Ice Skating and Birthday Party

Guy recovered pretty quickly from his illness and was back to work on Saturday night. Saturday during the day Nico and I went to Ice World to go ice skating. Grandma Salisbury had invited all the cousins to come and eat pizza and ice skate. Nico has a lot of fun with his cousins. I got some skates too and took Nico out for his first time on the ice.

Then he joined Bruce and Lexie with an ice skating walker. Pretty soon it was just Bruce and Nico, going around and around and around the rink. I would pass them every so often and see Nico holding onto the front of the walker and letting Bruce push him. Nico would look up at me matter-of-factly and say "Hi Mommy, I'm ice skating", and wave briefly while I passed. Ho-hum, just another day on the ice rink. Here's his ho-hum face that I loved so much.

He couldn't get enough of it. After Bruce moved on, I took Nico out with the walker for a few rounds and he started pushing himself with it. He caught on pretty fast! 

When we got home he couldn't stop asking to go back. And in one more week Nico will start ice skating lessons! He is totally ready for it. It is half an hour every Saturday for eight weeks.

I came down with a cold over the next few days but nothing really bad.

Our car battery went kaput on Wednesday, and it was quite the ordeal! I didn't think it was the battery because I used Jeff and Allicia's car jumper battery and it didn't work. But it turns out that the jumper battery was not charged. So long story very short, when the tow truck that I canceled showed up because they forgot to tell the driver that I canceled it (I canceled it because we figured out it was just the battery), he pulled out an ELECTRIC car jumper and started my car up. Allicia and I were outside trying to hook up a trickle charger to my battery when the tow truck pulled up.

Wednesday was also Evie's birthday! We got her some glow-in-the-dark pajamas because her birthday party (which was today) had a glow-in-the-dark theme. Which brings me to the party tonight. Food, presents, cupcakes (I got Nico a gluten free cookie in exchange for a cupcake. The cookie was huge! I don't think he felt the loss of not having a cupcake:)), then fireworks outside then sparklers! And a LOT of glow sticks in between. She also wore her new pajamas.

 LED Balloons across the living room!

He had been asking to eat this cookie ever since he knew I was storing it in the fridge.

And a few more pics from this week.

He's been spelling words lately with his Bananagrams. Then he had the idea to use his "Words" book so he could spell the words in it.

After I took the previous picture Nico looked at me and said "No, Mommy, take a picture with my iPad."

And here's an ice skating video. Thanks Grandma Salisbury for ice skating lessons and taking pictures and giving all of us a good time.