The past month has been an exhausting one for us. We received an offer on our house with a three week closing date, which we accepted, and began searching for a new place to call home. We are here at long last! We've found a great house in Overland Park that we moved into last weekend. It is wonderful . . . enough space for us and the boys, lots of light from south windows and a perfect location - close to work, family and lots of shopping and kid-oriented stuff.
We think Nikolai likes the new place as much as we do - he has a room with a brand new "big boy" bed and a play room in the finished basement. He has been riding his tricycle up and down the sidewalk and has a big backyard to roam. As the snow melted this afternoon, he splashed through every big puddle on the block on the trike and we had to change his pants and shoes several times to dry him out and keep him warm.
This was the first weekend in a month that we've had free time to relax, although Colin also did a bang-up job of getting us unpacked. We're looking forward to many more coffee-drinking weekend mornings in our new home!
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
I haven’t written an update in months! What is our little guy up to…
Talking! Niko is talking non-stop and adding new words everyday. He is starting to put together words into sentences as well. A couple of times he has communicated so clearly that I didn’t even realize he’d used a sentence. When I disconnected the trains he gave me to play with yesterday morning, he told me that the “stay like this” and put them back together. He asks “what’s this?” quite a bit. He asked “where is it” the other morning. I asked him what he was looking for, and he showed me that the bed was missing off of one of his dump trucks. I found it for him and he ran over and tried to put it back together. He is a whiz at snapping train tracks together now.
He is also a dance-machine. He sings his own version of Ring Around the Rosie and spins around, usually falling into my lap. If Colin and I are there to sing and play along, he insists that we each hold a hand and swing him around in the air.
Coloring! He is getting good with crayons. I let him play upstairs without supervision (my mistake!) while I got ready for work on Tuesday morning. I ran upstairs when I heard the shrieks of glee… Niko was standing on top of his play table. He was coloring the light switch plate with an orange crayon while flipping the light on and off and eating a sheet of stickers! Yikes! He was really upset when I made him stop!
Future hoops star – Niko can say ‘basketball’ now and points it out on tv. One of our mini basketballs has a Jayhawk on it, and last week he brought it to me and said “see a Jayhawk.” It was just about the proudest moment of my adult life! His hoop-shooting prowess is so impressive that his daycare teachers took a video of him bending his knees and following through J I believe a hoop is on the agenda for his birthday.
Talking! Niko is talking non-stop and adding new words everyday. He is starting to put together words into sentences as well. A couple of times he has communicated so clearly that I didn’t even realize he’d used a sentence. When I disconnected the trains he gave me to play with yesterday morning, he told me that the “stay like this” and put them back together. He asks “what’s this?” quite a bit. He asked “where is it” the other morning. I asked him what he was looking for, and he showed me that the bed was missing off of one of his dump trucks. I found it for him and he ran over and tried to put it back together. He is a whiz at snapping train tracks together now.
He is also a dance-machine. He sings his own version of Ring Around the Rosie and spins around, usually falling into my lap. If Colin and I are there to sing and play along, he insists that we each hold a hand and swing him around in the air.
Coloring! He is getting good with crayons. I let him play upstairs without supervision (my mistake!) while I got ready for work on Tuesday morning. I ran upstairs when I heard the shrieks of glee… Niko was standing on top of his play table. He was coloring the light switch plate with an orange crayon while flipping the light on and off and eating a sheet of stickers! Yikes! He was really upset when I made him stop!
Future hoops star – Niko can say ‘basketball’ now and points it out on tv. One of our mini basketballs has a Jayhawk on it, and last week he brought it to me and said “see a Jayhawk.” It was just about the proudest moment of my adult life! His hoop-shooting prowess is so impressive that his daycare teachers took a video of him bending his knees and following through J I believe a hoop is on the agenda for his birthday.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Niko and Braden at Science City
Niko and Braden went for helicopter ride, Braden wasn't too sure about Niko's Piloting skills
The miniature golf course was a lot of fun. I got to remind the kids of the long standing rule #1: No hitting each other with golf clubs.
Niko and Braden did some digging for dinosaur bones but didn't have much luck.
Grandma helped out and they managed to find a t-rex.
Things got serious in the science lab. Mike tested his reflexes and Maureen and Bill checked their vitals.After Science City
Braden, Heather, Mike, Grandma and Grandpa came over for dinner. Braden and Niko gave a piano concert, there were alot of encores and clapping.
Niko got to show off the fire engine he got for Christmas and then the boys went for ride. 
There was just enough room for the both of them.
The Great Train Exhibition
Niko Grandma and Grandpa took in some trains at the Great Train Exhibition this weekend. Granpa kept Niko from trying to ride the trains.
Niko got to push the button that made the ferris wheel go.Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Thursday, January 1, 2009
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