Pierwsze urodziny/ First Birthday

Today seemed so far in the future when Marielle was born...and yet, it came so quick:) She is now almost walking, almost talking to us, and becoming more and more independent every day. But a year ago, she was a lot more helpless, as you can see here:

Dzisiejszy dzien wydawal sie tak odlegly kiedy Marysia sie urodzila, a jednak nadszedl bardzo szybko. Marysia teraz juz prawie chodzi, prawie mowi,  i staje sie coraz bardziej samodzielna kazdego dnia. Ale rok temu byla o wiele bardziej bezradna, sami zobaczcie:

And now she is helping with the laundry,

A teraz z praniem pomaga:

She says "Kicia"

Mowi "Kicia"

And she can even eat (sort of ) her own birthday cake

I nawet sama zje swoj tort urodzinowy (no prawie)

And to follow Polish tradition, we gave her a choice of a coin (for wealth), shot glass (for drinking a lot), and a book (for being book smart). The tradition says that the one(s) she chooses, will show what her future will be like...so, you need to watch it to see who she will become

I zeby tradycji stala sie zadosc, dalismy Marysce pieniazek, kieliszek  i ksiazke do wyboru. Musicie obejrzec, zeby zobaczyc kim bedzie w przyszlosci

The last part are some pictures that we took today and in the past few days, a whole bunch of them:)

I na koniec zdjecia z dzisiej jak i z ostatnich kilku dni.

Happy Birthday Marielle!

Sto Lat Marysiu!!

Dzidzia i ta inna dzidzia/ Baby and the other baby

Mleko i pilka/ Milk and soccer

Pare filmikow z ostatnich dni...zobaczcie sami:)

A few videos from the last few days..see it for yourself:)

I want to walk and smell the roses...Chodzic chce i kwiatki wachac

Marysia juz bardzo chce chodzic, ale na razie jeszcze musi sie trzymac, wiec jak tylko znajdzie sie okazja to chwyta za raczki i poszla.....Bylismy dzisiaj w parku to kwiatki wachala, a pozniej w domu pomagala mi w skladaniu prania:) Taka to niedziela:)

Marielle really wants to walk, but she can't yet on her own, so she grabs our hands and walks as much as she can...We went for a walk today at the park, and she was smelling the flowers, and later that day helping me folding the laundry...Lazy Sunday:)

11 months/ 11 miesiecy

Jutro Maryska skonczy 11 miesiecy i jak zwykle, nadziwic sie nie mozemy jak szybko mala rosnie. Ostatnio nauczyla sie paru nowych rzeczy, ktore mozecie obejrzec na filmach. Na pierwszym filmiku widac jak mala je arbuza, a pod koniec uslyszycie "mnam mnam," ktore zaczela mowic od paru tygodni. Przypuszczamy, ze nauczyla sie ode mnie, bo jak ja karmie to zawsze mowie "mniam mniam," no i teraz to oznacza jedzenie, picie, albo smoka - czyli do buzi. Dzisiaj po raz pierwszy zaczela sie wspinac po schodach, takze oficjalnie czas na bamke na schodach. A na trzecim filmiku widac jak sie sama rozmiesza bo rzuca w tym wydaniu torebka, ale innymi rzeczami tez rzuca. A na ostatnim filmiku widac jak sie nauczyla klaskac i bawic buzia.

Tomorrow Marielle will be 11 months. As always, we comment on how time flies. Lately, she learned a few new things that we captured on video. On the first one, you will see her eating a watermelon and toward the end you can hear her saying "mnam mnam". She started to say that a couple of weeks ago and we figured that she learned that from me, as I always say "mniam mniam"(yummy) when I feed her. She says that when she eats/wants to eat, drink, or the paci. So, it looks like it is about the mouth:) Today, she climbed the stairs for the first time on her own, so we officially are in a need for a baby gate. On the third one, you can see how she makes herself laugh by throwing a ziplock with things in it. She does that to other things as well. On the last one you can see that she learned how to clap her hands and do the thing with her mouth (no idea how it is called).

Jeszcze wiecej akuku/ More peekaboo

Ponizej dwa filmiki jak Marysia bawi sie, sama tym razem, w "akuku," ostatnio rowniez bardzo lubi tanczyc po swojemu, wiec jak wykuma ze muzyczka gra to sie kiwa, dowod na filmie ponizej.

Below, you will find two videos of Marielle playing Peekaboo on her own, she also likes to dance lately, so if she hears music, she will dance in her own way. You can see it on the last video.

Hustawka/ Swing

W koncu pogoda sie poprawila, wiec zabralismy Marysie na specer do parku i na hustawke. Wyniki ponizej

The weather is a bit better now, so we took Marielle to the park to put her in the swing. You can see how it went below.