kinder karol (again)

karol is very active and likes to ride his motorbike everywhere. he likes playing in the sand with all kinds of cars and trucks. in the playground, he is most of the time by himself in the sand box. otherwise, he is sitting quietly in a corner, waiting for an opportunity to borrow other children's toys (read: cars).

last week, karol went back to kindergarten. we transferred him to alex's old kindergarten, vcielka (little bee). he is the youngest pupil and he seems to be enjoying himself as evident in the photo. plus, his teachers report that he is a very good boy. :)

sadly, it's a different story at home... karol is 2 years and 9 months old, and definitely in his terrible two stage. unfortunately, he tries to say no to almost everything and screams like a girl when angry. our only consolation is if you pack a lot of patience, he is actually easy to reason with. also, thanks to the fact that he's very sweet. but i still wish he gets over this terrible two stage quickly.

additionally, i also hope that he gets potty trained before he turns three. :D yes, he still wears diapers but we're slowly getting there. already more than once, he made weewee and "brown weewee" (read: poop) successfully in the potty. but he doesn't ask all the time. most of the time though, he will tell us right after he pissed in his diaper.

oh well, that's our karol! :)

it's all about cars

karol loves cars.

i don't know when karol started playing with cars. but i remember one of his very first cars was a gift from a kid in the playground. this boy has like thousands of them at home, that his dad decided to give karol one. unfortunately, we already lost it.

karol's collection has grown since then. he has all sorts of cars, trucks and everything wheels. he almost always never leaves home without one or two of them. however, no matter how many he has, he always ends up playing with other kids' cars; whether it be in playground or our friends' home.

one friend he remembers the most is kuya adrian. once in a while karol remembers him. sometimes, karol asks us if we are going to kuya adrian's house, and that kuya adrian has lots of cars.

in the morning, we told him that we will be going to the zoo. he got really excited and said, "yes! we will go to zoo's house. and we will play with zoom's* cars!"

karol loves cars!


*not a typo. karol is now mixing slovak and english. most of the time he adds the suffix -om to his words (e.g., autom (auto=car), bagrom (bager=digger)), sometimes even when it's not applicable :D