Tata and Mama

We are all together and have been for almost 1 week.  I haven't been able to post trying to keep up with a very active 4 year old.  We are enjoying Poland so far but miss home so very much!  I want to be able  to sleep in my own bed really bad.  Our apartment is nice (this is our second apartment, the first was nice but was too expensive so my hubby found something else) but the bed is killing my back.  Also I would love to have a bathtub but those are few and far between in Poland.

We have been blessed for nice weather so far that allows us to walk to the store and explore around town.  However with so many holidays all at once we have had to spend several days hanging out in our apartment.

We have had our first visit with the social worker here in Poland and it went very well.  We have one more meeting with her before our court date in a couple of weeks.

Our son has a great personality and is easy going.  But we have had a couple of pouting moments when he isn't allowed to do something or if a toy is taken away because he threw it(we are working on that habit).  He does get frustrated when he is trying to tell us something and we don't understand.  I actually think that when we are trying to get him to say something in English (like the names of animals) he thinks we are crazy because he gets very firm with us and tells us the name in Polish.  The language barrier is very frustrating for all of us.  Last night he decided that he would refuse to try and learn the English word for objects and would simply cross his arms and turn away from us.  Bed and bath time have been fairly easy.  He does wake up crying during the night but that is far better than we had expected.  I was fully prepared for full out breakdowns over bed and bath.  The worst night so far has been New Years Eve. Poland goes all out!  It started 3 hours before midnight with a few fireworks and then for 30 minutes after it was constant.  So our sound asleep little boy and myself were jolted from bed.  Poor boy was completely terrified!  Even after we opened the curtain to show him that it was fireworks he continued to cry.  Eventually with the distraction of some cartoons(they are very distracting since he doest get to watch them very often) and the fireworks stoping he was calm enough to go back to bed.

We are going to go exploring today and try a local pizza place the social worker recommended.  I hope that the great start to 2013 will continue and that waiting families get that special call for their referral!