[Nicolas] Cooker Baby

now whenever we cook, nicolas gets his own little setup, with some pasta and a bowl and some utensils and he "cooks" along with us:

ht to roxtar at the Black Sky Theory blog for the pic

nicolas had his first taste of ice cream recently. while his enthusiasm was pretty contained, he still seemed to enjoy the experience:

Nicolas and I took a trip to upstate New York to visit my grandma - his great grandma cooker. We spent some time at Lake Ontario, where he was in rock heaven. he loves rocks! it's not easy traveling with a 17 month old (2 small, cramped flights each way), but he did great and fortunately my parents were there and they helped out tremendously. here he is with grandpa at lake ontario: You can see more pics from the trip by clicking the "Nicolas pics on Flickr" link to the right -->.

We took Nicolas to the Nashville Zoo recently: The elephants were cool: so were the goats: but the toys were the best:

Grandma Barb got Nicolas this great Fisher-Price "Little People" book a while back, all about the zoo. So he's really gotten into animals and the noises they make. When he started his elephant impersonation after dinner the other night, I grabbed the camera and caught a little bit of it here. You'll hear him say "boopa boopa", which we're pretty sure is a reference to "people" as in "Little People":