Vagabond Artist

Ieri sera sono arrivati Alessandro e Alessandra i primi a conoscere la piccola.

O' voi altri quando venite, merdaiaoli!

Ci vediamo in 4 settimane li da me, uno strappo da Peretola?

When the sun is out in Paris take advantage. Luxembourg gardens is a great place to go to relax away from traffic noises. Take a blanket and lie in the sun. People strip down to pale bare skin as soon as the grey skies disappear and the sun comes. Love handles and spare tires exposed... definitely not laguna beach or Livorno.

What a nightmare! The only way to go there, from what they say on the website is to have an appointment. They ask you what you need to do and then give you an appointment. When you get there and it is a real bitch to get there with public transport, I took a taxi, then you have the tipical idiot at the door that runs around pretending he has something to do an that his job is really important. I said that I had an appointment at 11 to get something done and he seemed so interested and then pointed me to the line. The looooooooong line. I get to the window finally, the line behind me growing with growling people. I say I have an appointment at 11 with baby in tow and they say okay go sit down and they will call you.
Like every Italian public office nothing is clear. Everything is an interpretation and if you are somebody or decrepit they will let you pass everybody else. The guy at the door has the primary function of finding out who is decrepit or VIP and raccomandando to pass everyone else.
Luckily my assistent was extremely helpful in keeping the baby asleep for almost the entire time, somthing that has thrown off todays schedule. Finally they call us and we get to the most incompetent woman that is a permanent nervous breakdown that has to print everything at least twice and has to ask the other guy what to do.
I ended up breast feeding in a chair at the window because the little baby couldn't wait any longer and started to cry. The stressed public officer freaking out while trying to type two documents. I wanted to ask her all these questions but chose not to interfere with her twitching eyes and various tics.
After over two hours we finally left with the mission accomplished. That was incredible. And the French have the gaul (ha ha) to complain about their burocracy?!

Babies are really amazing creatures, who ever would have thought. I was never around kids let alone babies before now. They go on automatic, eat, sleep, poo and make lots of grimaces.

They seem so rubbery flopping around kicking and jerking their little arms. They fixate on things that we can't see but the faces they make are hilarious. Looking so serious then smiling. The true smile doesn't come until several weeks old so the smiles that I see now are related to the efforts of digestion. They are accompanied by explosive sound effects and lumpy diapers.

It is finally nice weather here 23 degrees!!