Nico has a girlfriend!

This is Nico with his "older" girlfriend, Kassidy. She walks now and he is really impressed by that! She is my college friend's daughter so we get them together for playdates often. They are only 2 months apart. At the end of this playdate, Nico leaned in and gave her a sweet little kiss on the lips, twice...and she liked it! It may have been the cutest thing ever but since both mommies were holding the babies, we didn't get a picture of it. I am sure there will be a next time! We are going to start supervising their playdates a little more closely!!!

By the way, we couldn't get either of them to smile for any pictures. I think they just thought we were weird for doing all of the crazy things that you do to get kids to smile for pictures.

Nico is 11 1/2 months old now and may be the busiest boy I have ever seen. By 7pm I hit a wall and am so tired I can barely clean up dinner and get him to bed. This is more tiring than when he was a newborn! He loves to be chased, pull out the garbage can cabinet and climb in behind the garbage cans, cruising furniture and playing with anything except his toys! I spend all day making sure he is not getting into trouble or getting hurt! He is really talking more and repeating words. He has said..."whats that?" "two" "three" "Jack" .....it seems like he is going to be an early talker. I told Lou he better start sensoring his words!

Poor Nico got sick for the first time ever this weekend. We almost made it one year without even a sniffle! He had a fever and a bad cold and on top of it he scraped his face trying to stand next to the exersaucer and then fell the next day and bumped his head...poor baby looks so beat up and miserable. We are keeping him home so he gets better but Lou and I were going stir crazy by last night.

In this video clip, Lou is turning a "button" on Nico's back to put him into "slow mode". Notice how Nico keeps taking Lou's hand and putting it on his back for more button turning. The next day Lou was rubbing Nico's head in the morning and when Lou stopped Nico grabbed his hand and put it back on his head for more! He cracks us up!