Jumanji, and a Rash!

Last Friday I met up with Brianna who was in town for a short while, and she gave me a Christmas gift to give to Nico. It was a game - Jumanji! We all played it the following morning, and many more times on Saturday. We were even planning to watch Jumanji for pizza that night but Nico changed his mind - the trailer looked a bit too scary. It was my turn to choose, so I chose Sherlock Gnomes. Guy had to go to band practice at 4:30 on Saturday so he missed the movie (I'm sure he wasn't too sad about that :)) but I did make him a pizza that he ate when he got home.

Saturday was a fun day. We played a lot of Jumanji, and then after lunch Nico and I went on a bike/scooter ride on the greenbelt. It was so sunny! Nico's leg got sore after a while on the scooter so we walked part of the way home. 

Once we got home I told him we were going to the car wash. Here is his reaction to being in the carwash:

He loved it.

Once we got home, we all got in the car and drove about a mile to a nearby open house. After walking through it Guy and I both agreed it was quite a fixer-upper (for $397,000!!!). We're pretty sure for that amount you would just be paying for the location.  Just a side note - we go to open houses sometimes, but we are not actively searching for a house to buy. We would like to move soon, but when we do that we will probably be renting!

We bought an adjustable lamp for Nico's shelf above his bed, it has two adjustable LED lamp arms. Now he has so much light at night!

 On Monday I received a call from the nurse at Nico's school, that he was complaining of a tummy ache. I talked to him on the phone for a bit and he was set on coming home, so I picked him up from school. He.... was fine. I took him with me to run errands and then told him we could stop for a snack and he could choose between a smoothie or Subway. He chose smoothie. But then when we got there, the smoothie place just happened to be right next to Subway. Sooooo... he got both. This is how you reward kids for staying home sick. Hehe?

Nico has been getting these small rashes on his upper body for a few weeks, mostly his arms. We confirmed that they are not bed bugs (we sanitary washed all the bedding in the house anyway), and they are not ant bites. When we visited his doctor on Tuesday she said she thinks they are related to what's going on in his gut. We discovered some helpful information with a recent test so we began a new treatment Tuesday night. I'm hopeful that the rash will clear up. New ones are still appearing. I'm trying not to fret!

Waiting for his appointment at the doctor.

Guy had expressed sadness that he didn't get a smoothie when I got Nico one on Monday, so we stopped on the way home to get Guy this Chocolate Berry Almond Smoothie from Boise Juice Co.

Nico's first adventure in Drama Club was today after school. He seemed to really enjoy it. They played games in class.

And tonight, he is reading more Tom Gates books! They are a favorite right now.