Showing posts with label Nika. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nika. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

playing catch up, with ketchup


Sorry I've been a bad poster for the Maya updates. The past few months have flown in some ways (new house, never a moment to myself, extremely hot, etc), and dragged in others (still pregnant, extremely hot, did I mention being pregnant? The second time you want it over two months into it...)

Here are a few highlights that I haven't shown from Maya's summer. Hopefully, I'll do better keeping up with this now that our upstairs isn't 100+ degrees.

First we have Maya in the morning sunlight on one of our first mornings in the new house. She's was my little ragamuffin all summer long. Mommy cut her hair a couple of weeks ago.

Next is Maya enjoying "farklers." Since it was a rainy Fourth of July, and Maya is scared of loud noises (loves music, cries if it's too loud) we just lit "farklers" on the porch. Good enough for her.


At the end of July we went to Vail for the family reunion, we spent the whole time chasing our kids so these are the only photos I got!!
I wanted a better picture of the three little girls playing, but Ella never stops moving. I think when she stops you are so suddenly blinded by her cuteness, so it's better if she keeps moving.

Last, are some pictures from when Chris and Kim and Nika came to Ames for a week and Maya got to spend time with her oldest cousin..whom she called Maisie until we left.






A month later she stills talks about that last day when she "boogie, boogie'd" with Nika. Oh, and now she's obsessed with Scoobie Doo because of Nika as well.

Monday, December 29, 2008

Christmas Part I

Maya went to a lot of family Christmas gatherings so I've decided to have several posts just to include as many photos as possible. First up, Grandpa Greg and Peggy's.























































Maya and Daddy crash in Grandpa's magical vibrating chair. Kinda like a bouncy chair for grown ups.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

For Those in Portland

I am so lucky to have such a sweet, talented, loving, funny, smart, beautiful "almost" nine year old niece.

She kisses dogs she's never met before.





She thinks pigs on farms plus spiders equals Charlotte's Web.
















She'll Talk your ear off about Colonial Times and you'll walk away having learned a lot!






She writes her own plays, you'll probably see her produced off Broadway in ten to fifteen years.







She's Nika. Just plain ol' wonderful Nika.