Talking!

Nicholas is finally starting to say some real understandable words! He says "uh oh," "doggy," "boo," and "go." It is so cute! A very random selection of words but that's okay, I'll take what I can get. We tried to get him on video today but he wouldn't talk when I turned on the camera. We also wanted to get him pretending to say "mama." He refuses to say it and only makes a popping sound with his lips! He's such a goof! Hopefully this is the start of a language explosion!


I'll have some new updates soon. I've just got to get some of my pictures uploaded and sorted out. Then I'll actually have some new posts on here!

Our first real injury :(

We've done the scrapes and cuts but today we got our first real blood drawing injury. At our mom's group Halloween party Nicholas fell. Smacked his chin directly down into something. The blood came gushing out and I was terrified that he'd knocked out some of his perfect little teeth. Luckily there is a nurse in the group who swiftly grabbed him up and ran him to the kitchen. We got the blood soaked up pretty well with some paper towels. I was shaking like crazy and apparently white as a ghost! She checked his teeth and said they were all in there still and none were loose. Thank God! He made it through lunch and then we headed home for a long nap. He was better later after a dose of Motrin. And this evening he's been back to his normal goofy self. I can handle all the scrapes, cuts, falls in the world but his teeth and eyes are my biggest things. I am terrified of him hurting them!

On a happier note, here are a few quick pictures I was able to snap of him in his costume. He wouldn't hold the sword or parrot yet so we'll try to get some pictures of him in full costume soon.

Corn Maze! Pumpkins!!

On Sunday we ventured out to the local corn maze. It was a lot of fun and we made it through the giant maze in an hour. We did it with 2 of the families from my mom's group and were lucky that one of them bought the magic glasses to see the maze on paper so he could lead us out in a decent amount of time! We also did a short hay ride, Nicholas loved the tractor pulling us! He had been pointing at the hayride all day so I know he was happy to actually get to do it. We also walked around among the few pumpkins they had and met a scarecrow.








This last picture is from the Fall Festival we went to at the local elementary. It looked like fun for the bigger kids but nothing Nicholas could do. It was nice to see the school though since someday I could be teaching at it and Nicholas could be attending it!

Learning something new everyday!

Nicholas has really mastered sign language now. He has a list of words he can sign and he uses them on his own in the correct manner many times a day! He doesn't have many real spoken words yet but he's really communicating with sign. His list includes...

More
Eat
All Done
Please
Thank You
Fish
And his own made up sign for Open

He's also really getting good with knowing his body parts. He can point to eyes, ears, head, nose, mouth, tongue/teeth, feet (stinky feet!), belly/belly button and I do believe he knows hands because when I say we need to wash his hands he holds them out for me. We are working on learning cheeks.

I love this age and seeing all the new things he does everyday!

He's so smart!

Let me brag a minute about my smart little man. Tonight Nicholas was pulling on my blanket and I kept telling him "that's not your blanket!" Scott then says "That's Not my Dragon" (the name of Nicholas' favorite book). Suddenly Nicholas stops, drops the blanket and runs away. I joked that he'd be so smart if he came back with the book. Well guess what? He did!! He went to his room, found it on the bookshelf and brought it to me to read to him. He's so smart!

What's new with Nicholas!

We've had some busy days lately so I haven't had a chance to update. We've been to Gymboree class, Monkey Joe's (inflatables place), Sea World, and well just the park! Nicholas is having a blast getting to do all kinds of climbing and running. I love our Mom's group because it gets us out of the house and active! We are looking forward to a very jam packed week next week also!

Here are a few pictures from these past week. It is hard to get Gymboree pictures because I'm having to be on constant guard that he isn't going to topple off of something! He did do a somersault off of a very thick mat because he hasn't quite mastered stepping down off of things and was too impatient to wait for me to get across to him! Ah, to be the mom of a boy!

Gymboree...

Monkey Joe's...

His favorite thing at Monkey Joe's was the $.25 horse!! He liked it even better than the slides!

Sea World...

Sea World!!

Since Scott and I went ahead and bought an annual pass to Sea World we figured we'd take advantage of it and head out today to enjoy the park. We started the morning with a pancake breakfast at Chili's. Yes Chili's! They were doing a fund raiser for St. Jude's Children's Hospital. It was excellent, we even had to buy Nicholas his own plate because he devoured it (despite having eaten breakfast at home before we left!). Then off we went to Sea World. We enjoyed a rather entertaining pirate show staring a few sea lions, otters and a giant walrus. Followed by a walk through the shark tunnel, Nicholas loved watching the fish swimming all around us. And then his all time favorite event, the splash park!! This kid LOVES water! He was a bit hesitant at first being surrounded by older kids but once he got comfortable there was no stopping him. He was darting all over the area playing with the water and kids. I've never seen him so happy! He didn't want to leave. He'd occassionally wander out of the splash area so I'd say "Nicholas are you all done playing?" Which was always answered with a giant shake of the head no and a run back into the water! Once we finally coerced him out of the splash park we went onto a kiddie ride that scared me more than it did him! I hate heights!! We then moved on to a ride more my speed, the carousel. Nicholas was notably tired so we decided our day was done and home we went. It was a fun day and we can't wait to go back!!