one evening not long ago, i am sitting in the facilities room, doing what nature demanded, when Mattan walks in. its shower time. no privacy around here any more. while seated, i open the adjacent shower door, let him in and open the water. soon he begins to shower, or more correctly, playing in the shower, he likes to drink from the running shower tap. another minutes passes and Tal comes in. that is strange since i locked the gate to avoid such interruptions and behind him comes Alla. now she should know better! and let a person do their thing. she comes in and declares that she has to go. well, i am in the middle!!, and i ask her some what bewildered. "what do you expect me to do now?. finally she leaves the room with Tal.
the privacy rights in this country are no more.
we try to maintain routine, which is very important to kids, so say all the researchers. but sticking to routine is a bit difficult. of course there is my routine and Alla's routine.
my usual.
Tal Wakes up, i get him, he jumps with joy. we go down, and i give him breakfast, usually cereal, which he must take from the cabinet and he takes a spoon from the drawer, he will not accept my spoon offering. he eats the cereal and half of the milk, another half is on his clothes and another half on the chair. yes, i know it's against the laws of physics, but he manages.
now that he is good and dirty, and infused by milk. he poops and i change his diaper- then go wash his teath and change his clothes.
all this usually happens before Mattan\ Alla wake up
while this is happening i am making breakfast for all the boys, my self included and not for Alla.
Alla's usual (in the less usual case). Tal wakes up, calls Aba Aba Aba.... Mom comes, he jumps with joy but still calls for Aba. First Alla changes his diaper and brushes his teeth, then dresses him nicely. then breakfast, usually cereal with the same level of mess. now she goes to change the poopy diaper and change the outfit to another nice outfit.
recent quoates
"no I am not sick I went to the doctor yesterday" mattan
I dont want to go to evie's party since she said once I am a bad boy - Mattan
"she (Evie) told Lilian once that she is bad"
when asked if he or Lilian did anything bad mattan says there are no bad people at our school
this was a harsh winter. not the weather itself which was extremely mild for a cleveland winter, but sickness. since December = Tal had 5 sick episodes, most took a week to run through. a combination of liquids coming from every where possible. Mattan had 2 spells. but most were not in paralel and we had to scramble often for a sitter, mostly meaning i stayed home. now we have almost 2 weeks of no sickness, just runny noses and finally things seem a bit normal. but we had our concerns. Tal is no on an all lactose free diet and gets fiber while we wait for various allergy tests to arrive. Today, we had a visit with radiology. poor taL work up at 5:30, not knowing that he can't eat till the test. he was grumpy asking for a bottle, cereal , yogurt, cookies, rummaging in drawers trying to obtain food . go explain to a hungry 22 month old that he has to wait...
Alla took Tal to the hospital, while i got ready to take Mattan to school and join her. 10 minutes later alla comes back (forgot her purse) then she rushes out again. i leave and go to drop Mattan off then drive to the hospital. I reached a random parking lot, 4th floor at the far corner. get out of the car and am about to call Alla when she happens to pull in to the slot next to mine. weird coincidence , this is a huge hospital facility with more than 1 lot, and multi floors. she was suppose to arrive before me, bagel stop. alla is addicted to take out.
Tal is now calm, as we had in, he enjoys the light in the under ground tunnel and the elevators and the many greeters in uniform. we reach the radiology room which impresses me. it is a room geared for kids. lots of finding nemo/dory stickers on the walls. there was a hospital child services person. her job is to ease the worries of parents and kids. impressive. they explain the procedure and we first get a single x ray and tal is the perfect patient. then we wait for the doc and tal plays with the lights. finally the doc arrives, Hungry Hungry tal gets to drink something milk looking with dye. it is some fruit flavored. i was worried it would taste as horrible as the adult version. but it was not. tal takes a sip, then surprised and looks at the bottle, we hold our breaths, but he decides it is consumable and digs in. i see on the X-Ray frequent shots- and you can see the liquid goes to his esophagus, spends some time in the stomach and then goes to the intestine. very cool to see and once more Tal is fully cooperating, with the "milk" and a sucker that they give him to stimulate the stomach. at the end when we here he has no anatomical blockages , he gets to choose a toy, he gets a little car.
currently Tal could have had just a nasty series of stomach viruses, but not all results are in.
Meanwhile, after my great success last year with biggest loser, i had no so good success in the 2nd part of the year and gained some of it back. i just finished a 2nd biggest loser and sadly i've lost by losing almost nothing... shame, the good part is that the weight gaining has stopped- i am stable for the last 2 months and i am much more active now and hoping resume decent in upcoming active months.
i will rejoin this competition again next year, it keeps me in check.
as you know i Participate in toastmasters and reached a mile stone of finishing all my speeches. i have 2 things left to complete to be a DTM- distinguished toast master and hope to finish this by MAY
more quotes
he sees a sign of 25 MPH and we explains that we go slow since the speed is 25 miles per hours. he then says in the high way you can drive faster 65 thousand dollars... a little unit confused
Tal begins to talk in 3 word sentences - but i don't recall anything record-able at this point,
we went to see La La land and i don't get the hype, it was fine, but best movie... i don't think so.
we also went to a Carpenter tribute event , some band anecdotes and lots of hit songs. average age was 70 + ... i loved the event, Alla was suffering bravely..
that is it for now. soon more frequent updates as destination #63 approaches.
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