Blogging-time

Both girls have been fighting colds, but have kept their smiles for the most part.  Vivian continues to crack us up with her singing and all-around silliness.  Everything we do is "something"-time to her.  Song-time, bath-time, book-time, Barbie-time, hug-time, cereal-time, potty-time, boot-time, chu[r]ch-time, Pippy-time (watching her own movies), etc.

sad-time              -----              surprise-time

Nina also loves to sing these days and shouts out a lot of trendy songs from the radio, Katy Perry being a particular favorite.  Both girls request songs in the car and it's funny to hear what they've become attached to, Jagwar Ma's "Come and Save Me" being a surprising favorite of both.  Vivian is also singing twinkle twinkle, the ABCs, and itsy bitsy spider in a minor fashion.

We've gotten into March madness and have been playing a bit more ball these days.  Nina and Ben even made a trip to watch the Gophers play in the NIT.  Nina loved watching Goldy Gopher and using spirit fingers for free throws.  Vivian went swimming on Friday night and gets braver ever trip.  We all headed to Edinborough park for a fun night of climbing and gym-time.  Vivian loved the obstacles in the play area and sliding, while Nina preferred riding and playing basketball.  In our more frequent trips outside, we were happily surprised to see our ice cream shop has opened up!

"Spring" Break

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The Naks had a chance to relax a bit this past week during Ben's spring break.  They made a trip to Grandma and Grandpa's, went to the zoo with Annie, Adam, and Maggie, and got to hang out with Big Adam.  We made a few trips to the park and the girls did a fair amount of shoveling, drawing, and dancing.  Their current favorite song to dance to is Usher's ABCs from Sesame Street, as shown above.

I do it

Well, we survived January and February and now we get to go outside again.  Many of our favorite parks are buried, but it's still good to breathe fresh air again.  It was fun to have Nana come up for a visit, although it went by far too quickly.  The girls always love seeing her and ask about her as soon as she leaves.  After Vivian's nap, she asked, "Nana… coming?"

Fun with Nana    ----    Drawing Papa (dad did the hair and glasses)

Where's the bench?       ------    Happy sliding

Nina's recent finger-puppet shows never lack imagination and Vivian's talking continues to make us laugh.  Even little lines like, "Idunno, where is it?," and "shobel," crack us up every time.  She scolded Nina this morning with the near sentence of, "Nina… socks… throw them… no, no, no, Nina."

Rock the cradle    ------    Making Samurai helmets

Nak Olympics

With the end of the Olympics, we thought it would be important to recap what happened at the Nak Olympics.

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Vivian loves to shovel and requests to do so every time she gets out of the car.  Kara recently asked her if she was Vivian and she replied, "No, Pippy."  She says a lot of 2 and 3-word phrases lately, with high frequencies of "need it," "want it," and "have it."

Nina continues her love for music and literal translations, and she recently scoffed at the fact that Paul would ask someone to feed him when he's 64.  She also thought Sara Bareilles was confusing with lyrics like, "say what you want to say, and let the words fall out," because if your words fell out, then you wouldn't be saying anything.

Vivian has even gotten in on the singing action, mostly shouting the "heys" and "ohs."  When running around in her box car at Barb's, she'll occasionally give a Drive My Car line of: "beep-beep yeah!"

Ringoooooo

Nina has taken to loving one of our favorite things… The Beatles.  She requests their music, their videos, and even likes to play Beatles Rock Band on the Wii.  She takes their lyrics pretty literally so finds humor in a lot of lines we normally overlook like, "why are they singing about a baby driving a car?" and "why do they need so much help?" and "why does John say 'hold me'?  The Beatles are too big for someone to hold them."  She thinks Ringo is the funniest and attributes any funny lyrics to him. It was wonderful timing and a cool experience to see the Grammy's tribute to the Beatles and watch it live with Nina.  She enjoyed seeing a few other singers she knew, and sang along with Paul and Ringo as they performed.

Which leads us to another list of funny words Vivian now says: "RINGOOOOO!"  Hearing drums, or Nina talking about the Beatles, and she'll shout it out.  She also says finger, hippo, Babar, and shabby in funny ways.  She says "knock knock" and when asked who's there, she usually replies, "Nana."  The joke ends there.  :)  She has also started saying "her tur" whenever she thinks it's her turn for something (usually food).  Lastly, whenever she leaves a place, she will yell, "byeeee, see yaaa."

Family Day at a Rec Center

Potato-head glasses     -----     Sheriff Woody

Tracing Pip's hand         ------       Drawing Olympic Rings