What we've been up to lately

The weather has been so wonderful lately, so we have spent plenty of time outside!

We splurged and bought some new patio furniture for our top deck. Love this outside space.



Gotta make a trip to Stanley's Farmhouse Pizza every now and then.

The ducks love when Nico arrives at Abel's on the Lake.



Nico is obsessed with our neighbor's new chiweenie, Laney. We now dog sit on Mondays and Thursdays. Notice that jealous Miley is nowhere to be found in this pic.



Walks and jeep rides on the neighborhood trail with daddy in the mornings.

Nico's newest, favorite part of the trail ride is working his way back to the "ooze" and throwing rocks.

 

Life is all about Ninja Turtles these days! He has nearly every Ninja Turtle toy known to man, and he watches the tv shows daily.

 

 He likes to pretend he is Rafael, and boy, we sure have gotten more use out of this Halloween costume than we ever imagined. There is plenty of sword fighting in this household. I woke up this morning and quickly became under attack...

 

 

He is such a happy kid. He's always smiling and laughing. He's had that quality since he was born. Love this picture of him cracking up at himself. He is into a phase of taking about butts, poop, private parts, etc. Such a boy. 

 

He's becoming quite the baseball stud.







After dinner, he declares most nights, "movie night" and insists on turning off all of the lights.

Not one night goes by that he forgets to brush his teeth. If he could rank his hobbies, this may make the top 5 list. Or maybe, he is just stalling before bedtime.




I found a kids' pretend shaving kid on the post-Christmas clearance rack at Walgreens for a few dollars. Knew this would be right up his alley. He tells us that his skin is so smooth now from shaving.

 

 

He's still into Legos these days.

While a lot of our time consists of going places and playing outside, I try to make an effort to read with him and reinforce some type of "educational" activity. Definitely room for improvement on my part, but we are all about just letting him be a kid, too!

When my ponytail sometimes gets off to one side, he thinks that I am Elsa from the movie, Frozen, and that I am going to freeze him. His facial expressions are classic.

It's difficult to sense time passing by and his growing up right before our eyes. But, whenever he gets a haircut, the realization hits me. Stop growing up so fast!

 

 

Can't remember what life was like before he joined our family!