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The funny moments in Edie’s life

March 20, 2010 · Filed under thoughts · Tagged , , ,

Fun, Joy & Laugh

I think that the most important job of all parents is to make their babies happy. And I think that most of us try to thrive for excellence. It is not always easy especially if you do not sleep properly for more than 10 month and sometimes my imagination and ideas are being processed with the speed of snail. But anyway for my darling I would do fist and last to make him happy.


And because I love to laugh and make fun I hope that Edie will not mind if I will share with you some of very funny moments from his first year of life:

  1. When he  was born it was winter, cold and nasty weather so when I was changing his diaper he always peed out. He was able to “target and fire” everything in the distance of about 1,5 meter so it means that I was peed over constantly, Carlos from time to time. I was changing our bed linen all the time and carpet in our room has to be washed also:) Everything would be all right if he would not pee few times on his head and twice straightly to his mouth……upppps!
  2. He loves to be breastfed. Within the time he got very used to and because of that he got nick name “boobie-holic”. Now we have very nice time together he is always drinking from one breast and playing with nipple of the other side :) …too many details? But what is funny is his constant search for nipples. Now he also found his dad’s nipples and Carlos has tough time to protect his “macho property” because Edie does not make difference between mom’s and dad’s nipples. Both are nice toys to play :) upssss
  3. He is very much coquette with ladies around  him. He is able by his smile attract all people around him and specially female gender. He loves to smile at people and not only once he made young ladies nearly pee into their panties because of his smile. Now he started to wave with his hand as greeting. Which is very cute. He is simply heart breaker.
  4. After his 9 month passed. He found the difference between male and female. He is very happy of holding his “pie pie” all the time. Sometimes I even can not change his diaper so I let his hands insight of diaper and start to laugh. You should have seen that. It is sooooo funny :)
  5. He had already the unique opportunity to try different flavors. His favorite is sand taste, soil taste and he licked already all possible packaging, things around him such as my shoes, my toes, floor, stairs, mirrors, sponge. When he is actually sucking my skin and licking it because he is teething he is able to make funny sounds such as farting or chucking :)
  6. I do not know why but he loves to pinch my eyes and years. Since the time I have Edie I have his little fingers almost everywhere! He is very curious and he is fascinated the most by pinching my eyes. He is able to stick his fingers and be pressing my eyes that long that I feel that my eyes I already on the other side of my head.
  7. Yeah and it is here, he has his first swimming pool game insight of toilet. You know my mom was telling me that we should keep the toiled closure close because kids like to put their hands insight. I though yeah that’s right but I will keep eye on Edie and doors from toilet close so he will not do that! But not really I realized that I can not have my eyes everywhere so in one moment he sneaked there and I just heard this nice “kvatch cvachty ” and found him bathing his hands in toilet. You should have heard that scream when I was taking him out of there :)

I believe that there will be another funny moments worth to share in the future. There were much more but I selected just those funky once :)

Keep laughing!

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Who is my the best personal teacher?

March 16, 2010 · Filed under Parenting, philosophy · Tagged , , , , , ,

My life personal teacher

This post will be devoted to my son. Who is with me already one year. And during that time I realized how much he had changed me and how much I have learned about myself.


“If you are really not sure who you are, if you are not totally aware of your strengths and weaknesses…………You should have a child!”

Yes my best personal life teacher is my son. Surprise? I hope not, because it is the most natural think which probably every parent will soon or later found out.
It is such curious think about kids, because they behave exactly as we teach them. Because I can see on Edie my personal patterns. Little thinks which I am already doing unconsciously. Every day I can see and have to proof my patience, my skills to play, invent new things, be well organize (time management, task management). I am learning new things every day under his lead. He is actually not asking me to study books and follow particular patterns. He is just teaching me how to observe, how to understand, how to read his gestures (body language).

“Motherhood is the biggest life role which I can play. It is full of constant learning, making mistakes and then undoing them. Non of us were born as parent but most of us will take this important responsibility to our hands!”


Now as most of the mothers I am observing other kids. It is my new passion, to see their smiles, their first steps, their games a and even more curious for me is to keep observing their parents. How they are sharing different moments with their kids.

I have learned that well educated and raised kid comes from Educated parents. There is no limitation for kids to learn, it is just us “parents” who limits its kids by having prejudices or badly learned patterns.
Kids are tabula rasa, blank peace of paper which is not spoiled by any wrong experience. Only who can spoil the “new story” is us! So now I have unique time to keep observing and learning “pure unspoiled” patterns which were given to us  by “mother nature”.

Edi is very good teacher. He is able to respond to any of my guidance very fast. He is able to track my persistence, by constant rules’ braking we put on him :) He is able to show me that impossible is just silly word in my head (” because toilet is very good swimming pool and into my little nose can fit 2 and even 3 of his fingers at once).

I am actually just wondering where his guidance will lead in the future. We took mutual role of being guides to each other. I keep showing him his border. He has to know where he can go and where he is already too far.

“Because his freedom end where starts the freedom of another person!”

But on the other hand by observing his first steps, his constant and persistent attamps of trying things is miraculous and worth of admiring.

My life lecture of my son: If you want to achieve something, you have to master your skills, you have to be persistent and go over any obstacles with open mind because ” the impossible” does not exist.

(Eduardo Josef Botero)

PS: What if I can put into mum’s nose also 4 fingers at one. I think it is worth to try :)

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How to prepare home made B-day cake?

March 13, 2010 · Filed under food, cooking and healty life style · Tagged , , , , ,

EASY and FAST B-Day Cake

Easy and fast that is my life motto. And for cooking is the most important  to make everything easy, fast and tasteful :)

Because many of my friends asked for the recipe of Edie’s B-day cake I decided to write it publicly as inspiration and help for other mom’s who are having struggles with cooking.

How to prepare Edie’s B-day cake

(Called also “Hrnečková cuketová bábovka” = “Cup’s zucchinis cake”)

Potřebujeme (Ingredients):

  • 2 – 2 1/2 hrnečku polohrubé mouky (cups of flour – semi big grains)
  • 1 prášek do pečiva (pack of baking powder – or 1 big spoon)
  • 1 hrneček cukru krupice (cup of crystal sugar)
  • 1 vanilkový cukr (pack of vanilla sugar)
  • 2 vejce (eggs)
  • 5 PL oleje (big spoons of oil)
  • 1 hrneček mléka (cup of milk)
  • 1 hrneček nastrouhané cukety (cup of grated zucchini)
  • 1 PL kakaa (big spoon of cacao)
  • 50 g najemno nakrájených lískových  nebo vlašských oříšků (small cuted peaces of hazelnuts or walnuts )
  • tuk na vymazání (oil for engrazing the cake form)
  • hrubá mouka na vysypání bábovkové formy (flour for filling form)

Jak na to:
Mouku smícháme s práškem do pečiva a prosejeme. Přidáme cukr krupici, vanilkový cukr, žloutky, olej, mléko, nastrouhanou cuketu, kakao a nakrájené oříšky. Vymícháme těsto a zlehčíme tuhým sněhem z bílků. Naplníme formu a upečeme při 160 °C. Pomocí špejle zjistíme, zda je bábovka upečená. Hotovou pocukrujeme nebo přelijeme čokoládovou polevou.

How to do it:

Mix flour with baking powder, add sugar, 2 yolks, oil, milk, grated zuchini, cacao and cut nuts. Mix all ingredients until U create nice smooth dough. Make the “snow” from the whites of eggs and softly mix it with the rest of dough. Put oil and flour into the form, be sure that all of the parts of the form will be covered by flour. Than pour dough  into the form and bake under 160 °C. By wooden stick you can check whether the dough is ready. When the cake is ready you can sugar it with powder sugar or with chocolate.

And how the cake can look like:

1. Version I prepare simply, just few more tricks and it was ready. Have a look

2. Version was more advanced. I put the dough into tree different forms and made 3 levels cake. Look how nice it looked before it was totally eaten :) Proof of being also tasty!

I can promise you that with this case you will never do bad. It is very simple, fast and with little bit of your imagination and invention you will never fail.

Advice: No matter what you will cook you will always make happy your child. And I believe that “home made” or “mama made” is always better than bought. Because the love and personal parental touch can be never bought!

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How to surf?

March 9, 2010 · Filed under sport & activities · Tagged , , , ,

Surfing (skying in the sea waves)

You know I love skying and in general every sport. But since I started to travel very much I missed already two winter seasons at home. And it is really something for me. Two years without skying is making impact on my passion for this sport. So this feeling of lacking my loved sport motivated me to find substitute. And I found it!

“Surfing…………my skying on the white waves of the sea”

I took one day course of surfing with my cousin  in Margarita Island. So if you want to learn how to surf, keep reading and following pictures.

Surfing is not difficult sport, you just need to know basics and practice, practice and practice. It took us few falls and ups but we made it :)

So for surfing you need only board, good sun block and yourself. Surfing is done through few basic positions.

1. You have to find the center of the board, put your hand there and keep your chest (bottom part under the breast part). Keep your head up and body straight in the line.

2. second position is about lifting your body  at once. You have to keep your body facing aside and head front. Your knees have to be turned to center and facing each other and your body weight has to be more front.

3. and then you try to stand up, keep facing front and try to keep balance. If you put more weight front then you will speed up if you put more weight back you will break.

And now look how the theory works in the waves. You have to start paddling with your hands when you have wave behind your board.



And after whole day of activity guess how did I end :)

But I have been awarded by certificate which is indicating my newly gained sport skill. I hope that once I will do surfing with Edie.

I love sports and I hope that I will be able to improve my surfing skills as much as possible.  If you have any questions just ask I will be happy to help :)

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