Nik is TWO!

Modeling poses that he chose "one more picture, mom"

Here he is sitting on the toilet, probably spends about 3 hours on the thing playing with his toys (holding Skipit the dog for this photo).
Battery run train that lasted about an hour before Nik broke it, it was one of his birthday presents.
His favorite new activity clinking glasses together and saying "Cheers" anytime he drinks anything. He mostly drinks water but if he sees you drinking something else he wants to trade glasses (beer, wine or sodas) and then he always nods his head in a Yes direction as if to say "yum".
Still enjoying his meat, he had some pork chop and chicken for a birthday dinner.
Helping mom bake the birthday cake, his favorite part licking the spoon, just like mom!

Getting ready to blow out the candles,
Happy Birthday NIK!

Nik turned 2 today, what to say about him? He is the apple of my eye, even when he is giving us a hard time he still makes me laugh. He will either grow up to be a soccer player or an actor/model, he over reacts to the smallest thing just like a soccer player rolling on the ground going oww! and then the next minute he's up and running after the ball. Nik will do the same thing, sudden frown and tears and then smiling and laughing. He is my theater mask (smiling/frowning face) so versatile so active.

Likes:

• Sitting on the toilet
• Trucks and Tractors
• Drawing and Banging on Furniture
• Farm Animals
• Going on Drives

Finally some snow

Nik getting ready to go out in the snow, first snow of the year. He is wearing long johns and boots from Grandma Peters, he was having fun posing for these pictures and kept insisting on one more.
Look new hair cut and finally no morning sickness.
I actually got a little smile out of him.
I still have roses in my garden I think they will finally die now with the snow.
Nik throwing snow balls at the older boys, he loves the snow.

Victor with Nik

Athanasios, Victor holding Nik, Kostas and Demitris (big boys from the neighborhood). It snowed on a Saturday, perfect for kids to play outside but Greek mothers are very protective and 3 of them were on thier verandas yelling at the kids to come in that it was to cold.

Second part of trip- Bridgman Family

Here we are at the Wade's, eating dinner our first night there, front- Foster and Arthur, back- Mara, Mom, Cameron and Mike.
Nik playing with Grand-MAMA, he was up super early and I was glad for the early help.
Arthur and Mom at Aunt Candy's house.
Tindy and Arthur
Nik on the tractor, front- Arthur and Glen, back- Mom, Candy and Tindy, at Mom's new building site.
This looks fun, to bad no one can carry me.
Visiting Great-Grandma and Grandpa at the farm.
First night dinner at the Smith's house.

Nik "helping" to bake bread.

First part of trip-Seattle

Here we are at the Athens airport, we had a difficult start since we were flying with Air France but had booked our tickets with Delta, the inept clerk couldn't find Nik's ticket. Finally she took our advice and looked under our reservation number, duh!, but she wanted to charge us 340euros almost the same price that we had paid for our adult tickets, ridiculous.
Nik really enjoyed flying and did very well on the 15 hour trip. Cousin Kelly and Mom picked us up from the airport in Seattle and took us to lunch and then to our hotel, we were to bushed to do anything else.
This is outside of our hotel in Seattle, just 2 blocks from the Seattle Center with the Space Needle, with a Safeway and Dick's a place famous in Seattle (loved the fact it was open till 2AM) across the street.
Some Chili's at the Pike Place Market.
We then went down to the Seattle Aquarium, I might of had more fun than Nik but I think he enjoyed it also.


Arthur found his favorite and only beer he purchased in the States, ESB.
Our hotel, of course called The Mediterranean.
Nik showing what dinosaur's do at the fun and interactive Science Center.

Space Needle

We took the Monorail downtown to the mall.

Our favorite place to shop and have breakfast.

Back from the U.S.A

And we are back, smelling the Greek air and sleeping a whole lot. We haven't down loaded all of the photos from the trip but when we do we will make a few blogs. The last days in San Francisco Nik got a cold so he wasn't feeling so great, but amazingly enough he did pretty good on the flights and only grabbed the flight attendants butt once (naughty little boy).
Hey Jon, we really enjoyed eating at the House of Nan King in Chinatown, SF, and the really cool part was that we got to enjoy that whole morning with cousin Lettie Bridgman. But more of that to come.
Will write more later, I'm going to eat my Greek steak now, yum.

Terrible Two's

That camera is MINE!, everything is mine, followed by a high pitched squeal.

The word NO! has entered the vocabulary along with all of the other new words and he enjoys using this new found word more than any others. He has also discovered screaming and will do so whenever something doesn't go the way he wants it too. He would like to do everything himself this includes dressing, eating and walking where ever he wants to go by himself. He will tell me and any other adult in his vicinity to stay/leave or sit/stand. He's like a little general and I can see him being the playground boss.

IKEA

A new IKEA opened up in Larissa, so of course we had to go on opening day. Larissa is about one and a half hours away from Kalampaka and now pretty much has everything one could possibly need.
Here Nik is enjoying a kiddie bed, no prompting needed he was tired and if there weren't so many people walking by he would have gone to sleep. He also had fun playing with the toys that they had out and he could not be separated from a stuffed dog, so of course that was one of our purchases.
We had lunch in the IKEA restaurant (not very good, the pasta was like rubber) but they gave us a free ticket for some ice cream and they were handing out Fantas when we exited.

I would also like to tell everyone that Nik is speaking a new word almost every day. So far we have: cracker, coke, soccer, asteri (star), jacke (jacket). He also likes to make all of the animal sounds and we go on drives to see chickens, horses, lambs, turkeys and goats. The fun part is when we serve meat he makes the sound of what he is eating, he likes kookoo (chicken), ba (lamb), and moo (cow/beef). He also makes the sound for fish but I don't know how to write that one down.

See you soon.

How old are you?

Practicing for the States when people ask how old he is.
ONE, okay almost two, but we will still get into some places for FREE.
Love being under the age of two.