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Niko’s newest trick is clapping. He is very proud. [flv]http://happyinwater.com/nicholas/videos/clapping.flv[/flv] We did some splashing around in a baby pool today. This was very exciting. (More photos on Flickr.) Niko also made a very important discovery.

Jul is in Vegas this weekend, so it is just us boys. Well, us boys and Grandma Mart who flew in Saturday. Jul and I used to live up by Crissy Field in San Francisco and I hadn’t seen it since they did major work on it. Not to mention Niko had never been to […]

Huge thanks to Suzanne and Lynn, who were generous enough to supply us with breast milk during Niko’s formative months. Suzanne is an amazing writer, and Lynn is fluent in Mandarin, so I expect Niko will be a best selling writer in China in the very near future.

Jul caught some photos today of the boy in his natural habitat.

If a kid ever makes fun of Nicholas for being adopted, I’ll have him ask if he has a certificate of family membership. I bet he doesn’t. I’ll have Niko tell him that means the government can come and take him away from his parents at any time. Oh, and I’ll also key his parent’s […]

Niko has gone from a tentative body drag to an all out crawl sprint. The mean time between perilous situations is about two minutes. Here you see him heading right for the dog bowls. Boy is it fun to dump the water all over the floor. [flv]http://happyinwater.com/nicholas/videos/turbo-crawl.flv[/flv]

I got the Journey to Elsie travel map all hooked up with our route, stops, and photos. I also updated Niko’s travel page.

Elephant noise, that is. I suppose this probably comes down to how you define “word.” We don’t actually know what the elephant is saying, so who are we to say it isn’t a word? [flv]http://happyinwater.com/nicholas/videos/elephant.flv[/flv]

Home again, home again…

We had a great weekend in Boulder — the Sladden’s and Richau’s are amazing hosts. In addition to some great hang out time, on Saturday we went into town and had high tea at the Boulder Tea House. We also managed to stop at my favorite hiking store on the way (Monte Bell). Niko and […]