Daddy at Work, Far Away

Today daddy told Nick he had to go on an airplane to work far away in Cleveland city. There will be no daddy for five days. Nick watched daddy walk out of the house and put his suitcase in the taxi.

Mommy and Nick are home together. Mommy told Nick not to be sad, and them mommy made Nick this schedule about his week. It says that every day Nick will go to the Long Beach Middle School. McKenzie will take care of Nick, and mommy will come home from work at night. On Friday night daddy will come home and Nick will see daddy again.

When Nick asks about daddy, mommy reminds Nick about the schedule. Mommy told Nick, "don't be sad, you will get to talk to daddy every night on the computer."

Valentine's Day

Ever since early January, after the Christmas tree went outside, Nick has said, "January done, February coming soon."

Nick bought new gem gels and put them on the window. Then Nick started preparing for the Valentine's Day holiday.


One day mommy went into the kitchen and found this paper taped to the refrigerator.

And then one night mommy was cleaning up in the house and found this on the table.

Then Nick came home from school with this paper.


And over the weeks Nick has been collecting Valentine's decorations from the craft store, he has a "shrine" that keeps getting bigger and bigger.

Mommy said, "Wow, we have a lot of Valentine's Day decorations! What will you do in March, will you celebrate mommy's birthday?"

Nick looked at his calendar and said, "March, St. Patrick's Day."

Happy Birthday Katie!

This week, Nick's little cousin Katie is having a birthday, she will be two years old!


Mommy and Nick went on the computer and picked out a birthday present and sent it to Katie's house. Nick wanted to pick out Sesame Street movies, but mommy said, "let's pick something else that a little girl would like."

This is a picture of Nick, Henry, and Katie at Christmas.

Mommy told Nick, "When you are with your Reminick cousins you are the little one, but when you are with your Lako cousins you are the big one!"

Mommy and Little Nick

Today mommy and Nick looked at old pictures on the computer. Mommy said, "I don't have a story for your blog today, let's look for some old pictures and make a story from that."

This is a collection of pictures of mommy and Nick, when Nick was little.

Mommy with baby Nick, he was one week old.

Nick's 2nd birthday.

A snowy day, Nick was 4 years old.

In the pumpkin patch at the October Festival, Nick was 5 years old.

In the garden that we planted, Nick was 6 years old.

Christmas 2005, Nick was 7 years old.

Mommy said, "that was nice looking at old pictures, we have a lot of happy memories together!"

Nick's Classmates

Nick is always talking about school and his classmates. He says their names all the time.

In December, Nick's teacher sent home a present, it was a mouse pad with a picture of the entire class. Nick looks at it all the time and says everyone's name.

Today at breakfast Nick was looking at the mouse pad, so mommy took a movie of Nick talking about his class.

Bye Bye Christmas Tree

Nick loves Christmas, and every year he is sad when his Christmas tree is all done.

But this year Nick remembered that in January, the Christmas tree goes outside. Mommy put the date on the calendar so Nick would be prepared. The date mommy picked was January 7.

All week mommy reminded Nick by showing him the calendar.

Yesterday was Saturday January 7. In the morning, mommy gave Nick a note with his schedule for the day. It said that Nick would go to AHRC to play, and when Nick came home the tree would be outside.

When Nick came home he was not sad. He came inside and told mommy "tree outside," and then he played on his computer.

Nick watched YouTube movies with the title Bye Bye Christmas Tree. In one of the movies men were putting trees into a wood chipper. Nick was laughing when he watched the movie. Mommy said, "Wow Nick, you've come a long way!"

Happy New Year!

December is all done. The year 2011 is all done.

Today is January 1, 2012, this is the beginning of the new year 2012.

Every year mommy buys Nick glasses from Times Square in New York City. Today Nick put on his glasses and ran around outside in the beautiful new day.

Mommy said, "Happy New Year Nick" and Nick said the words back to mommy.