Emptying out the old camera....

We received a great new camera for our birthdays and so it is time to get all the pictures off of the old camera and start fresh with the new one at Kazapalooza! It is the downloading part of the camera that is broken so it requires Pat to take the camera to work and download off of the SD chip to a disc and then bring home to me to download into our My Pictures files....major pain! Very thankful for the new camera! So here goes with some random picture time!

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I've had this picture below for awhile but don't think that I downloaded it....Nick is all about his daddy these days and wants to do everything like Pat. This picture was taken after dinner. Pat had put his feet up to relax and next thing you know Nick pulled up a chair to relax also! Cute!



Nic has not been all that into puzzles. Pat and I love them. We did several in Kazakhstan on our long winter days. He received a pirate one for his birthday and he finally stopped long enough to work the whole thing with me one evening.....I was so proud and he was too!





Nick loves the How I became a Pirate books and we found out that the children's theatre here was doing a musical rendition of the book! It was fabulous and Nick never moved once.....he was mesmerized! So cool! We could not take pictures during the play but I got one before with his ticket!


As much as I hate to have my picture taken along with the fact that I am usually the photographer, I realized during our last post adoption report that it will take great effort to get pics of me with Nick vs. Dad with Nick so I am trying to make an effort albeit torture!





Anyone who knows me well knows that I am a picky cake eater. I am not big on sweets but I am very particular. I am mostly picky about icing. I hate the new fondant or whipped cream stuff...I am old school.....crisco and powdered sugar or butter cream types are my favorites. My friend Amy's mom made me my cake this year and it was FABULOUS. Thanks so much Mrs. S!
She had all these extra touches that made it so pretty and one of a kind. I think she might regret doing it this time.....she might be booked for years to come!








Nick continues to be my little creative genius. Last week, he decided that all his animals were going on a plane ride. He directed them all to their seats.........I love the little penguin sitting behind Mr. Moose....there are 5-6 moose riding the plane also. Can you tell it was a theme in the early days!? :)


And, then, pilot Nick gave the speech and proceeded to take off......to Mars! :)

Nick graduated from Preschool and we went for his little performance and reception last Friday. He was not all that thrilled to be in the performance this year but he made it thru without too much drama and we took pictures of his "diploma"! :)

More Creativity.....Nick and his friend Logan were Chefs and they wanted chef's hats which we did not have so they improvised.....hilarious. I love the look on Nick's face. Pure Kid joy!

We finished out the year at speech with our neighborhood elementary school. We love the office ladies and Nick has developed quite a friendship with Ms. Marie.....she lets him into her stamp drawer! Since we will be going to the Spanish Immersion school next year, we will not see them for Kindergarten. They were all sad and so were we.......

We were even more sad to say goodbye to Mrs. Hellard, our very special speech teacher. Luckily, she has a little boy just a year older than Nick and we are planning a playdate soon!

So many final visits this month. I have been quite emotional about his last Bible Study Fellowship class until first grade, his last preschool class, his last preschool sunday school class, and his last speech class at James Lane Allen. He has been very blessed to have the many of the same teachers for both of his first two years as our son. God was good to us. He had structure, consistency, and lots of grace and love from these folks. They helped us introduce many things to our son like God, family, love, friendship, school, fun, crafts, etc. Many days, I would drop off Nick at BSF or preschool exhausted from conflict and they would accept him with open arms and for that 2 or 3 hours, we both rested from the "changes" of new family life. I tried to make sure all of his teachers knew how much they meant to us in this first two years and they will forever have a place in our heart as our team Kitzman Most valuable Players!! I know he will most likely have many more special leaders and teachers but this group will always be special.....

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Kazapalooza is here.......see you all in a few days!

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(I have one more post from the old camera but waiting on permission to post pictures of the sweetest little boy and his family who we were honored to have dinner and park play extraordinaire with last Saturday night!) :)