Posts Tagged ‘nephew’

Hanging out on the porch with my sister and Nico, I heard the distant tinkling tune of the neighborhood ice-cream truck. “Do you know what that is?” I asked my nephew. “It’s a ice-cweam man,” Nico said. Then Katy told me the poor kid had NEVER bought a treat from the ice-cream man! We had [...]

After six wonderful weeks in our beautiful little house, we spent the last two days traveling back to Laos. Although we return to work on Wednesday, I have decided to remain in a state of denial. So I’ll just post a few more pics from our summer break. On one of our last days at [...]

The play area at a nearby outlet mall has lots of huge “food” for kids to jump on and hide behind. It’s basically a germ-fest death trap. I often take on the unpopular role of Playground Nazi, confronting oversized kids who blatantly ignore the yardstick-holding cartoon character and bound from big banana to colossal cupcake [...]

Nico had a lot of fun learning how to fish with Liam last weekend. He got a big kick out of the tub-o-worms. Liam caught four fish that day! Lucky for the fish, he threw them all back in the lake … but not before they got a little love from my curious nephew.

My nephew, Nico, 3 1/2, tells the story of the Wizard of Oz … mostly through sound effects and gestures.

My 1 1/2-year-old nephew, Paul, is very musical. He picks up a tune easily, and then sings it for hours. Here is his rendition of “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”