24/01/2012
By now, three out of five times, Eco’s list actually lands in his mouth instead of on his cheek or in his eye when he tries to use it as a pacifier (we don’t use pacifiers. As long as he can be calmed without them, I prefer that, since pacifiers can take a lot of weaning off, can impede language development and can damage teeth and jaws). We try to make sure that he doesn’t make a habit out of it, though.
19/01/2012
Eco is growing so fast and learning so quickly that it is hard to keep up, most of all in writing.
12/01/2012
Over the past three weeks of holidays and a marathon of family dinners/teas/lunches/visits, I have finally figured out how my in-laws view Eco.
I’m not sure if this is Spain in general, or the world in general, or just our family, but apparently, the only reason that Patri and I have brought Eco into this world is so that the women of Patri’s family have a new play doll.
10/01/2012
Today, Eco made it through his 2-month check-up and through his first set of shots.
He was doing a lot better than I was!
05/01/2012
Eco has been running his first little fever.
The fever, however, wasn’t as overly dramatic as the incompetence of the pediatrician in question.
30/12/2011
And on the last days of this year, a piece of positive LGBT legislation news from Germany that could have big national impact:
Yesterday, the financial court of Cologne ruled that the tax inequality between straight married couples and gay or lesbian couples in civil unions is unconstitutional, referring to the big decision of the Constitutional Court from last summer that ruled discrimination on base of a “special role” of marriage unconstitutional (a ruling that the current government still prefers to ignore).
