nicolas is eighteen months old today!

My sweet baby boy is eighteen months old today. He's a happy, kindhearted, fun-loving little boy.



Words:

"Momma", or more like "MUM-MAA!!!"

"Dadda"

"Ky" for Sky

"Den Den" for Aiden

"some" - when he wants you to share "some" of your food with him

"tit" is sit. He pats the spot he wants you to sit on

"out" cause that's where he likes to be

"thank you" you've heard him say this before but if you want to hear it again here it is...sometimes he even thanks you in advance for something he wants.

"nana" for banana...and for Nana Beth

"Ga' Ma'" is for grandma.

"hot" he says hot as he shakes his hand and shows his cautious eyes wide open.

Nicolas what's your favorite color? "blue"

"no no" - i guess i know where he got that one!

"downnnn!" when he wants to get down from his chair



Nicks' top TEN favorite foods:

10.goldfish, gram crackers, cookies, etc.
9. almonds (especially the salted Smokehouse Blue Diamonds)
8. noodles, pasta in general
7. rice and chicken (Afghan style obvi....duh!)
6. asparagus & celery
5. oatmeal and sausage ( he eats two sausages and oatmeal every morning followed by berries, and yogurt)
4. gummy bears (yup, they are behind kishmish)
3. kishmish (you may know this as raisins)
2. blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, granny smith apples

-- and finally his favorite food of all ----

1.....still SALMON! (he also loves rockfish, tallapia, flounder, catfish, and any other mild fish.



Music and Dance are his current life passions. He'll dance to any kind of music. He mostly dances to Russian trance....yes, Russian trance music mainly because he's grown up on it...you see, Mr. Sergy (our friend and contractor) is Russian and loves trance...so since Nicolas was ten months old he's heard Russian trance music blasting in our house 8 hours a day. As soon as he hears the music, he starts smiling and moving to the music.



He keeps a very busy schedule -

Story time at the library and bookstore, the little gym, swim practice (Wednesdays and Saturdays ), and playgroup at near by church. He also loves to go pickup Aiden and Sky from school. I usually have to allow for an extra half hour because he loves to watch Aiden and Sky at soccer or basketball practice. He joins in on practice...lucky the coaches and kids think he's cute so they usually sets a small ball aside for him.



He LOVES to spend time in the playroom with Grandma...I don't know how they do it but those two could spend an entire afternoon playing in playroom...oh and snacking...lots of snacking on kishmish and cookies.


He knows he's one of the kids...whatever Aiden and Sky do, Nick loves join in...that's in bath, at play, while eating, while reading, during general crazy horseplay.

He's also very mindful of not letting anyone else sit on my lap for too long. If Aiden or Sky sit on my lap for more than a couple of minutes, he comes over and pushes them off and makes himself comfortable. Luckily, Aiden and Sky think that's just cute and they don't get offended.