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!"

Happy Birthday McKenzie

This is McKenzie, she takes care of Nick.

She comes to our house in the morning and makes Nick pancakes for breakfast. And then she packs his lunch, and makes sure his clothers look handsome for school.

In the afternoon she meets the schoolbus and she takes care of Nick. Sometimes they play computer games, or play in the yard, or do homework or jobs around the house. Every week McKenzie takes Nick to Gino's to eat pizza dinner.

Last week was McKenzie's birthday. Mommy and Nick made a card and a present. Nick painted a picture frame and put flower stickers on top. We also went to the store and picked out a rainbow cake with a butterfly.

Nick did a good job carrying the cake and singing happy birthday, but he started to blow out the candles before he got to the table, so mommy had to light them again

Nick sang Happy Birthday again and then Nick and McKenzie blew out the candles together, although Nick did most of the work.

Mommy said, "Hey, I want to take a picture." But Nick kept making sad, or serious, faces. He did not want to smile on any of the pictures . McKenzie said, "That's okay, I see Nick smile all the time."

So mommy turned off the camera and or course, Nick was smiling and laughing right away!

That's our Nickster!

Memorial Day

On Monday there was no school. It was a holiday called Memorial Day, so mommy and Nick made a special cake that looked like a flag.

Mommy put a flag on the table so we could copy the colors. We made a white cake and put blue and red berries on top. Nick did such a good job helping.

Then mommy showed Nick pictures from last year. Every year on Memorial Day there is a parade that goes past our house. When Nick was little he was scared of the parade. He would hide in his room. As he got big he learned to watch from the window, and then from behind the fence. For the last two years Nick has come outside to watch the parade.

We see police officers and soldiers in their uniforms. We also see kids from all of the Long Beach schools. Some are in marching band and some wave big flags. When kids from The Middle School walked by someone shouted "hi Nick!"

The Long Beach fire trucks were in the parade too.

When the parade was all done mommy said "what a perfect day it was for a parade, you did a great job today!"

Happy Birthday Cousin Jesse!

In April we celebrate Cousin Jesse's Birthday. Nick loves his big cousin, and every year we have a dinner and Nick helps to sing Happy Birthday. Mommy took Nick to the store to pick out a cake.

Nick looked at all the cakes in the window.

He picked a pink cake with flowers on top.

After dinner we took out the cake and Nick helped to sing Happy Birthday.

Nick loves Birthday Cakes so much! Anyone who knows Nick knows you have to blow out your candles fast or Nick will do it for you!