Book Toss

The latest thing Nico enjoys doing is sitting on his rocking chair to "read" books. I stack a pile of books next to him and he looks at maybe two pages of each book before he throws the book over the edge of the chair. We have been through his entire book collection probably ten times so far.

Also today, Guy mowed the lawn for the first time this spring after fixing the lawn mower. There was a lot to fix! It hadn't been used since we lived in Arlington. He also popped the dandelions and raked up fallen sticks and pods from our tree.

Fox Hollow

Nico has, on several occasions, done the "sniff sniff" at the appropriate time in the Fox of Fox Hollow song. "And he sniffs with his nose in the wind... sniff sniff!"

We do this new thing where Nico climbs up into the rocker (if I'm in the rocker he first asks me to leave), then he asks for a book. Then he turns the pages and I read him the book while sitting on the floor, barely close enough to read the words. I sometimes have to come up with a guess on the wording.

He's holding one of his favorite books in the picture. He loves the pages with cars on them, and points over and over again to all the cars on the page, expecting me to say "car" every time he does it.