A lot of reasons for joy

Saturday afternoon the three of us transferred to the 23rd district for a welcome party to the newest member of the Bella Familia: Anna, the 2 week old daughter of Lini and Peter. With Emma, Valentin and Max already very mobile on their feet and Anna, Leo and Jakob mobile on their parents’ arms the flat was almost dominated by children and it became very obvious to all of us, that times have changed significantly over the past years. While the main topics previously have been long weekends on deserted mountain huts we are now discussing the colour and smell of crap.

The two main acts united: Anna and Peter

It is amazing how fast babies develop in their early days as Anna, mere 6 weeks younger than Jakob, looks totally fragile and tiny compared to our little one even though she got a lot of real hair, while our son is still bald – just like his dad was at this age. We are very relaxed about the lack of hair as Markus these days almost suffers from his dense hair and feels at certain times like a sheep.

Cool! Only 214 more months and I can drive my own car!

On Sunday the wave of autumn birthdays started with Peter, Anna’s dad, turning 35 and “uncle” Flo in Bregenz celebrating his 31st birthday. But also we had something to celebrate that day, as our son turned the age of 2 months. We are fully aware, that in a few years time we won’t bother anymore to celebrate the 13th day of each month, but for now we don’t see a way around that, especially as we need to practice for further real anniversaries and birthdays lining up in the coming weeks and months.

Jakob, Kerstin & Markus