Surgery Day

BONUS POST

Tomorrow (Thursday) is Nicks 2nd and hopefully final surgery. I look forward to him not getting looks and for me, not having to explain to everyone around why his head looks the way it does. At least I educated them. We have to be at the hospital at 6:30am

Pickles!!! He LOVES them. Nick tried them for the first time last night and loved it, went in for more and a bigger bite. He took the whole top layer of a quarter cut pickle.

Navigational Nick

From the photo below, you can get an idea of what we mean. He extends his little arm as far as it goes, grunts and leans into the direction that he wants you to go. Once arrived, he'll almost immediately change course, want to go somewhere else and repeats the process.

Navigational Nick

Nicholas's 10 month photo

A little White Sox, a little Nicholas, a little Cormac, and a little of Aunt Jen snapping photos. You can see her family blog, the link is on the lower right hand side. "The Adventures of Declan and Cormac"

On another note, Nick has 4 top center teeth coming in. The two in the middle broke skin so far. No wonder why he's been crabby.

It's warming up

It's warming up outside, all the snow is gone, Nick walked freely outside for the first time. That's when he met the grass for the first time and as far as he's concerned, his last time.
He doesn't like it one bit. You can see from his face in the photos and how he has his arms up really high when he fell down.

As you probably already know, I am cutting back to the updates to 2 days a week. Monday or Tuesday and Friday.

Cousin Filled Weekend

One giant leap....over the weekend, while we were actually witnessing it, he stood up from a crawling position not holding onto anything. He balanced his own weight. Here is a photo capturing him doing it again a few minutes later.
Nick loves to eat anything including shoes...but still don't come near him with green beans.

Over the weekend Nick spent time with his Cousin's Cormac, Declan and Max.

Nick & Cormac

Nick chasing Max

Nick looking up to Max

Hiding

Ok, he's not hiding, but he did crawl under there. His TWO top front teeth on the other hand, are hiding and are slowly pushing on the gums to make their way out.

Cheerioooooooos

Nicholas does not like the sun in his eyes and he lets you know it!

But he loves his Cheerios!!! Lately he wants to feed himself and he sure did feed himself a lot of these last night.

He's really growing...

We knew he was growing, growing out of his extra large car seat, growing out of many clothes, standing taller over the crib...and today we found out the his stats from his doctor.
Weight- 18 lbs 7 oz
Height- 29"

While at his docter he was extra cranky, been cranky most the day... later we flipped him upside down as he loves when we do then Mommy "thinks" she noticed a white line in the upper gum line... This is the only way to get Nick to open his mouth. Otherwise, try to get a finger in his mouth and he'll lock those lips so that it's air tight.

Over the weekend I got to meet some of the cast from my favorite movie, Back to the Future. I had Christopher Lloyd (Doc) sign my die-cast Delorean. I promised I smiled from ear to ear, once I knew he was signing it in the right place.