We had to leave around 2:30 to be back in time to wake Guy up for work. After waking him up, I packed up my henna stuff and went over to the neighborhood's block party. I did free henna for a few hours that night for everyone who showed up. Jeff and Allicia handled Nico for me, they came to the block party and Nico got to jump on the bouncy house. He even came over to my henna booth and got a henna tattoo. He usually wants it wiped off as soon as I get it on, and this time was no exception. I got home after 8 PM that night and Nico was still up, so we snuggled a bit and he told me that he was never going to jump in a bouncy house again because he jumped so much that it made him sick.
On Tuesdays I have started doing something new in the evenings - Tap Dance! This past week was my second class. It is a lot of fun. Nico likes my tap shoes, but told me that he doesn't tap dance because he's a boy. So Guy took him to Youtube videos of Danny Kay, Fred Astere, and Nico watched them several times and danced along.
Still no word from Guy's job. Ho hum!
Today Nico and I ventured to a kids consignment shop to buy winter clothes. We got him some boots and a coat and some long pants and long shirts. We even bought him a Halloween costume - Raphael the teenage mutant ninja turtle.
He was pretty set that he wanted to be the Armor of God for Halloween but we couldn't find an armor suit there, so I let him look at the other costumes while I looked at clothes, and this is what he found! It's not in very good shape after taking it out of the bag, but, it'll do!
Then on the way out we saw a bike that he liked, and so I considered... his current bike has a flat tire and is so small. Instead of fixing the tire, why don't we just buy a new bike? :) And this bike was signed by Kristin Armstrong (the bike park that we go to sometimes was named after her). And this was also a Trek bike, brand new costing $299, and we bought it for $32. It does have a non-functioning right brake and the handle bars need to be tightened because they turn, but Jeff has offered to fix the bike for us! We took the bike out to the park tonight, Evie followed on a tricycle. Nico took the park loop a good many times and got used to riding it. Unfortunately he cannot get up on the bike without help. He tried several times but he can't touch the ground and sit on the seat at the same time so it will require some serious skills to be able to do it. He'll get it eventually. But this also means that landings are sometimes dangerous. I told him to kick his foot out and fall on his foot after he stops. This usually means that the bike also falls too. He had a few crashes, and thankfully I was there at the right moments to prevent the serious crashes from happening. God's angels were also at hand :)
AND OH MY GOODNESS! I don't think I ever mentioned the hot air balloon chase we did a few weekends ago (September 5th). How could I forget! A hot air balloon landed nearby and so me and the kids raced there and got there just in time for Evelyn to get to go inside the balloon and see the fire. Nico wanted to stand back. There's a video below too. Two videos today! One of biking, one of hot air balloon.
Video!
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