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finally, finally we made it! the dragon is back in maulbronn, at least one third is, the most needy third. mommy went to the sanitorium with benG - 4 long weeks! and everything else gets stuck in my lap, maturally, notoriously! but hey, i grow with my challenges! :)

anyways, they are gone for a week by now, and there is exclusively good news: benG loves, for instance, to go to the kindergarten they have there (after all, the mommies are at the sanitorium! :) ). other kids seem to be great fun for our firstborn! and finally he learned what a BIG MACK is. a little different than you may think, even you michiganers out there! [ :) ] to benG, a BIG MACK is a big round red button, a push button, an electronical one. one can record and play back voice and speech with it. and that is then integrated into games teaching and verifying cognitive understanding - a sport in which our oldest naturally excels... :)
and he even has an orthosis, leg braces now, to help him stand up - YEAH! so the time of lying and sitting around all day should (relatively!) soon be over, too! standing up is practiced in front of a mirror, by the way. because IF other kids are great fun, AND the little guy over there looks like benG and even makes the same moves, that HAS to be motivating, right? well, hopefully that strong combo will result in some more muscles, so little benG will be big benG soon! :)

and the mommies are watching FIFA worldcup. the lot of them! in the tiny parents' room. sort of a phone booth with a TV. probably even germany's mueller, schweinsteiger and klose would have a hard time catching a ball from them in there! :)