Dianka - 1 Year
The shortest and most
saturated year of our lives has passed – our big girl has turned one year
old.
It is almost unbelievable!
This year was so different
from the years when Dennis and Nikita were born.
With Dennis especially
the first 3 months lasted endless – he was crying of colic, I had to attend
lections at the University and we were inexperienced new-baked parents and
often got panicked.
With
time we gained confidence, but because I didn’t take a year off, the first
year with Dennis was very difficult.
With Nikita I was at
home and could in general enjoy my baby, but … Nikita was born in the worst
period of ‘perestrojka’, where it was necessary
to stay in queue for hours to buy something to eat.
Also practical things
were not organised at that time – with Dennis we even didn’t have washing
machine and spent evenings on hand-washing his numerous dippers (besides doing
lections). With Nikita we already had a one-room apartment and even washing
machine, but it was necessary to rinse afterwards.
Now I think back with
disappointment – how awfully my young years were spent. I should enjoy my
kids more…
With Diana everything
was very different – very much positively charged, first of all because we
all wanted a baby so badly after our lost. We really enjoyed every single
moment with her. When the first half-a-year passed and it was time to go back
to work, I was almost taken by a surprise – it went too quickly!
First 3 months went
like one day! And she was growing like in a heritage - from day to day. Our
big house, garden, washing machine, baby-food and pampers made it very pleasant
to take care of a baby. Plus she was a very easy baby – always smiling and
at a good mood.
And she was so quick
to learn: she crawls and walks, she eats with spoon almost by herself and
drinks of her cup. Nowadays she prefers ‘adult’ food before the tasteless
baby-food. Her favourite is soup and salted cucumber.
She
plays with her toys as well as she plays with computer equipment and kitchen
staff with even a greater enthusiasm. We are not very happy for her interest
in electrical tools – but we joke that she will be computer engineer. Since
recently she likes to write and goes around with a pen and paper (demanding
to write: Diana is 1 y.o.). She likes to read
books and is willing to listen even books without pictures (sometimes we joke
that we can read a textbook on differential equations for her – she will
be equally happy). Sometimes she examines a page very carefully – probably
she tries to realise how one reads?
She monkeys us – if
I am cleaning in the kitchen – she needs a swamp as well to work next to me
(we even bought her a toy kitchen – now she cooks for herself and her playmates).
Recently she threw out some lids from my pans. Probably she thinks that they
are too old-fashion? Well, maybe.
Diana is not only very
helpful little girl, she is a very caring girl. If our cat or Nikita is sleeping
on the sofa in the living room, Diana is always around to bring a small cushion
under head to make it comfortable (but from outside it looks like if she takes
the cushion and strike in their faces).
She likes to play in
the garden in her own little house and to take care of our flowers (this is
why there is no flowers left below 1 meter – all
picked up by our little gardener). Yesterday she fell down with her face against
soil while helping me).
By one year her grandmother
taught her to answer that she is one year old and to show one finger. But
if one asks her how old her mum and dad are, she also answers – one year (Maybe
she thinks that we all came together? ). No objection
– we don’t want to make our age public, I am even goin
to tell her that I am in my 30s.
She knows names of many
things (and our names, of course), and understands a lot. Also when she doesn’t
understand everything, she can catch a few words and participate in conversation
– sometimes irrelevantly (but very funny).
In other words, she
is getting more and more interesting and we all appreciate her company very
much.