Smack my head

One of Maxim’s latest activities is smacking his own head. Unlike many other children that I read about, he doesn’t do it with his bare hands. Never. He uses toys. The harder the toy, the better. After about the second smack he understands that the toy connected to his hand introduces some painful experiences. Guess what he does. No. Nope. Wrong again. He uses his second hand to catch the toy in flight. He would be twice more effecient if he would keep his eyes open when he does so…

The whole process is so funny that noone can actually do anything about it. We all almost die laughing every time he does it. Imagine a baby kid with a hard plastic toy in one hand, which he tries to use to hit himself on the forehead. While doing so he closes his eyes and tries to catch the nasty weapon with his other hand. He rearly succeeds. Hahaha… Oh, wait! He is doing it right now!

xXx: State of the Union

XXX : State of the Union

I wasn’t very eager to watch “xXx: State of the Union“. I am trying to be careful with sequels to good movies. Especially those that don’t feature the original character anymore. You can even say that I was avoiding this movie until today. With its IMDB rating of 3.9 is not surprising…

Directed by: Lee Tamahori
Genres: Action, Crime, Adventure, Thriller
Cast: Ice Cube, Samuel L. Jackson, Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman, Peter Strauss, Xzibit, Michael Roof, Sunny Mabrey, Nona Gaye, John G. Connolly, Ramon De Ocampo, Barry Sigismondi, Michael Don Evans, David Rountree, Ned Schmidtke
IMDB raintg: 3.9
My rating: 4 stars

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Limassol Beer Festival next week

Limassol Beer Festival is going to be held in Limassol again (third time if I am not mistaken) next weekend (July 29-31, 2005). Posters are hanging all over the city. I don’t know for sure, but I doubt that the program will be any different from the previoius years – lots of expensive beer and pop music. It’s not one of those events that I would choose to attend, but in case you enjoy these sort of things, here is your chance.

5 month old

Maxim. 5 month old.

Maxim is five month old today. Wow. Time flies indeed.

He is still learning a bunch of new things every day. His persistence amazes me. There is nothing he can’t learn. He tries something new, if it does work he tries it again. And again. And again. And again. He gets tired – he comes back to it tomorrow, like he never tried it before. Nothing can stop him. Nothing.

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