Andrej, Jessica, Kaiya, Tobi, Eli and Jakob » Video

Eli eating mashed potatoes

Andrej — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 03:46:54 +0000

Tomato Head

Jessica — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:50:22 +0000

I’m not sure what I find funnier in this video:

Kaiya’s self-styled ’80s Olympic runner hair style
The fact that she calls her Mr. Potato Head, “Tomato Head”. (This is even funnier due to the fact that her father also frequently calls potatoes tomatoes and tomatoes potatoes)
Her placement of Tomato Head’s body parts.

All three had both Andrej and I in tears from laughing so hard at our silly girl. She does have a cold so you’ll have to ignore her stuffy runny nose, but we couldn’t let those things stop us from sharing the video. Turn the volume up and enjoy!

Two places Tobi’s peaceful

Andrej — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:47:01 +0000

As the title says, there are only two places/settings where Tobi’s peaceful (and not moving around, getting into things and speaking his mind:)

Asleep in his crib
Playing guitar

Mean Mama

Andrej — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:25:47 +0000

Post Christmas Conversation with Kaiya and Tobi

Jessica — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:24:29 +0000

One night after dinner, Kaiya was in a silly mood so I grabbed the camera hoping to capture some of her antics on video. The video is a little long, but really cute. Kaiya answers my questions about Santa, sings, at one point breaks into Baa Baa Black Sheep (I’m still not exactly sure why), demonstrates her spelling skills and ends the video by wishing you all a Merry Christmas! You can also hear Tobi jabbering away as he shares his thoughts on Christmas as well. Enjoy!

Tobi at 6 Months

Jessica — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:38:13 +0000

Tobi is over half way to his 1st birthday! At his 6 month well-baby checkup, Tobi weighed in at 17 lbs and 12 1/2 ounces, and measured 27 inches tall. Andrej calls him his Valibuk, which doesn’t really translate into English, but in Slovak it’s a fairytale character that is so strong he can push over trees. That’s our Tobi!

It’s been three months since I last wrote a detailed Tobi update, and so many things have changed in those three months. At six months, Tobi finally sleeps soundly through the night. He nurses around 7:30 pm and goes straight to bed afterwards and sleeps until about 7:30 or 8:00 the next morning. It’s pure bliss! I didn’t think Tobi would ever consistently sleep 12 hours at night.

Well, he actually first accomplished sleeping through the night during his fouth month, but then we went to Slovakia. With jet lag and sleeping in the same room with us, he started waking again for a really early morning feeding sometime between 4:00 and 6:00 am. Once we returned home he was pretty set on having that feeding no matter how hard I prayed he wouldn’t wake up until after 7:00 am. It took a few weeks to convince him that he really didn’t need an early morning date with mama, and he eventually complied and started clocking in 12 hours each night.

In the middle of his fifth month, we gave Tobi his first taste of “soild food”. It took a few spoonfuls for him to figure out how to swallow the rice cereal and not just let it run out of his mouth, but once he did he seemed to really like it. Since then he has happily consumed anything and everything we’ve offered without so much as a even a scrunched up nose or funny face. It seems he has his father’s appetite.

At six months our Tobi sits up fairly well unassisted, is an incredible napper (much better than his sister has ever been), loves splashing in the tub, laughs at almost everything and bring us so much joy. I’ll end this six-month post with a little video of Tobi cracking up during his bath one evening a few weeks ago. Make sure your volume is turned up and enjoy!