The concept of sleep revolving around when the sun comes up or goes down had already passed even before Kai (Chika and I both lived in Finland where days can be dusk in the winter and nights could be neverending dawn in the summer).  But the new sleeping schedule is something which can’t be easily reckoned with, especially as it suddenly switches on after birth.  Kai has been pretty good.  He does 4 hour stretches sometimes, and sometimes will head back to sleep after a meal and a change.  However, sometimes he just feels like being a nightowl, and wants to hang around with mommy and daddy.  Those are the hard ones.

June 2010.  We had been living in Berlin since the beginning of April.  I had recently come back from a trip to Asia (Japan/Hong Kong) for Chika’s friend’s wedding and startup project.  Luckily missed the whole ash cloud debacle.

Getting the hang of the new city and new language was challenging.  Our relocation officer had gotten into a car accident on the way to meet for the ultrasound appointment, so we were faced with sorting things out on our own.  Filling out the forms in the doctors office was an exercise in patience and Google Translate on the mobile.  But all went well and the results were all in the right places.