Trampoline!

So we have a new trampoline in our yard! Hurray! I have been wanting to purchase a trampoline for Noah for a long time but they are very pricey, especially the bigger ones so i found one on Craigslist for only $50 and bought it. Paul was not really happy about it at first but after seeing Noah having so much fun jumping, he changed his mind. It was a great deal! I knew i can't NOT get it for Noah, especially that his birthday is coming up and i was planning to get him a new one anyway. The trampoline is in a great shape and ever since we bought it last weekend, it has been used every single day, many times a day. I know what my boy likes and i knew he would have a blast jumping. He is such a high energy kid that he needs a lot of physical exercise to calm himself down. Long story short, the trampoline was my best purchase so far this year. When me and Noah are not jumping on the trampoline, we just lay there rolling around, looking at the clouds and airplanes or we chase each other. It is SO MUCH FUN! Even baby Leah loves to crawl around it and jump with mama and her big brother. Everybody is happy. Last weekend after we have put the trampoline together, me and Noah decided to wash it and we had the best time EVER, just rolling around in a pool of soap and water. Noah couldn't be happier trying to soak me completely with a hose and he did a pretty good job (at the end i had a soap everywhere, hair included) :) Good Times!


Just playing around with my most favorite man in the world!

Can he be any cuter? I doubt it. Maybe cleaner but not cuter :)

Sweet baby Leah (7 months and 3 weeks old).


Noah eating a hot pepper from my garden thinking it's a tomato :) A second later, he burst into tears :)


Kids together...too bad u can't see Leah :) Moments later the car fell over and Leah got really scared :( No more pushing by a big brother...

Me and Noah trying out the trampoline for a first time :)

Noah jumping. Love the sun flare.



One happy boy!

The end result :) Time to wash it...

FUN FUN FUN

We both had such a blast (don't mind my pajamas:)


Noah had so much fun spraying me :)

Lensbaby!

I have been wanting this lens for a while now and I'm super excited that i finally got it! I really have to practice using it because it is a different kind of lens with manual focus and these kind of lenses take some time getting used to. They are fun for creating more artistic kinds of pictures and are super cool to play with. Gosh i really need to stop indulging myself in this type of expensive hobby cause i am thinking deep down that I really need tilt and shift lens now :) Maybe one day. For now I am perfectly satisfied with all my photography equipment and don't need anything at all. Just time to learn and become better. That's all I am really missing nowadays. I have no time for myself other than when the kids are asleep (and Noah goes to bed at 10pm). It's hard to squeeze all my interests (and God i have a lot of them recently) in this little time slot. I am desperate for some "me" time recently and can't wait for my mom to get here next week in so i can at least find time for running and meditation throughout the day :)

My first play with Lensbaby.




Leah pulling up for the first time :) I love Leah's chubby legs. They are soooo cute and squishy... I want to kiss and love all over them!!"


LOVE this!


And couple of regular pictures:

Pretty as a picture :)


Love the flare in the background.

End of Summer

I can't believe the summer is about to be over. We still have a wonderful weather here but you can definitely feel more breeze in the air, especially in the evenings. It's time for orange color, pumpkins and apple orchards :) Everybody is excited about the Fall but it happened so fast for me that I am having a hard time to part ways with Mr. Hot Sunshine until next year. I am the kind of person that thrives on sun and sun-flare. I love swimming in the pool and running half clothed (if not naked :). It's so nice to just never think of putting an additional layer of clothing for almost 5 months :) I think I would be a perfect candidate to live in Florida. As a matter of fact I'm trying to persuade Paul to move to Florida next year. We have a boat so it would be perfect for us, plus the real estate market is not going to get better for a while so we may as well rent this place here and move to sunny Florida. These are of course just my ramblings. Nothing is set in stone and we have no certain plans of moving anywhere but it sure would be nice to live by the ocean.

Anyways, kids are getting so big. Both of them. Leah has already started to crawl and now she is pulling up. Now since they do not attending Mother's Morning Out anymore I try to come up with various activities during the day so we don't get bored and always have something to do either it's a playdate or a visit to the museum. We spend a lot of our time outdoors, just running around and chasing each other (while Leah is swinging) or sliding and playing in our clubhouse. The mornings are always shot for us because there is a certain kind of routine to them. We get up late around 9am and it's time for me to make a breakfast for everybody (doggies included). After our breakfast I have to pump while Noah is watching a little show and Leah is playing on the carpet, then Leah takes her one hour nap. After Leah's nap we are free to go and do whatever we want to for the next 2 hours until kids take a nap together at 2pm. So that's basically our mornings in a nutshell. Uneventful and kind of slow but we love it! Ok i should probably go to bed now since its 12am already :) Just a few pictures to share:

Leah 7 months and 2 weeks

Moja lalka :)

Moj kochany synun :)


Ah Leah :)


I LOVE the SUN!!!



Serious Noah. He wanted me to take his "serious" picture first :)




Kochane stupenie :)

Noah washing mommy's car :)We bought new car seats for Noah and Leah so we had to clean up the inside mess first.

Oh what a week!

This past week has been awful for us! Both kids were sick and on nebulizer all week while Paul is of town until Sunday. They both had a hard time napping and needed way more attention than usually. Leah has been worse off than Noah. I took them for a checkup yesterday because Leah had a 202 degree fever but after about 3 hours of waiting, the doctor said that Leah's chest has cleared up and she is now fighting a virus. Today Leah's fever reached 203 degrees and I had to get in touch with the doctor again. Hopefully by tomorrow Leah begins to feel better. I feel so sorry for my little girl and so guilty that i sent her off to a Mother's Morning Out. No more daycares for us, at least not for a while.

On a more positive note, we had a good afternoon after-all. We went to a Mall this morning but after the kids nap, I took Noah to audit a Taekwondo class to see if he would be interested in joining the ongoing group: The Tiny Tigers. Taekwondo is a hard-style martial art which was founded in Korea. It is a defense-style martial art, combative technique, a sport, philosophy and exercise. At first Noah was very shy and didn't want to participate in a class but he warmed up by the end and kind of joined the group. We will be coming back again on Monday to make sure that he really wants to do it. I think he will like it (he loves the "Kung Fu Panda movie:) After the class, we headed to a nearby park with Noah's soccer ball to practice some soccer but Noah was more interested in playing with a soccer net than the soccer ball :) He was hilarious getting entangled in the net and running around like a maniac. He had a great time and didn't want to leave the park (what's new?). It was only after i put him on someones motorcycle that he stopped whining and put a smile on his face :)Ah my little wild man! Here are a few pictures from today i took with my cell phone:

Leah at the doctor's office yesterday.

Noah's first Starbucks: hot chocolate. He drank it in about 2 minutes.

Getting brave and joining the game. Soo Proud!


Noah playing soccer :) LOL

At one point he entangled himself so much that i couldn't untie him :)

Leah watching her caveman brother :)

So happy!

Babcia and the end of MMO!

We had a very uneventful Labor Day Weekend. We did some things around the house on Saturday and then we went on a boat on Sunday but didn't stay overnight since it was raining all day yesterday due to the Hurricane that went through Florida. Even today it is still very cloudy and it feels like Fall to me. Speaking about the Fall, i have pulled out all our Harvest and Halloween decorations yesterday and me and Noah started to decorate the house with lights and lit-up houses :) I know it's early but we love it and that's all it matters! We are going to have a wonderful Fall season. Babcia Ewa will be visiting us shortly so this will make everything even more special for us. Then we all are going to Florida for babcia's wedding on the beach! I can't believe this is really happening :) I am so happy for my mom that she finally found a man that would recognize the true beauty in her, not only the outer beauty but mostly her inner soul. My mom deserves her happiness and i couldn't be happier for her. I cannot wait to see her and Jerry getting married next month! I'm soo excited :)

On a different note now, I had to take Noah and Leah to the doctor today because they both have been having this horrible cough since Saturday. I'm glad I did because the doctor found a wheezing in Leah's chest (I know i CANNOT believe this)and Noah has a cold. They both got it in the Mother's Morning Out place. It only took two weeks for both of them to get sick. I am really surprised about Leah because she was in a class with only one more child so i had no idea she will be getting sick like that. I guess it doesn't matter if it's one child or a group of children. This place (like any daycare setting) is full of germs and I am DONE with it. I am pulling them both out of there, even though it was extremely helpful for me to have Noah somewhere for couple of hours. I could exercise, do my pictures and even tidy up the place. Oh well, if one has to choose between the convenience and the kids health, one will always choose what's best for the kids. We will just have to do more activities in the house together to keep Noah's rambunctiousness under control :) God please help me!

Chubbs at 7 months and one week and weighing 20 pounds (Noah is almost 40).




Tomatoes i picked out from our garden in just one day. How cool is that? We have been having lots of salads lately.