Patrick's very creative mind

Patrick has such a creative mind. He always put things together to create a scene. I enjoy looking at him and he always amazes me. 

 

 

Elf on the Shelf

This year we had a visitor from Santa. Our Elf on the Shelf arrived December 2nd and Gabi and Patrick named him Matti - he is a trouble maker. He writes good but mean letters as well and kids are happy to have him around. 

 

 

Patrick's Christmas presentation at Polish School

Patrick had "Jaselka" at Polish School - this was his first year and he was little shy. He did well and was very cute:)



 

 

 

At this moment of time

The tragedy in Newtown CT last week reminded me about leaving every momenst with Gabi and Patrick and remembering it forever. I cannot even imagine what I would do if...

So I just want to make this note today to myself to remember who Gabi and Patrick are today:

Gabi - is energetic and very happy girl, she loves school and Mrs. Cortez. She spends most of her days now by writing names of her classmates and sending them pretend letters. She starts to read simple sentences and is very proud of it. She gets frustrated when she can't read some of the words.
She will be good at math - I can tell, because she loves to practice it.

She loves to dance and watches videos of Don Omar song "Danza Kuduro" and she practices the steps:
Here is the video from YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCAARM2ws50

In  addition to dancing, we went for ice skating and she is doing extremely well. She watches this girl all the time now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx4qjj6e0mI

Gabi is good at crafts and enjoys making something - we do a lot of projects.

She does not like Polish School because for her it last long. It is only 2,5 hrs but I guess it is not as exciting as her kindergarten class.

Patrick - is such a sweetheart. I could kiss him all day long. Recently, he gets in the bad moods but I think it's because he is tired - no naps has its effect. In general he is cute and really good boy. He is crazy about Lego blocks, playing with monster trucks and dinosaurs (he knows or can say their names). He enjoys playing soccer in the basement - only with daddy because only boys can play:) is what he says. They do other "boy" staff down there too - wrestling, boxing and other pretend games. I think I am boring when it comes to that so he prefers daddy in this area of interest:)
Every evening when we go to bed we have to read at least two books - recently "Batman" is read every single night. Many times he falls asleep while I am reading but is very excited about "bad guys" and "good guys" in the book.
Before I start reading him a book I ask for the kiss and big hug and tell him that I love him. He responds "you are my friend"
Patrick does not pronounce "s" or he does it in the funny way. I enjoy listening to him when he says: super fast, stegosaurus, spider man, etc - adorable!
He loves chocolate milk - we call it cacao and he says "kakalko" - every early (4-5am) morning he asks for kakalko, and I say no. He responses "when the auntie comes (nanny Teresa) will she give me kakalko?" and every morning my response is "yes" he falls back to sleep peacefully right there.

I have been home every morning this week. I loved to snuggle with them and just have them on my laps and hold them so close. They are my life.

Winter Sing

 

Patrick loves to sing so I was excited to go to see his performance at Madison's Winter Sing. I love my adorable son!



 

Santa at Solomia's house and more Christmas crafts

 

We go invited to Solomia's and Mark's house for the evening with Santa. They got very excited and happy and the gifts were really good. 

 

 From left: Mark, Benjamin, Gabi, Solomia, Solomia's friends, sitting - Mattew and Patrick

And I did more crafts with Gabi - here are very simple but so cute Snowflakes

Christmas crafts

We love Christmas. Since we spend lots of time at home, I try to come up with crafts that everyone can enjoy. 

 

 

Sweet Christmas Trees

Aunt Alice was going to Florida for Christmas Eve. I really wanted everyone to meet to do something Christmas related. It was such a fun evening. Gabi and Patrick always enjoy the company of aunt Marta, aunt Alice and grandma Basia. We did Christmas tree decorations and decorated gingerbread cookies.

 

I had Patrick and Gabi make Polish "szopka" - native scene. They were really into it.

 



Christmas 2012

Christmas 2012. The first two pictures are from our photo session to get the Christmas cards. We used the second one - lovely and cute. 

 

 

 

Patrick had to bring to school a family picture. We realized that we did not have any with all four of us. It is not perfect, but still so sweet:)

Gabi's holiday dress

Here are the pictures from our trip to get the Christmas tree - we went to Home Depot:)

 

 This is the picture from Elmhurst downtown - they change the fountain to the mini Greenland

 We ended the nice evening with cupcakes and hot coco.

 

 

Here is the first appearance by Matti

 

 Gabi and Patrick with his friends went for a ride on Polar Express. It was so hot that day and we were dying inside. They liked it. 

 Conductor

 Snacks and chocolate milk.

 

 

Gabi and Patrick did the most work decorating our Christmas tree. 

 Do you see Matti?