My master celebration

June 12th was my master presentation. Auntie Marta got them shirts with the sign "My mommy has a master" - the cutest idea ever!







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Grand Park

On the first day of warm weather and my first Friday off from work we went to Grand Park downtown Chicago - I enjoyed every second of it and the train ride was a hit! It was gorgeous and kids had so much fun with water and the bean. I love Chicago!

Trip to Nature Center in OakBrook with MECC

This was Gabi's first school field trip. We overslept and missed the bus but I was supposed to go there any way so we just drove there. It was very nice to walk around the pond with other students and the teachers and see birds, ducks and other creatures. We enjoyed it.

Gabi's fiends - Nick with mom and sister and Jack

Bird's net in the tree

We were listening to all the interesting info provided by the park employee

Gabi's teacher - Ms. Debbie was taking pictures too!

Update

Gabi and Patrick are growing and developing so fast. Here are some updates/news from the last few weeks:

- Gabi got a pink eye and shared it with Patrick - they both ended up on antibiotic and it was no fun at all

- after Poland they want to fall asleep with me and Jack at the same time. I am with Patrick in his crib and Gabi is with Jacek on her bed. I read few stories and we turn light off and only then they fell asleep. It takes only few minutes for Patrick and for Gabi it depends if she napped during the day. With the nap it takes her FOR EVER!

- Patrick loves carrot. This is his favorite vegetable so I have to cook lots of it when I make them a soup. This is the first thing he eats

- Patrick has such long eye lashes. I am totally jealous.

- Gabi finally lets me make braids on her hair - she looks super cute!

- we turn Michal Bajor's CD on and together sing a song called "Pomidor" - "jak pan moze panie pomidorze..." we scream and laugh - such a joy to do it with them!

- Gabi started to take pictures - she really likes it and takes them of everything - my nails, shoes, our yard - she is getting really good!

- Last week Patrick got double ear infection, poor guy got antibiotic again and has missed so many swim classes!

- weather got so better and we go to the pool more often, I have to videotape this madness - both of them enjoy jumping into the water

- we refinished their little table - now it became such a memorable piece

- we both hand rings and both Gabi and Patrick swing on them in the basement - they are like monkeys! They are crazy about the set and I am so glad we got it for them.

Spring Sing 2011 at MECC

When we go back from our vacation Gabi had only few weeks of school left. A week after we got back she had a Spring Sing - everyone gathered in the gym of school and all the groups sang songs. Gabi got her CD a day prior to the show and I had a chance to see how she sings and shows all the songs. She loves her CD and goes with it everywhere. It got scratched so we had to make few copies of them just in case. At the show she looked so cute but was not into showing too much. I guess a lot of new people with me and Patrick around distracted her.

Going home

On the airport in Copenhagen - they had a great kids area



Play park in Warsaw - huge and overwhelming

Our visit in Lomza

We went to Lomza to visit my Godmother and our cousins. Gabi and Patrick liked it since there were other kids and new toys and I could easily talk because they were occupied. I had a blast with my family!
They got ice cream for desert:)

Gabi, Jas, Amelia and Patrick

It was really cold and windy


Amelia and Jas live in a beautiful house

Bajkoland in Bialystok

Auntie Monika took us to Bajkoland. Kids could burn out some energy since the weather was not that great. So so much fun!

Augustow

For the long weekend in May we went to Augustow - the city surrounded by lots of lakes. The weather was so so but we still enjoyed it.
Here we are on the boat that took us for a tour of some lakes.

Gabi got her jewelry in the boat mini store

it was cold - so we went under the deck for hot tea and cookies





In the hotel's bathroom, Patrick spent there at least 15 minutes - he loved it!




Wild kid - people were probably talking that we spoiled him:)

We dined at this place - delicious fish and very beautiful surroundings. In addition, kids had huge play area where they spend most of the time


We met our friends there and only because of them we have a picture of all 4 of us together. You can tell who was not in the mood.