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cousins, playing Lego, girl and boy, todaymyway.com
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Long overdue, but I finally got round to downloading and showing you the day we returned from holiday this summer. Tired as we were, still in our travel gear and making no effort to satisfy our hunger, we grabbed some gifts we bought for Nadia's cousins and headed to meet them as there's nothing more rewarding than seeing your kids reach to each other after such a long break in playing and refusing to play. It was exciting especially there was Lego on hand, a girl or boy favourite. Dads got involved, mums stepped aside, kids watched impatiently as the creatures came to plastic life. Being little girl among little boys is a delight to watch daily, seeing her navigating skillfully through car races and sword fights armed with charm and delicacy simply melts my heart. She loves her cousins to bits, announces cheerfully what she is going to tell them when they meet (showing off new dress or a hair piece waiting for their ecstatic response but really there's only a confused smile she gets in return. We really need to work on the boys a lot more.) and gets immersed in their motorized world more than they get entwined with hers.  

And then we had pizza to satisfy our hunger and discovered that some of the time tomboy-ish nature is meant to be to balance all that girlishness there is accumulated. Have a fabulous weekend, friends. xx     

pizza ready to go, cousins, playing Lego, girl and boy, todaymyway.com
boy and girl, cousins, playing Lego, girl and boy, todaymyway.com


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Summer, you are wonderful! I'm telling you this as an adult but once you hear it from those that enjoy it to the fullest, I bet you're done. Because summer belongs to kids and their ideas and this colourful playground always does the trick. As you can see, the beauty of it is in the simplicity, just a handful of rails needed for a lively rhythm of bodies navigating between objects. I watched Nadia and her cousins for a short while before all the laughing began and I had no choice but to grab my camera and make it my new favourite - snap and entertain, have fun and snap. If there was a need of my career path change, I'd assume to be a great force at making kids laugh. It's not easy job, you know. Kids always spot the first sign of artificiality, the trick, the fake connection so I had to think fast and react accordingly. They were the best moments. Older playground occupants laughed their socks off at a thought of me not being able to locate any children there but monkeys making funny noises while hanging with their heads down. The youngest of them accompanied the fun because he thought that this monkey business was a great idea. There is no way to go wrong while there are little people to share the fun with and sink all of the energy into doing any small thing that will get everyone into the right mood. Have a great week, friends! x        

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CUSTOM MADE CHRISTMAS
CUSTOM MADE CHRISTMAS












































The closer to Christmas the more fabulous activities are happening around the house to get excited, curious, overwhelmed with more than a tiny bit. Not much cooking is going on these days but we do craft like crazy and the big family table gets used properly every time creative thought strikes up. This time we came up with the idea of making our own Christmas cards and stationery of all sorts to the bundles of our joy's delight. Nadia and her two cousins didn't quite know what to start with having all the products they could mess up with at their reach. Immediately their senses activated stimulating creative juices. Everything appealed to busy hands, everything got glued to them and other surfaces accordingly. Not every project was finished off, quite a few could read 'task in progress' or 'will come back to it... one day' because there were some neglected toys awaiting so we called it a day as anything like that could take forever to get produced. But we liked it that way, it's their vision after all. 

As for the supplies - let the kids choose what to incorporate in their designs from the whole household. We no longer have straws available and printing paper gets missing in record speed but that's just fine with us. Those things not only expand horizons but magically teach us how to substitute them around house with less used items (and believe me until this day I can't figure out how we let her play with the eggcups, they're foreign to our kitchen now). The best part of time spent on more than just drawing is that Nadia learns colours in English. These days it's all about emphasizing efforts in her second language so she can juggle between shades without blink of an eye. I don't sense a change to this trend anytime soon so prepare yourselves for a rainbow adventure. And we couldn't be more thrilled about that! x

CUSTOM MADE CHRISTMAS


CUSTOM MADE CHRISTMAS


CUSTOM MADE CHRISTMAS

CUSTOM MADE CHRISTMAS
CUSTOM MADE CHRISTMAS
CUSTOM MADE CHRISTMAS
CUSTOM MADE CHRISTMAS
CUSTOM MADE CHRISTMAS
CUSTOM MADE CHRISTMAS
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BEING AWASOME IS HAPPENING TODAY!

BEING AWASOME IS HAPPENING TODAY!

Saturday afternoon found us a little excited, a little more presentable. A little forgiving to all that sugar on the table. A little distracted, a little rushed. Sniffling our way around the flat after a recent cold outbreak we chatted with family and friends while celebrating that extra candle on a rich chocolate cake. Can you believe it? Another October in our lives that is pretty rad even without the whole nature's beautifying sessions. She's officially four (that she's officially awesome we already know!) and we planned ourselves a little chaos in all its forms and angles. It was far from a big party. When you're sitting in the tiniest of rooms adventurously with seven adults and ten under five running feet you just call it a tea party and pretend you own a proper china. We stuffed our guests with fruit in the most delicious of colours, pointed camera at them overdosing on their great mood. Nadia wrote her own wishes and was chuffed with every meandering letter. She loved her presents following the rhythms of the season - porcelain tea sets for long evenings in the atmosphere of pools of candle light scattered around our shoe box flat (we started crossing tea guests off the list due to the cup and saucers collection effective diminishing), colouring books discovered again and decorated skillfully, Twister's small sibling game - Don't Fall Down played to kids' heart rate increase while changing the rules and skipping turns. And birthday cards she's reading mixing up the variations of tones of her voice with both spoken and unknown to human ear words. Sweet along the way. 

All fun and games, exhausted and a little bit alarming when that Disney sparkly shampoo ended up in bubbles on Nadia's hair thanks to her older friend Kaviya determined to try it out and be happy with the purchase. They coloured together and it seemed to be Kaviya's recent passion as she asked us if she could hang her masterpiece in our flat as her dad is strictly against displaying art of a suspected value. Most of us rent our spaces and often tear and wear policy covers slightly damaged walls but pleasing a little artist has more to it than just overdosing on holes in plaster. I personally advise on being daring with wax crayons and display them funnily. As suggested by Nadia, the artist herself.

Overfilled with wrapping paper artfully placed under our feet we stayed up long past the advisable bed time. I'll leave you with images that encapsulates Nadia's day - balloons adding oodles of colour to our monochromatic interior more than any other accessory (shall we not part with them for the ongoing wow factor at all times?), googly eyes winking your way from the table or the floor, whichever seems to be captured more effectively. 

BEING AWASOME IS HAPPENING TODAY!
BEING AWASOME IS HAPPENING TODAY!
BEING AWASOME IS HAPPENING TODAY!
BEING AWASOME IS HAPPENING TODAY!
BEING AWASOME IS HAPPENING TODAY!

BEING AWASOME IS HAPPENING TODAY!
BEING AWASOME IS HAPPENING TODAY!
BEING AWASOME IS HAPPENING TODAY!
Fabulous day with fabulous people. And my girl is growing like crazy, 110 cm and counting! Lots of awesome things coming your way today, tomorrow, always. Happy 4th birthday, baby! xxx   

BEING AWASOME IS HAPPENING TODAY!
BEING AWASOME IS HAPPENING TODAY!
^^ From top left: Snack table, no party without balloons, first guest, a little announcement in the kindergarten ^^

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