Author: Mark

Nina and Niko are having lots of new adventures at home; from drawing to building blocks to looking for ladybugs in the backyard to cooking to relaxing to watching Facebook live videos of various places and things to do all around the world. I always take Niko out on the weekends since that is my…

Well, it’s been 9 days and Niko is doing awesome and I am so proud of him. No accidents and when I get him at midnight and 3 am, he pees, gets a small drink of water, and goes back to bed. Me, I am doing OK. I also get to pee at those times,…

Niko only wears a diaper for nighttime and since last July, I have been waking him up in the middle of the night for a pee and diaper change. Before I started doing that, he was waking up in the morning with a very wet diaper, sheets, and blankets; and that happened several days in…

How do you talk about death with an almost 4 year child? We have told him that as some people get older, there bodies stop working and they can’t be fixed. I think he understands this, but I don’t think he understands the full concept that they are not coming back. The reason I am…

After almost 11 months of living in our house, I mowed our lawn by myself for the first time and it felt really nice and accomplishing! Before, I hired somebody from the neighborhood to do the yard-work, but now I can do it whenever I want. And, you know something, while I was mowing the…