After we had so much fun last year in Sperryville, VA with the Somobrights and Hjeltaks, we decided to take another group vacation — this time to Cape Charles, VA.  Cape Charles is a sleepy little town at the southern tip of the Delmarva Peninsula.  It was formed in the 1880s when an enterprising duo [...]

Hi all — a quick update from the beach for some breaking news.  After spending 3 days with 2 kids his age with voracious appetites, Nico has eaten his first food.  He sucked on some canaloupe today — willingly — and even asked for more.  We have finally found something he’ll actually eat!  (He had [...]

Nico’s big cousin Nick graduated from high school this year.  We went up to NY to celebrate his achievement and wish him well when he goes off to the University of Tampa this fall.  Enjoy the photos!

Before we head out to the beach, I wanted to post these photos from July.  This set does not include photos from our recent trip to NY for Nick’s high school graduation — those will come soon.  And there’s no time for a long update, but I don’t think Nico really reached any milestones in [...]

A while ago, Nico discovered his voice and started piercing our eardrums on a regular basis.  Frank had a theory that if he encouraged the squealing at sanctioned times, we would have fewer embarrassing moments when Nico screamed out in the middle of a silent crowd (like at a museum or in a restaurant).  It [...]

Just a quick and dirty video posting from our dinner at a local Vietamese restaurant last night. It was taken on my phone, so the quality is not so great. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY7UlGkq7yg

I posted a while ago about Nico pulling books off the shelf one at a time for us to read to him.  The kid loves to read!  This video is obnoxiously long (5 minutes!) but it shows Nico doing his latest tricks.  He turns the pages while Frank reads him a book, chooses another book, crawls [...]

Here are a few videos that we took in June.  The boy is sprouting teeth like a shark and climbing things like a monkey! There are 7 videos in this playlist. Press the four arrows button at the bottom right of the video window to view in full screen. If you can’t see the video window [...]