Balloons

These balloons have been on the ceiling since Niko's birthday.  They move around and Niko likes pointing to them.  One of the bad things about vaulted ceilings is that things get trapped up there... like most of my living room's heat in the winter.

I wonder if they will come down before we move...

Winter coat

It's hard to find cute/cool boy stuff.  Really, it is.  Finding cute girl stuff is SOOOO easy, but boy stuff is rather boring - it's all either blue or blue with red stripes.

I looked forever for a cool-looking boy coat.  I found this coat at Children's Place.  I love that it's different from the normal blue/red coats I saw everywhere.  I wish the trim/lining was in lime green, but blue will do.

Niko was not a happy model when I put this on him last night....  oh well.

Great Grandma O's birthday party

These photos were from Sunday.  We went over to Grandma O's house to celebrate Great Grandma O's 96th birthday!

The top photo is Niko sitting with Aunt Shelly and pointing at the cake.  (Yes.. he KNOWS what cakes are now!)

Thanks again to Grandma O for inviting us out and making your fantastic curry that Niko and I love.  Mmmmm.......

Inspection time!

It's looking pretty good for the potential house... we have signed the contract and the inspections are today!  Coincidently - inspections are being done on the house we are selling are today too!  

Here are a few more photos of the potential house.  Here is the 70's finished basement.  It's a bit dated, but a nice finish job.  We plan to have a swingin' party down here if all goes right!

Park time with daddy

We have been going to the park every day for the past couple of weeks.  (Mommy is trying to lose the Niko weight before we start trying again in the spring/early summer.)  

So we walk around the park with Aunt Shelly and Sienna then play on the slide.  The whole trip is a 3-mile walk when it is all done.  

Daddy can join us this week since he is on mandatory furlough.   Niko loves going down the tube slide - he went down all by himself yesterday and laughed the whole time.

We will be sad when the weather gets too cold to go to the park anymore!

Pumpkin Patch

We took Niko to the Weston Red Barn Farm's pumpkin patch on Sunday.  Aunt Shelly, Godfather Mark, Eric and our friends the Dents came along with us.

It's free to go to the farm and you pay for what you would like to do.  We took a hay ride, a horse ride and picked pumpkins in the patch.   Niko had a good time and liked playing in the patch... when he wasn't trying to eat the dirt.  Gross.

Back and forth

We are still going back and forth with the seller on our potential house.  I thought I would post a few more photos of it.  The last photo is one of the rooms that I just love - it's the eat-in kitchen/solarium.  (The photos are off the listing page and not the best.)