.dear.readers.

Please allow me to share about something new I have recently discovered! As you can see on the pictures below, I figured out that books are fun. For now, I love leafing through them (with some help). When doing this, I always wonder what it would be like to munch on some of those colorful things displayed on the pages. Unfortunately, my mom tells me that I shouldn't do it. She also says that it is much more interesting to read those letters that are around those colorful things. I guess I should believe her, because so far, she has been right about most things ... I can't wait until I am able to read!

Yours,
Nina

Let me tell you about reading ...

Here I am, hard at work ...

Reading is fun! You should try it too!

.dormant.

No, we are not in suspended animation because of the winter, we are just busy. If a news reporter would come to our house, here is what you would hear on the news:

• Father Works Tirelessly At College
• Mother Raises Daughter Nina
• Teething Kills Schedules
• Family Visits Relatives in Serbia and Croatia
• Non-Profit Work Keeps Father Busy
  
• An Appreciation for How We Survided Communism And Even Laughed
• Exceptional Artist Visits Family
• Parents Enjoy Crime Scene Investigators

Hello, my friend

What do you want from me?

Let me think ...

I think I know ...

You want to play with me and make me giggle :)

.still.

Y'all need to see the pictures that our friend from Texas, Mackenzie Rollins took of Nina this week, so click here and here to see the pictures.

.lost.in.translation.

This post has been in the making for the last two days. Serious things were taken into consideration, stories were told again and again, gestures were reinterpreted, the internet was consulted for the most appropriate expressions.

In thinking of the post I had several ideas about what the title of it should be, so here are some of my initial thoughts:

• ridiculous - to indicate the bizarreness of the situation
• afraid - to show the horror of what happened
• cry - to illustrate how emotional we all were
  

But before I could write the post our friend Mackenzie shared the story on her blog. Since she already did it, and because she is much better with words than me, you should read her account of the events in her longest post ever, here.