Nicole's Adventures

 Here are some little stories about things that Ollie says and does.  He is write the little character nowadays. As Luke has kind of taken a side step from his hot wheels, it seems like Ollie has stepped into the void and he is enjoying hot wheels city and racing cars down the tracks.  He loves to sing, he can Happy Birthday in English and Portuguese. And for people who aren't Portuguese, almost none of the words repeat themselves in PT, so you have to learn a lot of words which I think is very impressive for a two year old. He loves Cookie Monster. He will dress up as Cookie Monster for Halloween, and I will be his sidekick, Elmo. Luke really wanted to get him to join in the Pokemon theme but Ollie wasn't having that. The day it came in the mail, we had to bust it out of the packaging and put it on, even though it was 25 degrees or something that day. He was completely covered in sweat but so happy to have his cookie. He has a Seasame Street book with buttons and songs a...

I started writing this post while Ollie was sleeping on me on the airplane, but finished slowly and surely over the next five months.  We arrived in Croatia and the weather seemed so dark, of course I was bummed because coming to the Mediterranean, I couldn't wait to escape the rain! First things first, (after getting organized in our rental car) was to find some lunch! We flew from Madrid so we could have a direct flight, however we woke up at 2am to start our trip. The boys did well but we were super drained that day. We still aren't quite sure it was worth it. 😀   Anyways we saw a restaurant on the side of the road and stopped. We went with a safe bet for the kids and got pizza and it was so yummy! It would have been the most beautiful view however the clouds blocked our visibility. Then we made our way to our Airbnb in lapad , which is a more residential area of Dubrovnik. The host was lovely and met us and helped bring our things into the house. The place had a designate...