More funniness out of the mouth of my babe

-We were reading a book, talking about the pictures & what the characters were doing in them. Nicholas puts his hands on top of his head, starts rubbing it, and says "Mommy, this is my imagination."

-Hilarious & disturbing...Nicholas has started singing the "Barney song"..you know, the "I love you, you love me"...except his song goes "I love boobs, you love boobs, I love boobs" I DID NOT TEACH HIM THIS.

-We were on the floor rolling around, tickling, wrestling and Nicholas says, "Get ready Mommy, I gonna walk on your face."

-We were singing a song and Nicholas says to me, "Mommy I gonna put tape on your mouth."

He's a sweet kid, really he is.

North Beach Get Together

We met some Mommies and little ones at the beach on Saturday. It was a wonderful fun day, lots of sun but not too hot, lots of water & sand play, lots of good times for everybody.


Here's Sara, "Darino", and me. All that mattered to Nicholas was that Marino was coming to "his beach" to play with him.

Nicholas & the ladies...Sydney, Natalie, Emily, Morgan, & Lily is just out of shot.

Concentrated sand castle building

My water baby

By the end of the day, everybody was pretty worn out and Nicholas was a bit grumpy.

Picture of the Week

This week's theme: LITTLE ONES ACTING GROWN-UP


Here's Nicholas laying on the couch watching TV in his undies. He's headed for manhood already

End of the month lookback, July

I think I skipped June so I have to get back on track.


July 2008, 4 months old


July 2009, 16 months old

July 2010, a bit over 2 years old

A surprise gift for me.

I recently went to bed late one night, laid my head down on my pillow, & felt a large lump jabbing me in the back of my skull. I reached my hand under my pillow to find my loving son had left me a gift....a tennis ball. He's always thinking of me.

Kids say the darndest things...

At least my kid does anyway. Here's a few Nicholasisms of late.

-Nicholas asked to go to the store one evening on the way home. I told him we didn't need anything at the store that day and I didn't have money to just go to the store and buy something. So he says to me, "Mommy, we go to the store and buy money."

-We're riding in the car going through a hilly area, up & down. Nicholas says "Mommy you go too fast I want to go down a little bit." Meaning Mommy, slow down.

-And my least favorite, out of nowhere Nicholas says, "Mommy, you a pig." Then proceeds to oink at me.

Summer Time Haircut

Nicholas got a summer time haircut from his Daddy. I miss the curls already and he looks so grown up. Still my handsome boy though.

Picture of the Week

This week's theme: Little ones making faces

Marino's 2nd Birthday Party

Nicholas was invited to his first birthday party last weekend. His only concern before accepting the invitation is do they have birthday hats and cake. Since they did, he was happy to go and had a great time! All the kids did (and I think the parents too).

The party was at Romp N Roll. They had tons of mats and slides and jumpy things and fun games for the kids.
Here's Nicholas climbing up a rock wall

Marino & his Daddy

A parachute game

Dancing with bubbles


Catching bubbles

Here's the birthday boy with his Yo Gabba Gabba hat

Balloons, hats, kids, kids, and more kids

Nicholas in the ever important birthday hat

Chowing down on some cake and Rita's Italian Ice. (Sara knows how to make me a BFF really quick)

A shot of Marino and his gorgeous Mommy, Sara. I'm so sorry this photo came out so blurry, it's a really sweet picture.

Picture of the Week

This week's theme: 4th of July Little Ones

Here's Nicholas on his first 4th of July in 2008. He was almost 4 months old.

Picture of the Week

This week's theme: Little ones and their friends



Here's Nicholas & his best buddy, his cousin, McKinzy. They took turns giving fishy kisses.

California Vacation, June 2010

We're back from California. We had a long trip but a nice trip. We came home exhausted but with some good times and great memories.

Our first day we went to Castle Park amusement park. Nicholas LOVED all of the rides. He's going to be a thrill seeker for sure. He was really upset that he wasn't tall enough to get on the roller coaster or bumper cars. I was kind of relieved.

Here he is flying an airplane way up high.

Riding a tiger on the carousel

Nicholas & Mommy on the carousel. This ride is more my speed.

Bad to the bone on a motorcycle.

Flying a spaceship


Nicholas went swimming in the pool for the first time. The water was extremely cold but he really enjoyed it.

Nicholas & Kenya in the pool



Monday we left the hotel at about 5:30am and drove in tons of traffic to the Laker's championship parade.
L.A. traffic & skyline

Walking to the parade

Eating ice cream waiting for the parade to start

Nicholas & his cousin, Demetrius playing before the parade

Nicholas & Demetrius & Demarcus still waiting for the parade to start

Fans lining the street

Lots of people

Eating more ice cream, waiting for the parade to start.

Some wigged out fans

Nicholas & Alicia

Go Lakers

Nicholas has a great view from Daddy's shoulders

A Laker fan

LAPD motorcycles

Here comes the Lakers

Laker girls


Pau Gasol

If you ever wondered what the back of Magic Johnson looks like, here it is

I swore this man was Phil Jackson and was happy I got a pretty good picture. Then I later found out he wasn't even at the parade. Now I have no idea who this guy is.

Derek Fisher


By the end of the day Nicholas was passed out. I don't know why but he insisted on playing with the phone and fell asleep.

We found a park and Nicholas got to play around a bit.

We went to Hollywood and visited all the famous streets: Hollywood & Vine, Melrose, etc.

Walk of Fame

Sinatra's star

Brando's star

Hollywood sign

Capitol Records building

Then we headed to Beverly Hills to see some fancy shops on Rodeo Dr.

Palm trees to Beverly Hills

I recognized a lot of restaurants like Fogo De Chau and this one

All the cousins

Our last day we headed to Newport Beach. The water was freezing but Nicholas had a blast.
Great beach

Shoveling in the sand

So excited to play in the water

He would have walked all the way out into the very deep if I would let him

Brrrr.....

So happy

Nicholas & Uncle Gregory

Group shot before we said goodbye

Nicholas had a great time with his cousins and Uncle Gregory. I think it was nice for him to play with some "the guys" as he called Demetrius & Demarcus.

Nicholas & Demara

Nicholas & Demarcus

Sitting on the steps waiting for "the guys"

Nicholas & Demetrius playing checkers

Nicholas & Demetrius

Demara & Kenya

California was beautiful. Tons of mountains & palm trees

On the airplane headed home