Fearless
We’ve decided Nicholas is pretty much fearless. Or at the least, he doesn’t realize his size compared to the rest of the world and kids. I actually mentioned to the pediatrician at our last check up that I didn’t think Nicholas had fear or felt pain. I described some of his antics like leaping head first off of the couch or bed and laughing about it after the “thud” landing. Dr. Powell laughed to himself then reassured me that Nicholas does feel fear and pain, but just doesn’t have the time to stop and realize it or give in to it. Thus is the life of a rambunctious toddler boy.
We spent the weekend being lazy and inside because it has been so hot and humid. So we decided to venture out this afternoon to a place called Monkey Joe’s. That place was insane! A complete wonderland for Nicholas. They have several very large bounce houses with slides and such. One especially for toddlers under age 3. But do you think Nicholas wanted to play in that? No sirree. He spent maybe 10 minutes total in there. He spent the rest of his time running around the entire place, which is not small, and then warmed up to getting into the big kid bounces. Ignoring the big kids trampling all over him of course with a ragged mommy or daddy following behind. At one point he stood outside of one moonbounce and another dad said to me “it all must be so intimidating to a little guy his size”. I replied “oh, I wish it was!”. He obviously didn’t know our wild and crazy little man!
One thing that he just loved was the giant slide. He seemed interested in it so I said “okay, mommy will go with you!”. I did not realize what I had agreed to! The stairs were so steep and he just couldn’t do it alone. So we had to carry him and climb up all while dodging the eager kids trying to get ahead of us and trying not to fall backwards. By the time we got up to the top, I’ll even admit to being a bit nervous. It was really high and a steep slide! But our brave boy didn’t seem phased one bit and loved zooming down! It was all worth it to hear that squeal of delight and excitement as we went down though. We are sure he will love roller coasters when he is big enough! Oh, I can’t wait!
