Maya has always been very talented when it comes to learning languages.
Her first baby babbles were in all three languages: English, German and Russian.

Over the last year (she is two and a half now) her English has become excellent. I guess it is the easiest language out of the three, plus it is spoken at home all the time.

Since I often switch back and forth from English to Russian, Maya is perfectly aware that I speak both.
So, the other evening when we were reading some Russian books, she asks me in English where her yogurt is. I answer in Russian: “твой йогурт в холодильнике.” She goes: “Mama, what did you just say? “and starts laughing…I repeat, dada says: “Your yogurt is in the fridge.” Mama says: “твой йогурт в холодильнике.” She looks at me with a big smile on her face and says, but mama also says: “Your yogurt is in the fridge.”
What a cheeky little monkey our baby is.


Yesterday Ryan started teaching her about all the different languages we speak.
After telling her that dada speaks English and mama speaks Russian and all the teachers in her school speak German, he asked her, so now tell me what language does dada speak again? Maya took a minute to think about it and answers: “daddy’s”and then she added and mama speaks “mommy’s .“

• Diapers (can never get enough of these!)
• BIPA Gift Certificates (they have the best deals on all sorts of things)
• Clothes are always welcome (we’re expecting a girl)
• We have a small baby registry at Herr und Frau Klein under the name Adler
• BabyBjörn Babysitter Balance
• Stroller toys

I decided to make a short post about baba’s visit with us. Since all Maya does is talk about the fun time they had together and constantly asks us when baba is coming back. The two of them have a very special relationship and seem to really enjoy hanging out with each other.


My mom spent over a month at our place and Maya was staying home with her all the time. They had tons of fun playing the puppet theater, making soups and pies, planting flowers and taking care of the garden and of course playing, reading and dancing. No wonder Maya had such a tough time saying goodbye to my mom.

We also took a trip to Salzburg, Steeg and Hallstatt, our favorite part of Austria. Here are some highlights of the trip:

Despite of the bad weather forecast we decided to go to Prater Amusement Park with Noah, Maya’s friend and his mommy Sara.
We haven’t been to Prater for ages. It really got cleaned up a lot and had a lot more rides than we could remember.
The place offers tons of entertainment for children and adults of all ages.

Maya has never been to Prater and we thought it would be a nice idea to introduce her to the fun place in Vienna. Noah was already a frequent visitor to the park and he was showing Maya around. The two of them were just more than cute.

Maya was still were cautious when it came to going for various rides and only got to try the flying elephants with Noah.
Kidsworld was quite a find and we will be for sure coming back there again.

Maya with her new friend

Relaxing with dada

Our visit to Prater wouldn’t have been complete, if we didn’t finish it in the Schweizerhaus.
Their grilled pork-legs with mustard and horse radish beat easily the most exquisite dishes of well-established restaurants- yummy yummy yum.

What a fun day it was and we can’t wait to have more trips like this with baby Noah.

We haven’t posted for a while as we got very busy with work and household after our wonderful vacation in Kiev. But I still figured it is better to write now and never.
Our 10 day trip to Kiev was really nice, especially for our little Maya as my mom and dad really spoiled her rotten.

The minute we arrived, dada decided to test out Maya’s new bear chair:

Baba got Maya accessorized with some beautiful earrings and a tasty necklace.
My dad took our baby to my childhood playgrounds and she got to meet some neighborhood kids and play with them:

Since the weather was was really hot, we decided to spend a couple of days in my parents’ country house.
Maya fell in love with it from the first sight.
She loved running around and pick up the berries right from bushes and then nyam nyam nyam for hours. We were getting scared that she would get sick from eating so many of them:

Lots of relaxing and fun we had:

Last week all the parents and kids were invited to attend a summer party organized by our group. The weather was beautiful on that day and lots of fun activities planned for parents and kids to enjoy.

Some of those included playing in the sand box, or like Maya says “кеси меси”:

Maya showing dada her playground:

Reading books and just chilling with parents:

First masterpieces together: