Sunday, September 25, 2011

Woohoo Football!

We went to the park today and Nicholas had fun playing football and soccer. If you have ever been in our house, you have seen that Nicholas has at least 3 of every kind of ball. (Except for baseballs, because that is not on the approved list of sports, per Tyler.) This little guy sure loves sports! When we watch football, we have him trained to say "Woohoo football!" and "Touchdown!" I recently taught him to say "Blue, thirty-two, HUT!" (I don't actually know what that means, but it sounded good at the time.) So, we brought a couple of balls to the park and let him run free. Plus, I wanted an excuse to practice my picture-taking and photoshop skills. ;) Eat your hearts out, Folks! This kid is amazing!













Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Hammer in the evening

We went to Lowes last night to get some stuff to anchor Nicholas's dresser to the wall because he has started climbing on everything. He's always climbed to some extent, but now it's at that more determined phase. Yesterday morning when I went to let him out of his room, I opened the door to find him hanging from the top drawer which was pulled out. I instantly had visions of him being crushed by the dresser, and so I was determined that he wouldn't go another night without it anchored. We took the changing table out and moved things around a bit. He seemed to handle the change well. His favorite spot is the reading corner. It's too cute.
But, the cutest was him walking around Lowe's with his plastic hammer:



Monday, September 12, 2011

Blankie Wars

Nicholas is a blankie boy and has been for a very long time. The one he decided to attach himself to, happens to be the first baby blanket I was given. My mom sent it for Mother's Day while I was pregnant. It was soft, yellow and green, and crocheted with love. 
When we leave the house we can usually get him to put it down by the door by letting him know he can't leave with it, but he'll hold on to it until the last possible second. 
Because he won't let it go, my mom was kind enough to make some backup copies :). The first one came just in time for the poop incident of 2010. Blankie #1 (no pun intended) was retired after that one... But we usually have 2 at a time so that we can rotate them out when we need to wash them. 
Last week I realized it was time for a wash, so I took the clean one out of the closet and switched them. I put the grungy blanket in the hamper. A couple of days later, I noticed that his blankie was looking especially grungy already, but I didn't think much of it. Then today we were doing laundry and the blankie that I pulled out of the hamper was nice and clean. That little stinker had switched them! So, I marched upstairs and swapped them right out of his hands, and put the dirty one directly into the washing machine. 
When I went upstairs he was crying for his blankie, and refused to take the clean one. He said "No, no no," and ran to the top of the stairs so we could go fetch the other one.
Well, he's not even two yet, so I figured that I could just bring the clean blankie downstairs and when he went to look for his blankie he would find it, and forget about the whole swap. I thought everything was going well...
Tonight when we went to put him to bed we brought him upstairs with his binkie and his blankie and got him all set up for night nights, when he handed me back his blankie and said "No, no, no." 
Well, too bad, it will have to do. Crazy kid! He never cries after we put him to bed but he cried for a few minutes tonight and finally fell asleep with his little legs hanging off the side of the bed. But he did fall asleep with his blankie, and we'll see what happens tomorrow. 

These pictures are from Sunday. We got him ready for church, and he decided he needed his hat on. So, he put it on and I couldn't convince him otherwise. I had to trick him into leaving it in the car when we got to the church, and it went right back on when we got out. (You can also see his blankie on the floor with his binkie)



Sunday, September 11, 2011

Game Day

We got together with some friends again to watch the gator game. It was a good game! We like shut outs :)







Thursday, September 8, 2011

Growing grass, but not that kind.

Nicholas loves eating plums lately. He sometimes calls them plums, and sometimes calls them apples.


Tyler has been doing all sorts of fun things for his classes. He has to take care of a grass plant that he has affectionately named "Auggie." He has also been collecting bugs. I love that assignment... (that was sarcastic, in case you didn't catch that).





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