Siblings

I guess it is a pain of every parent. The sibling rivalry.
Of course I am convinced that my girls have the worst case of the it.
I would like to say that both of the girls are guilty of the disagreements, fights, tattling and so on, but unfortunately one of them plays bigger role in this relationship. The negative role. And I am not going to point fingers at that one.
So when there are peaceful moments, I'm trying to record them.
It happens.
This is one of those moments. A peaceful, happy, pretty creation:)

 

 

 

Z przykroscia musze stwierdzic ze moje dziewczyny maja problem w relacjach miedzy soba. Zakladam ze nie jestem sama w potyczkach z rozwiazaniem problemow miedzy potemstwem, aczkolwiek jestem przekonana, ze moje dzieci maja wieksze klopoty od innych rodzenstw.

Wolalabym stwierdzic ze wina lezy po obu stronach. Niestety jedna z dziewczyn jest bardziej winna niz druga. Ale nie bede wskazywac palcem.

 

Czasami zdazaja sie chwile pokoju i wspolnej zabawy, czy spedzania czasu. Sa one tak rzadkie, ze staram sie je zapamietac.

Oto jedna z nich. Pogodny, spokojny i mily dla oka, moment tworzenia czegos nowego:)

 

 

Kinga:)



The Aquarium visit {phfr} edition

Another Boston theme Sunday.
Last week Zuzia and Kubus stayed with me at home, and Andrzej took Kiki for her MIT classes. He also went for w quick errand in Ikea. Without me...and I like that store.
But he came back with a new bookcase for Zuzia the one that she has been asking for quite sometime. She is very pleased with her new addition and new shelf space. One day I will make a tour of the girls room. One day, when it is clean, which is not going to happen any time soon:(

Going back to the Boston...
It is Zuzia's birthday week. Since she was a three and a half year old preschooler, she has been enchanted by the under sea world. All the books that we have read from various libraries are countless. All the marine shows that she watched, all the aquariums that she visited, big or small, their numbers are big.

As a part of her birthday celebration, we decided to treat her with the visit in the Boston aquarium. We have visited the Mystic one a couple of times already ( it is much closer and more convenient than the Boston aquarium ). The opportunity came to visit the latter one today. Andrzej spend some time on MIT with Kiki, I took Zuzia and Kubus to see undersea beauty.

The visit is a subject of Sunday edition of { pretty, happy, funny, real } as I join, as always late, Like Mother, Like Daughter, in capturing the context of contentment in everyday life.

{ pretty }

Absolutely gorgeous colors of the coral reef.
 

 

{ happy }

The kids were happiest at various touch tanks, especially shark and rays touch tank.

 

 

{ funny }

Pretending to feed the fish:)

 

 

{ real }

Trying to take a posing picture. Real-ly not easy.

 

 

Kinga:) 

 



In my garden

 

 

I am quite behind updating the growth in the garden. The truth is that the potatoes have been already dug up. I wanted to keep them in longer, but my very eager helpers, Zuzia and Kubus, were fighting over who is going to dug up more potatoes. And when I wanted to stop, Kubus was shouting MORE!

So I ended up pulling all of the plants out. They will make a delicious addition on the dinner plates:)

 

Cucumbers started to show up too. They seem to be popping big every day.

 

I see a lot of tomatoes, but they still don't want to turn red.

 

Zucchini doesn't seem to be abundant, but I can definitely use it whatever grows big there. And bell peppers are in the salads those days too. Although they were supposed to be red ( it did not happen ) those peppers are on the sweeter side.

 

The carrots are like a joy! What a fun to pull them out and show them the kiddoes!

Too bad that the crop will be small though...

 

I have to say that I did not expect to have so much fun growing the garden, weeding, watering and harvesting. Kubus and Zuzia enjoy it too. Zuzia is already thinking about the next year. We might have to remove the big playset, according to her plans:)

Kinga:)

Wordless Wednesday

 

 

 

 

 

 Kinga:)

 

Free Fun Friday - {pretty, happy, funny, real} edition

Wow, what a different weather this Friday. Nice, chilly, rainy, cloudy. I can actually enjoy it for few days:)
Morning came and we set off to violin and art classes. We skipped the doctor this time. It looks that the medicine is working, because Kubus is sleeping better and he does not have episodes of sleep apnea. At least I don't hear them. Next week though I take him to the ENT doctor to check what is the cause of Kubus problems with breathing.

As for the program for Free Fun Friday, we opted for Higgins Armory Museum in Worcester.
First I wanted to go to Boston for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company but since we could only get there in the afternoon, and we did not know how much time we will spent in traffic and find a decent parking space, we decided to forgo that plan.
The museum was a good choice, although crowded.
The building itself has yet to resemble medieval castle, but it is new world after all and we can't expect too much. There was enough armor for kids to look at and try on, to get hands on idea about the medieval weapons.

I snapped few pictures, as my account of the visit and linked it with {phfr} hosted as always by Like Mother, Like Daughter.

{pretty}
 



The third and fourth floor resembles somewhat a castle. I thought that it looked really pretty.
 

{happy}

 





 

Kubus and Zuzia were the happiest playing with blocks and trying to build a castle. So were tens of other children. They were in constant move so that is why the pictures are blurry!!!

 

{funny}

 

 

 

 

 My children trying to be the knights:)

{real}
 



 

The line was long in front of the museum. A lot of visitors wanted to take advantage of this free program. Fortunately it moved quite quickly.

 

 

It looks that next week we will skip the Free Fun Friday. Girls are going to enjoy Mother of Hope camp! I and Kubus? We will find something to do for sure!

 

Kinga:)







BCM

On Sundays Kateri attends classes at MIT in Boston. There are enrichment classes with a diversity of subjects and difficulty levels to choose from. They are targeted toward middleschoolers and highschoolers. The good thing about them is, that a lot of kids want to participate and learn, the bad thing is that a lot of kids want to participate and learn... Kateri had  eyes and mind set up into one of the classes - developing Pokémon computer game. Unfortunately when it came to registering, the site was blocked for at least an hour. There was no way to access it. So when finally she could register, this class and several others that she was interested in, were already full:(
She was discouraged and disappointed. On the other hand it is a good lesson in "you are not always going to get what you want". There were few other classes interesting enough to sign her in, and she wanted to attend them. What comes with it, are weekly trips to Boston. So far two...

Last Sunday we decided to make it a family trip and Andrzej went to MIT with Kiki, while I spent four hours in Boston Children Museum.  I have to say, not even once did we start running between the floors. The kids were so busy and entertained. Kubus was very happy at Peep's Big World. But his very favorite place was the construction area. I think if he that place was on the first floor we would never make it to the third!
Zuzia was enchanted by the caterpillars. They were enlarged by the macro camera and shown on the screen. She herself liked spending time in the "store" and cleaning after the costumers. Zuzia did not like when costumers "bought" too many products. She took this job very seriously!
When it was finally time to leave she decided to get lost ( on purpose ) in the gigantic maze stretching from first to the third floor.
We liked the place a lot, but I don't think we will be back there soon.
Mama was the one exhausted there!

 

 

Tego lata Kateri uczeszcza na programy organizowane na MIT w Bostonie dla uczniow klas 7-12.
Program jest interesujacy i tematy zajec sa zroznicowane. Kateri bardzo chciala uczestniczyc w klasie gdzie studenci ucza sie programowac gry komputerowe. W tym wypadku bardzo popularnej gry "Pokémon". Moje dziewczyny maja na punkcie tych gier przyslowiowego bzika juz od czterech lat.
Niestety zainteresowanie bylo duze. Gdy przyszedl czas na rejestrowanie, strona komputerowa sie zawiesila na ponad godzine. Po godzinie wszystkie ciekawsze program byly juz zajete. W tym "Pokémon". Kateri byla rozczarowana. Z drugiej strony jest to lekcja zycia, ze nie zawsze co chcesz, to dostaniesz.
Pomimo tego rozczarowania, bylo jeszcze kilka innych zajec z ktorych chciala skorzystac. Wiec co za tym idzie, to cotygodniowe, niedzielne wizyty w Bostonie.

W ostatnia niedziele postanowilismy wybrac sie wszyscy. Andrzej spedzil czas na MIT z Kateri, mnie z Kubusiem i Zuzia zostawil w "Boston Children Museum".
Spedzilismy tam cztery godziny. Dzieci byly tak zajete, ze nie musielismy powtarzac wizyt w poszczegolnych salach. Kubusiowi bardzo sie podobal "Peep's Big World". Najwiecej czasu jednak spedzil przy "robotach drogowych". Gdyby ta sala miescila sie na pierwszym pietrze, obawiam sie ze ciezko byloby go zmusic do odwiedzenia calego museum:)
Zuzia jak zwykle byla zafascynowana zwierzatkami. Kilka zywych zlowi, pyton, i gasienice powiekszone prze makro kamere. Najbardziej podobal jej sie jednak sklep i tam bardzo powaznie zajeta sie organizowaniem polek i sprzataniem po klientach.
Kiedy w koncu przyszedl czas na pozegnanie museum, wybrala sie do gigantycznego labiryntu i po znalezieniu kilku przyjacil, postanowila celowo sie w nim zgubic. Po dluzszym czasie udalo mi sie ja znalezc i sprowadzic "na ziemie".
Ogolnie bardzo podobalo nam sie to miejsce, ale chyba nie powrocimy tam szybko.
Mama chyba byla najbardziej po tej wyprawie zmeczona!

 

Kinga:)