I'm convinced they put crack in the food at Golden Corral. One evening with Nick there for dinner, he was bouncing off the walls, babbling like a blubber, tipping the chair... after a few bites of various food. He would reach out and grab people around him, which was not cool. Want more insight into this audience that should be experienced in limited amounts? Visit http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/fwalmart.com/. That's all you need to know.Favorite foods this month: perfect butter sandwich (no, spell check didn't mess that up), asiago cheese bagels, huge marshmallows. Unlike me who will finish the less favorable foods first so I can enjoy the good stuff, he's more like his mama who fills up on the best stuff, then is too full to eat the veggies and healthy junk. He wakes up in the morning, and requests a different breakfast each day: eggs, or cinnamon toast, or Cheerios, or pancakes, or bacon. No worries about being a good eater; he can consumer a half of pizza, or a 10 oz steak alone. When there's steak nearby, nothing else gets touched.
He loves to be wrapped up like a tacquito. These are the little frozen tacos we buy him for snacks, but he likens the term to being rolled in a blanket and being tossed around. We toss him around on the bed, bounce him up and down, and tuck him into the blanket.
New toys this month: rubber ocean life, such as a humpback whale and orca. Lots of Hot Wheels cars, so he now knows a Judge, a Grabber, and a Javelin on sight (there's your quiz for this month: name the makers of these 70's muscle cars.) He got a new John Deere tractor, which was more a daddy-wanted-it gift. I grew up on International Harvester toys - it's appropriate to establish brand awareness early. And another spaceship with a docking station that makes as much noise as he does.
Lots of time in the pool. He can actually swim now, moving in a steady direction, not just floating. He still wigs out when he hears low flying planes overhead, and ducks under the slide or to the edge of the house. Also being outside, he got stung by a wasp while playing in the sandbox, right on the palm of his hand. There was a nest under the sand. Weeks later, he still talks about it. There's a
pic of him showing off his Curious George Band-Aid. He barely made a fuss when he got stung.Nick made another leap this month in his interactions with others. He still selectively ignores you, or your questions, if they don't fit with his immediate agenda. But otherwise, he now frequently mixes in a variety of colorful adjectives and verbs (love, beautiful, gorgeous, gigantic, super) with his conversation. Many of which he uses with kids at the playground; sometimes he'll chase the other little boys, but most of the time he wants to charm the 12-14 year old blonde girls. We're into the 'repeat everything' stage now. Either he repeats after me, or just repeats himself until he gets action. When he plays with his toy space shuttle, he recites an entire launch protocol he heard on TV: "3-2-1-Blastoff. We have liftoff for the 41st mission of space shuttle Discovery. Scheduled to travel 7 million miles in orbit with a stop to the International Space Station." Too bad he's gonna miss this era of NASA, which ends this year.
- Jason
