I know that as they get older, the 29 month gap between Max and Alex’s ages will become less and less evident – but right now, it’s pretty keenly felt. Mostly by Alex, who seems hell-bent on doing every single thing his big brother does, thus constantly putting his life in some form of peril [...]
In the midst of all this nonsense with unreliable people and broken elbows which cut long-awaited family vacations short by more than two weeks, my sweet boys have just been themselves. Translation: energetic, healthy, funny, noisy and eating fruit like it is going out of style. Here is Max, doing what he does best – [...]
I LOVE Max’s play school, even though it is a bit pricey. Here is why:
They have special week-long ‘units’, where they learn about other countries… so far, they’ve done Japan, Holland, Egypt and (as evidenced above) England.
Riding on the cutest damn mini-horses that I have ever seen. And I don’t even LIKE horses (sorry, Mary!).
They [...]
Huh. So you all remember how Max was so cool about the great green ghost? Telling me ‘it’s not real’ and ‘it can’t get in to the house’ and ‘can’t hurt us’? Well, yeah. It seems that this rule does not apply to the witch in ‘Hansel and Gretel’.
Yesterday, Max watched an animated version [...]
The scene: Max and I are watching ‘Casper The Friendly Ghost’ on TV (with a monotonous Polish voice-over guy to boot). Some huge green ghost with red eyes and a James Earl Jones-esque kind of voice shows up and starts terrorising all the uber-nice ghosties.
Me: Wow! That green ghost is scary!
Max: Do you think so?
Me: [...]
So, everyone? Please admire the bunny ears. This is Max and I walking home from the end-of-the-school-year show; he was delighted with the ears and wore them the whole way home.
And! Max loved the things so much that he wore them back to school the morning after the performance. Here he is, at 8:00 on [...]
So, it’s 9:45 at night here in Warsaw – greetings, y’all! – and guess what I have just finished doing?
This.
Tomorrow afternoon, Max’s playschool is putting on a performance to celebrate the last ‘official’ day of the school year (a bit ridiculous, seeing as 100% of the kids will be back on Friday, but you [...]
I think a huge challenge faced by most parents with more than one kid is the jealousy and resentment exhibited by the older kid to the younger one. Max and Alex are certainly no exception to this general rule: Max was OK at first, but when he finally understood that Alex was not just ‘visiting’, [...]
So last week, Ewa picked up Max from play school, and so naturally, Alex came along too. Turns out that Max was exhausted that day – whatever they did to him on Thursday, I hope they do it more, because he dropped like a stone that night and slept like one too – and so [...]
OK. Can I just get this out of the way?
I AM SCARED OF SNAKES.
There you go: my Top One Terror. I remember learning in psychology class that if we are exposed to enough of our deepest fear, we can actually die from it; heart attack, shock that we cannot recover from, whatever. And we were [...]
