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Giving Jul a well deserved week off, Niko came out with me on my trip to CA in November. During the day he kicked back with Grandma Pat who introduced him to ATVs, Hula Hooping in busy parking lots, and pool hopping. The two of them were like partners in crime sneaking into Jimboree classes and\u00c2\u00a0loitering around the Google campus (parking lots in particular…see earlier reference to Hula Hoops).\u00c2\u00a0I wasn’t sure how he was going to do in a hotel bed but he rolled with the change like a champ. I mean rolled literally. The kid was constantly in motion, migrating from one side of the bed to another. He would wake up at 4am and ask me if we could “play toys” and I would tell him definitely, once the sun rose. \u00c2\u00a0Shockingly he would sit there for two hours waiting for the sun to rise at which point I would feel a tap, “Daee, the sun is up.” I can’t sit in one place for two hours at 35, much yet three, so I’m going with nature over nurture on this one.<\/p>\n
The three of us ate mexican food every night and had a grand old time. Niko is in a (long) phase where “mommy” is #1 and “daee” is #10 somewhere below Sumo, Buzz, Woody, and Spiderman candy.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Its nothing I take personally, but having a week where I’m #1, where when he falls and skins his knee he asks for me, is nice even if it comes with a 4am play toy wake up call.<\/p>\n
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