Today
is Tuesday the 8th of October, 2 days after Babacino’s baptism at The Church
of Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio.
Running has been continuing in one form or another,
though we haven’t quite reached the 10km mark yet! I hope to be able to run the
Palermo Half Marathon on the 17th of November, but it all depends on how
Babacino is on the day and if I can actually manage to try and start expressing
some milk so that Babacino can eat while I’m running, but of course I also need
to test and practice before, with Mauri helping too, most important.
I have mixed feelings about this next phase with
Babacino. Part of me knows I need to start expressing ,for a few reasons – to
include Mauri in this lovely part of caring for Babacino, in preparation for returning
to work, and as a by product, it would be lovely to do some longer runs, which
definitely needs me to leave food for Babacino. And, I don't want to start using
formula. I’d rather go from expressed milk to solids, early next year when he is +6
months.
The mixed feeling bit is that at the moment feeding
Babacino gives us such a lovely close bond and I feel a bit sad or a little
feeling of loss to start separating from Babacino a bit, which is what this
plan feels like at the moment. I NEED
TO JUST START AND TRY
Since the last running update, I have been venturing
away from Villa Sperlinga a bit and running around the city exploring. The only
downside is all the crossing of roads during rush-hour!
I need to find a route that maybe goes around the edge or something like that, but all in good time..
I need to find a route that maybe goes around the edge or something like that, but all in good time..
The most I have run so far, is 7.78km which was at the seafront near the
harbour on Saturday, so no road crossings! Babacino loved that day being in the
fresh sea air. Afterwards we went to try and deliver the confetti for
Babacino’s Baptism, the next day ,to the Garibaldi bar, where the drinks would
be afterwards. Unfortunately, it was closed but we did go to a great little
place where Mauri’s dad used to go as a student where we had a ‘Paneca Meusa’
which is a sandwich made with spleen of sheep and other sheep innards ! along
with Ricotta and another type of cheese. We just had the cheese and the gravy
and gave the spleen stuff a miss!
Tomorrow we are going to Altavilla for the day and I
hope I can run down the hill and back up! (or close)
I’ve started using my Garmin now, so I can see how
far I’ve run. I forgot to bring the little USB stick from London, so I cant
download the maps of where I’ve been, but at least I can record distances, and
pace. Although, I’m not too bothered about pace, really. I am just running for
fun!
Mauri is doing quite a lot of running type things
with Babacino, who likes to do air running when being carried in a certain way.
I want to say something about the Baptism but I will
do that another time, it is stil settling into my heart and my bones at the
moment, but for now, here is Mauri’s blog about the day:
Babacino is making lots of different sounds these
days and he definitely hasn’t slowed down in growing!
I am also really trying to learn Italian. Mauri is
helping but I’m also trying to use the dictionary a lot to read stories as a
way of learning. I also have a book on verbs arriving in the post from Amazon
UK soon!
Here are some pictures from the Baptism
Here are some pictures from the Baptism
Little Babacino taking his bath! I felt so proud of him and i cried to see our little boy doing his first little thing in life not actually physically right next to one of us.
Babacino in his little outfit in the car on the way to the church, so cute! he looks like he's going to his first day of school!
Babacino getting ready for his Baptismal bath, being held by his God Mother: Nona Nica and with Franci, his awesome big brother AND God Father watching on and helping
Here he is crying a bit, with another little Italian boy a tiny bit older than him. He is crying, as he is very hungry as the whole procedure is quite long!
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