His favorite things...

I had to make this storyboard since the title is the name of his favorite book and I had the perfect pictures for it :)

Click on the picture for a larger view. For more on his belly button obsession see my prevoius post :)

Frederik Meijer Gardens

Nicholas and I joined Betsy on her trip to the gardens today. She had to go there for a school project so we thought we would tag along. Nicholas had a really great time and it was a beautiful day.

A funny thing happened while we were in the butterfly exhibit. First I should say that he loves his belly button right now and is always looking for it. Anyway, I asked Nicholas to hold my hand since I thought it would be easier to leave the stroller outside the exhibit. As soon as he took my hand, a little girl walked up and grabbed his other hand - we didn't know her. We were laughing about how cute it was and the girls mom called her back over to them. As soon as she let go, Nicholas followed her back over to where her mom was standing. Then we just watched as he proceeded to walk up to the girl, lift her shirt all the way up and stick his finger right in her belly button. I didn't even know what to say. Then the girls mom laughed and said - wow, he's a little young to be doing that, isn't he? It was embarrassing, yet it was so hilarious!

Well here are a lot of pictures from our day:


Splashing in the great lakes pools:

Having a tea party :)
Nicholas amazed by the horse:
A nice shot of Betsy by the horse:In the butterfly exhibit:
Nicholas likes to point at everything!The cocoons:After a long day, this was Nicholas before we even left the parking lot!

Buds

Charlotte's Web & Easter

On Thursday we went with Auntie Chelle and her kids to see the movie Charlotte's Web. Nicholas sat like this, eating his popcorn, for all but the last 10 minutes of the movie. He was so good! :)

And a few from today...

By his easter basket from one Grandma:


And the easter egg hunt at his other Grandma's - he loved it and he kept right up with his big cousins!

And of course we had to take a few pictures with the eggs too:
And yes - he did keep trying to eat the candy while it was still in the wrapper!

No More Mullet!

Well I am a little late on this post, but better late than never right? A couple of weeks ago we took Nicholas for his first haircut. His mullet was getting longer so we decided it was time. We didn't have a ton cut off but it was sad none the less. It looks much better now!

We took him to Heidi Christine's Hip where Scott's cousin Rachel trimmed it up a bit:
You can see his scraped up nose from falling on the driveway - that was so sad! :(
He sat in the little wagon so nice with his Pez dispenser:
And when he was all done he even got a Schleich Golden Retriever just like Ellie!