post-thanksgiving

Greetings! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year. Marek and I have been in the midst of a move during the past week and a half, so I haven't had time to post new photos or stories of him lately. Most recently, I returned from a trip to Chicago for a conference. The conference was great and I had a fabulous time in the windy city. I love that city! Marek stayed with Grandma that week. They had a good time, but it was a great reunion to see him again!

Marek got his new big boy bed this past week and is pretty excited about it. His new room is bigger and now he'll have two houses to explore here! His birthday is coming in about two weeks...I can't believe how fast time flies! He'll be 3...and it just seems like yesterday when he was born.

He finishes up gym class this week. He's been really interested in music, building things, reading books (he almost has the whole ABC song down), and especially puppets these days. We went to the annual Christmas parade in town last night. I am excited for the holiday season this year. But time has been moving especially fast lately - so I hope we all have time to savor it a little! I also have plenty of great Marek stories to share when I have more time. Hope all is well!

Fall update

Happy Fall! Hope everyone is doing well. We have a great big maple tree in our backyard that is midway through losing its leaves. Marek is having a ball playing with them, jumping in them...and as you will see below - being buried in them. We even started a book for him with his first leaf collection.





Today he also headed to the annual model railroad show at the library. He just loved it! There were all different scales of trains and he was mesmerized. I can't wait to build a layout with him when he is older! Uncle Kevin will have to give us some tips.





For those of you who haven't heard...our Halloween was not too eventful this year, as Marek decided he didn't want to wear his costume. [Anyone need a lion or chick costume? :) ] He did head to the Halloween party downtown, but it was "too noisy" and he wanted to leave early. He went to the downtown trick-or-treating with Grandma and me on his walk to the toy store, but only wanted one piece of candy. I think the costumes actually frightened him this year. But that's ok! We just went out for pizza, then headed home for an early bedtime. He had skipped his nap earlier, so that may have accounted for some of it! But it was a good day anyway!

We are all doing really well...very busy these days (as you can guess by the lack of regular posts here!). I'm heading to a conference in Chicago next week and will be missing my little guy like crazy then! But the conference should be interesting, too. I hope everyone is doing well these days and we will be in touch soon! Love to all.