Memories of a little guy
This is how I prefer to remember this little guy, my nephew Andreas. In the sun, playing, with no worries in the whole world other from the most basic needs. Yesterday he’s suddenly 20 years old!
The cake on the picture is a very classic type of cake called Princess cake, the cover made of marzipan, that is very typical of old times birthday celebrating here in Sweden.
I remember very well when he was a little baby. Even the day he was born, because when my sister went in to the childbirth, I was the one babysitting for her other baby, an adorable 9 months old babygirl from Sri Lanka (who never wanted to sleep…).
He had a rough start of his life, the poor guy. He had colic his first 3 months. It were discovered that he was lactose intolerant - as his adopted sister also was. Of course that made it easier in some way, that they both had it.
I was helping my sister out a lot during the first years when the kids were small. It was tough for her with two little kids only 9 months apart and very little help from the kids father.
They said that it was even more difficult than having twins, because twins have more often similar habits pattern, these two hadn’t at all.
Andreas was not a difficult baby, once he got better from the colic. On the contrary, he was very easy to entertain. Or rather he entertained himself. He could play for hours with very simple and small toys. Sometimes not even toys, just small items like marbles or something.
All the time when he was growing up, he has been very kind, well-behaving, quiet and not demanding at all in any sense. Of course he become very fond of the computerworld, so he’s almost a computer nerd…
He has been a good guy - even in school. He is working for the moment, have taken a break from the studies to re-think what he wanted to do and now he’s going to apply for other studies soon again.
He still is that good guy today, 20 years old, but I must admit that I think that he was much more cute as a baby ;-)
I love those chubby baby butts!
