Tag: Nikola

Spring Dance 2013!

Today was the final performance of Arc School’s Spring Dance production. Gramps and Grandma were visiting and got to see the show. Alton actually sat relatively still for most of it (relatively speaking), although he still had so many questions to ask. The second act was set to “Carnival of the Animals” by Saint-Saëns, which …

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Dynamite!

…the “Leaping Leopards”…[were] a hit. At this year’s “West Woodland’s Got Talent” (only reinforcing poor grammar at the elementary school level, à la Got Milk?), Nikola and her friends Siena and Parker were the “Leaping Leopards”. Their 1:15 minute jump rope routine to Taio Cruz’s “Dynamite” was a hit. Daddy got to pull out his mad …

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Beginnings

Daddy first felt Nikola kick. This was also the first day of any sustained, palpable activity from Nikola. Mommy had only felt Nikola for the first time a few days earlier–2 to 3–and at the time wasn’t certain that it was baby movement, but Nikola responded to the dim sum we had that Saturday while Popo and …

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