Jeff flew in today. He wanted to be around to visit with Grandma and Boppa before Grandma's surgery on Tuesday. Grandma is having surgery on her nose for some skin cancer that was detected. Anyway, it was fun to have Jeff around. Nicholas and I were headed up to have a seat on the good old thrown for awhile. In true Nicholas fashion, we had to stop and look out the little window in the staircase on our way up. He likes to point out "tree down." Because of all the warm weather we had this week the Christmas tree which was propped up lovely in the snow bank took a tumble down the hill when the snow around it melted. While we were doing this Nicholas saw Grandma coming, and then Jeff. He called out both of their names, and was literally shaking with excitement. I don't think we could have gotten down the stairs fasten enough to open up the door to see them. Immediately Nick wanted to playing hiding games with Jeff. He remembered this from when Jeff was home at Christmas time. He was smiles from ear to ear. He was also quite excited to see Grandma as well!
Well Grandma had some field trip ideas for us. She had suggested that we go to World of Fish to have a gander at the tropical fish aquariums. She use to take Jeff there when he was big into his fish tanks. Then she had suggested going to Wild Rumpus, a children's book store. We got the directions and were on our way.
After squeezing into a tight parking spot at World of Fish. We entered a humid environment filled with colorful fish from head to toe. Nicholas really became interested at looking into the different aquariums. He enjoyed looking for fish that might have been hiding in the coral or sea anemone. "Hiding, hiding" he would say with a big smile on his face. He also enjoyed looking at the tiny crabs who looked like they were waving. Nicholas would say, "hedoo, bye bye" to the crabs, adorable. It was also fascinating to him as some of the fish would follow his hands, because they know where their food comes from.
We left there and headed to Chipotle for lunch. Yum. Nick sure does like his "dillas". What a good little eater he was eating his rice, and beans, dilla, and drinking his chocolate milk.
Then we went on a crazy driving adventure to find The Wild Rumpus. Once we finally arrived we were greeted by the cutest miniature door for Nicholas to walk through. He loved it, I think he would have been happy staying at the door for the whole visit. Animals were all over this book store. From cats, to lizards, to birds, to chinchillas, to spiders, you name it they probably had it. Nicholas really liked the lizard, great, and really wanted 'Spike' to eat his carrots. Well after much effort was given to try to persuade "pike" to "eat" we had no luck. After our stop at the book store, we took a quick detour over to a toy store. Where we had fun playing with balls, and cooking sets, and watching marbles run through a course.
What a great afternoon. Both Jeff and Nick quickly fell asleep on the way home.
To make the day even better Chris called and said he will be home at 8:30 tonight! We are so excited to have him back, and hope he can stay awhile.
Life is good!
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