French Reunion

Today was the day of the French Reunion. I went up in the morning with Nico, and then came back down so he could have his nap. After Nico's nap, just Guy and Nico went back up to the cabin. From what I heard, they had a great time!

It was quite a hot day today, and we're trying to figure out how to cool the house down. When it gets this hot, our heat pump stops being very effective. It's at least 83 degrees in here based on our thermostat. We're thinking of utilizing the power of FANS!

No pictures from the reunion, but I'm sure there will be some in the future! Here is Guy reading books to Nico before bedtime. New books for him from Molly! Baby Elmo books.

Cousins and 2nd Cousins and More

Today Nico got to see a lot of family. This morning I took him up to the cabin to see some of my cousins and Aunts and Uncles. He also saw Leia (3rd cousin?) for the 2nd time in his life!

This evening we all went to Chicago Connection Pizza for the first get together of the French Reunion Weekend. A LOT of family to see. Nico fell while climbing one of the railings, and gave himself a gash just outside his left eye. He cried really hard for a while. It is certainly the worst he's ever been hurt, but he recovered fairly quickly and he seemed to enjoy being around all the other little ones running around.

Sleep

It's about time for a sleep picture, I think! Nico had quite a time falling asleep tonight. Lately he has wanted to be held while falling asleep. I usually don't mind this, because it means that he has his head on my shoulder and both his arms around my neck. He likes to use one of his hands to grab some of my hair and then he extends his arm until the hair falls out of his hand. Then he grabs more hair, and does the same thing over and over again. He tends to do this same thing to the hair on his own head, too. I think it's a comfort thing.

Owls

We went to the fish park this morning. Nico was quite a fan of peeking through the owls and we spent a large portion of our time there. We then walked on the greenbelt for a while.

Dried Apples

We picked up a small bag of dried apples from the Saturday Market on Saturday. Nico loves them!

Park and Sprinkler

We've been making a lot of trips to the park recently. Nico also has been enjoying playing with the sprinkler head in the front yard.

Piggy Bank

Before Nico's nap we went to the park and played. Nico is getting really good at climbing things. He can climb ladders, normal ones and odd shaped ones, and he can even climb DOWN them (most of the time).

Since Nico woke early from his nap, we were able to make it to the Saturday Market before they closed up at 1:30. We went to see the fountain, there were a lot of kids playing in it today.

You can see how hard Nico played today by taking a glance at his feet in this picture. Dirty! Guy suggested we sweep the floor. Nico likes to sit on our bed and play with our piggy bank. He opens it up and dumps all the coins out, and then refills it, dumps it, refills it, etc. Sometimes he wants to play with the piggy bank during the day and he'll go into the room while Guy is sleeping. Whoops!

Big Boy Swing

Nico wanted to try out the big boy swing.

Box Tops

Nico found the box the diapers came in and put it on his head and walked around like that for a while.

Books in the Closet

Lately Nico has been going into his closet to read books. He just piles them up next to him after he's done with one. Not sure how this started!

Father's Day

Today we went up to the cabin for a few hours. Happy Father's Day! Here is Papa buckling Nico into a booster seat so he could sit at the table with us.

We think that Nico may have started to feel carsick near the end of our ride up to the cabin (whining, and burping), and he was acting not himself and quite clingy after arriving. We decided to flip his carseat to forward facing for the ride home, and it seemed to help. The whole ride home he was smiling away, he was really enjoying his new view.

Quinoa

Nico eating his quinoa with coconut oil and salt.

Photo Update

Here's some pictures from the last few days.

Nico loves watching Wallace and Gromit

Fish Park

More visits to the Fish Park

Nico likes to sit on the front porch and snap twigs

Sitting on his dump truck

Me with Nico and Rory at Rory's birthday party - Municipal Park!

Strawberries

We bought some strawberries at a store called Natural Grocers, which sells all organic produce. When we got home, I cut up the strawberries and Guy and I sat on the porch while Nico wandered around the front yard. Nico ate about 2 strawberries and had some strawberry goop on his arms and face afterward, and his shirt, as you can see in the picture.

Fountain Fun

We went to the Saturday market today and Nico was a little more adventurous than usual and he actually crossed over into the fountain area. His feet got wet, and he seemed like he may have wanted to touch one of the fountain spurts.

Gma

Nico spent the afternoon hanging out with Grandma Salisbury because I had an appointment. They had a lot of fun!

Nico and I have been going for bike rides a lot. At least once per day but usually 2 or 3 times. I think when it starts getting warmer it will be harder to do so many during the day since it will be so hot.

This morning we went to the library and stopped by the Human Rights Memorial to stare at the water and walk across the grass. Here's a squinty Nico.