When she is gone…

we get gloomy weather and chickenpox (windpocken)!

Paula had to go to Berlin for a couple of days to a Humboldt network meeting. I thought these couple of days alone with the kids in a new town will go by smoothly, alas I was wrong.

All the plans I had for our first week in Bayreuth went down the drain (and on that metaphor I am happy to say that I have fixed our plumbing problems). Ambrož has got chickenpox. At first it looked like he is going to get through it with ease, but unfortunately he hasn`t. He has got spots all over his body and I do mean all over (torso, legs, between his toes, scalp , eyelids, hiney, little willy…). So he hasn`t slept well the last three days. That means we haven`t slept well either for the last three days (although Paula got most of the night shift – now that we arre alone, it is my turn). And because he is contagious, we have barely left the apartment. Thank god for all the cartoons (it doesn t even matter that they are in German). And because of this we had to go to a doctor much sooner than previously anticipated. But at least we got the choosing a new doctor for the kids out of the way. The doctor was very nice, especially because she didn`t use the stick when examining Ambrož`s mouth (we were all relieved). And of course, like his dad, Ambrož was very brave and did whatever the doctor told him.

As is the state inside of our apartment, so is the state of the weather outside. It has started raining and it is very windy. Not at all inviting. Luckily I took those pictures of flowers in the sun, before this rainy spring weather, so we have something to look at.   It looks like we are just gonna have to weather it out – the disease and the weather.

Še tegobe po slovensko:

Ko je ni…  imamo bedno vreme in norice!

Paula nas je morala zapustiti za nekaj dni, ker je morala na delovni sestanek v okviru Humboldtove mreže v Berlin. Sem bil prepričan, da bo naslednjih nekaj dni minilo gladko, ampak sem se motil.

Vsi moji super plani za naš prvi skupni teden v Bayreuthu so splavali po vodi (in ob tej vodni prispodobi bi se rad pohvalil, da sem popravil naše vodovodne težave v kuhinji). Ambrož ima norice. Sprva je zgledalo, kot da jih bo prebolel brez večjih težav, kar se pa na žalost ni zgodilo. Ima namreč pike po celem telesu in to res po celem telesu (po rokah, trupu, med prsti na nogah, po lasišču, vekah, ritki in lulčku…). Posledično ni ravno dobro spal zadnje tri dni, kar pomeni, da tudi midva nisva dobro spala (čeprav je Pauli do včeraj prevzela levji delež nočnega dela). In seveda, ker je nalezljiv, nismo zapustili stanovanja več ali manj odkar smo prišli. Hvala bogu za vse te risanke, pa čeprav so v nemščini – se delamo, da razumemo. Tako smo že prvi teden šibali k zdravniku. Kar je tudi v redu po eni strani, saj smo zaradi te bolezni že izbrali novega zdravnika za tamala. Ena naloga manj. Zdravnica je bila zelo prijazna, sploh, ker ni uporabila palčke pri pregledu ustne votline, kar sva ji oba z Ambrožem zelo hvaležna. Ambrož je bil med pregledom priden in pogumen, ravno kot njegov ati :).

Podobno bolezenskemu stanju v stanovanju je vreme zunaj. Začelo je deževati in zelo pihati. Prav nič privlačno za iti ven, kar pa tako ali tako ne moremo. Še dobro, da sem pravočasno naredil tiste slike rožic in sonca, da imamo sedaj kaj za gledati :D.   Se mi zdi, da bomo morali potrpežljivo vse prevetriti, tako vreme kot bolezen.