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New Pictures of A.J.

Last week A.J. went to a birthday party and we took a few pix. We'll post some more from the last few weeks as well. Some of these go back to May during A.J.'s birthday.


His love of frosting rivals his grandmother's love of Costco cake.

Little Photographer and Children's Day

A.J. doesn't have any interest in drawing or any kind of crafts. As much as I push him almost everyday he is losing interest in 30 seconds. Oh well, I guess he is just like me, I don't have scrapbooks and I don't have the patience to do it.

"What a mess" by A.J.

Anyways, I try to take a lot of pictures of him, he is just changing so fast, so I try not to fail at least in that department.

"What is in the glass" by A.J.

Well, every attempt to photograph him is ending with A.J. stealing the camera from me and taking many pictures as fast as he can before I get the camera back.

"Blueberry on the sky" by A.J.

In the beginning, I used to erase them but last week I forgot and I uploaded them on the computer. I was surprise because some of them are pretty good and artistic for a 2 yo or I'm just crazy proud mom.

"Mommy" by A.J.

Also yesterday (June 1st) was Children's Day in Bulgaria and in most of the old communist countries. To celebrate we did some drawing with chalk (it's well accepted at the moment), went for an ice cream and got a new book (Olivia) at B&N where A.J. played with Thomas the train set.

Birthday boy!

A.J. turned 2 last Saturday.

We had a great time with Grandma and Grandpa B and Aunt Dari. Thank you so much for coming!

It was a weekend of fun with our family and celebrating A.J.'s B-day! We started the night before by watching 1.5 million bats coming out for the night from under one of Austin's bridges. The B-day day began with opening presents and a B-day cake for breakfast (don't judge me, please:) Then we went to the nearby Cave and A.J. rubbed a stone for a good luck.



We managed to eat at Red Robin as part of the tradition and on the next day we had a barbecue by the pool.

Now I'm ready for the terrible 2 to officially begin or if we are lucky if they will never come. Has that ever happened?

Also, that weekend was double special because it was Mother's Day and we had a chance to celebrate it with Grandma B.

More pictures from the B-day here.

Singing, dancing and ....

AJ is getting big and definitely loves to be the center of attention or he is just very talented.

Singing:


Dancing:


Playing the drums:




I can't really explain this one:)

A.J.'s Many Faces

A.J. doesn't know as much words as his dad thinks he has to know by now. He is talking a lot, mostly baby gibberish (which by the way is hilarious) but his facial expressions are priceless. Here are a few we want to share:

Bedtime story

A.J. loves books. He loves to play with them, to flip through the pages or just look at the pictures(if any). A few weeks ago Hans took him to the local library for a class on how to teach your child to read. I was skeptical how a one year old can read, but actually they share some techniques to teach young children to be familiar and to love books, even if they can't read now. So every night before bedtime we try to "read" with A.J. More precisely, he reads to us.