The life of kids

We were interviewed and photographed today for a little story the Neighborhood Notes newsletter is doing about families who live in the Pearl District in Portland. After Rome and I thought about it for a while, we decided that we most likely have the biggest family that lives in the Pearl! If our family of 5 isn't the biggest, we must be on the top of the list! Most people have the idea that not many children live downtown because it isn't child friendly. Well, that totally isn't the case--downtown is very child friendly. The main hinderance is there aren't any first time homes to buy downtown. We are lucky to be where we are right now, even though we are renting. All of us have enjoyed living in the Pearl. I don't know where our future will bring us, but for the first few years of our kids life, this has been almost perfect. Now, if they would just build us a 1,500 sq. ft. condo, for about $150,000, next to Centenial Mills and the new park, we may stay longer. We can't rent forever, but we will enjoy it while we can!

April Fools' Day! We went to OMSI this morning -- Mom and 3 boys, for the first time. The boys made April Fools' Day Jester Hats. The 3 boys together are doing great!

Found in the Graham Leader we got in the mail today. All 3 boys were announced in the Graham Leader, I have Alyosha's somewhere, here is Nikolai's but Luka's is missing. If anyone out there in the world has the paper from December 2006 or January 2007, we don't want a kid to be left out! That reminds me, I have to look for the May 2004 one to make sure!

Luka likes to nurse his baby while I am nursing Niki. Two minutes later his baby is laying face down under the futon behind the skateboards. Fortunately, Niki isn't so easily forgotten.