Lots of happenings

Been lazy and falling behind on updates. Nicholas is still his hard headed full of personality self. It seems like the past month or so he's gotten more and more stubborn with everything. His favorite word is "NO" although he'll throw in a "yes please" when he really wants something. LOL!
He shocked me this past week when we sat down to eat lunch. He was already in his high chair starting in on his meal when I sat down with my plate. He said, "Mama hand" and I thought how sweet he wants to hold my hand, awwwww. Then he kept looking at me kind of like, well....I'm waiting.....suddenly it dawned on me, he wants to say prayer. Rich & Kenya & I have always held hands and said prayer before meals and here he was asking to say prayer. We said our prayer and Nicholas said, "maymen" and now we pray with him before each meal, often quite a few times and we've started our bedtime prayer as well.

Last Friday Rich gave Nicholas his 2nd haircut. That's his 2nd haircut in his life and his 2nd haircut in the past 2 months. His hair is growing incredibly fast!
Getting ready for Halloween, we're going to a pumpkin patch this weekend, and the weather is changing. Getting colder everyday.

He sings and he's so sweet he gets eaten

He sings his ABCs and his favoritest song ever, Wheels On The Bus! The ABCs just came about yesterday. As I sing he sings along with me, you can kind of make out some of the letters and when the song is over, he's so proud of himself he claps and gives the biggest loudest Yaaaaay you've ever heard!
Wheels On The Bus is his all time favorite though. He's got the hand motions and words down pat for the horn goes beep beep beep, baby goes wah wah wah, and the mommy goes shh shh shh. Then he sings All thru the TOWN!
I'm going to try to get this on tape over the weekend but his normal MO is to stop performing as soon as he sees the camera


One of the worst things ever, my little boy is so sweet he's been getting eaten alive by some elusive invisible insect. I assume it's a mosquito or a gang of mosquitos. Last Saturday his ankle got all swollen and red, he had a welt on his cheek and only after doses of Benadryl did I realize he had been bitten about 7 times on one ankle! Yesterday morning he woke up with a huge I mean HUGE knot on his forehead right in between his eyebrows. He looked like cyclops. Another bite! What kind of crazy stinking bug bites a baby right in between the eyes? It's on if I see that bugger, I'm ready to take him down

Apparently I need to lose weight

At least Nicholas thinks so. This weekend he lifted up my shirt, smacked my belly, said moo moo cow, the fluffed my tummy and used it for a pillow. Whoa, that's a blow to the ego when your 1 year old calls you fat without knowing that he just called you fat. I guess I need to start some crunches.

Haircut

I almost forgot! Nicholas got his first haircut right before we left for Texas. I doubted getting it done at first, II almost forgot! Nicholas got his first haircut right before we left for Texas. I doubted getting it done at first, I couldn't imagine cutting off my baby's curls. Rich asked the stylist to take half off. We got thru it with a bit of crying, lots of wiggling, two lollipops, some Sponge Bob cartoons and Mommy holding Nicholas on her lap. I couldn't believe how much older he looked after it was all done. He looks like such a big boy! I'm so glad we got it done though it's much easier to manage, it's cooler, and he looks so good. I can't believe I let him run around with all that crazy hair and didn't get it clipped sooner.
Here's a few photos

The before:

The during:

The After:

Vacation and First Night Alone

Nicholas and I were on vacation the first week of August. We went to TX for McKinzy's first birthday. We stayed a week and were able to visit with Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Kathy, and Baby Mac (as Nicholas calls her). We had some rough times. I learned my son DOES NOT like for anyone else to be the center of attention, and he can really put on a show when he's not getting his way. I think he had more time outs that week than he had his entire life up to that point. Between the two babies hitting, screaming, throwing, and not sharing it was never ever quiet nor boring.
We had some set backs with the potty training. He had his big boy undies all set and ready to go. The first full day we were there he did great, not a single accident! By the 2nd day, he wanted to wear diapers, go back to a bottle, and have a pacifier. He wanted to be the baby. My poor guy, it was hard for him being in a new place with new people without his regular routine and without his Daddy. It was a nice trip but I think a week was too long to have him away from home. Maybe next year it will be better because both kids will be 2 or maybe we'll cut the trip shorter and it will be more tolerable.

Here's a couple of photos of the cousins in action

and here's a face I saw a lot of that week.

I also spent my first night alone without Nicholas this past weekend. My grandfather isn't doing so well and I went to Pennsylvania to see him. I would up having to stay thru the night until we could determine how critical my grandfather was and I didn't have Nicholas with me. I think it was harder on me than it was on him. I still wanted to drive home at 1a.m. just so I could be there in case he woke up in the middle of the night. Rich said he had a rough day and was looking for his Mama but Ms. Commock stayed the night as well and they made it thru. I had a hard time going to sleep that night and couldn't wait to get him to see him Sunday morning. I don't think I want to do that again for a good long while.

Guess what?????????

Love you!!!!

I've been saying this to Nicholas since just about the day he was born. I say guess what, pause a second then say, love you. Just for fun. I said this to him earlier and the week and to my surprise I said guess what, he said duv do. He really does melt my heart.

If I don't laugh....I'll cry

Yesterday was my day off. Nicholas & I ran an errand, went for a walk, then just spent the rest of the day at home. We ate lunch, vacuumed the bathrooms, kitchen, and living room. He took a nap. Then he woke up and it began. I don't know what happened while he was sleeping but my sweet little boy woke up a complete and total monster. I have never seen these tantrums and antics from him before. I seriously had to check to make sure that somebody didn't sneak in and replace my wonderful baby with some misbehaved hooligan while he was napping. He didn't get his way (he wanted to pull the vaccum out for the 3rd time) then threw himself on the floor in front of the laundry room door and screamed a scream I've never experienced before. He kicked the door, rolled all over, sobbed, pounded his fists. Where did this come from? I left him and said when he was done and felt like coming downstairs to join me, I'd see him then. So I heard this God awful scream and sobbing and pounding coming down the stairs and I thought my poor baby was tumbling. I went running to see that it was just him coming down one step at a time, pausing, beating the step, and screaming. Then he moved on to the next step.
He threw toys down the stairs, hit me, banged the walls with every toy he owns. I put him in time out and when I came around the corner to tell him it was ok to get up now, he saw me and said "boo" then laughed like crazy. He thought it was a game, it was sooooo hilarious to him. Me, I wasn't thinking it was so fun but I had to laugh. If I didn't, I would have cried my eyes out. I'm hoping this was just a random fluke of a bad day and this isn't a peek into the future of the "terrible twos"

Ladies Man

Yes, I have a bonafide ladies man on my hands. We went walking on the boardwalk and pier Saturday around 6:oopm. Normally we go really early in the morning and there's hardly anybody out there - just some fishermen and a handful of older folks getting exercise. When we went at 6:00 it was still slightly crowded there were tons of ladies to fawn all over Nicholas. How can they resist? He waves at them and says, "hiiiiii", bats his eyes, turns his head to the side, and gives a sly little half smile. Then he turns to Mommy, buries his head in between my legs and acts all shy. Aaaaawwwww, isn't he the cutest? Isn't he adorable? Yeah ladies, he is. And he's working you too. He's playing you for your compliments. How do I know this? When he sees a man, he waves and keeps on walking.

I NEED THIS!

OMG I want this swimsuit! We live near the beach, Nicholas loves the beach, I hate to go to the beach because I refuse to wear a swimsuit. I think the last time I wore a swimsuit was when I was a freshman in highschool and weighed about 125 pounds and had zero fat on me anywhere. I think this swimsuit might just change all that. (from www.retrodress.com) I might actually be able to take Nicholas into the water like a normal Mommy.

Animal sounds

Nicholas is making animal sounds now. Ducks say gack gack, Monkeys say hoo hoo, and dogs say woof! Everytime we see a dog he barks at it. I'm kind of concerned when we go to Texas in 2 weeks and he spends the whole time in the house with my parent's Golden Retriever, he might to get too familiar. I have that fear of animals and kids together (I know it stems from our sweet, cuddly, loving family dog trying to eat me like Thanksgiving dinner when I was about 13). I'm sure all will be fine and Nicholas will probably make a new buddy in Riggins, but I know I'll be in full-on Mama mode the whole time ready to pounce to protect my little one.

Back to Blogging

I'm super duper bad at keeping up with blogs and the such. I think I was fooling myself when I said I was going to document every milestone , event, and cute antecdote throught Nicholas' life on this blog (or anywhere for that matter - my babybook is non-existant). The only thing I'm decently good at keeping up with are pictures.

After reading a friend's blog today about her son (this goes out to Miss Sara and Mister Marino), I've been inspired so I thought I'd give it a whirl again.

What better way to start up than with a cute little story from this week:
I was off on Wednesday this week so I spend the day home with Nicholas. About 8:00 that morning we went down to the boardwalk to stroll (that's code for we went down to the boardwalk to let Nicholas run himself silly in the hopes that he would conk out for a good nap later in the morning). As we were walking along Nicholas said, "here", which normally means he's handing me a rock, or a stick, or a filthy nasty piece of something that's he's picked up off the ground. This time though, I looked down and he was giving me his hand. So we walked along for a little bit just holding hands. Aaaawwwwwww. I melted, it was so sweet. Nicholas isn't a terribly cuddly little guy, I'll get a hug or a kiss from time to time and he certainly hates when I make him hold my hand crossing the street. So for him to want to hold my hand was enough to almost bring Mommy to tears. I'm looking forward to more cuddly days.