On Saturday Nico and I went to a Bazaar at Jeff & Allicia's church where Evelyn was doing face painting. She gave me a few hearts on my cheek. Nico brought his own money with him and bought two pictures of birds from a photographer there. He was flipping through the ones available and he remarked, "That's a Western Tanager!" They look up at him, surprised, "Yes! You're right!" He bought that one plus another one of a bald eagle catching a fish. It apparently won a blue ribbon at the fair. The one he got was a smaller print of it.
Playing in the kids room at the Bazaar. This was his old preschool room he used to go to when he was 4 years old!
On the way home, Nico told me he wanted to take pictures of birds, too. We talked about National Geographic and college. He asked me if he could study two different things in college. I told him yes, so he said he wanted to study birds and photography.
After we got home, he hung his photos on the wall.
That afternoon, William and Grace came over to play. They had a heyday on the keyboard.
Sunday after church we went over to the Grandparents Salisbury's house to have lunch and plan Thanksgiving. The lunch my mom made was almost like a Thanksgiving feast itself, it was amazing. We left with leftovers. Yum! Thanks Mom!
That night, we had a get together at the church to celebrate the last Bible Study of the year. Nico and I left early because he was feeling sick. He said he had a headache and a stomach ache, I think it may have been a migraine. He crawled right into bed when we got home without changing his clothes. I gave him a foot rub, and he fell asleep until morning.
He was confused on Monday morning why he felt so good after he felt so bad the night before.
Nico had an orthodontist consult on Wednesday. I picked him up early from school. I saw him at the end of the hall as soon as he turned the corner. His nose was in a book and he didn't once look up at me as he walked toward me. When he got right in front of me, he said HI without even looking at me. How did he know it was me? He walked to the car without looking once at what was in front of him. He read the book in the car, and then in the orthodontist's waiting room.
The orthodontist said his teeth look good so far, and that the only thing that might be an issue later is his overbite, like the dentist had said. He said we'll keep an eye on it each year, and wait until most of his adult teeth have grown in before we do anything. We made our next appointment for November of next year.
That's it for this week!
