Yoga

Nick has a Babar the elephant yoga bookthat he’s fallen in love with. We have to do yoga before he goes to bed every night and sometimes even in the morning when he wakes up. So cute. We took a mommy/tot yoga class last year, but all the other kids had been doing yoga since they were 2 (no joke) and Nick wasn’t into it at the time. The best is him bowing at the end and saying “namaste”. So adorable and innocent.

And then the crying/screaming/yelling starts because it's time to actually go to bed. Diminishing any good that came out of our yoga session.

Kayak

We went to visit some friends this weekend at their lake house. We had lunch and then hopped in the kayaks for a little paddle. I got the smaller red kayak and Chris was in the larger green one. Since his was larger, it was suggested that Nick ride in the front of his kayak. We all got our life vests on and hopped in the kayaks. Nick sat on the edge of the dock and was working with Chris to jump down into the kayak. Yes, you see where this is going…One hop turned into a bounce off the kayak, causing Chris to tip over and Nick to fly under the dock. Happy to say the life jacket did its duty (brought him right up) and Chris’s long arms grabbing the front of Nick helped as well. How Chris got out from under the kayak and grabbed Nick so fast, I’ll never know. I was still sitting in my kayak stunned. It all happened within 5 seconds. A few coughs and he was fine. That little trooper still wanted to go out in the kayaks, but said “I think I’ll ride with Mom”. Ha! Luckily we didn’t scar him for life. We had a great paddle and he even went out on the motor boat later that day. Love those life jackets. He had us repeat the story to him all weekend. He would add in “and then bubbles came out of my mouth” and “I can swim!”. I so wish I’d had my camera out for before and after photos.

Crew for tots?

We have an erg from our days of crew. Right now it’s in our empty basement. Chris was on it the other night and had Nick in his lap. Apparently Nick then hopped on by himself and rowed for a bit. Good form and all! I was at yoga and missed it, but it makes me laugh thinking of Nick rowing.

Brown Bag

Summer fun at school continues! Today was Picnic Day and everyone had to bring a lunch. Thank god I looked at the calendar this am, or little man would have been SOL. Some of you have heard how my mom used to make my breakfast every morning growing up. Buckwheat pancakes were the best! Well, she would also pack my lunch and include a little note on my napkin. Just something nice like “Have a great day. I love you! Mom”. So I’ve been writing Nick napkin notes on the days he has to take a lunch. Not that he can read, but hopefully someone is reading it to him ;) I drew a train on today’s napkin. So what does a three year old ask for in their lunch? Batman snacks and potato chips. What does his lunch bag really contain? A juice box, apple, PB on Ritz Crackers, baked chips and Batman snacks. What will he eat? Batman snacks and chips. Maybe a few bites of apple.

Transformers

Nick is all about the Transformers these days. I bought him a Transformer sticker book in Hong Kong and he made me name each Transformer and tell him if it was a “good guy or bad guy”. I’m sad to say that I know more about Autobots and Decepticons than I care to know. Nick got a Transformer toy the other day. They come with different levels of difficulty. Apparently age 5 (level 3) is too difficult for even me. So all day long I heard “mom, will you transform to a robot? Mom, will you transform to a car? Robot? Car?”. It got to a point where I was pretty good at it. Then it got to a point where I could not get that sucker back into a car. Spent ½ of dinner trying. Went to bed. Nick woke up saying “transformer…car…help…”. I told him I’d work on it and he fell back asleep. Poor little guy must have worried about it all night. So there I was at 6am trying to get it back into a car. Success! Nick was still snoozing when I left for work, so I went in, put it in his hand and told him I’d fixed it. He woke up briefly looked at the car then went back to sleep. What a stinker. Level one from here on out.

Potty

Come on - it's been a while since we had a potty story. Guess who can pee standing up?! Yes, a month or two too late in my eyes (visions of me holding his bum over a hole in the ground in Hong Kong while he yelled and peed all over my feet), but we’ll take it. He’s so proud of himself and his aim isn't too bad!

Cuts & Bruises

Boy oh boy, Nick is great at Karate! You should see the other kid!

OK, ok, so maybe those bruises aren't from karate. The one on his chin happened on the way to karate when Nick collided with a curb. The eyebrow, noise and knee happened leaving a block party when he collided with the sidewalk. His friend Lewis came over yesterday and i heard them comparing wounds. Too funny. It doesn't seem to have slowed him down.