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Grandpa Lew and I took Niko on his first overnight hiking trip this weekend. I wanted a hike which got us deep enough into the wilderness to be a real hike, but not one that would make him hate hiking from the first trip. I settled on a CT section of the Appalachian trail (specifically between [...]

At the company picnic I managed to catch Niko’s “waiting dance” on camera. Until this point it had not yet been recorded. Niko also proved to be a very serious spiderman, a giddy horse rider, and a big fan of water bounce like-like blow up thingies. And we rode a chairlift. Which is very odd [...]

Sometimes I ask him to read the book to me.

Nick’s class at the Nature Center put on a show.

My sister is posting to Buzz, which in itself is news. But the picture is damn cute as well. http://www.google.com/buzz/janljohnston/Qp178LrRVJe/Brothers

Welcome to the world Silas. At first I felt like the call was a lot like an Apple commercial. Then I realized it was actually the Apple commercial that was a lot like the call.

Not sure how much longer I’ll be able to hold him like this, but while I can…

This week Niko declared, “I can swim, all…by…myself.” And sure enough, he could.

Diving board jumping with some help from a bubble, and auntie Meg.

We got to climb on the Darien fire department fire trucks this weekend. Apparently this excitement was so exausting that when I took the boy to dinner, he fell asleep in the booth. We also got new neighbors with a little girl Niko’s age. Good for the boy, good for us, dancing all around. Plus we did [...]