Thursday, May 29, 2008

New Pool Setup

Too little time to even get all the vacation pics up, so here is an interlude. After hearing about how much fun Sean had in the lazy river and pools in Florida his Grandma , Dziadziu, and Aunt Joanne got him a pool. Here, we try to blow it up...

What is this thing, Dad?

Are you sure you are doing this right?

Here, let me help!

I think this pump will help...

Thursday, May 22, 2008

More Destin Pics

See Destin photos by Darlene HERE

We have been running and gunning with little time to update the blog.

After our Destin weekend we spent a long weekend in Port Aransas with the Boyce's, Heider's, VonDolan/Landry's and Greg. We had a great time.

Sean's best time was stopping at Prasek's BBQ on the way home for dinner. Sean was fascinated with the mounted animal heads and fish. The BBQ was excellent.

Tomorrow we leave for Memorial Day weekend in Kerrville.

In between all this Sean has been having a great time and is expanding his verbal skills. He is now stringing two words together, like "no more" and "all done." He is recognizing a lot more of what we say, like "Do you want to get into the pool?" (the answer: "no, no")

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

New Pasta Blog

See the links list at right or click HERE for the new Blog - Environmental Curmudgeon

Beth's Pics from Destin

Beth's Pics

Sunday, May 04, 2008

Polish Weekend

Thursday Uncle Greg came by for dinner. He competes with Grandma for making Sean laugh.

Saturday Sean, Mama, Dziadziu and Grandma ran the Ovarian Cancer 5K at MD Anderson. Dad slept. Saturday afternoon we all headed to the 2nd Annual Houston Polish Festival. We ran into David's Polish co-worker Tom Wojcik, of course. Sean was all about the fishing pond and the Polish dancers. Dad was all about the Polish food and the Slavic Playboys band.

Afterward, we migrated a few miles west to Kevin and Denise's house. They just got engaged(!) finally. This was, officially, a planning session for our beach trip to Port Aransas in two weeks. Sean and Cousin Elissa really got into the boys tossing the football around and loved being tackled.

Sunday after church we went back to Discovery Green for lunch and for Dave to play with the remote controlled sailboats. Sean had a great time roaming the park. He especially likes the vertical giant xylophone.

Sunday afternoon we went to the YMCA pool. Sean first played in the kiddie pool, then we took him to the (warmer) adult pool. He shook his head "no" a lot at first. But, for the first time since Iceland he floated and had fun in a "big" pool. He thought Daddy blowing bubbles was hilarious and was actually screaming with laughter. He did NOT want to leave. He kept trying to make his own bubbles under water, but kept inhaling, not exhaling. He is definitely ready for a couple of beach weekends.

Uncle Greg is crazy!

Uncle Greg, Stop!!!

Sean in reading mode

Sean helps Dad water the flowers