The Two Wonderful's...

Nyoka and I had the privileged to take care of these two wonderful boys. This is Aron and Christain. They are our nephews. Nyoka's sister's boy's. They were here with us from 05 July 2004, til the end of November 2004. It was a wondeful experience. Something that I would do over and over and over and over... I would not have traded spending time with these boys for anything in the world. And I know Nyoka would agree with me. We are always thinking about them and how we miss them so much.

When they were here, Aron was two and Chris was one. We celebrated both their birthdays here. Aron's birthday was 10 July and Chris's birthday was 27 August.

We took them to Disneyland, and Legoland. Took them camping on the beach, which was quite fun. They played in the sand. They played in the ocean. It was cold but they still got into the water. We took them to the movie's. We watched Polar Express, and The Incredible's. Chris was sucha hoot at the theater. Nyoka is always telling friends and families about Chris and his popcorn. Oh yeah, and about drink in the theater as well. Everytime she tells that story, I end up laughing.

What was amazing was that both Aron and Chris arrived wearing diapers. By the time they left, they were both in pull-ups. We started potty training Aron around the end on July. So he went from wearing diapers to pull-ups. The beginning was hard. We took him to the potty about 3-4 times in an hour. Somehow he would never go. Instead, he would go in hos pull-up. Yes it was frustrated, but we had to have patients. I'm going to cut this story short. In the end it worked out fine. I think the hard part about potty training would have to be, number two. You know the smelling one. Anyways. After while, I thought to myself, since we're potty training Aron, we might as well potty Chris. Kill two birds with one stone. Chris was just like is brother, started out slow. but after awhile he go the hang of it. Oh yeah the code names for Number One and Number Two were, "YELLOW" and "EEWW"

During the porcess of potty training, Nyoka got a lot of tips from friends and co-wotkers about potty training. The two that we decided to use was giving them a treat, which was Peanut M&M and a Star. It was quite a treat hearing Aron and Chris asking for M&M.

There were so much more that we did with them. I would like to post them all, but it would be like a novel by the time I finished. Aron and Christain, we miss you and Love you both very much. Thank you Chenoa for lettting us take care of them.

Aron and Christain, September 2004

Aron and Christain, July 2005