Their heart in their mouths, their stomachs cringed – scared out of their wits,
Leoparents watched Leoinsides on the screen of USG machine: Leonadrenal glands,
Leokidneys, Leospleen, Leoliver, Leobowels, Leopancreas...
The mutation of Leogene PHOX2b, ranks Leo high in the gruop of risk,
threatened with a very malicious diseases beginning with letter C.
Luckily, Leobelly revealed no pathological signs.
We thank Auntie L. and Second Auntie for doing this test to us!!! <3

To reduce the level of Leofamily's optimism, Ondine sent Easter infection to Leo.
It continued for a week, its symptoms being: snots from runny nose reaching his waist,
clots in tracheo, querulous behavior, general negation,
expiring living enthusiasm and a one-day breathing crisis.
Certainly, Leofamily does not surrender and persistently goes for walks, yet...
everything is done in the state of high alert.
As for you, Dear Leoblog Readers, we wish you Happy Easter!

Whenever any of Leoparents needs to shot a picture with their phone,
it turns out impossible and info appears on the screen: Cannot Take Photo.
There is not enough available storage to take photo… etc.
And then you instantly know – A brand new Leoart has rooted itself in the file with photographs!!!!
Ladies and Gentlemen!
This time it is a photographic homage to Witkacy:
"A Multiple Self-Portrait" (a fragment of the work(!))
Tribute to Witkacy

The crisis always comes at nine in the evening.
- Leo, what time do you make? Leo glances at the clock at bursts crying.
- Wannan't to sleep!, this is the first sentence in Leocareer
which has become an evening mantra.
- Leo, it's almost nine.
- Wannan't to sleep!, he panics.
And neither the ventilator, nor pipes,
nor any other fear or discomfort is in question here.
The reason is absolutely different.
He produces a book with pictograms and indicates the one saying "and want to play".
Indeed, how can you sleep if there are so many things to do.
There books, bricks, train, crayons, jigsaw puzzle, a ball, cars,
a doggy, colored papers, mazes, Colourful paints...
Sleeping is a waste of life.
- Wannan't to sleep!, he stubbornly insists. Perhaps, the parents did not here him well?
- Wannan't to sleep!, he argues, indicating his toys.
- Wannan't to sleep!, he repeats brushing his teeth, taking shower, putting his pajamas on.
- Wannan't to sleep, he reminds us, climbing up his bed.
Yet, he fights till the very end,
hoping that maybe he will manage to persuade us and will not have to sleep at all!
Never again!
- Wanna not…, he begins the sentence,
already lying under his blanket but breaks in the middle of the sentence.
He sleeps.

PS. 1 Fear of very dirty his – domesticated!!!
PS. 2 "Our Curse" received an award for the best document at the Aspen Shortsfest Festival 2014 (USA)!!!!!
PS. 3 Here you can find the review: http://www.aspentimes.com/entertainment/10980549-113/curse-leo-aspen-couple"

Fear of foam in the bathtub – befriended.
Fear of grass – conquered.
Fear of changing dressings on wound – conquered, forgotten.
Fear of touching one's head – conquered, forgotten.
Fear of touching substances of weird consistence – almost befriended.
Fear of eating substances of weird consistence – totally conquered.
Fear of eating things of green color – conquered.
Fear of going down a slide with no assistance – befriended.
Fear of children – conquered.
Fear of poop – conquered.
Fear of the sound of a motor – conquered, forgotten.
Fear of the sound of a passing ambulance – conquered, forgotten.
Fear of climbing down a high chair – almost befriended.
Fear of doctor's room – almost befriended.
Fear of washing hair – conquered.
Fear of rinsing hair – conquered.
Fear of having one's fringe cut – befriended (photos coming soon :-))
Fear of wearing a tartan cap – conquered (at last!!!).
Fear of kindergarten (!!!) – has never appeared, report coming soon;-)
Currently we are in the process of befriending the fear of dirty his.
Along with several fears of Leoparents themselves,
but this is an absolutely different story...

Wowwwww!!! and you know!!!
The audience has granted
the SHORT WAVES GRand PRIX 2014 award to "Our Curse"
directed by Leodad, i.e. Tomasz Śliwiñski
!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!!!
All of you!!!,
who!!!
voted!!!
for!!!
us!!! :-)))

Leodad at the Gala of Handing-in the Shortwaves Prizes 2014

Leoparents know that this has no sense at all,
they know they should not be suggested by them,
that every person is different; they know that every person has their own tempo,
they also know that Leo has gone through much hardship.
Yet, they cannot resist the temptation from time to time
and will peep into a book with tables;
and there....

What your child should be able to do at the age of XX months.

First, the power of speech goes under scrutiny.
Your child should be able to speak.
Using ten, hundred, million words.
Using full sentences, speaking clearly, speaking foreign languages.
Speak backwards, recite, sing, declaim, deliver addresses, argue …
Leoparents look at each other and think about tracheotomy
and only sighing, they skip to point no. 2.

Motor skills.
Your child should run, jump, climb, ride a bike, gallop,
fight with fists, leap over obstacles, swim, somersault, walk on his…
Leoparents look at each other
and they think about the relaxed muscle tension and skip to another point.
and so forth, and so on.
Usually, it turns out that Leo is not able to perform half of the things he SHOULD DO.
and it's high time he did!
It's time to become anxious!
Contact a specialist!

And then, as a desert, another set of testing questions.

What your child may be able to do at the age of XX months.
Perhaps your child will be able to draw a circle.
Yes, he can, he's been doing so since about a year.
He can also sign his name, draw himself, draw a car, a tree, the sun,
write digits – all of them, along with some of the letters in the alphabet...
Perhaps your child will be able to distinguish 4 colors.
Yes, he can distinguish eight of them, including turquoise.
Perhaps your child will be able to count to three.
Yes, he can; he has been able to count to a dozen, forth and backwards too,
for several months. He has also started adding numbers.
Perhaps your child will be able to build a tower from X number of bricks.
What? a tower of x bricks? He is building entire cities!!
and so on, and so forth…
There is no set of questions concerning reading skills, what a pity.

Leo of no standard size, he does not fit in any of the tables
– for some columns he is too big, while in some he does not exist at all.
So Leoparents close the book.
Until, they again will face this unresistible temptation.

Anonymous work, Two out of four pictures of an Australian Aboriginal girl, 1870

Ladies and Gentlemen!
Leoart in the vein of Roman Opałka!!!!

Ps. 
A famous and acknowledged archaeologist Ms. Agnieszka S. noted that his picture
alludes not only to Opa³ka's art but, also, to the oldest Greek and Italian epigraphic monuments. The picture features Bustrofedon, that is a text written in subsequent lines from right to left and then from left to right. The name comes from the Greek language (bus = ox, strofe = furrow) and denotes "the turn of an ox" which means the way in which an ox ploughs soil. In Leo's case it adopts the form of a spiral going inwards, which probably means ... and so on, and so on.

Leo decoded to rebel against the prudish and restrictive bourgeoisie code of behavior.
In his protest, he rejected clothing.
He will not parade on the premises of our home in any other way but naked!!!
Because this is the most comfortable way!:-)))

And what now? :-D

Bind him with the shackles of cultural correctness or not?
Introduce the hated word "it is unsuitable" into Leovocabulary or not?
Apply violence and dress him by force or permit him to greet our guests in Adam's garment,
waiting until he realizes himself that, basically, people go dressed.
Or, perhaps…
join in the Leorevolution and shed off the burden of clothes and convenance ;-))))

Daine Arbus, Retired man and his wife at home in a nudist camp one morning, N.J. 1963

- Mama, yum-yum!!! – Leo orders with the tone accepting no disagreement.
Whatever it seems to be, he does not mean food.
"Mama, yum-yum" is an invitation to play, to the land of absurdity,
to the joint enactment of scenes on the border between comedy and horror.
After the order, comes a ritual dialogue, a kind of a foreplay,
without which the playing itself would not reverberate properly.
So, Leomom has to ask the questions:

- Are you hungry, Leo?
- Yeps
- Would you like to have something to eat?
- Yeps.
The suspense grows to the limits of tolerance because the point is just, just coming...
- Maybe you would like to have some... shoes. They are sitting in the hall.

Leo makes for the hall, straight-faced.
He picks up the shoes and pretends to bite and swallow them.
Next, he begins to chuckle, choke and spit. Rolling with laughter,
he grasps his head and announces:
- A mistake, Mom. You do not eat shoes!!!!

Yes, and then from the beginning, over and over again.
- Mama, yum-yum!!!!!
The game has thousands of variations.
Leo eats chairs, hair, invisible digits,
reaching the peak of exhilaration at cannibal-like issues (Leo, please, eat your own teeth!).

Leonhard Kern, Menschenfressern