Nature Walks, and Semaphores

I was in Pullman until Saturday, so last Friday after school Guy took Nico to the Discovery Center.

Then Guy sent me a video of Nico doing manual Tetris on the light board using stop motion filming! Here it is:

Saturday was my trip home from Pullman. Guy and Nico had a Cub Scouts adventure at Deer Flats in Nampa, ID that morning, and they had a lot of fun. Guy said later that he wished he could go back and Nico piped up and said, "Me too!"

Just one other Cub Scout from his den was there, so it was a small field trip. 

Guy and Nico hung out with Jeff and Allicia and the kiddos that afternoon, and then started making pizza late, which was just in time for me to enjoy it, too! I arrived home at 7pm. It was Nico's choice of movie and he chose Three Stooges.

Nico's Cub Scout den leader is trying to help Nico get all his badges so he can graduate from being a Bear at the next pack meeting. They met at the den leader's house on Tuesday, and they all went for a hike so they could get some badge requirements taken care of. Guy and Nico came home Tuesday night and told me the good news - Nico will graduate from being a Bear! He will then be a Webelos. (I think that stands for We'll be loyal scouts).

He is now in Level 3 of swimming lessons and he LOVES it! 

He checked out a book about flags from the school library, and there's a section in the back about semaphores. So he practiced semaphores for a few days.

Nico put his glasses on Yoshi, and told me to take a picture and send to Daddy and say, "Nico has turned into Yoshi."

Nico is a published poet!

Tonight after dinner Nico and I went for a walk while Guy was at band practice. I let him choose where we went.

The trail ended in a neighborhood so we walked back to our house through the neighborhood. He talked about wanting to be an explorer and a traveller. Then we talked about where he would want to live and he was trying to find a way for us to move somewhere that would allow him to continue going to Adams Elementary, but also allow him to ride the bus to school and be closer to Grandma Russell. 

I contacted the landlord of the house on our street that we're wanting to move into this summer. She told me that nothing is set in stone yet with them moving out, and when they do move out she will take a month to paint and clean the place up. Since I do know that they are moving out, it would likely be July that the house would be available. I will call her in a few weeks to check in. Nico continues to say that he wants to move into a small house because he doesn't like big houses. 

Here are some snippets from this past week!