Fuzzy, Lost tooth, Sore tummy

We went to Fred Meyer last Friday and Nico bought a little fox that he named Fuzzy. Fuzzy came with a blue bag (purse?) that he sits in, Nico calls it his bed. He brought Fuzzy and his bed to Bible Study on Sunday, and has been sleeping with Fuzzy right next to him in his blue purse bed.

Saturday morning, I made pancakes per usual, and Nico sat at the table and said it was hard for him to eat because his tooth was loose. He said he was going to pull it out and I thought that maybe he might succeed in a few days, but Nico sat at the table, determined, for about 10 minutes, pulling at his tooth until it came out. He wanted to enjoy his pancakes (it's his favorite day because of the pancakes in the morning) and pulled his tooth out so he could do just that. We forgot about the tooth fairy and in fact I'm not sure where the tooth ended up.. hmm. It's in a baggie somewhere.

On Tuesday, Brianna came over for dinner. We ate tuna pasta salad on a bed of lettuce and roasted veggies on the side.

Wednesday morning, Nico woke up with a sore tummy. He had a slight fever so I wrote his teacher that he wouldn't be coming to school. He laid on the couch and said "I don't think I want to eat fudgesicles ever again." He had eaten an entire fudgesicle the night before, right before going to bed. At about 10 am his fever went up to 101.3, he had a headache, took a nap, and felt a lot better after waking. He never threw up, but drank milk and ate banana bread all day long. He slept well last night and woke up this morning, stood up and said "Hey! I don't feel sick anymore! And when I walk my head doesn't hurt!"

I still kept him back from school for one more day. He has been watching iPad a lot today, lounging. He will go back to school tomorrow!

That's really all we did this week, short and sweet!

Lost tooth, Bible Study, Valentine's Day

Nico lost his other front tooth Sunday after church! He is toothless. For a few days before this he was having me cut up his sandwiches into strips because biting them hurt.

We had our first Sunday night Bible Study group that night. Guy is leading the study at the Pastor's house and we had a good group of people there. Nico had Sammy and Aadam to play with since Tiffanie was there. I brought some train tracks and car tracks for them to play with. They have a dog, Lucy, that Nico enjoyed petting.

Nico rode his scooter to school every day this week, and has no school tomorrow or Monday. Just today it started raining and the wind started blowing, but the rest of the week has been mostly sunny.

Tuesday was Valentine's Day, Nico was so excited to bring all his cards to school to give his friends. I came to pick him up after school and I was 5 minutes early and saw they were having their party, so I went in. Nico saw me and ran to me and hugged me and said "Mommy you're LATE! You missed most of the party!" Hehe. They were finishing up Bingo.

Nico got a booster pack of Pokemon cards for Valentine's Day and he put them in his Pokemon binder.

Building monsters with the Creature Clash card game

We hooked Alexa up to some speakers, but she's sitting right next to them, so when there's music on she can't hear us. Often times you can hear Nico yelling: "Alexa, Stop! ALEXA, STOP!!!!" We still use her to set alarms and play music and to find out what time it is. "Alexa, what time is it? ALEXA! ALEXA! WHAT TIME IS IT?!?" We should probably move her away from the speakers! She is an integral party of every day. We often listen to music in the morning. Nico has been favoring the "Happy" song, and "What Does the Fox Say?"

He is reading...
Captain Underpants books

He is watching...
Home season 2
A new Pokemon series

We are playing...
Match a Pair of Birds (the official name of the bird matching game)
Creature Clash
New games on the iPad - jet skis, programming, running/jumping games

First lost tooth, tadpoles, pizza!

Last Friday was Nico's Snack & Share at school. He got to bring the snack for the day, and then also something to show the class. He brought his batman car to show everyone.

It goes on its own and sends flying discs up into the air.

Saturday was a fun day. We ran errands in the morning, then we went for a walk to find a home for the tadpoles. We did some research about the tadpoles and how to keep them and we figured out we just had too many to take care of, we would need a much larger area for them to live, so we went with the intent of finding another home for all of them but one. But when the time came, it was impossible to just keep one because we couldn't access the water to refill our jar, it was a situation where Guy had to reach through the sticks to dump them out. So, we said goodbye to all of them. 

Evelyn came with us.

Nico put his arm around Evelyn for a short while as we were walking home. 

Pizza Saturday night! We have restarted the tradition! We made Nico his own personal pizza and he ate the whole thing!!! I think Guy's sauce is winning him over. This is Guy's pizza they're building. Guy put some pesto underneath his own sauce. Nico didn't want pesto on his.

While we were sitting on the couch watching Three Stooges and eating pizza..

Nico chomped hard and lost his very first loose tooth! Milestone! 

The tooth fairy gave him $5 for his first tooth and a riddle he had to solve to find a red clown nose somewhere in the clubhouse. The red clown nose was what I bought ($1 at Walgreens) so that I could get the $5 cash back to put under his pillow that night.

On Sunday we were able to see Papa and Grandma Salisbury, and we gave Grandma her birthday presents since her birthday was on Monday. Nico made her a rose with a stem out of modeling clay (I helped a bit, and showed him how). I apparently didn't take a picture of it, just video! But unfortunately iMovie has been crashing so I wasn't able to put together the snippet video! The video will have to come later. So I took a screen shot from the video so you could see.  After the clay dried he painted it, green and red like a rose. We put a few drops of lavender essential oil on the flower so it kind of smelled good. 

Happy Birthday Mom/Grandma!!! We love you! 

On Monday was Nico's next doctor's appointment to check on progress. Everything is going well in that regard. Since stopping his allergic foods he hasn't had many tummy aches and when he did it was easy to tell what caused them. He's had just 2 since his first appointment. Of course, when he goes to bed he sometimes will stay in there for a minute before coming out with a smirk on his face telling me his tummy hurts. I ask him when his tummy ache started and it's always the same: "When I got into bed". I haven't been counting those as tummy aches. He has them only on the nights when he is having a hard time winding down and seems to just not want to be in bed. I hope I'm making the right call on not calling them tummy aches! I usually rub some oils on his feet and he goes back to bed just fine.

In a few weeks we are doing a stool test on him. This will check for inflammation and bad bacteria and a host of other things. Then we'll start him on probiotics...

On Tuesday I taught an essential oils class in the evening. 

Some random pictures..

We went to a playdate at Quarry View on Wednesday morning and one of Nico's school friends, Wendy, was there. We walked her to school that day. They ate watermelon on the way.

We tried out his new adjustable crayons. He drew a sun.

Sorry for lack of video this week, we will hope for next!!