Oliver with a Twist
Tomorrow Oliver is turning two and I have spent this evening between conference calls, answering work emails and packing 25 goody bags for toddlers for Oliver's daycare party. I am a bit stunned at this moment. Let's see if I can manage to gather my thoughts and write what I want to write.
First of all, how the hell it is possible that there are 25 kids in Oliver's daycare group, at any moment in time they are never allowed to be more than 9 in the class.
The mathematics of it simply fascinates me, how many kids grouped in nines can you accommodate over five working days assuming that each kid is in the group at least two half days a week. Apparently the answer is 25 and it takes an industrial planner to make it all fit, wow respect!
Next to the trivialities of everyday life there are a couple of very nice literary associations that I would like to mention. The first one is of my own creation.
For the mere fun of it I decided to put in the kids goody bag a madeleine. In my mind the kids will eat the madeleine and thirty years later re-encountering their peculiar fragrance will be reminded of their childhood just like it happens to Swann in the iconing Marcel Proust's book "In search of Lost Time". And this will all be due to me!
The second literary association is a bit more obvious. One of the first words that Oliver learned was "Altro", italian for "More". What is remarkable about it is that asking for "More" was just what got Oliver Twist in trouble in the workhouse where he grew up and set him on the journey that we all know.
Oliver Simons being an half Italian kid can only delight his grandparents every time he asks for "More", with the result that differently from his literary alter ego he is still strongly retaining all of his baby fat and more.
These two years went by really fast but he has been a joy to us everyday, even though we are as parents as flawed as it can be
First of all, how the hell it is possible that there are 25 kids in Oliver's daycare group, at any moment in time they are never allowed to be more than 9 in the class.
The mathematics of it simply fascinates me, how many kids grouped in nines can you accommodate over five working days assuming that each kid is in the group at least two half days a week. Apparently the answer is 25 and it takes an industrial planner to make it all fit, wow respect!
Next to the trivialities of everyday life there are a couple of very nice literary associations that I would like to mention. The first one is of my own creation.
For the mere fun of it I decided to put in the kids goody bag a madeleine. In my mind the kids will eat the madeleine and thirty years later re-encountering their peculiar fragrance will be reminded of their childhood just like it happens to Swann in the iconing Marcel Proust's book "In search of Lost Time". And this will all be due to me!
The second literary association is a bit more obvious. One of the first words that Oliver learned was "Altro", italian for "More". What is remarkable about it is that asking for "More" was just what got Oliver Twist in trouble in the workhouse where he grew up and set him on the journey that we all know.
Oliver Simons being an half Italian kid can only delight his grandparents every time he asks for "More", with the result that differently from his literary alter ego he is still strongly retaining all of his baby fat and more.
These two years went by really fast but he has been a joy to us everyday, even though we are as parents as flawed as it can be
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