Pee, Ah-bee!

Before I talk about this week, there is one thing about last week that I forgot to mention. We checked out a book from the library for Nico about Classic Cars. He loves it, and on his way through it the 3rd or 4th time, we turned to a page with a Mini on it. I said "Mini" and he repeated it right after me. Then he said "Dah dah!" and pointed to his room where his cars were. He went to his room and found a hot wheels MINI! He kept saying "Mini" over and over again. He talks about the Mini all the time, finds it in his book, pulls his own out, points to both.

He is also now able to identify a Beetle ("Bee-dee") and a Bug ("Buh"). He says so whenever he finds them in his book. I've started pointing Bugs out to him whenever we're out and about.

We went to the zoo on Friday. I brought Nico's snack with us and we ate it on a bench. We stayed at the zoo longer than usual. We saw the butterflies, fed the goats, and tried to avoid the dinosaurs.

Saturday we went to visit Lizzie and Bruce and Rory again. 

On Monday, the Library. We've been trying to go to the Library as a family every Monday afternoon.

At the Fish Park on Wednesday, we saw 3 fawns total, two of them were feeding on the Mommy deer, it was sweet to see. Didn't catch a picture of that, but was able to get a picture of Nico and the deer.

And Nico and the owl.

Fun with water (it's been so hot lately!)

Fun with holey socks.

Advances on the potty front: Nico pees standing up! For the first time today. All over the iPad. I've been letting him go into the bathroom by himself sometimes, and this morning I went in there about a minute after him, and there was pee all over the floor and he was standing up. I figured he had tried to empty the potty into the toilet and had missed. But then it happened again, and this time he was standing over the iPad, saying "Pee, Ah-bee" (Pee, iPad!) I wasn't sure what had happened... But then Guy got up for the day, took Nico potty once, and before he left for work he warned me: "Nico peed standing up today, so be careful if you ever let him try to pee by himself." Ah ha! So this evening, whenever he walked into the bathroom, I bolted in after him. Sure enough, he lifts the lid on the toilet and tries to pee right into the bowl. I think after his practice sessions today, he almost has it down!

Another new-ish thing that Nico has been doing is getting out of his bed at night. I told him that if he has to go to the bathroom, that he is able to get out of bed and go potty. Last night we hit a new record, he got out of bed about 4 times right in a row before he finally admitted he had to go potty. Once he went potty, he went right back to sleep. Cool!

That's it for this week!

Here fishy, fishy, fishy.

Hello again, Guy here with the latest in Nico updates.

I thought I forgot a mug at a friends house, so Nico and I went to go get it, but it wasn't really there, it was safe at home in my bag.  So Nico and I went to the fish park.  It was the first time I'd been able to go into the discovery center there with him.

He really likes it there, he pretty much stayed in the first discovery area, pointing out stuffed ducks, and looking at the little fish in tanks on the wall.  Nico also played in the stream bed simulator for the first time today. He used cars to dig up the sand.  Its funny when he gets dirt on his hands, because he stops whatever he's doing until he can get it off (he does the same thing with coffee grounds on his hands when he's helping me with coffee).

Anyway, after the discovery center closed we wandered around the park for a while.  There were three deer chillin' in one of the areas, and Nico started signing something I didn't remember seeing before.  Apparently Nico had made up a sign for deer just before dinner when he was playing with his tiny animals.  I didn't learn that until we got back from the park.

Here is Nico playing with the animals.