Guatape which is known as “El Dorado” – lake where indigenous where sacrificing golden artifacts and Spanish wanted to pick all the gold from this lake for their selfish needs.
And after great time in the Bogota, the rushy capital we moved to Cartajena. Typical sea side and coast city. With warm weather and 90% humidity. Cartajena reminded me a lot Venecia with its narrow streets, colorful houses and sea smell. Cartajena has very beautiful historical down town with castle on the hill and newly build hotel side in Boca Grande.
Great and our time and travelling was over. The time which we spend in Colombia was unforgettable and I hope that we will soon come back.
And what I have learned being there?
That Colombia produce great coffee
That Colombia honor its people who are working in the countryside and are bringing food on their table.
That Colombia is safe, the news and media made bubble from conflicts which are based on very little area compare to the whole country.
That Colombia has great services, people are unbelievebly polite, buses are on time, people are helpful in any time.
That Colombia has many faces. You can find mountains, low lands, high lands. It has both seas Caribbean and Atlantic.
And Only thing which can threaten you in Colombia is the fact that you would love to stay there forever.
This post will be devoted to my son. Who is with me already one year. And during that time I realized how much he had changed me and how much I have learned about myself.
“If you are really not sure who you are, if you are not totally aware of your strengths and weaknesses…………You should have a child!”
Yes my best personal life teacher is my son. Surprise? I hope not, because it is the most natural think which probably every parent will soon or later found out. It is such curious think about kids, because they behave exactly as we teach them. Because I can see on Edie my personal patterns. Little thinks which I am already doing unconsciously. Every day I can see and have to proof my patience, my skills to play, invent new things, be well organize (time management, task management). I am learning new things every day under his lead. He is actually not asking me to study books and follow particular patterns. He is just teaching me how to observe, how to understand, how to read his gestures (body language).
“Motherhood is the biggest life role which I can play. It is full of constant learning, making mistakes and then undoing them. Non of us were born as parent but most of us will take this important responsibility to our hands!”
Now as most of the mothers I am observing other kids. It is my new passion, to see their smiles, their first steps, their games a and even more curious for me is to keep observing their parents. How they are sharing different moments with their kids.
I have learned that well educated and raised kid comes from Educated parents. There is no limitation for kids to learn, it is just us “parents” who limits its kids by having prejudices or badly learned patterns.
Kids are tabula rasa, blank peace of paper which is not spoiled by any wrong experience. Only who can spoil the “new story” is us! So now I have unique time to keep observing and learning “pure unspoiled” patterns which were given to us by “mother nature”.
Edi is very good teacher. He is able to respond to any of my guidance very fast. He is able to track my persistence, by constant rules’ braking we put on him He is able to show me that impossible is just silly word in my head (” because toilet is very good swimming pool and into my little nose can fit 2 and even 3 of his fingers at once).
I am actually just wondering where his guidance will lead in the future. We took mutual role of being guides to each other. I keep showing him his border. He has to know where he can go and where he is already too far.
“Because his freedom end where starts the freedom of another person!”
But on the other hand by observing his first steps, his constant and persistent attamps of trying things is miraculous and worth of admiring.
My life lecture of my son: If you want to achieve something, you have to master your skills, you have to be persistent and go over any obstacles with open mind because ” the impossible” does not exist.
(Eduardo Josef Botero)
PS: What if I can put into mum’s nose also 4 fingers at one. I think it is worth to try
and now one month later it is even more. I think that since my belly is growing my hands are a bit weaker. But he still wants to ride me and he loves to do HOPY HOPY on my back, so I look like little monkie mom with him on my back 
