News from the family

From: Maya
To: All
Subject: News from the family

Dear all,

Long time since our last update, I needed some time to adjust to our new family!!

Elias was born on April 18th 2007 (he is now 7 weeks old). A big boy (54 cm – 4 kg) with lots of brown hair – just the same colour as mine J He is physically very different from Clara, it will be easy to tell them apart when we’ll look at pictures in a few years. Clara was (and still is) extremely “white” (as in she has the fragile skin of a red head) when Elias is more tanned. One had blond hair and the other one brown hair. So far Elias still has blue eyes (like Clara) but this can still change.

Elias is an easy baby, he doesn’t cry too much, he starts to smile a lot, he pays attention to the toys we put above his head (since this morning), he loves it when I walk him in our area and when we give him a bath, he also starts to make different noises. At night, when we are lucky, he only wakes up once, but usually I have to feed him twice.

We were curious and anxious to see how Clara would react to her little brother. Well, she surprised us, she was really pleased right away and loves Elias. She wants to hold him, she gives him a pacifier when he cries (even if he is not interested), when I feed him, she will say “Eat Elias, eat!”, encouraging him. She is very cute with him and we are extremely pleased. We still pay attention cause a 2 year old is not always very delicate even if she means good.

Clara’s vocabulary grows and grows, she makes short sentences, her syntax is getting better by the day. Next week-end she will go to the theatre for the 1st time.

I am enjoying my time off work, I go to the post-natal gym twice a week, I see friends who have kids the same age as Elias or who are about to give birth. I am extremely busy. I do not find much time to rest as Elias sleeps during the day but mostly if I walk him, at home he doesn’t sleep much _ so not possible for me to take a nap when he sleeps.

We already took a trip to the South of France to attend the wedding of friends of ours and took the opportunity to go meet Thomas’s dad, an hour away of the place where the wedding took place. We had a good week. Clara enjoyed the wedding, she had a seat at the children’s table and was the youngest one (the 16 year old did not seem to happy when she saw who would sit across the table!!!) – she was very proud to sit with the “big ones”. She danced a lot with her father. We all had a good time.

We had made some changes in our house, transforming the top floor in a sort of suit for us, we have now moved in our new (huge) bedroom. Still some little things to be done but this will wait.

Thomas got a promotion at work, he works very hard so it was nice to see his hard work recognised.

Elias just woke up so I’ll leave you here.

Take care everyone.

Maya and the family