A huge sandwich, spider pizza, and Boo Bash!

Last weekend on Friday and Saturday Guy took care of Nico as I was at the "Women Ignite Idaho" conference and trade show. I had a henna booth at the trade show and was attending the conference. It was fun!

Guy made Pad Thai for himself and Nico on Friday night, and on Saturday they made a HUGE sandwich. They had been planning this for a few days, ever since Nico read one of his new Pete the Cat books that Grandma Russell sent him (thank you Grandma!!) He got a set of 5 Pete the Cat readers. And, he can read them! In one of the books, Pete the Cat builds this HUGE sandwich with all sorts of things on it. So Nico made a list of stuff he wanted on his sandwich. Not everything that Pete had, but things that Nico could eat.

Apparently Nico ate a few things from the sandwich for lunch, came back a few hours later and ate some more, a few hours later and finished it off.

Because of my day on Saturday, we had pizza on Sunday instead. We made spider pizzas with olives!

Nico's

Guy's (his salami is under the cheese)

On Saturday, Guy took Nico to the library and Nico picked out Shaun the Sheep on DVD and that's what we watched on Sunday while eating pizza. 

Tonight was the Boo Bash at Nico's school. We walked there with the whole crew. 

Guy had to be at the church at 6:30 and the Boo Bash was at 6. So we got in there quick and made sure to get our polaroid before Guy had to book it.

We left the Boo Bash at 7 PM and about 40 minutes of that was spent at the Cakewalk. Last year Nico won within 2 minutes, this year took a bit longer, but he persisted! They called his number and we hustled over the gluten free table and he picked out a chocolate bar. Yum! I have already agreed to let him eat half of it tomorrow after breakfast and the other half after lunch.

Next to Sammy at the Cakewalk

Waiting for the music to start

Some more pictures from this past week..

We finished the Star Destroyer!

It opens up!

Playing with leaves at Aadam and Sammy's house.

Exam, Movie, and some Good News!

We have some great news to share this week! Guy was offered the engineering position!! We finally heard back from them last week and he accepted the offer shortly after. He will soon be moving to the day shift but "soon" is a relative word ;) They're talking some time in November the switch will take place. Guy has been on nights for 5 years, I can't believe the switch is finally going to happen! I am more than ready.

On Saturday I had some henna to do, so a friend from church watched Nico. She took Nico and her 3 kids to the Sensory Friendly Movie, they were playing Shaun the Sheep!! Nico had a lot of fun.

On Monday I had my huge aromatherapy exam. It will be 6 weeks before I hear anything about it, but I'm pretty sure I passed! Nico got to spend the morning with Papa while I was at the exam. They did legos and then walked to the park for a bit. I finished the test sooner than I thought I would, so I was back shortly after they ate lunch. Thanks for watching Nico, Papa! :)

Nico officially asked to switch to creamy peanut butter. So Guy bought some creamy peanut butter for the first time since we were married. Guy is wondering if Nico will ever want to switch back to crunchy, like Guy did when he was younger. We will see! I offered to buy them each their own kind of peanut butter but Guy said he preferred not to. He will just endure! ;)

Guy putting creamy peanut butter on his pancake. 

Nico spinning on his bottom. (break dancing) "Take a picture! Cheeeeeeeese!"

Nico had a lockdown drill at school yesterday. He told me about it as soon as I picked him up. Mommy! he said. When a guy comes in, you turn off the lights and close the door and you get in a line and you are really quiet and then you go outside (they have a door to the outside from their room).

Last night while he was in bed not going to sleep, he said "Mommy I don't want to go to school!" I asked him how come and he said "I don't want a lock down!" it turns out he doesn't like the loud noise of a possible fire drill. He doesn't like those. He asked me over and over if there was going to be a loud noise at school and I kept telling him I didn't know, but that the loud noise was good because it tells you there's an emergency. The conversation was getting nowhere and around in circles we went, so I told him we'd talk about it in the morning.

On the way to school today he asked me if they were going to do a fire drill and I said I didn't know, and that was that.

Hearing about lock down drills reminds me to pray for his school and for his safety. What a good reminder! The principal also sent an email out that day to tell all the parents they did lock down drills.

I forgot to post some pictures from last week when we climbed the Camel's Back Hill! We did it on a whim and it was so much fun.

At the TOP

Looking down the way we came

VIDEO!

Fever

Nico woke up from his nap this afternoon with a fever. 102.2. We snuggled and watched Shaun the Sheep for most of the afternoon. He only nibbled on a banana, and he is asleep now at 5:45. I'm hoping he wakes up feeling better! He's got some reddish cheeks in this photo. Fever topped out at 102.9.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving. FaceTime with Grandparents Russell and Great Grandma Gohl. Walk. Shaun the Sheep. Sleeeeep.

Daddy Time

Most every morning, Guy is still awake when Nico gets up. So we go into his room and sing his wake up song (which he bounces to while continuing to lie down), get him dressed, and then Guy and Nico watch an episode of Shaun the Sheep while I make breakfast. That's the first picture.

The second picture is of Guy and Nico sharing some cupcakes that I made today. Nico ate two and a half of them!

Nico's fever was gone this morning, he is just dealing with a runny nose and some coughing.

Another recovery day

Nico was sick again a few nights ago. Record breaking amount of illness in this house the past few months! I am making some changes in Nico's diet to help support his immune system, we'll see if it helps! He brought his garbage truck into the living room (he had just finished filling it with every one of his micro machines), and placed it next to the iPad so he could watch Shaun the Sheep while playing and drinking his soda.

Boxin'

Nico crawled into this box with the iPad while I was washing dishes this morning.

We are still battling illness! He woke up with a barking cough this morning, but after some homeopathy and a few minutes of steam-time in the bathroom, he is already sounding better. I'm updating the blog for today at 9:30 in the morning! But I know if I don't do it now that I will forget this evening.

Recovery

Today was a lot of sitting around watching Shaun the Sheep on Netflix. Nico seems to be recovering quickly from his illness. He had a pretty restless night last night but is doing much better today. He was able to eat part of a banana this morning and then graduated to goat's milk and avocados and chicken stock and then tonight he had some dried apples and fresh peaches.

Despite the illness, he actually wanted to go for two walks today. The first one was meager, but the second one was quite long and he actually walked most of the way around the block!

Shaun the Sheep

Sitting on Daddy's lap while watching Shaun the Sheep (a Wallace and Gromit spin off) on the iPad.