Junior, the lion king

Just listen to him roar...

Jr the lion king from Maggi Garncarz on Vimeo.

Tula is crawling!!

Tula is on the go! Now we're waiting on Junior.

Tula crawling from Maggi Garncarz on Vimeo.

Xmas

First Christmas!! Here are some pics... enjoy

I just couldn't resist more...

Too sleepy to lay down

I went in to the twins room to see if they were asleep, they had just been talking and talking, and this is what I saw. Talk about conkign out mid sentance hehe...

Then I went in again when they were getting up, and this is what I saw!! Time to lower that crib, huh!?

photo shoot

Check out the rest of the photos via Flickr!!! We had a great time during this photo shoot for one of our mommy magazines here in Poland. The twins were spotted and invited for pictures by a very nice lady when we were at the mall ! She has twins of her own and works for mommy magazines. Some of these photos will be used for a sponsored article about baby food. We were also invited to come into the studio for more pics for a magazine cover because the kids were so good, they appeared to be having fun, and photogenic. Maybe they will be following Laurens and Akivas lead, who knows...Anyways, great fun!

PS. lots more of these via Flickr!!

Junior had spaghetti for the first time and loved it!!

Of course there was more of it ON his face, rather than in his face, some on his lap, but hey

St. Nick

St. Nick came to visit the kids on our street, everyone had a great time!

It was all realy hard work...

Jr the lion king

Sorry, can't figure out how to get this video onto my blog, but go here:

http://vimeo.com/2456899?pg=transcoded_embed&sec=2456899

It's really dark, (it isn't like this originally) but you can hear him chatting away and roaring.

Hi all,
There are lots of new pic on Flickr - two sets: November 2008 and December 2008.
Here are some of the best.

All dressed up

We're getting more and more use out of high chairs - makes life oh so much easier.

And the end of the day... angels

Cute pics

Just a couple of pictures to go along with the last post. For more cute babies to look at go to:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/58855038@N00/sets/72157609002219695/









There are so many more...

my trip home

This post should have been done about two weeks ago... what are you gonna do, the days just fly by!
The twins and I flew to California to give my Mom some hugs and cheer her up a bit before she starts on her treatment. Mom btw is very very brave, keeping her chin up and planning a good fight that she intends to win :)
Our flight back home was great, just like the flight to the States. The twins were great sports, flirting with any of the neighboring passengers that would look their way. I was very pleasantly surprised.
We all had a great and busy time. The twins got to know Zofia (who informed me that she is no longer a princess, but a "pretty little girl") and Maggie (who kept giving them hugs and kisses). Apropos the "pretty little girl" - Zofia heard me say that and I heard her mumbling under her nose "I am pretty, and I am a little girl, so yeah, I'm a pretty little girl". LOVE IT!!
We had lots of visitors, which we loved. One day Connie and Richard and the whole Tauman family came and we talked and played with kids and ate lots and lots of yummy bagels. Then we had a great surprise visit from Akiva! He just drove up to say hello and boy, was I surprised. First of all to see him, and second of all - did you all know he was a model? - I'm sure you did, but I didn't. Kiva - you rock! Then Julia flew in and came over with Shoshi. These wonderful girls gave me a precious 2 hours of sleep when they took upon themselves the care Zofia and Maggie. I was having one of those really bad sleep deprived by babies days. Unfortunately I didn't get to talk to them that much. Thank you guys all for coming and spending some time with us!!
We also went to visit Grandma. She had a good couple of hours with us. She was happy to see her great grandchildren and I was happy to see her smile. It was also great to see Denise and Lenny happy :)
Agi and I got together with some girlfriends from Harcerstwo (Polish girl scouts) for an evening, where we had a blast reminiscing and singing some polish songs. Plus we got to show off our kids.
Boy, the more I write, the more I miss all you guys! I wish it wasn't so far!

This video is brought to you buy no other than Agi, the master of baby film editing... enjoy!

Jr talking

This is on older video that I couldn't post for some reason.

Visiting family in Poznań

Hi all. We just got back from the States, and two days later we were off to Poznań, a city west of Warsaw, where lots of Jacek's family lives. I haven't even had a chance to write anything about our trip back home, but I figured I would post these pics now and tell you about our trip to the States a bit later.
So - we spent the weekend with Jacek's cousin's family (check out the Geni family tree - http://www.geni.com/family-tree/index). They have two great kids, Natalia and Pawel, who took great care of our twins while Jacek and I went to work on Saturday. I had to give a lecture on heart disease and Jacek had some eye exams to perform. Later the rest of Lenka's family came to visit - her parents and her brother with his wife and son (Acik - some of you might know him, he spent a few months in the States at my parents). Then we spent a great evening relaxing with the family and trying to get the twins back on their polish schedule. Lots of help from Natalia, Pawel, Jacek's s sister Ania, and his cousin Lenka and her husband Maciej(all in the pictures here or on Flickr). All in all a great time.
Sunday Jacek's sister, the twins and I went to another cousin's baby christening - Junior was dressed just like his Dziodzio in a bow tie and looked very handsom.

Tula sits on her own for the first time!

Vacation continued

So much going on since last month and everything clouded over by my Mamusia, here it is in a nutshell:

- the kids are going to swimming class once a week

- we went on vacation to Egypt, where we spent a great week in the sun (well, in the shade for me and the twins); the babies had a great time swimming and playing and Jacek spent most of his time on the water windsurfing,

- teeth are coming in!!

- the twins went to one of my lectures on heart disease in puppies - they were great listeners but fell asleep half way through the lecture. We had a great time in a town called Spala, where the Polish Olympic teams get ready for their various disciplines - kind of a cool place, but built sometime in the 60's or 70's...

The rest - let the pictures speak for themselves (more via Flickr).

Vacation

Play time.

Huuuuungry!

Wanna eat, wanna eat, wanna eat NOW!

Don't bother me, I'm working

doing, doing, doing, doing, doing, doing, doing, doing, doing......

I see you!

Play time. The kids are laying opposite each other and laughing away..

Yummy veggie soup!

Delicious..

highchairs

Tula and Jr got their high chairs! Tula loves it, Jr is not so sure...