Saturday in Warsaw

Well, Tom left early this morning... I'm trying to keep my happy face on so Hayden doesn't melt down. We told him last night that Daddy had to go to work and he'd see him in a few days, which technically is true. I'm not going to use the "Papaw" word until necessary! Hopefully not until Papaw is in the taxi on the way to our apartment!! Two is a tough age, Hayden is just beginning to understand abstracts, so things like "tomorrow", "after nap", "in a week", still don't mean a lot to him. But, so far, we're ok. Paulina woke up this morning in a wonderful mood - very smiley, and that helped a lot. It was pretty tough saying good-bye for four weeks... We didn't do a whole lot today because of heavy rain, but we did make it to the store with Paulina in the backpack and Hayden in the stroller. A few people looked twice, I haven't seen a lot of the Baby Bjorns and such here so I suppose I look a little weird with one in a backpack and one in a stroller. Oh well...

Paulina is taking 3-4 steps alone, but she doesn't like it, she just wants to be held a lot. The therapist told us to "make her" have floor time and work on the walking 3-4 times daily. But, wow, is she a Taurus! I already have visions of the teen years in our house :-) Anyway, we do it, sometimes with a lot of protests, but sometimes she forgets that she's protesting and enjoys. We have been to the playground a few times here and she LOVES the swings! She can sit by herself and balance while someone pushes the swing. She also likes the see-saw, as does Hayden. He spends a lot of time in the giant sandboxes, we're going to pick up some sand toys for him on Monday...

Not a whole lot new here, we are eating a little better - able to stock the fridge and have a real kitchen and table - so Hayden's off the popsicle/ice cream diet and doesn't seem to mind too much :-). Here are a few new pictures... Paulina is loving the baths, as long as Hayden is in the tub also. They splashed and played for almost 20 minutes this morning. She also found our map of Warsaw, unfolded and played with it for a few minutes, then she became extremely frustrated and it was a little funny... I got a little of it on video and I'm hoping the video posts. Connection here is pretty slow...