Hollywood smiles<\/a> and than he started waving his hands and legs as fast as he could. He almost jumped out of his cradle, so glad he was to see me.<\/p>\nI picked him up and looked straight into my eyes with the look saying something like ‘Dad, where the hack have you been for the last 12 hours? I was all lonely here without you! Let us go play now!’. And he smiled. Even if I somehow can misunderstand his looks, his smile is rock solid definite. And when I see it, coupled with the looks, I feel like a Japanese cherry garden blossoms inside of me. Kind of like they show it on Discovery, in fast forward mode with millions of flowers opening at a split second. Amazing that is, I tell you. <\/p>\n
Later Maxim repeated his recognition smiley dance several times both for me and Olga. Not yet for grandma though.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
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