Learning by doing

The summer heat has taken a tight grip on Vienna and made us sweat a lot during the past week. While Markus went back to work in order to spend the day in an air-conditioned environment Jakob, Heidi and Kerstin did their best to stay cool with the sunshields down all day, walks in the shadows of the Prater and occasional air-conditioned car-rides for some treatments and examinations throughout the week.

The new family is still working hard to get used to each other and Jakob in addition has to get accustomed to the weather which is probably also a difficult task with temperatures constantly above 30 degrees all day long, but it is probably fair to say that we are all doing well. The past three weeks have been super-intense and tiring but at the same time extremely joyful and laden with happiness. Jakob continued to eat well and he has taken on some more weight and grown in size and we can not wait to find out details later in the week when we have another appointment at the paediatrician.

So many news things to play with!

Apart from eatingJakob is also improving and learning every day and it is absolutely fantastic to watch him develop. Be it playing with some new toys (best after a good long sleep), be it following sounds and smiling back, be it holding up his head or be it properly screaming. The latter is though a nerve wrecking thing as our little boy has a very strong voice and he can sound as if we would have harmed him sometimes when he is in “screaming mode” during which we can hardly calm him down and which can not even be prevented by a long walk with our cool bugaboo cameleon stroller.

Jakob, Kerstin & Markus