Year: 2005

Family photo session

Today I did yet another photo session with my family (Maxim, Olga, and my mother). I noticed that facial expressions of a infant do change extremely often. Actually, I had to switch my camera on to a continuos shoot mode to get few of the captures. What is even more interesting is that facial expressions of adults who play with an infant change at approximately the same rate. During 15 minutes I have made more than 60 images. Out of all these I have selected and postprocessed about 20.

Album location: /photos/2005/2005-03-08_POTD

Revision Control Systems

Hazard sent me this link to a presentation about revision control systems. It reviews mainly CVS, Subversion, and Gnu Arch. It shows why Gnu Arch is a good choice for new projects as well as a sample real life scenario of project development done by several people.

Check with pediatrician

We’ve taken Maxim for his second check with pediatrician. According to the measurements, he has gained almost 200 grams and grown 3 centimeters during the last 7 days. I am surprised!
Also, the skin which is coming off is totally normal. This is the first skin, that should get off and be changed from the one used to water to the one used to air.

Dr.Simos suggested that we take Maxim for a walk every day. Walks should start with 10 minutes and gradually be increased to a maximum of two hours per day.

Congratulations to all women out there!

Today is a big holiday (at least in Russia, but some other countries celebrate it too) – International Women Day. I wish all the best to all women out there.

If you are a man and you don’t know what to do on this day, then get your butt in the flower shop and get some flowers and maybe even a small present and give it to your woman. Than get some flowers for your mother and grandma. Than some for your aunt. Give best regards and smile at all the other women that you’ll see during the day. Basically, you can even accept this line of behaviour for all the other days in the year too. :)

Fighting dried skin

Skin on Maxim’s hands and feet looks very dry and comes off in a number of places. It’s not a very pleasant view of skin patches everywhere. The good news is that he doesn’t seem to notice this at all.

We tried to fix the problem with baby cream yesterday, but it didn’t help that much. It’s not fat or oily enough.

Today my mother suggested the old and proven method – sterelized sunflower oil. We sterelized some oil and put some on Maxim’s skin. It looks like it helps. We’ll see how it will go for a couple of days…