Day trip to SLC

So, a couple days after Christmas we headed down to SLC to go see Body Worlds and the Christmas lights on Temple Square. Nate, being the ever so nice brother that he is, opted to forego Body Worlds and "spend time" with Nikolas, AKA babysit. So, while they visited the Capital Building, Energy Solutions Arena, and the SL Library, Mom, Dad, Melissa, Kelsey, Dillon, Julienne, Cristian, and I looked at disected bodies at Body Worlds. It was pretty neat, but I kept getting sick and had to sit frequently. Our bodies truly are amazing!

Unos dias despues de Navidad fuimos a Salt Lake a ver Body Worlds y las luces en el templo del Lago Salado. Mi hermano Nate, se quedo con Nikolas y ellos dos fueron a visitar algunos lugares en Salt Lake y mi mama. papa, Melissa, Kelsey, Dillon, Julienne, Cristian, y yo fuimos a ver los cuerpos disecados. Fue muy interesante! Es impresionante el cuerpo humano!

Nikolas at the Capital. Nikolas en frente de la municipalidad.

The great Stockton and Malone! Nikolas was scared of them and would't stand by them for the picture. Ellos son los famosos Stockton y Malone del equipo de basket de los Utah Jazz. Nikolas les tenia miedo y no queria pararse ahi.



You can't take pictures inside, but here a few pictures I found online. No se puede sacar fotos adentro, pero aqui hay algunas que encontre en internet que vimos ahi.

Temple Square! Dillon, Melissa, Kelsey, Nate, Julienne, Dad, Me, and Cristian and Niko in the front. Mom was taking the picture.

Catching up

I've got lots of catching up to do! I guess I'll start from oldest to newest. Cristian turned 29 on December 21st. Nikolas and I made him a Jello cake, since he doesn't really like cake, but he loves Jello. We had birthday dinner at my parents house. A couple days before his actual birthday we made noquis (his favorite food). Hopefully, he had a good day and enjoyed his last birthday as a twenty-something!
Tengo mucho que escribir. Han pasado muchas cosas en el ultimo mes. Voy a empezar de los mas viejo hasta lo mas nuevo. Cristian cumplio 29 anos el 21 de Diciembre. Nikolas y yo le hicimos una torta de gelatina, ya que no le gusta mucho la torta y le encanta la gelatina. Tuvimos la cena en la casa de mis papas y un par de dias antes hicimos noquis (su comida preferida). Ojala que la paso bien y disfruto de su ultimo "viente y algo anos"!

Christmas came and went really fast! We had a lot of fun with Nikolas this year. For months Nikolas has told us that he wanted a guitar. He wants to play like Uncle Dillon. So, we told him to ask Santa for a guitar for Christmas. From there on out, every time someone mentioned either a guitar or Santa, he would say, "Santa guitar." We visited Santa 4 or 5 times and every time he told him that he wanted a guitar. Luckily, Christmas morning Santa brought exactly what he had asked for!

La Navidad vino y se fue muy rapido! Nos divertimos un monton con Nikolas este ano. Por meses Niko nos decia que queria una guitarra. Quiere tocar como el tio Dillon. Asi que, le dijimos que pidiera a Papa Noel que le regale una para navidad. Despues, cada vez que alguien mencionaba una guitarra o papa noel, el decia, "Santa guitarra." Visitamos a papa noel 4 o 5 veces y todas las veces Nikolas le decia que queria una guitarra. Por suerte Papa Noel le trajo exactamente lo que queria!

Santa's visit at Grandma Bonnie's annual Christmas Eve Christmas party.

La visita de Papa Noel en la fiesta Navidena de mi abuela.

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve Argentine Style! After Grandma Bonnie's party we went to Gaston and Andrea's house for more food and a midnight celebration!

Navidad con nuestros amigos de Argentina! Despues de la fiesta en la casa de mi abuela, fuimos a la casa de Gaston y Andrea para seguir la festejando! Feliz Navidad!

Nikolas loved opening his presents! He was really careful and didn't want to throw any paper on the floor. He would pull off a piece and then hand it to me and say, "here mommy." Funny kid!

A Nikolas le encanto abrir sus regalos! Los abria con mucho cuidado y ni queria para nada tirar papel en el piso. Sacaba un pedazo de papel, me lo traia y decia, "toma mami." Que chico!

Here's a video especially for Abuela Mari, playing his guitar. Aca hay un video especialmente para la Abuela Mari, Nikolas tocando su guitarra.

Not only did he open his presents but he helped EVERYBODY else open their presents too!

No solo abrio Nikolas los regalos de el, pero ayudo a TODOS abrir sus regalos tambien!

Nikolas Iyael Dimitricoff: Future Engineer
Nikolas would much rather take his toys apart than play with them. He latest obsession is with batteries. He loves "pee-as" (pilas is batteries in spanish). He finds which toys have batteries and brings them to Cristian and I and wants us to help him get the batteries out. Whoever invented the screw on lids for toys with batteries must have had a little guy like ours. We repeatedly tell him that if we take the batteries out, the toy will not work anymore. Do you think he cares? So now he takes it upon himself to get a screw driver and get the batteries out himself.

A Nikolas le gusta mas desarmar sus juguetes que jugar con ellos. Su ultima obsesion son las pilas (las pias). El encuentra los juguetes que sabe que llevan baterias y las trae a Cristian o a mi para que las saquemos. El que invento las tapas donde van las baterias con tornillos, seguramente tenia un hijo como el nuestro. Nosotros le decimos todo el tiempo que si sacamos las baterias el juguete no va a andar mas...pensan que a el le importa? Entonces ahora el busca un destornillador y trata de sacarlas el mismo.

Caught in the act! This piano is one of the few toys he has that doesn't have the screw on lid. Notice he still has a screw driver in hand.

Agarrado con las manos en la masa. ese piano es uno de los pocos juguetes que no tiene tornillos en la tapa de las pilas y fijense que todavia tiene un destornillador en la mano.

He takes them out, then puts them back in!

El las saca y las vuelve a poner!

"Papi, help."
"Papi, ayudame"

ElfYourself

This is so funny! Watch the links below!

Esto es bien chistoso! Hace click abajo para ver un video de nosotros y otro de los hermanos de Cristian.

http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/OHvhu8nfvd1XGf6t/ZU4U93vgryyRVEa413p7Sl4L

http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/MvbnqoQDX0Q1z56B#/owner/MvbnqoQDX0Q1z56B

Baby Dimitricoff #2

I think most of you already know that we are expecting baby #2 in May, but for those of you who don't "SURPRISE"! Here are the ultrasound pics at my 12 week appointment. CUTE! The Dr. says everything looks good and our little one has a strong heart beat. We are excited for him/her to join our family. Nikolas is very excited. If we ask him were baby is, he immediately wants to lift up my shirt and expose my little baby bump. He never forgets to kiss my belly every morning and say "good morning baby" and he can't go to bed at night without a "night night baby" and another kiss. More stories to come. . .
Creo que la mayoria de Uds saben que Chan esta embarazada de nuevo con el bb numero 2, pero para los que no sabian "SOPRESA!" Abajo estan las fotos del bb a las 12 semanas. Que lindo! El Dr. dice que todo se ve bien y que el corazon late fuerte. Estamos contentos para tener otro bebito en nuestra familia. Nikolas esta bien contento! Si le preguntamos "donde esta el bebe"? Inmediatamente levanta mi remera para mostrar mi panza. Niko nunca se olvida de darle un beso a mi panza cada manana y decirle "buen dia bebe" ni puede ir a dormir a la noche sin decirle "buenas noches bebe" y darle otro beso. Mas historias vendran. . .

"Eight" Tag

8 Favorite TV Shows (or channels):
Studio 5
What Not to Wear
Biggest Loser
Anything on HGTV
Deal or No Deal
Food Network
Jazz games
The news (I know, kind of nerdy)

8 Favorite Restaurants:
Applebee's
Cafe Sabor
Olive Garden
Sizzler (I love their salad bar)
Cafe Rio
Wendy's (dollar menu. . .this is more in our price range than any of the others)
Blue Bird
El Sol

8 Things that happened yesterday:
I cleaned my kitchen
I got two hours all to myself. (Cristian took Niko to a meeting)
I actually showered, did my hair and got my make-up on all by noon.
Read lots of books with Nikolas.
Went to Enrichment.
Watched Lucy.
Worked.
Nikolas ate all of his food.

8 Things I'm looking forward to:
Thanksgiving
cutting down our Christmas tree
this nice weather we are having
feeling baby move
date night on friday (it's been a long time)
starting and finishing scrapbook gift
not puking every morning
Cristian finishing school (still have two years :(

8 Things I love about fall:
Beautiful leaves
perfect temperatures
Halloween
Thanksgiving
playing in the leaves with Nikolas
eating soup
good excuse to stay inside with a blanket and hot chocolate
pumpkins

8 people I tag:
Well since i think I only have 9 people on my blog list and one of them tagged me, I guess I have to tag everyone on my blog list. :)

Batman

So I really wanted Nikolas to dress up as something "traditional Halloween" like a skeleton or a vampire, etc, but when he saw the Batman costume, he fell in love! He literally wore his costume daily for a week before Halloween and was so proud that he got to wear it all day on Halloween. We had a fun day! We trick-or-treated down main street with Melissa and Lucy, ate lunch at Cristian's work, went to a Halloween carnival, trick-or-treated in Mom and Dad's neigborhood and visited Grandma Bonnie. Nikolas was in heaven and ate candy ALL day long. What the heck, Halloween only comes once a year!

Nikolas se enamoro de un disfraz de Batman. Se lo puso todos los dias por una semana antes de Halloween y no lo queria sacar ni un segundo el dia de Halloween. Hicimos actividades todo el dia y le dieron un monton de caramelos. Comio muchisimos dulces pero bueno, es una vez al ano, no?

Isn't he so cute? (Yes, that is my purse. . .he's obsessed with it. I'm trying to convert him to a little backpack.) What? Batman can't have a purse?

Lindo, no? (Si, esa es mi cartera. . .le encantan las carteras. Estoy tratando de convencerle que las mochilas son para varones.) Que? Batman no puede tener cartera?

All dressed up!

Grandma with the grandkids. Skylar wasn't there.

La abuela con sus nietos. Falta Skylar.

Guess who?

Adivina quien?

Batman and Batwoman! What a great couple!

Batman y Batwoman! Linda pareja!