Papaw's here!!!

Well, Dad made it! Papaw arrived Sunday, called me on the cell phone from our front door :-) He was a sight for sore eyes. Hayden was ecstatic, and Paulina picked up on it and was in rare form as well. Both kids perked up and Hayden jumped up and down on Papaw's bed with the balloon Mamaw sent for, oh, about 2 hours. And repeated yesterday morning. It's really funny, sort of, when he wakes up in the morning and from nap he is his normal self for about 5-10 minutes and just lies there waking up, then you see him remember that Papaw is here and he starts screaming, "Papaw! Papaw!!". Paulina immediately took to Dad as well and the smiles are coming more and more easily.

We found the children's store Smyk, thanks to our friends in Round Rock. It is awesome. Very good quality stuff for really reasonable prices. AND, and a really great indoor playground with lots of trucks and tunnels and other great distrations. Hayden played for a long time and then Paulina joined and slid on the little slide with our help and rocked on the rocking horse. Anyway, it was really good.

We leave for Krakow on the 8am train in the morning. It's a 2.5 hour ride, Hayden should be beside himself! We are going with Magda and another family adopting a little 2.5 year old boy. Hopefully he and Hayden will entertain each other on the ride :-). "Home" on Friday - going to do Old Town Warsaw this weekend and some of the museums next week. We may give Papaw a hall pass to visit some of these on his own - otherwise, it might be the fast-forward version with Hayden in tow. But, it's worth a shot. Also, the zoo.

Hope everyone at home is doing well and staying cool! I'm kind of glad to be missing August in Houston :-) Take care!!