my journey with children

This is Erica's big first haircut... She was so into putting her long hair into her mouth most of the times. The ends of her hair was almost all the time wet and.... in the end I asked her if she wants her hair shorter.  She said "yes, like Ava" (like her little sister). I don't think she would have liked that short. So I asked a few days in a road if the really would like that and she said yes! We went to the hair salon, she staid like a stone for 30 minutes while her hair was cut and then in the end she smiled and we laughed, when we went out. I think it was more me, who suffered after her long Mowgli hair. We went on with our day, we went to Wannsee, to sunbathe. Later in the evening, when we returned, after washing her hair, she looked long at her face and how she looks with this hairdo and she gave herself a kiss, sayig "I love you Erica".  I like from Louise Hay, the working with the mirror and I have done them with Erica since she exists. ...

 This week I started the classes of postnatal yoga... I had the first class on Monday morning but today I had  back pain and I repeated it a bit with Ava, some of the exercises. I started the class with Jutta Wohlrab. She is a midwife in Berlin and offers these classes in German and English, online in real time and she fulfills these two conditions of the German insurance (TK - I have) to pay for these classes.  If you prefer to have these classes in English, I recommend Jutta. It's my second time I am doing these classes with her and I guess now, in Corona lockdown ( or the new "normality"), you can be anywhere in Germany and book the online classes with her.  I think you should start this classes after 2 months or so...but better ask your midwife. Before my first pregnancy with Erica, I was a great aerobics fan, three - four times a week. In this manner my back could handle all the heavy cameras and lenses I was caring, which I used to call back then "my babies...

Today we descovered one of the most beautiful playground in Berlin, really! Or I speak from Erica's reaction but also from what I have seen so far. We went initially to the Animal park at Hasenheide which they closed yesterday because of Corona and after I promised all the way in the car a playground, I was desperate to find one. I searched on map and it was this one in the middle of the park "1001 Nights Playground". It is really beautifully created/ designed and with a lot of climbing possibilities and for 2-3 years old toddlers. It's a bit far away from any entrance, or at least, this is how I felt carrying one baby and running after Erica, who was on her bycicle.  It keeps me fit but I have a terrible back pain in the same time. Tomorrow I start my regression classes / recover after giving birth ("rückbildungskurs" as it is called here). I feel I need it so badly.   

  No kindergarten here... does anybody feel me? : ) I love my children so much but to be able to take care of them separately at least for a few hours, I find it healthy for them but for me as well. But it is how it is. Sometimes I think to myself it would have been easier if they were twins. At least they would have been at the same level with the growing. Here, one is crying - 3 months old, the other one is running  - 3 years old. Calm and catch the faster the one you can. However today was the hardest day for a long time now, and at one point I said "enough, I am exhausted but we go out, to take all of us three a big breath of "spring" weather (4 degrees)."   Once we were out, Ava slept on the scarf and Erica ran like she never ran before in her life and then she started to play very funny with the swings. in the back of our block of flats it is a playground totally simple. The attraction is the swing. And besides the normal way of swinging which has to be very f...