Aqualad

Our Nicholas just loves taking baths.  He actually gets quite upset if he skips a day.  He's very clean like that.  In any event, he loves taking bubble baths and putting bubbles all over the place.  He especially loves putting them on his face.  Thankfully, they don't sting his eyes or we may have issues like John used to have with hair washing.

Birthday Party Fun

Look Who's Driving

We stopped in at China's Ralph's today to pick up some provisions for Mami and Papi's house this week.  I told the boys that they had race car shopping carts and they were not disappointed to see this cart.  After a while, John decided to kick back and leave the driving to Nicholas who loved every minute of it!

A Member of the Peanuts Gang

We joking call him Pig Pen because he's always in such a messy state, but this is proof.  Look how he sticks his tongue out as he is concentrating.  If that isn't a characteristic of the Peanuts kids, then I don't know what is.  Thankfully, I was at work while this was going on.  Had I been here, I probably would have been saying something like, "Stop that!" or "Nicholas, NO!!!"  He must think his middle name is "No" since I say it so much after saying his name.

Born to Read

Nicholas LOVES books.  He enjoys to listen to any story at any time of the day.  He also loves to pick up a good book or magazine and just go to town with it.  At this point, I know he's just memorized things, but he's very smart.  Sometimes, he'll just say things or pick things up really, really quickly.  I'm fearful that he'll be grown up before we know it.  

Party at My Gym

We went to a birthday party at My Gym today.  Our Nicholas was a little shy at first and didn't want to interact with anyone.  He only wanted to be held by Maureen.  After about 20-minutes, I took him into the play area and dropped him into the ball pit.  He eventually warmed up to the experience and started to bury himself in the balls.  He even started to walk on all the gym equipment.  He's a far cry from John.  John wouldn't have done this at 22-months, but our Nicholas sure has no problems!

Quite Shocking

Last week, we took a trip to Costco and headed to the fruit cooler.  As is his custom, John asked me to crack open the strawberries we were going to buy in order to eat one.  As I was closing the container, guess who asked me for one?  Yes, Little Mr. I Only Eat French Fries, Chicken Nuggets, Pizza, and Bacon aka Nicholas asked me for a strawberry!!!  I gave him one and he took a small bite out of it and then proceeded to drop it on the floor.  He's taking true baby steps in expanding his menu.