Sunny With a Chance of Leprechaun, Emojis, G.G., and Grandparents Russell arrive!

Last Friday Nico had a school program, Sunny With a Chance of Leprechaun. Both Evelyn and Nico were in the production. Guy and I and Allicia and the rest of the kiddos went to the 10:00 showing. See the video at the end for the highlights!

Nico has been pretending to be a chicken lately. In fact, when his baseball coach's wife introduced herself (did I mention this already last week?), Nico shook her hand and said "bock bock?" like a chicken. Guy and Nico play this game where Guy says a fact about chickens and Nico acts out the fact. "A chicken can lay up to 300 eggs per year" for example. When the acting out gets annoying, Guy "cuts off" his head and Nico crumples to the floor. Then Guy sews his neck back on and says another fact for Nico to act out. 

Anyway, I bring this up now because as soon as Nico got onto his riser for the performance, he started pretending to be a chicken. We noticed the girl next to him on his left (his crush from last year) telling him to stop doing it. Heehee. He stopped for a minute and then started up again.

Saturday was a full and fun day. When Nico and I were snuggling after the day was over, I asked him what his favorite thing was and he said "All of it!" 

Guy's work had a family day (Photronics Phun Day) that he took Nico to. I stayed home and precooked our pizza crusts for that night and did some chores around the house. At the Phun Day, they made slime, did a scavenger hunt, and ate hot dogs and hamburgers. 

Shortly after they got home, I took Nico to Lexie's birthday party. The theme was Emojis. It was a wonderful party!! So many fun things. They jumped on the trampoline at first, then they made tie dye shirts, played pin the poop emoji on the toilet, then did the Seran Wrap ball game.

 Nico and cousins Rory and Lexie, Grandma in the middle.

Two of his prizes

We came straight home afterward and had pizza! We've been taking turns choosing what to watch, since we've had a difficult time agreeing on anything. It was my turn to choose but gave my rights away to Nico. We watched Garfield. 

Sunday after church I took Nico to Dicks Sporting Goods to buy him some cleats, it was the last day our 20% off coupon was good. Since he was in a league, they gave him a free towel and a pair of sunglasses too.

Tuesday was our trip to Nampa to see G.G. and Aunt Pat. Aunt Pat was so sweet to let Nico play a game on her computer where he tries to get the grandma to the end safely. We learned that the field behind their house will soon be houses! We picked up Jimmy Johns on the way home, and since it was Tuesday we watched some TV while we ate, Nico chose Garfield again.

Wednesday evening was Ivy's birthday party! Allicia made an incredible spread of Chipotle copy-cat recipes so we could all have burritos or burrito bowls, it was really amazing. I don't have any pictures of this, but it was a fun time!

TODAY Grandma and Grandpa Russell arrived!

We have 4 more days with them, it should be a FUN weekend, I'll update about that next week! Tomorrow starts Nico's Spring Break!

Until then...

I thought I was recording Nico's entire pin-the-poop-emoji-on-the-toilet, but in fact I was NOT, and when I hit the "Stop" button I was actually hitting the "Record" button, so this is the very tail end of his experience with the game. Oh well!