A Bath Without Sceaming...and Ice Cream!

We've had a few firsts here this week. The most notable is that Nicholas had his first taste of ice cream last night (as an ice cream lover, this is the most important thing out of our list - ha ha!). He made the funniest face since it was cold. We tried to record it, after he did it two times in a row, but on the third and fourth time, nothing. On the fifth when the video camera was stashed again...there was that cute scrunched up face. :) He's too cute, but then we already knew that!


He also treated me a couple of days ago to a lovely shower. It started out as any other...with me jumping in planning to wash myself as quickly as possible to avoid upsetting him longer than necessary. Strangely, though, after about a minute of fussing, he left the bathroom to play with his toys. Could it be that my little man is growing up? Say it isn't so...

Since I didn't get to finish this several nights ago when I planned to, I'll share another "wonderful" development in little Nicholas' amusement with the world. The little guy has discovered that throwing things away is almost as exciting as shutting doors. Of course, I have to disagree...especially since I spent a good portion of my evening on Monday laboring. Specifically, I was hunting down the pieces to what we call "Farmer Tad." This is Nicholas' fridge farm which he adores...but apparently he doesn't know that if you throw toys away they don't come back...unless Mommy digs for them in the garbage. When all was said and done, I'd found all but the back of the pig. Who knows where that is, but it is probably around the house somewhere. In my search, I found 2 balls and 2 animal halves in the trash gook...I think I'll try to look a little more often now so that I don't have to dig through goo again. It was so gross.

Of course, I've also put all the animal halves but two up out of reach. I figure I am well within my rights by decreasing the number of pieces I must keep track of and hunt down!

Thus endeth another bath...

Nicholas has recently become fascinated with the drain cover at bath time. The house that we rent has a grate over the drain so we have to use one of those plastic disk things to keep the water in. He likes to pick it up, feel the rush of the water as the tub empties and then put the cover back on...multiple times.

He gets into trouble when he puts the cover back on upside down for the current disk has a "handle" if you will. He can hear the water still going out and it drives him a bit nuts! So, he takes it off again...puts it back...takes it off...puts it back. Eventually there is no water left and the bath ends. I have on a frequent basis tried to help the little guy not end his bath prematurely, but it always seems to be in vain. So I've just given up...sometimes we have a nice long bath and sometimes we don't.

Either way, he comes out cute, clean and cuddly! :)

Piano Pleasures

My son has a love for our piano....which is good. He enjoys tinkering on it from time to time which is quite cute. However, his habit of shutting the lid everytime I am playing is quite annoying. I rarely get to play an entire tune. Makes me want to growl sometimes.

Tonight Nicholas seems to have more teething pain. Joy. And we tested the teething tablets and it looks like they were the culprits that led to the little guy breaking out last week. So, we went straight to Motrin. I am suffering from a lack of patience this evening and so Mark had to take him and put him down after I'd spent about an hour doing so only to sit down on the couch and here him start crying.

Sometimes being a mother is difficult, but I wouldn't give up my kidlet for the world!

Baby Blue

My absolute most favoritist ever color to dress Nicholas in is baby blue. For some reason, that color just suits him so well. Maybe it's me and the fact that he's my baby boy. It could be a mental something, but I really do believe that with his adorable red hair and light skin baby blue is one of his best colors. He was wearing it today...until no one noticed that his diaper was extraordinarily full...and then there was a puddle on the floor. Oops.

I do have my laptop back but haven't been using it much. I kind of like it not being readily accessible because it makes me focus more on the important things...like Nicholas. :)

My business is going pretty well. I received my 2nd commission check today and it was great. It will cover most of a show deposit I need to send in this week. By next Tuesday, I need to sell another $400 of product to qualify for level two. I am hopeful that the event I have scheduled in Lamar on Saturday will yield a good chunk of orders and that I can then just order a little bit of stuff for my inventory or myself to enjoy and call it good.

I'd originally hoped to reach the level three goal they offer, but it is quite lofty - either 6 new recruits plus $2500 in sales in 60 days or $5000 in sales. That's a lot of candles and with a baby and another business to be mindful of, a bit unreasonable. I'm not too sad though because, well, the pin for level two is purple and the pin for level three is blue. I'd rather have purple since I'll be wearing it rather than Nicholas...

Have a great evening - I'm off to give Nicholas his bath complete with a new stacking toy for the bath with flashing lights and music and some rockin' fun squirters (including two penguins!).

All-Nighters

We have been putting in quite a few lately. Tonight is probably a great chance to make up for them and here I sit blogging instead of sleeping. *sigh* I just really wanted to catch up on everyone's week and also post a little about ours.

Teeth, teeth and more teeth is still the drill. It has been pretty tricky lately trying to deal with a very unhappy and in pain cutie pie. The fact that he also reacted to something and had hives all over his body also is just not so much fun at all.

I'm certainly hopeful that some of the temper tantrums we've experienced lately are totally teeth related. Tonight he was a real bear - not being at all accomodating. Anytime I set his food bowl on the table he screamed at the top of his lungs...with his eyes closed so he couldn't see there was a spoonful of food right in front of him. I just shoveled it in and prepared for the next round. I hope this doesn't become a habit.

Okay, now I'm off to bed...I hope you're all doing well. I'll try to do better about posting next week. It's a little tricky now that I don't have my laptop. I hope it comes back soon!