Nick's Life: August 2014

With the start of second grade, Brandi and Nick are settling into a schedule.  Time with his iPad has been cut, but he gets extra time with it on the weekend for eating some veggies... turns out he likes watercress! And a happy dance ensued!  Even if Brandi had to feed him like a dinosaur to get him to eat it.  Even with the passion for sharks, dinosaurs aren't totally extinct from our lives.  Nick says, "When I grow up, I can't get married to another woman, cause I'm gonna stay with Mama and we're gonna be paleontologists!" And when he creates dinosaurs from clay, those with moving parts are 'articulated dinos'.  Also on the food front, we went out for Thai and he ate spring rolls, pad thai, and beef jerky.  He also experienced Hibachi for the first time at the Kobi.

It was an overall adventurous month with the boys.  We went on a nature hike with Nick and Thatcher.  We also got to a new indoor pool at the South Cobb Aquatic Center, with a cool water slide.  Thatcher wasn't tall enough to ride it, but he snuck on anyway.  The boys loved the whirlpool, where Nick crashed his head into the wall and took the skin off his forehead, first facial scar for my boy.  Later in the month, we convinced Seth to join us, and we had all three for a day trip to SkyZone (where it's all about the slo-mo video), and then the Gwinnett outdoor pool with two waterslides.  And I didn't sunburn (thanks to Brandi's shellac, still not out of my pores.)'


At the end of my week in Atlanta, we went up to Knoxville together for the weekend.  Ended up downtown in a social district, where Nick played chess with a gentleman sitting in the park, and we had a great meal.  Nick was Shakespeare eating ice cream (which was better than the amateur Shakespeare in the park production, complete with southern dialects.)

Nick is excelling in school, mostly because Brandi has advanced him considerably from home schooling last year.  I love to hear him read, as he now mimics my inflections from years of reading him stories.  And we learn 'math facts' by racing against each other on the flash cards.

And he got posted on a social website for bold landsharking (also linked here)!

- Jason