Kuba loves to play with other kids, but especially with girls (with long hair, with pretty dresses). His friends include Esteban and his brother Adrian, from two houses down. He also loves all his friends from swimming (Brandon, Chris, Aida, Isabella) and from daycare (Tea, Robert, Gabriella, DeNeige). He made a good friend Gabriel at Art Class. And recently he made some friends at daycamp, especially a girl called Rebecca and a boy named Nicholas. But most of all, above all others, he loves this one girl called Anita (a first crush?). Anita lives on the other side of Montreal, so the drive is long, but oh so worth it. When they get together, the two of them play so well together - not side by side with separate toys, but TOGETHER with the same toys, following each other everywhere. They are seriously madly in love with one another. When he doesn't see Anita for a while, he asks me to call her mom to setup a play date. I don't mind, because I love to see them play so well.

This is a set of pictures I found kept from reviewing my home-made security system. Sometimes the system caught pictures of birds coming in for landings right in front of the camera. These images were taken a couple of summers ago, but I found them when cleaning up my computer.

Today we celebrated Robert's Birthday. I can't believe that a year has already passed... it feels just like yesterday that he was born, and already we are eating his first birthday cake. Robert is a staple in our family, and the love of our lives.

During the birthday party, Jakub talked to Babcia Bozenka on the phone, then we had cake and opened presents (Kubus even got Robert a small bracelet with all his money saved up from his chores during the week, instead of getting some candy).

This Summer I'll be doing a triathlon (sprint distance) for the first time.  I've decided to set myself a goal for the individual events:  Swim (750m) in 17 minutes, Bike (20km) in 45 minutes, Run (5km) in 30 minutes.  We'll see how I actually do on Sunday, August 19, 2007 (In Calgary, Lake Chaparral Triathlon).  Come and cheer me on if you have the time.

For the last week, Robert has been taking a few steps here and there, but today was really a breakthrough:  He is definitely WALKING!!!  Although he still crawls, I think now he prefers to stay on his feet, and I see pleasure in his face when he is walking and succeeding.  What a rush!

I've also noticed that he's become less of a baby, and more of a child.  We were building a train set with Kubus, and first thing Robert tried to do is break it.  I told him "no", and showed him that trains can go on the train tracks, that it can be fun without breaking.  He seemed to understand, and instead of taking the track apart, he started playing on the tracks with a locomotive.  Such a small thing, but what a difference.  Also, in books when we see food, me and Kubus always pretend to eat it, stuffing it into our mouths.  Just recently, I've noticed Robert doing the same, even without our prompt.  Cool, eh?

Over the past few months I have been working on a project: Nucleus Learning. It is a website mostly for teachers, to discuss educational topics. Also I have created an educational math game and puzzle (sold on the Nucleus Learning website also) called Hexa-Trex. I try to submit a new Hexa-Trex puzzle every day. Take a look at both websites, and pass on the word. Thanks!