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Baby logic – #3

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Ro <pointing to my face>: Daddy, blue Oh’s!

<pause, me looking confused>

Ro <still pointing to my face>: blue circles!!

Me: Ah, you mean I have blue eyes!

Ro <now desperate>: blue Oh’s, Ohhhh’s !!!

Then it dawned on me that the blue eyes are in fact round like the letter O that we’ve just learned and played with the day before. So he saw the new letter right in my eyes! I just had to hug him for this one – so cute!

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When you want Ro to move into a certain direction, the best way to instruct him is to tell him: “I’ll follow you” and then to tell him, where you’re going to follow him to. Works perfectly. He loves to lead!

Baby logic – #2

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Me: See that circle with all the dots? That’s where the music is coming from. It’s a loudspeaker.

Ro: Ah!

<pause, then Ro is pointing to a different perforated circle>

Ro: Loudspeaker!

Me: No, that’s not a loudspeaker, there’s no music coming out of there.

Ro: Ah! – Quietspeaker?!?

Baby logic #1 – Quotes

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May 12th, 2011: I’m reposting this entry from my website on the blog, so that all “Baby logic” entries exist in one place. This entry started the whole series…

  • After trying to fall asleep for an hour, Rohan finally calls us. When I walk into his bedroom he tells me with a very serious face: “Daddy, my eyes are not tired!
  • After my BMW broke down and was towed, Rohan asked the next morning: “Is the blue car at the doctor?”

Lately, he’s using “Friday” for events in the past and “Wednesday” for things to come. So a typical conversation goes like this:
Rohan: Is it my birthday?
Me: Not yet, but soon.
Rohan: My birthday is Wednesday!?
Me: … could be. 🙂 Did you have fun today? Did you play with your friends at school?
Rohan: Yes, I played with Adi and I flew in an airplane.
Me: No, you didn’t fly in a plane today, but we all went on an airplane a couple of weeks ago.
Him: Friday?!?

Invented words

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Roro is learning languages and is inventing new words on the way. Because he’s missing certain consonants, he replaces whole words with his own creations. One of the first new words he consistently used was “dabba” – his “Thank You!” or “Danke!” – “dabba dabba”. The other word he always uses is “woes” (oder Deutsch: Wooouus)  for “shoes” or “Schuhe” . It’s very cute when he uses his own word creations.

We’re in trouble

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Today RoRo surprised us by opening his room’s door all by himself. We have door knobs, so we were very surprised that he managed to turn them and pull the door open. He can barely reach!

Now we’re in trouble, as he can enter any of the rooms in the house at his own will!

Wonders of nature – a growing baby

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Watching our baby grow is a truly amazing experience. Everyday you feed him lots of food and a small amount of the provided molecules are going to be used to grow his bones, brain and and other body parts. It makes you wonder how these molecules actually know their way to insert themselves into the right place. And it happens over and over again, baby after baby. And while science has very detailed understanding of many parts of our body, nobody really understands how this amazing process of growing a human being really works. We can only sit and watch in awe this wonder unfolding in front of our eyes every day. Have you ever wondered how this wound you got from falling on your knee actually knows how to heal?

This reminds me of some work I’ve done in the past when I worked on fractal compression algorithms. There, a picture is decompressed by using similar puzzle parts from a domain pool over and over again to build the final image by iterating on a recursive function. This function is defined to converge towards the original image. So the longer you iterate, the closer you reconstruct the original image. Could it be that our DNA encodes such a converging recursive function of the human being, that if we feed these puzzle parts to it (the molecules we consume), it ends up building the same organism again and again – not identically, but approximately the same?

It’s an intriguing thought.

Chennai

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Today I woke up at 4am local (23:30) German time, 16:30 Texas time and couldn’t go back to sleep. The last couple of days, my jet lag was managable, but getting more than 6 hours of sleep in one shot is hard. Glad I had an entertaining book to read (“My life as a Quant” – Emanuel Denman). I also caught a slight cold which makes me a little weak.

The baby was sleeping so cutely on our bed and only woke up by 6:15a. Then he wanted to play immediately. His energy in the morning is very invigorating. With temperatures above 30C during the day, the apartment was  nice and warm in the morning. We stripped him off all of his clothes and diaper and let him play completely naked on the  warm marble floors. Very entertaining to watch. Eventually he had a big pee and was highly amused about sitting in it… the joy of a simple life.

Halloween – again!

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A friend of ours believes that Halloween once a year isn’t enough. So they made their son’s birthday party another Halloween bash in the midst of January. More than 50 kids came. Little Ro went as Darth Wader. See for yourself (sorry – can’t figure out how to rotate this pic in this stupid tool – crazy layout goes well with the crazy event -enjoy!):

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