Twins move out of their cribs, Nikolas's phone conversations

Sonja and Michael got their twin XL size beds in place of their cribs. For one week we put Nikolas and Michael in the room together, and Sonja in Nikolas's old room to see how that would work out. Every morning the boys would get up unbelievably early (I never found out exactly when, but for sure by 6am) and played with legos, cars, books, etc underneath a tent that they made out of blankets that they hung from the bunk bed. So much energy, screeching and giggles were a bit too much for the early hours... and poor Sonja next door couldn't even open the door to come out to play with them. The boys went to sleep without too much fuss (actually, Michael is bar far the easiest kid to put down, he won't even let you sing a song to him--he immediately puts his head on your shoulder, and if you are sitting on his bed, he'll wriggle out and lay down on one side, put his head on his arm and close his eyes). At the same time, Sonja would be at the door as soon as we'd walk out of the room. She'd yell and cry, and after a few attempts to calm her down and make her go to bed, she'd still quietly move to the door and fall asleep there on the floor.
Eventually we decided to keep the twins together (plus save us effort of shuffling their clothes and toys from one room to another), so Nikolas went back to his old room and Sonja and Michael got the bunk beds that we separated rather than stacked. Michael slid out of his once or twice and that was it, but Sonja still keeps falling asleep on the floor in front of the door. Now she is getting Michael in trouble too: instead of letting him sleep in his bed, she's move into his bed as soon as I'd leave the room and poke him and talk until he was awake and up with her and then they would be standing at the window together looking out and talking or playing with blocks or at night laying on their blankets together right in front of the door. When I'd walk into the room, Michael would have such a guilty face and would lie down on his bed barely suppressing crying, and Sonja would go lie on her bed too but with not much of a guilty look, in fact, with a look that guaranteed that she'd get up again as soon as I left the room.

Nikolas feels he needs to talk on the phone whenever Robb or I are on it. The other day he spent 20min talking on the phone with grandma, pacing around the driveway the same way Robb paces. He actively participated, with a serious look on his face asking questions like 'What are you doing now?', talking about what he plays with, what he does at school, what Sonja and Mikica are doing... it was amazing to watch and listen!
Nikolas counts: jedan, dva, tri... jedanaest, dvanaest, trinaest, cetiriprst!
He reads simple words. The other day though, where he was supposed to read 'Nikolas jede.' (Nikolas eats.), he read: 'Nikolas ljencuga.' (Nikolas, lazy bum.)

The latest fun in the front yard: popping packing bubbles, skateboarding, biking:

Kids' annual dr. appt

Nikolas:
height: 42" (90%), weight: 36lb (45%)
Sonja:
height: 35" (80%), weight: 25lb (45%)
Michael:
height: 34" (45%). weight: 23lb (5%)

Michael is like a parrot now: Nikolas likes to tell him, Michael, say such and such, and he'll repeat it. He is pretty good! A lot of those words he probably doesn't know what they mean, but he knows to say 'Bopta (lopta) pala na pod' (A ball fell on the floor). He also calls for 'meko' (mlijeko)=milk, and voda (water). Still, when he wants food, he calls for 'meso' (meat). I guess I'd been pushing meat at him too much to gain some weight, so now that's his word for food! Then still he says 'baci' (throw) when he wants me to put him down, like when I pick him up to put him in bed.
He recently also started including the word 'necu!' (I don't want to!) He has to keep up with Sonja's incessant NO!'s.

Nikolas is now 100% potty trained. He's been sleeping in his underwear for the past couple of week instead of pull-ups, and it's been working flawlessly, after the first couple of mishaps.