People are all the time asking us if Elisabeth and Max are excited about the move to Slovakia and all I usually have to say is the standard, “Uhhh, yes and no.” So I thought I’d do a short interview with them so you can hear just how they would answer themselves.
It’s hard to believe we’ve been in the States for more than five years now. We’re looking forward to going back to Slovakia, but it’s nice to look back at some of the memories we’ve made. I don’t know how I got so lucky, but I happened to have the video camera out one night when I had the kids to myself. This is a funny video buy of Elisabeth (3) and Max (2) talking about Dora and the Wiggles.
On New Year’s Eve I spent 45 minutes conducting delicate surgery on a miniDV cassette in hopes of recovering our lost video clips from our 2005 vacation in Croatia. Was it worth it? From all of us to all of you with heartfelt thanks for your friendship: I hope you enjoy our video rendition of the annual family Christmas letter.
At Bannockburn Elementary School third grade is the year kids can start working with the school orchestra. Elisabeth decided she wanted to learn violin and this is her first performance. It was an extra special treat that Grandma and Grandpa were willing to drive over two hours to watch her play in the Winter Concert. At our house, we have our time of family Scripture reading and prayer before bedtime. One Sunday Max decided he wanted to read the Bible during our family worship time. Then Elisabeth decided she wanted to join in. What followed was a mix of liturgical church service and family devotions. It was actually pretty impressive. Elisabeth and Max had their last swimming lesson today. They both made lots of improvement during their four weeks of lessons. A couple weeks ago Elisabeth wanted to show me her new diving skills–but not until she was good and ready, and had a little fun teasing me. Max thought the diving looked like fun so he mustered up his courage to see if he could do it, too.
It’s summer time! Elisabeth and Max sure were glad when the school year ended and we sure were glad to see their report cards. We’re proud of their progress Max tends to go through phases. One of his first phases was cowboys, then came dinosaurs, then Thomas, then primates. When he’s in a phase he’s 100%. So when he was into primates he started becoming fanatic about climbing everything. He climbs trees, of course, but when he’s inside I’m one of his favorite climbing objects, and sometimes a door will do just as well. I guess it makes sense that he also likes gymnastics. This last year he took a pre-gymnastics course and during the last class Jana was able to take some clips of their activities. Click through for the video.
I am the only one in my family that is not a citizen of the Slovak Republic. Jana has Slovak citizenship because she was born in Slovakia and thanks to her so do Elisabeth and Max. All of them also have US citizenships. Jana became a citizen of the United States just a few weeks after Elisabeth was born and since Slovakia recognizes dual citizenship she did not lose her Slovak citizenship by becoming a citizen of the United States. So far this has been very nice. |   |
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