Days of Summer

Now it is October, the air is getting colder and the season is changing to Autumn.

Nick loves the summer. He loves to play outside, swim in the pool and take care of mommy's flowers. These are some pictures from our summer.

Every day we hang our wet bathing suits and towels on the fence to dry. Nick goes in the pool lots of times so sometimes he has lots of bathing suits on the fence.

Nick LOVES to play in his pool. Sometimes he swims when it is dark and the moon is in the sky. In this picture it is sunny and the water is bright blue. What a perfect day to swim in the pool!

In the summer we eat outside a lot. This is a Sunday morning when mommy and Nick were eating pancake breakfast on the porch.

Mommy loves to go to the garden center to buy flowers. Nick helps take care of the flowers by giving them water from the hose.

And this year we grew vegetables in pots. Nick helped take care of those plants too, and then helped to take off the string beans so we could cook them and then eat them.

When mommy tells Nick the pool will be closed soon Nick says, "NO!"

Mommy said, "The seasons change, and we will do different things in the autumn and winter. Summer will come again in June."

Stealing Stickers

Mommy keeps stickers in a little folder file. They are locked in mommy's room so Nick will not put stickers all around the house.

Nick knows the stickers are locked away, hiding under mommy's bed. One day, when the door was unlocked, Nick took the folder out and went through the folder looking for letter stickers.

Mommy said, "Hey, why are there stickers on the walls of the house?"

Then mommy found Nick stealing stickers!

Summertime Tree

Mommy and Nick love to sit on the porch in the summertime. Sometimes we sit in the chairs quietly. Sometimes we watch people walk by on the sidewalk. Sometimes we water the plants in the pots and flowers in the garden.

We especially love the tree we planted together with grammy. In the spring we can look up and see white flowers.

And in the summer when the flowers are all gone we can look up and see seed pods hanging from the tree.

Now it is October and the leaves are starting to change and fall off. That is not Nick's favorite time to look at the tree, because he has to help mommy rake the leaves!

Nick, Daddy and Grandpa

One day this summer grandpa came to visit. He brought us bagels to eat, and we all had breakfast at the table. When grandpa was leaving mommy took a picture of Nick, daddy and grandpa.

Three generations of Reminick men.

Henry and Katie

Last weekend, mommy told Nick that we were going to drive in the car for a long time to visit Henry's house. We usually visit in December for Christmas, but this was the first time we drove up in summer. Mommy told Nick he was going to meet his new little cousin, Baby Katie.

This is a picture of Henry and Katie. She is little but she can sit up by herself. She loves to look around the room, especially at her big brother!

Nick saw that Henry had a slip and slide and Uncle Ned helped Nick set it up. He also turned on a big red slide that had a water hose - Nick loved that slide and played on it for a long time.

Finally we got Nick to sit down so we could take a picture of grammy with all three of her grandchildren.

Then Nick went back to playing on the slide. Mommy and Henry were sitting outside on chairs and then Henry fell asleep on his chair!

After dinner we went in the car to sleep at grammy's house. It was time to say goodnight so mommy took one more picture of Katie in her crib.

The next day mommy and Nick drove a long time to get home. There were lots of cars on the road and it took a long time for us to get to New York. Nick did a good job keeping mommy company in the car.

Finally we were home. The first thing Nick did was put on his bathing suit and go in his pool. Mommy said, "are you happy to be home?"

Nick said, "YES!"

Monday with Mommy

Today was Monday but things were different because mommy was home.

When mommy woke Nick up in the morning, mommy said, "I have no work today. Nick will go to TAPA to play and dance, and then mommy will pick up Nick in the car and we will spend time together."

When mommy said TAPA, Nick said, "Theresa Academy Performing Arts."


At 2:00 mommy picked up Nick at TAPA. Mommy asked Nick where he wanted to go. Nick said, "McDonald's, slide." Mommy does not like to go to McDonald's but Nick would not change his mind, so that's where we went.

Nick climbed the slide and tubes and then sat at the table with mommy and ate his french fries.



Then we were all done and we went to Kohl's. Nick picked out new headphones so he can listen to his YouTube videos on the computer.


After dinner, Nick wanted to play in the pool. Mommy said it was too cold but Nick wanted to swim. When we got outside Nick found the air was cold and windy, and the water was too cold to swim. Nick stood at the top of the ladder for awhile and finally came back in the house.


Then mommy and Nick had dinner and we watched Fantasia 2000. Nick loves that movie, we saw whales in the sky, and New York City, and Mickey Mouse wearing the Sorcerer's hat.

At the end of the day mommy said, "I have to go back to work tomorrow, but I hope you had a nice day. Tomorrow McKenzie will take care of you again."

Nick said, "Kenzie yes, no school, AHRC closed." Mommy said, "that's right Nick, no school or AHRC until September."

One More Birthday Cake

This weekend grammy came to visit Nick. She stayed at Nick's house for two days. Grammy brought Nick birthday presents from his cousins Henry and Aunt Nicole.

Grammy's birthday is the week before Nick, and they always share their birthday cake together. On Sunday, before grammy left, we had bagels for breakfast and then birthday cake for dessert. Nick sang the birthday song, but of course, he left out grammy's name and sang "Happy Birthday to Nicholas."

When mommy was cleaning up the dishes she noticed the cake was gone from the table. Then mommy went out of the kitchen and saw that Nick put the left over cake on a plate and he was eating it all up! Mommy said, "Wait, that is too much cake! We have to save some for later!"