Jumanji, and a Rash!

Last Friday I met up with Brianna who was in town for a short while, and she gave me a Christmas gift to give to Nico. It was a game - Jumanji! We all played it the following morning, and many more times on Saturday. We were even planning to watch Jumanji for pizza that night but Nico changed his mind - the trailer looked a bit too scary. It was my turn to choose, so I chose Sherlock Gnomes. Guy had to go to band practice at 4:30 on Saturday so he missed the movie (I'm sure he wasn't too sad about that :)) but I did make him a pizza that he ate when he got home.

Saturday was a fun day. We played a lot of Jumanji, and then after lunch Nico and I went on a bike/scooter ride on the greenbelt. It was so sunny! Nico's leg got sore after a while on the scooter so we walked part of the way home. 

Once we got home I told him we were going to the car wash. Here is his reaction to being in the carwash:

He loved it.

Once we got home, we all got in the car and drove about a mile to a nearby open house. After walking through it Guy and I both agreed it was quite a fixer-upper (for $397,000!!!). We're pretty sure for that amount you would just be paying for the location.  Just a side note - we go to open houses sometimes, but we are not actively searching for a house to buy. We would like to move soon, but when we do that we will probably be renting!

We bought an adjustable lamp for Nico's shelf above his bed, it has two adjustable LED lamp arms. Now he has so much light at night!

 On Monday I received a call from the nurse at Nico's school, that he was complaining of a tummy ache. I talked to him on the phone for a bit and he was set on coming home, so I picked him up from school. He.... was fine. I took him with me to run errands and then told him we could stop for a snack and he could choose between a smoothie or Subway. He chose smoothie. But then when we got there, the smoothie place just happened to be right next to Subway. Sooooo... he got both. This is how you reward kids for staying home sick. Hehe?

Nico has been getting these small rashes on his upper body for a few weeks, mostly his arms. We confirmed that they are not bed bugs (we sanitary washed all the bedding in the house anyway), and they are not ant bites. When we visited his doctor on Tuesday she said she thinks they are related to what's going on in his gut. We discovered some helpful information with a recent test so we began a new treatment Tuesday night. I'm hopeful that the rash will clear up. New ones are still appearing. I'm trying not to fret!

Waiting for his appointment at the doctor.

Guy had expressed sadness that he didn't get a smoothie when I got Nico one on Monday, so we stopped on the way home to get Guy this Chocolate Berry Almond Smoothie from Boise Juice Co.

Nico's first adventure in Drama Club was today after school. He seemed to really enjoy it. They played games in class.

And tonight, he is reading more Tom Gates books! They are a favorite right now.

Fidget Spinner, Church Picnic, Turn up the Beet

Saturday was a full day for all of us, I had a henna booth at a festival and Nico and Guy helped with sound at a wedding for a couple in our church. In the morning they went downtown to the market and over to a bookstore that sells fidget spinners. Fidget Spinners are the new thing, apparently! He came home from school one day talking about them and asking for one. He saved up a few dollars and they went and bought one at the bookstore. Blue.

At the festival, Grandma Salisbury was at the booth with me being my helper. Thank you Mom! We had a fun day, it was the perfect temperature to be outside.

After the festival was over, the Grandparents Salisbury helped me pack up and load up and unload at home. Thank you!! Then I headed over to the wedding to pick Nico up. It was past 8 already and he was tired. He had made some friends at the park there that were selling slime. The whole ride home he talked about what he was going to sell at the park next Saturday. "Maybe cars?"

Sunday was the church picnic at Municipal Park.

They had games for the kids, and the area was all in the shade. Yay! It was fun. Then Nico and I went over to pick up the milk and eggs from the Grandparents Salisbury's house. Nico played Minecraft with Papa on the iPad. While we were pulling away from the house Nico called out of the open window, "Bye! I hope you have fun building your house in Minecraft!" 

Monday was a holiday that Guy had off. Nico and I had doctors appointments in the morning, then we stopped by Boise Juice Co. to get us each our favorite juice, "Turn up the Beet". We took note of the ingredients and decided we would try to make it at home. 1 apple, 2 carrots, 1/2 a beet, 1/2 a lemon, and 3 slices of ginger, that's what we're going to try. I got all the ingredients on Thursday and we will try this next week.

We had pizza Monday night since the weekend was too full for us to enjoy it then. 

Nico has had a full week of fun and party things at school. Wednesday was science day at Municipal Park. Thursday was Field Day, and Friday he has a half day. He came home with all of his school stuff yesterday (Thursday) including his journal! Here is a sneak peak. 

This was early in the year. They didn't put dates on anything, but it was in the first few pages.

That's about it for this week. Summer is starting!! I wonder what next week will hold!

The Farmstead!

On Saturday we had a special day that started at the Sensory Friendly Movie that was showing Finding Dory. We took Evelyn with us, and Tiffanie and Aadam and Sammy also came with us. Afterward, Nico and I drove out to the Farmstead in Meridian to celebrate Bruce's birthday!! The Farmstead has a corn maze, hay rides, corn pits, and a bunch of other fun activities to do.

I lost track of Nico once and almost freaked out. He had taken his shoes off to go jump on the bouncy pad and I was talking to family and turned around and he wasn't on the bouncy pad anymore and his shoes were gone. Ack! We deployed the forces (my brothers) and the special forces (sisters in law and Grandma) and we went searching. Nico turned out to be at the attraction right next to the bouncy pad, which was the zip line. I looked over and he was ON one of the zip lines. I had a talk with him. But then an hour later I noticed him quietly leaving where he was and walking away from us and then running toward an attraction across the field. I ran after him and had another talk with him.

Nico, Bruce, Rory and Lexie

Check out the video below of Nico going down the slide with Bruce. It was a fun time, we were exhausted after! We came home and made our Saturday night pizza and discussed what we should watch while eating. Nico chose Penguins the movie.

Sunday Guy went early to church to practice doing the sound board. He has been going on Thursday nights during worship practice to learn how to do it. And this Sunday he watched while someone else did part of it, then he took over. He did a good job.

"No Spendtember" is over, so Nico and I took advantage of the two days off that he has and we went shopping today! We got him a Halloween costume, and a few other needed things from the store. Nico spent some of his money on some Grosseries (like garbage pail kids, but figurines, groceries that have molded over, like "Disgusting Mustard" which is a mustard bottle with green goop coming out the top).

After we got home he put the costume on and wanted to show Aadam and Sammy right away but they weren't home, so he sat on a stool reading the Rube Goldberg book outside in the driveway, waiting for them to return (he gave up before they did)

Then we had a treat and went to Boise Juice Company and tried their Pumpkin Smoothie bowl. It was so good! Nico also chose a fresh beet juice with carrots and apples, it was very tasty and he drank most of it. And he was convinced my pumpkin smoothie bowl was ice cream.

Then this afternoon he went over to Aadam and Sammy's house. They watched Hotel Transylvania 2. Tiffanie posted these two photos of them having fun:

That's pretty much it for this week.

Here's the video I told you about, Bruce and Nico going down the slide then Leah follows.