On Friday, November 1st, as I was preparing Niko for bed, he looked at me with his beautiful blue eyes and opened his small baby mouth. The words that came out were, DAD, I WANT TO GO OUT SOMEWHERE TONIGHT. It was 6:15 in the evening and too late to go anywhere, I answered him….
Author: Mark
Overwhelmed, Stressed, and Eating Bad
Overwhelmed because all of this past week, I have been taking care of Niko. I took the week off since Nina had surgery on the 9th; she is doing really good in her recovery. Throw in a sick child since Wednesday; it’s probably just a cold…coughing, runny nose, and sneezing. On Wednesday and Saturday, Niko…
Post Halloween Snacks
I am trying not to eat Niko’s Halloween snacks in his Magical Mystery Tour ceramic cookie jar and the Halloween snacks at work, but they look so lonely and would be much better in my stomach! So, yes, I have eaten a lot of bad stuff; anything chocolate at home and skittles and starburst at…
Firsts
It was a weekend of firsts. On Thursday, it was Halloween and it was also Niko’s first time trick-or-treating. It was our first time living in a real neighborhood with other people around us who also have children. Niko really enjoyed walking around, seeing other kids getting candy, knocking on doors, and looking in garages as…
The Toy Purge
Yesterday, Niko and I sorted thru the majority of his toys; some of them ended up in a huge donate box, some of them we threw away, and the rest we kept. For the ones we kept, I organized similar toys into bins. Our play areas looks a lot better now that everything has been…