Today was a really good day. The weather was pleasant, the Olympics was interesting with kayak/canoe races, women's cross country cycling, bit of sailing and the men's 50km walk. The Brits had a gold and bronze so far today, no Hungarian medals though. Still, with the paddling races having finished their paddling medal tally of 3 golds, 2 silvers and 1 bronze puts them at the top of all 16 nations that got a medal in kayak/canoe events. Well done!
However, this day so far got really good because I saw both my grandsons. First Alex called and Callum was in fine fettle. He was having fun by screaming at the top of his lungs while building and demolishing a tower. I couldn't hear Alex, he couldn't hear me and the flat looked like a battlefield, but what's new? However, he got a bit more thoughtful and managed to exchange the odd word with me later, when his father gave him his earpieces, so he could hear me. I also managed to turn on my webcam and he looked positively surprised to both see and hear me. He waved, said hello and then went back to demolishing the flat. Unfortunately Alex's android phone is not good enough to produce decent pictures, so no Skype snapshots of Callum! :(
On the other hand, there are plenty of snapshots of little Elian, who is about 7 weeks old now and whose parents called about an hour later. He is growing really fast. He weighs 5.25kg (11lb 10oz)and he is 60cm tall. That is apparently in the top 10% of his age group and if he carries on like this he will be 6ft 3"(1m 87.5cm). Not surprising as both his parents are tall, his uncle is very tall and his Hungarian great-grandfather was about 6ft 5" (1m 92cm).
He is a lot more active during the day now and he even smiled at us while kicking about on his playmat. I can't even imagine what he is going to look like when we see him in November, but hope to see him regularly between now and then.
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