Leo enjoying quality time with Nana Stamenka

Leo loves playing peekaboo with Babcie Lucynka

Happy 5th Monthday Leo!

As our little Shrimp gets another month older, bigger (wiser?), we continue to enjoy our holidays in Croatia. It's been great so far, with warm (but not crazy warm) temperatures during the day, nice cool breeze at night, lots of wine, seafood and other favorites - in short, all-around paradise :) Leo's been really enjoying it too, loving the company of family and making new friends, while amusing us with new developments such as grabbing things with one hand, trying to crawl while on tummy time and generally being more attentive of his surroundings than ever before.

Anyway, back to the point: Happy 5th Monthday little big Leo!

Leo tries solid food... and kinda likes it :)

Leo has been showing all sorts of interest not only in our drinks, but also in the food we eat each day, so we finally decided to offer some to him. We got a jar of Carrot baby food (did not want to make it ourselves in case there was some hidden magic to making baby mulch :) and tried it on the little guy. He liked it... but then got tired after just one spoonful. We would have finished the jar for him (it expires pretty quickly), but unfortunately it tastes like... not much nothing at all :) Still, we'll keep trying and see how he likes other things like bananas etc!

Leo meets his great-grandparents in France and Croatia

Leo got to meet his great-grandparents this week: Pra-Baka Mela in Paris and Pra-Baka Maja / Pra-Deda Slavko in Zagreb. Unfortunately, Pra-Deda Slavko is recovering from a bruised hip after falling in a hospital, so Leo took a little trek with his Mama i Tata. Needless to say they all loved the little guy, leading to some unexpected tears :) Unfortunately he'll have to wait until Christmas to meet his other two great-grandmothers in Poland, but by then who knows, maybe he'll already run to meet them!

Leo's newfound love of glasses and "adult" drinks

Leo has a newfound interest in anything we drink - bottled water, water in a glass, beer, champagne... any liquid we put close to our mouthes he finds interesting. And not only that, once we tried offering him some he actually took it, though not having much experience more than half ended up on his bib! The solution? - today we got him a sippy-cup, theoretically it's "6+ months" but since he's showing so much interest we can't imagine it'll hurt.

All aboard for Zagreb!

About to leave Paris for Zagreb, all loaded up on the plan, Leo even got a shiny green tag :)

New pictures: Leo's 20th week

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Leo's 20th week was a great one. It started off a  bit rough, with Leo's first cold. But after some quality time with mommy and daddy and lots of kisses, Leo beat the bacteria out of his system and was as goo as new.


We had several walks and picnics in the park, trying to squeeze them in between thunderstorms and fireworks! Leo is also loving tummy time more and more which has been really fun.

Violet and Leo keep Cheryl busy and are getting to be so cute together. The week ended with preparations for our trip to Europe. Poor Leo could not imagine what a long trip he was in for! First Paris, then Dieppe, then Zagreb and finally the seaside - Punat!

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New video: Leo loves playing with Nono Davor

New video: Leo, Tea, Kriss and... Barbra Streisand

Just dancin' around, entertaining the baby and the camera :)