In the unpacking we rediscovered the game called Munchkin. Nico is all about this game now. We play it before school, after school, after dinner, whenever someone says YES to his question: "Do you want to play Munchkin?"
Saturday was a good day. Nico's only chore was to empty a box in his room, but then he realized that one of my chores was to assemble the new shoe bench we ordered, and he begged me to let him do it. I said yes, of course, and so he assembled the shoe bench for me. The only thing I had to do was tighten a few of the screws all the way, the rest was him. We keep the shoe bench by our front door. It has been working out great, we have a place to sit to put shoes on now!
It was my movie choice that night, and I chose Singing in the Rain. It's a good movie that I hadn't seen in a while!
This past Monday we received the delivery of our new storage cabinet. It looks exactly like our other one, but we put this new one in the dining room to hold all our board games. Nico volunteered to put this one together too. It was a long journey; he asked me to take over for him after he put in an hour of hard work.
This is how he got all the pieces out of the box.
On Tuesday Nico arrived home from school in a car, his friend Grace had offered him a ride home with her mom. Grace and her little brother William were at his birthday party in July.
Nico walked in the door and said in really fast succession: "I invited Grace over today and she's going to come over with William and you just have to text her mom and let her know and then she can text you back and then Grace can come over."
Grace lives just down the street from us!
I texted her mom and then Grace and William came over a few minutes later. They are both very sweet kids. After all of them played in his room for a while, Nico and Grace separated off and started playing the Switch while William put together Nico's domino set in the living room. I really love these friends of his.
Tuesday evening was Cub Scouts. Guy is applying to become the secretary for the Cub Scouts council. They stayed late on Tuesday to stay for the council meeting even though he's not "officially" the secretary yet. He took notes just like a secretary is supposed to, and then emailed everyone the meeting minutes the next day. He is amazing. On a side note, he told me that before moving, he didn't feel like he had control over anything, and now, he has the power to change things and to affect his surroundings. His stress level is a lot better. He spent this past weekend cleaning out the shed and putting up shelving in there, mowing the lawn and trimming the roses. He says this house reminds him of his childhood. The floors, and the dim light in the living room in the evenings.
On Wednesday mornings, Grace's mom has started picking Nico up on their way to chess club, since Grace is in chess as well.
And Wednesday afternoons and evenings, Grandma Salisbury picks Nico up, then him and cousins and Grandparents go to dinner and then Youth Group. Afterward, Papa drops him off. It has been a fun tradition!
Today in Drama Club he got the script for the play they're doing, Wizard of Oz! He put in his request to play Oz, we will find out next week which role he got. Evelyn is also in class with him. It'll be fun to see them in a play together.
Nico has been really into National Geographic "Weird But True" books. He has been checking them out from the library at school. He brings up facts all the time, "Did you know that soap actually comes from underground? So it's impossible to wash your hands!" He used this line on me when I told him to wash his hands before dinner tonight.
That's it for this week!
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