Nia's Christmas Story

Here is an email I got from Tiel this morning:

Remembering how much I liked to play with Grandma's nativity set, I bought Nini a Precious Moments set from Aldis yesterday. I sat down with her and tried to simply explain Christmas and Jesus' birthday using the songs that she knows (Silent Night, We Three Kings, etc.). At first she couldn't get past the fact that she thought it was HER birthday on Christmas and that she was getting the presents. Then when I told her that Jesus was all grown up and lived up in heaven in the clouds, she told me that Santa could fly up and see Him. Then I overheard her playing with the nativity as if it were The Wizard of Oz. She had the angel be the "Good Witch", Mary, Joseph, and two of the kings were Dorothy and crew, and baby Jesus was Toto....I just shook my head....I think we need to keep working on this!

Nia's on the Line

This is the end of a phone conversation I had earlier today with Nia (who's almost 3):

Me: Ok, Nia, put your daddy back on.
Nia: Ok. [silence]
me: Nia? Hello?
Nia: Yeah.
Me: Put your daddy back on.
Nia: Ok. I did. [silence]
Me: Nia?
Nia: Yeah?
Me: Give the phone to - your - da-ddy.
Nia. Ok. I did. He gave me the phone.
Me: No, you give it to HIM.
[silence]
Me: Hello? Claude?
Nia: Hello!
Me: Can you give the phone to DADDY???
Nia: Yeah! I can.
Me: I'm gonna hang up now honey.
Nia: Ok!

Soooo Cute

Nia & Marcus Simpson

Latest Pics of Little Man

Nia Nia Sopapilla

I don't have any new pictures of Ni-Ni, though we did spend July 4th over there for a couple of hours. She is knee deep in potty training (no pun intended). At one point she was sitting on her little potty with a book trying to do her business, and the next moment she was running around with her pull up around her tiny ankles making crazy faces at all of us. She's definitely TWO! :) Basically Nia jumps everywhere she goes and makes a jumping game out of everything. She is going to be a competitor, just like her mom and dad!

Fancy Pants

Must be teething...

Marcus loves stuffing all his fingers in his mouth at once! And the purple triangle is his absolute favorite toy at Aunt Shadley's.

Nee Nee

New Blog for Grammies

This blog is created for and dedicated to Nia Isabel and Marcus Edward.

I will post pictures of them as I can. There may be more of Marcus just because he is at my house every day!