Sleeping Bag

Why is Nick on the floor in a sleeping bag?
Because we're sleeping in his bed tonight.Why are we sleeping in his bed tonight?
Because Chris broke our bed.


How did Chris break our bed?
He was jumping on it.

Why was Chris jumping on it?
To make Peri laugh.

Cool Guy Hair

Nick took a bath the other night and I combed his hair into "cool guy" hair. I was combing it back and it looked kinda like a Greaser. See, we missed out a few weeks on a haircut. Ok, maybe more than a few weeks. Then when we stopped by Al's BarberShop 2 weekends ago, we found Al was on vacation for the month of March. Which left us with surfer boy. So "cool guy" hair was as much as I could do with it.

The next morning Nick woke up with insanely puffy hair. Sorry I didn't get a photo. There's still time! While I was dropping Peri off at school, Nick was busying himself looking at his reflection in the front door. "Mom, do I still have cool guy hair?" Oh yes, yes you do.

That night we made him "cool guy" hair again before bed and I told him I'd fix it for him again in the morning. Wouldn't you know the kid woke up saying "Mom - remember you're going to fix my hair?!"

Happy Baby!

Peri hasn't been her normal, happy self. We thought it was just teething. Turns out she is teething (top two), has a cold AND a double ear infection. Poor baby! Just in time to go visit the grandparents!

This week has been rough. Between my crazy work hours and Peri's sleeping schedule, today was the first time we've seen each other in a few days. Nope, 4am this morning doesn't count. She was super giggly when I first saw her. Got this video. Apologies for the camera work. Hard to hold a baby and line up the view too.

Pop-Pop and the Sun Roof

We were driving home from the store and Pop-Pop noticed the interior car light was on. We all opened and closed our doors, but it stayed on. I pointed to the buttons over the rear view mirror and thought maybe one of those was controlling the light. Pop-Pop went to push the button, but hit the sun roof instead. The slanted sun roof which sent rain flooding in on him and Mom-Mom.

Love this family! Just when you think you've run out of Pop-Pop stories to tell, he comes through!

Visit to NC

The kids and I went to NC this past weekend to see my folks. And to celebrate Mom-Mom's birthday! Happy Birthday Mom-Mom!

Nick loves his Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop. And he loves hearing stories about Pop-Pop. Maybe because he loves him so much? Or maybe because the stories are so ridiculous.

There's the one about Pop-Pop and the hot dogs in the microwave. Then there's Pop-Pop and the mini lawn mower. And who could forget Pop-Pop and the snow storm. We've started to draw cartoons about these stories each night before bed. Found they're better than a book! While we were in NC, Mom-Mom brought out a book of cartoons I'd drawn for my dad's 50th birthday. We read them all and had fun laughing at the memories. Until we got to one and my dad yelled out "Ha! That one really happened!" As if all the others had been made up.

Next story? Pop-Pop gets Alzheimers.

Trophy!

Winter skating is over, and Nick had his first ever award ceremony last night. And received his first ever trophy! He and his skating friend Cam were running around acting silly. Then the awards started. Nick didn't seem too interested. Until they called his name. We cheered, he went up to get his award and came back with that bashful, embarrassed, proud look on his face. So cute.

How did he get up to get his trophy so fast, you ask? Well, PJ got there an hour early and secured the front/center table. Right in front of the coaches table. Made it a little hard to sneak out early to get Peri to bed.

Photos here from when Chris/Nick got home after the ceremony. Note to self - all other kids wear sport coats to award ceremonies...and we thought we were being smart by bringing a collared shirt for him to change into. Living and learning.

Nick took his trophy to school for Show & Tell on Friday. So proud!

Nolen!

Today is Aunt Megan's birthday! I think she's 21. Again. She's also a new mommy!

Happy Birthday Megan, and welcome to the newest cousin - NOLEN! Isn't he the cutest? And red hair. I laugh, because it's so cute. And because in our family it usually means trouble. I mean that in a good way Dad and Shannon ;)

Crap

Apparently I say "crap" all the time because Nick started saying it a few weeks ago. You don't realize how classy it sounds until it's coming out of the mouth of a five year old. Klassy I should say.

Every now and then he'll get so worked up over someone saying a bad word. It's usually "stupid", at which point Chris and I breath a sigh of relief. It's just a matter of time before he catches onto my other choice words.

As I write this, the boys are playing Nerf gun in the living room and Peri is upstairs sleeping (pre-posting). Nick is yelling "You aren't allowed to shoot my willy!" I promise you we didn't teach him that word.

Face Ball

Nick wishes Peri were old enough to play with him. Peri wishes Nick would play with her.

Last weekend I got sucked into the basement to watch Transformers with Nick while C watched the Olympics hockey game. We brought Peri down with us. Nick lost interest in the movie when he saw all of his toys. I am so movie deprived that I got totally sucked into watching Megan Fox and figuring out which were Autobots and which were Decepticons. And Peri was having so much watching big brother kick the ball off the walls...until one smacked her in the face and knocked her right off her boppy!

Nick made up for it and played ball with her. She was so happy! I couldn't get my camera/video in time to capture the laughter, but got a few smiles after.