To the Beach!!

Looking good on the way to the beach!


Niko really didn't want to touch the sand at first.

Then he LOVED it!

Florida Trip '11

On the plane going to Florida!

Riding the chairlift....



And destroying the cassette tape... glad we don't really use those anymore....

Lil' Chef

Niko got these Melissa and Doug wooden fruit and vegetable cutting sets for Christmas. He LOVES cutting them apart with the knife. Niko is highly interested in food.... he likes watching me cook and cut up vegetables for dinner. On Monday, I had him sitting on the counter as I was cutting up potatoes and he went right to his play set and started cutting up his veggies! :)

Day after Christmas

I bought some half-priced ornaments for Niko's half of the tree today. He LOVES Charlie Brown... it's weird. The cartoons are from the 60's and he still loves them...

He's saying "CHEESE!"

He put all of his ornaments together in one glob. Doh.

Merry Christmas!

Woah..... what is this??!?!

Pizza Planet Aliens?!?!?


It took a long, long time for him to open all the presents. He would open one and want to play with it instead of opening other presents.

This was one we knew he would like - a Target exclusive that he STARED at over Thanksgiving day. It was in the newspaper ads for Black Friday.

This is him running toward me so I would open in for him.

Friends Christmas!

Niko and Shelly.... and Sienna... staring at the food bowl next to Niko.

Christmas Eve!

Aunt Katie & Uncle Tommy's present was delivered today so we decided to wrap it up and give it to him after his nap. He saw it right away!


Open! Open!


We are all set for tomorrow! What a haul!

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Ohhhh!!! I help!!!

Ohhhh.... I can't wait to take a bath with that! (Neil hates this joke....)

Proud recipient of a nerdy Transformer dinosaur. GRIMLOCK. **nerd**

Niko helps blow out the candles of Neil's cheesecake birthday "cake." Mmmmmmmm.....