Geography 101

Before the nap today, Dad and Nick were talking about geography --

"We live in Virginia, Dad?" asked Nick.

"Yes, and Grandma and Uncle live in Maryland", Dad saw an opportunity to introduce some important geographical concepts.

"And Maryland is far away."

"Yes." Nodded an impressed Dad.

"Where is the American land?"

"Well, we are in America. Both Maryland and Virgina are in America." Dad was a bit concerned about whether Nick could comprehend the concept.

Apparently there was not a problem. Nick finally reached his conclusion, "but we don't live on the earth."

Before Dad could recover from the initial shock, Nick continued, "the earth is round, and it is not round here!"

Sigh.....

BTW, this evening, Dad and Nick studied the maps -- we located some of the places we discussed - our house, Maryland, Virgina, and the "America land". Still, we need to figure out how to solve the earth challenge :)

Peer Pressure

Nicholas is making great progresses in swiming these couple days, and it has something to do with a weekend visit to his cousin.

Nicholas always enjoys playing with Justin. Last weekend, they played together in the pool near Uncle's house. Justin could swim very well by himself and Nick was very impressed. And it did not take long for Nick to act:

-- The next day during a piano class with Mr. Harrington, Nick told his teacher, "Justin can swim, not me", when responding to a reference to "swimming fingers".

-- The following day, he was all kicking and swimming in his "swimming bath". He was putting his face against the bottom of bathtub. And, he was so proud - "I can swim, just like Justin"

Mom and dad were proud too. Good job, Nick.

Nick's Art Room

Nicholas loves drawing and he is really good at it -- from the leaning tower, to "spaceship car", to the machine that changes shoe colors, he is building up his collections. And he has found a perfect place for his gallery, mom and dad's sitting room wall. Or, as Nick puts it, "MY picture room"!

BTW, Nicholas teacher told mom today that Nicholas is showing some regression-- he had accidents for the second day in a row now. There are other worrying signs since grandma gets here: he does not sleep by himself any more, and he is way too hyper... sigh...

Too early for broadway

Last weekend, Mom and Dad took Nick to Wolf Trap to see the show Mama Mia. Nick was very excited, because he loved the songs from the show. "Hurry, we'll be late!" He was all excited before the show.

Well, half way into it, Nick got bored, I guess. Or it could be that he was tired, missing his nap because the show was at 2pm...

Nicholas Art Work

Grandpa saves a bird

Spaceship

A train named Tomhas

Rachel's Crib

A Busy Summer

Nicholas is having a busy summer, so busy that Mom and Dad had not had a choice to update this blog!

Father's Day

Nick's school held a father's day social. Though Mom and Dad were late (Sorry, Nick), the teacher told us that Nick was the loudest singer :) Nick did sing the special song for Dad -- "Dad is my special friend..."

The Card Nick made for dad was, well, BIG. It had also interesting notes like "My dad likes to collect paper clips", and "Dad's favorite food was sausage" -- wondering where he got that from. But Nick also had a lot of sweet things to say, like "I like it when my dad takes me to the museum".

We finish the night was a movie -- the opening night of "Toy Story III" (Mom actually sneaked out to watch "Sex in the City"). Nicholas liked it so that that he always asked Mom and Dad to take him to the movie, and watch, well, the same movie!

姥姥 and Nick

Grandparents have come to visit, and Nicholas loves to play with grandma -- well, sort of liked playing with a big sister -- fighting all the time! So much that Nicholas was having dreams fighting grandma one night, which got grandma scared!

At night, Nicholas seems confused some times. Last night, he started with sleeping in his own bed. Then, he went to sleep grandma. But this morning, Dad found he in Mom's bed!

Getting Ready to Be a Big Brother

As it gets closer for Meimei to come out, Nick is getting ready too:

"I will share my toy with Meimei"

"I will not time out Meimei" (!!!!")

He even drew a picture of Meimei's crib!