Spaghetti Feed

On Monday we went to a spaghetti feed for Nico's baseball season that is starting up. It was at Timberline High School. 

They also had a huge table full of treats and wouldn't you know it they had gluten free stuff as well! Nico picked out a vanilla cupcake. When he discovered that it was vanilla he told the lady it was his favorite flavor like "HOW DID YOU KNOW?!??" He didn't eat much of his spaghetti, but he certainly ate his cupcake.

After eating, Nico and I wandered around trying to find the table for the Pirates, which is the name of his team. We found them and we were able to meet the coach and his wife and their son who is also on the team. Then we were ushered into the auditorium where they talked to us about the upcoming season. The season lasts 6 weeks and Nico's team will have 12 games total. 2 per week, plus one practice per week. We are gearing up for a busy April. His first practice isn't until the 4th.

Tonight (Thursday), we usually watch Evelyn and she eats dinner with us, but tonight we had everyone over! Jeff and Allicia were under a time crunch to get the countertop installed today in the suite before their guests arrived, so I offered to feed everyone. I was planning to make a ton of dinner anyway, so it's nice I had enough!! Nico only ate a few forkfuls and said his tummy hurt :( He went to bed with a sore tummy, I'm hoping he feels better in the morning. Tomorrow he has his St Patrick's Day program at school. He has been singing the songs from this program for a few months now. If you read this Thursday night, say a prayer for him that his tummy ache goes away!

The time change means Nico has been sleeping in a bit more than usual, even after I turn the light on. But at least I got this cute picture of him snuggling Guy.

Reading Donald Duck in the morning. He also checked out a Garfield comic from the library that he has been reading.

Nico took this picture of our Bible Study group. Missing 3 people. Guy usually isn't the only male! While we do Bible Study, the kiddos watch a movie in the living room.

Walking to school for early morning chess.

 That's it for this week!

Garden, Fish Park, and the iBee

We tried several times this past week to fly a kite. The gusts of wind seemed wild enough to carry a kite but when we got to the park there was hardly anything! Oh well. We keep the kite in the back of the car in case we need to make an emergency kite flying stop.

On Sunday after church we went to Louie's for lunch with family. Then afterward, Nico drove to Nampa with Papa to pick up the eggs and milk from the farm. The Grandparents Salisbury gave us 2 dozen farm fresh eggs this week (thank you!!), the darkest orange yolks you ever did see! Papa also let us borrow his wheelbarrow and a big shovel (we already have a small Nico-sized one) so that we could move the dirt from our garden. On Tuesday we moved it to the area under our pine trees. We don't plan to take the dirt with us when we move, but will definitely be bringing our garden bed!

Nico happened to be wearing a nice shirt that morning and me a skirt. But it turns out all you need is good shoes and you can get the job done. We were done quickly.

Cold water, juice, cheese stick, and iPad to relax after digging dirt.

On Monday we went to see Allicia and crew in the morning and brought some bins with us to store in their cellar.

Tuesday, Fish Park!

His favorite part of the Fish Park is the stream-bed in the lobby and the big sturgeon fish that swim under the bridge. So we just did those two things.

We've been… eating cinnamon raisin bread, going for bike rides in the morning, sorting through closets, snuggling, reading, and playing iPad games and watching videos. He is really enjoying read-along books that come with a CD of the story. And of course truck/car books from the library.

Two more weeks until school starts! I am mentioning it to him every so often so he knows it's coming. I've also been trying and trying to remember to enforce him saying "iPad" instead of "iBee". It was one thing that his speech therapist wanted him to work on, but I am so used to him saying "iBee" that I haven't remembered to correct him! We practice saying "iPad" on purpose and he can do it just fine, but it's a habit to say iBee and it's a hard one to break.

Onward!

Tractor Spoon

Spaghetti tonight for dinner, and Nico used his new tractor spoon that Grandma Salisbury brought back with her from Ohio. He loves it! And he loved the spaghetti too.

This evening, I pulled my guitar out and Nico played it for the first time! I had pulled it out when he was younger, but was never much interested in it. It had been at least a year before he'd seen it.