The 3 stooges

This is just a small sample of a typical game for our team, as you can see, nicholas isn't the only roudy kid!

Peewee Scoccer

So we put nicholas in scoccer this fall thinking it would help to constructivly get some of his energy out. He absolutly loves it! he gets to run as fast as he can, kick balls, and even take then from other kids without getting yelled at, what could be better? His only problem is his tackling. when the other kids take the ball from him, he chases them and tackles them to the ground. In his second game he succeded in tackling every kid on the other team, finally we had to make him sit out the rest of the gaame. I think the sitting out really got to him because in his game yesterday he didn't tackle a single kid! He also made his first 2 goals of the season, unfortunatly I had to miss it because I was at a stake womens day activity, but I was so proud of him! Anyway it has been a lot of fun!

I hate ticks!

North Carolina is tick country, so if you live here you just get used to them and they are an everyday pest. well I am not from North Carolina and so I 'm not used to them yet. Infact my great great grandfather died from a tick bit. So naturally I am scared to death of them, which is a bad thing because this place is crawling with them. This morning while I was changing christian's clothes I found one stuck in the fat roll of his armpit. I freaked out! I was so mad at the thing for climbing on my baby. I didn't know what to do because I didn't want to pull it off wrong and have it's head come off or something. sam said to put vasiline on it to make it come out, but since christian still crawls he uses his arm too much and he wipes it all away. I couldn't light a match to it's bum to make it crawl out either, I mean can you imagine trying to hold a 10 month old still enough to hold a lit match to the fat roll in his armpit? yeah right. luckily I had a visiting teaching appointment this morning with a lady who is a native North Carolinian. She has 5 boys and she said that she pulls at least one tick off of her kids everyday! she effortlessly pulled it off and put it in her tick burner-a jar candle, they put the tick in and then light it and the melting wax kills and traps it. The tick burner was filled with ticks! Yuck! I hate them!

Eczema

For those of you whoe don't know Nicholas has eczema. Those of you who know him a little better know that he has a patch of it on his bum that he scratches all the time. I am always putting cortizone cream on it to help with the itching, and sometimes when it is really bad he comes to me crying to put some cream on. The other day he came up to me with a bare bum and a tube in his hand and said " I'm putting cream on my bum!" I looked at the tube and it was toothpaste, and yes, he had it all over his bum!

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