more hide and seek fun

This post is in English again, as some of this stuff just doesn't translate well. So, we were playing hide and seek again, and Luka couldn't find me. So I started making noise and he finally came into the closet where I was hiding and asked :"Mama, are you in here?". I replied: "Yes, I am!" And he said:"I don't think so..."

Ana was reading a book about Pocahontas and asked "Mom, why is Pontahontas angry, why?"

She also calls a flyswatter a "fly-slaughter"

Luka was convinced that poo and pee went into the big box above the toilet, so I had to open the water tank and show him that there was nothing there but water. He was amazed.

I turned 40 ten days ago, and yesterday we had a birthday party for Milena, who turned 50.

I can't 'niff her...

Luka and I were playing hide and seek and he couldn't find me, as I was cleverly standing behind an open door. Thus, he called Ana and said: "Ana, I need your help. Mama is hiding and I can't see her and I can't 'niff (sniff) her."

Ana put on a pretty dress and then very seriously said: "Mama, I need a perfect thing on my neck!"

We have been grilling out a lot, and kids got a plasma car yesterday, so that is the newest favorite toy. They are still speaking Serbian a bit (it helps that Milena comes over frequently), and still want to go somewhere on an airplane. Soon, I hope :)

HercegNovi

Prije pet dana smo se vratili sa kratkog ali uzbudljivog puta u Crnu Goru i Bosnu. Isli smo onako u kompletu sa Eleanor, i divno nam je bilo. Put je naravno dugacak, ali klinci su sve odlicno izdrzali i sada non-stop pricaju u avionima i igraju se aerodroma. Vrijeme je bilo odlicno, kupali smo se, ronili, jeli ribice i cevape, posjetili koga smo stigli (Joku, Milenu, Gizu, ujku i ujnu, Nanin grob i Romanijsko groblje), druzili smo se sa Tacom i Mijom koje su sa nama krenule za Bosnu, provezli se fijakerom niz veliku aleju, spavali kod Bose (u HN) i kod Pere i Milene (na Mojmilu), i evo sada se polako privikavamo opet na Teksasku vrucinu i tempo zivota.

Luka se juce igrao sa jednom velikom praznom kutijom, prevarao se da mu je to kosnica a da je on pcela, i onda se i Ana uvukla unutra i izjavila je sva ponosna da je ona med. Pokazuju interest za srpski, pa se trudim da ih sto vise podsjecam kako se sta kaze na srpskom.

Necu da ostarim i zenski poslovi

Prije neki dan Luka me pita: "Mama, da li je baka odrasla?" Ja kazem "Jeste sine" Pauza.
"Ali mama, ona je sasava..."

Jutros Andy vadi sudje iz masine. "Tata, sta to radis?" "Radim zenski posao, sine" "Tata i ja hocu da radim zenske poslove, ja jako volim da radim zenske poslove!"

Ovu sljedecu moram na engleskom, jer ne moze da se prevede najbolje. "Mama, da li cu ja da ostarim?" "Pa hoces jednog dana, ali to nece biti za jos dugo dugo vremena." "Mama, I don't want to get old. I don't want to be a grandmother. I don't want to be grand, no I don't want to be grand!"

Went to Wildcenter flower today, then swimming pool, played with fire trucks and shopped. Growing and growing, both of them.

Ana jos uvijek ima problema sa excemom, valjda ce to prerasti. Imamo novu macu koja je jako slatka ali mislim da je Ana na nju alergicna.

Gdje mi je jezik?

Ne znam sta se desilo sa mojim zadnjim zapisom, ocigledno nije prosao. Vise se i ne sjecam koje su tu sve provale bile, ali evo par najnovijih:

Luka se ugrizao za jezik i bolilo ga je. Ja sam mu rekla: Zao mi je sto te boli, ali vidjeces sutra ujutro kada se probudis sve ce biti u redu. To ce nestati i neces ni znati da te je bolilo.

Na to mi je Luka uzvratio: "Mama, moj jezik ce nestati sutra ujutro?"

Ana je bila sva mokra pa sam je skinula. Dok sam trazila cistu majcu, ona je rucicom presla preko grudi i rekla: "Sta je ovo?" Ja sam joj objasnila da su to njene grudi, i ona je odmah skontala i rekla: "Moje su male a tvoje velike :)". Minut kasnije je opet presla rukom preko grudi i sva iznenadjena uzviknula "Oh, evo je jos jedna!"

Prije par dana smo kupili karte za put u domovinu, jako se radujem tome sto cu vidjeti rodbinu i sto ce imati priliku da upaznuju Luku i Anu.

Ovo ljeto (koje jos nije zvanicno ni pocelo) je veoma toplo, pa ganjamo bazene kada god stignemo.

Isli smo nedavno na jedan sa vodenim toboganom i Luka se malo plasio, a Ana naravno nije.

A, da sada sam se sjetila sta sam pisala posljednji put. Ana je zavrsila u hitnoj jer smo mislili da je popila previse acetaminophena, ali 6 sati kasnije (nakon sto je analiza krvi utvrdila da je koncentracija u Aninoj krvi bila 0) se uspostavilo da je Luka bio taj koji je popio pola bocice lijeka.

Sve je dobro sto se dobro svrsi...

Let's take Ana to Goodwill

Luka has decided that Ana is not good and that we need to take her to Goodwill. Tempting, as she just cost us a night in the ER (found a Tylenol bottle and drank a quarter of the bottle), and as she is clicking the mouse as I am trying to write this.

We had a fun day at Lost Pines resort recently where we all enjoyed their water park and kids rode on ponies.

Currently spending a lot of time looking at plane tickets for our trip to Montenegro.

It has been a 100 degrees F for a few days already, we are in for a long Summer.

Would love to write more, but the muppets are not letting me, so more later....

Yesterday, for baka's 67th birthday, Luka figured out how to ride his black hayabusa bicycle without the training wheels. It only took him two days to start riding like a pro. Sunday we went to St. Elias and lit candles for my dad. It has been 5 years since he passed away.

Let's hide!

The latest obsession for both of them is to hide before anyone (baka, granny, dada etc.) arrive. Luka is willing to sit quietly for 20 mins, but Ana can only stay still for about 2. Anyway, they delight in hiding and go back to their favorite few hiding spots over and over again. Ana will even come out, giggle and then run right back to hide believing that you have no clue where she may be. She is also in a very loving phase and wants to be held and rocked to sleep, if at all possible.
Luka is still talking about tornadoes daily, and has figured out that tanker trucks deliver their goods to the "tankery". He is very proud of his vegetable garden and has been willing to taste everything from it.

Ana's teeth

Last Saturday Ana fell while we were shopping and chipped two top from teeth. It could have been worse, but I was very sad. Luckily, it doesn't seem to bother her at all. Got our little skype camera installed, so now we can talk to Mia and see her too. Pretty fun. I just returned from Philladelphia, only a two-day trip, but I missed the muppets a lot. I think Ana got a bit taller in just two days. Luka is my big sweet boy, just a perfect little kid. I love them both!

Luka is now twice as old as Ana

And never again... He just turned four, she turned two. Very low-key birthdays, family only. Although Marina did bring "Vasina torta" over for Ana's birthday, so we all gained about 5 pounds last week. Luka opted for strawberry cake with strawberry icing and a tornado on top. It has been really cold here lately, yesterday the windchill got down to 7F, almost unheard of for this part of Texas. We even had "Now" and attempted to sled last Friday.
Here are a couple more of Luka's recent gems:
- I need to get a fish stick so I can go fishing
- After I told him that my heart grew big when he gave me a hug and a kiss, he looked at me very concerned and asked: "Mom, you have a heart inside of you?"

Switching to English

Well, here it is, 2011, and I have decided to switch to English. The reason is that I want to document some of Luka's interesting observations of life, and as he is mostly speaking English, it is just a lot easier to do it like this. Also, I realized that the only people that read this blog can understand English just fine, so here we go:
Returned from a birthday party tonigt. Ana fell asleep on the way back, in spite of cake, fruit, juice and other treats full of sugar. It is cold outside (yes, that does happen in Texas), so she looked adorable in her pink jacket and fashion-forward white boots that granny (diddy) bought her. Speaking of cold outside, Ana thinks that is how you say that something is cold. Thus, everything is "cold outside". She will take a sip of water and proclaim it to be "Cold outside". Andy still adores the way she says "Shoes" and prompts her to say it several times a day.
We returned from Hollywood Beach, FL, few days ago. We being Taca, Mia, Seka, Ana and I. It was a great liitle vacation, Ana and Mia had the best time splashing in the Atlantic ocean as well as the hotel pool. On the way back (in the plane) we discovered that Ana had tree nut allergy. But, everything ended well, now we just have to be very careful that she does not eat any nuts.
Luka will be four soon. He is very sweet and a bit shy, reminds me a lot of me. Right now he is very concerned about tornadoes, as he saw one in the IMAX in 3D and apparently got a bit scared. He is also very attached to his Rudolph stuffed toy, he sleeps with it and had a clown at the party make him a Rudolph out of baloons. I wanted to post a couple of funny thoughts that he has come up with lately:
1. Luka, you are going to watch an airplane movie with dada, and maybe even fly a plane! Aaaam, I am too little to fly a plane, I may press a "land" button
2. Luka, did you go use a potty? Yes, but it was not a "Bravo, bravo!"