Bouncy Houses, Books, Scooter

Last Saturday was a full fun day for Nico. A baseball game started the day off and in the afternoon a 3 hour birthday party at the park. We dropped him off there at 3, picked him up at 6. They even had gluten free pizza and cupcakes!

There were two bouncy houses.

I stole a few pictures from the event page, several people uploaded their pictures to the site and I downloaded the ones with Nico in them.

Before Nico went to the party, Evelyn asked where he was going and he told her. Soon after, I got a text from Allicia saying that they were headed to the park and wanted to know if we'd like to come. I told her Nico was already there and she said "I wonder if that was why Evelyn was so insistent on going!" Heehee. When we came to pick Nico up, we saw Allicia and the kids there, and we all walked (ran) home together. It was a fun day.

Nico received a package from the Grandparents Russell this past week, with a few surprises in it! An activity book for our road trip (which he studiously started on already.. hehe), a nice zippered pouch for art supplies, and inside the pouch... a book! Captain Underpants!! I have not been up on the Captain Underpants books and didn't realize there were 12 of them!!! This was #9, as Nico told me. I had told Grandma Russell this was a good book to get Nico, thinking it was #4, hah! Well indeed it was a good choice, just not in the way I was expecting. heehee. And one thing about Nico - if he gets a new book as part of a series, he has to read or re-read all of the first books in order, before he reads the new one. He was luckily already in the middle of re-reading book #3 when this one arrived, so he finished that off and then we checked out #4 and #5 from the library for him to read.

Reading book#3 outside before bed.

We got Nico's baseball pictures back!

He is still loving baseball so much, his last game is this Saturday! He is already talking about next year. Nico's baseball practice was cancelled on Tuesday, so instead we went to the park so he could practice on his new scooter! 

We are going to pack this in our car and take it with us to Arlington when we visit in a few weeks (1 1/2 more weeks!!!) I should have taken a video of it, but to make it move forward you move your hips back and forth. Guy looked at him and said "we should give him a hula hoop!"

Jeff was out of town this week so we spent a lot of time with Allicia and the kiddos. Allicia's birthday was Wednesday, so we celebrated by making pizza and coconut milk ice cream in her new ice cream maker. We also spent a lot of time downstairs playing video games. It was a great week!

Eating ice cream

Here's a slo-mo video of Nico hitting!