Nico Beanos Pico Diep

✎ Who in the family was their favourite person?
Apart from me, Nico loved my boyfriend. He loves his boy boy time with him which basically consists of chilling on the floor and basking in the sunlight together, Andrew will do Duolingo and learn Italian while Nico listens along. Sometimes they'll fall asleep together on the floor and Nico will either be fully flopped out or he will rest very closely to Andrew's head. As a side note Nico always loved eggs for some odd reason and I think to him Andrew's head was a giant egg so he really wanted to protect him and it's really cute. Sometimes I had night shifts and Nico and Andrew will hang out together in the office in the carpet. Sometimes Andrew is doing his own thing and Nico just wants to be around to watch him. He will go from a small bread loaf to fully doing a piggy roll and flopping out ❤️

✎ How did they feel about bath time?
Nico always did his own bath time after his breakfast and multiple times throughout the day as well as right at bedtime. He had a very specific routine down packed. He needs his breakfast right at 9:00 a.m. no later (but sometimes he wants it earlier hehe). He loved his romaine lettuce a lot he pretty much just preferred that. After breakfast he washes his face and he starts with his left ear first then his right then he scrubs his little cheeks and cleans his entire body. It's the same throughout the day as well as night time where his bedtime routine is exactly at 9:00 p.m. no later no earlier. It's so cute. Like what do you meannnn my lil man has a strict schedule to maintain? 😭😭❤️ He loves to be all clean to always maintain his handsomeness ❤️❤️🐾🐰 I miss him and watching him clean himself. He always gets all poofy after and basks in the sunlight until his fur settles down. He was so small too. Just 3 pounds as his heaviest. And in loaf postion, hes only slightly bigger than my hand. So when he's all puffed up, he looks like a giant fuzzy meatball 🤣😭❤️ He's such a cutie ❤️

He lovesss his romaine lettuce so much especially the butt end of it. Always had his breakfast exactly at 9:00 in the morning no later and preferably earlier sometimes 🤣 If im late, he would push his plate off the table and throw his toys to wake me up. Sometimes id hear his lil thumps. When I got his breakfast he would go right at it then come back to me for a few kisses and back to his food. I think it was his way of thanking me ✨️🐾🐰🥬

✎ What game did you play together?
Hide and seek
- this is when I would grab a little mini red Solo Cup (Nico loves to throw them around especially if there's treats inside), put some pellets inside, and quickly run to another room to hide. I would shake the cup and do kissy sounds to call him over. Nico will start running her down the hallway looking for me from room to room and when he finds me I give him many kisses and hugs and then I put the pellets down for him before I run off again to the next room to hide. I didn't do this too often with him but I wish I did more of it.

Basement Zoomies
- when Andrew goes downstairs to play his video games. I would bring Nico down too. This was rare & I wish it was more often. It was one of my regrets because Nico loved this the most. I would bring all of his hay and his pee pad to the basement carpet. Nico would chill there and eat. He would hop over to Andrew to poke at his legs and that was his way of saying hey I'm ready for zoomie chase time! Andrew will chase after him and Nico will run in "italics" which is him running super fast but he makes his body lean or sometimes his back legs run way faster than his hands so he's kind of running on a curve . It's cute and funny seeing him do that as he's going around corners. Sometimes he'll do several Binkies at the same time. It's the sweetest thing ever. After a while, Nico would either run back to his safe zone (back to his hay) or he would run under the ping pong table where we ca

✎ How did they greet you when you came home?
Once I got home Nico would run straight to the bedroom door and I would see little paws Shadows from under the door. I would hear him trying to dig at the floor because he wants to get out and he wants to greet me and I have to open the door super slowly because he's right at the door and I don't want to bump his little face so as I get the door open he gets through the crack and he runs from bedroom to office as he's super excited that I'm home. Once I get into my bedroom, he stands right at the edge of the carpet that's directly in front of my shelf which has his pellets at the top. He wants pellets instantly and he will do anything to get me to give it to him so like standing on his hind legs and on his tippy toes, Standing on my feet, trying to reach as tall as he can while holding my leg, running around in circles around my legs, and giving me kisses 🥹💕 I would either pick him up to give kissies before pellets or after but hes as affectionate before and after. But hes DESPRATEEE for his treats hehe 💕🐰

✎ What are you most thankful for?
For him saving my life and giving it worth. For him being my first family. My own blood family should have cared but they never did. But I learned that family doesn't mean it has to be blood related. Nico gave me that Freedom Day (June 18, 2022), he gave me strength and a will and reason to live. He healed me and it's just crazy thinking 'wow...for a lil 3 pound lil chunky boii who can't talk, he sure did it in so many ways'. He did it through action rather than speaking and he's left more of an impact on me than humans have. He truely is my guardian angel and I am so proud to call him my son and my little beam of light 💕 He's my forever sunshine baby boi 💖🐰☀️

This photo I uploaded of me isn't nice as it was when I felt like giving up but when he came into my life on May 7, 2020, he gave me a hope and reason to live. I was so malnurished and depressed and just done but he changed me. 1st photo is adoption day (bittersweet) and 2nd photo was my graduation day (which landed on our 3rd Annual Freedom Day (June 18 2025) (as in 2022 we escaped from my family's abusive house). It is one of my fav photos of us together and a momentous moment since it was a sign from the universe that our day is on my grad day. It also is meaningful as I finally graduated and my parents tried to stop me from completing school. How Nico healed me is amazing and I am forever greatful to my son 🐇💖 He left a impactful mark in my life forever 💖

✎ Where did they love to sleep?
Day Bed
- this was literally a storage bin container with my fuzzy tiger PJs on it. Nico jumped up on the storage bin as he was curious and ever since then it was his bed we called it his day bed to differentiate it from his IKEA bed the one that I bought for him as his very first furniture

IKEA Bed
- after I escaped from my family's home one of the things I had promised Nico was that I would buy him a bed as I now have control of my money and my stuff in general. A cute memory of Nico in his bed was when we finish setting it up you go was unfazed about it and he was in his little closet eating his hay. Andrew touched his bed to straighten out his blanket and Nico ran at him super fast and grunted at him to get his hands off his bed. That was the only time where Nico showed dominance or jealousy. So cute. Lil man thought Andrew would take his lil bed 😭 Nico would time and time again sleep in this bed, but not as often. I do have a cute photo of him in his bed. I woke up in the middle of the night and found him in his bed sleeping like a human and he was tucked in. No one did it for him but he did it himself 😭😭❤️

Any Shirt of Mine
- If I ever left a shirt on thr ground, Nico would claim it as a bed for the next week or so 😭❤️

Paper
- Any peice of paper was the perfect bed for him. I would put my blankets for him but he preferred paper. He was a simple boy. He was really obsessed with paper as his bed when he was young 🥹💖

Baby Bl

✎ What time of day reminds you of them most?
Nico had a very strict day schedule. I adapted my life to his routines;

9AM - Breakfast 🥬
- I miss feeding him his breakfast. Prepping it and watching him scramble as if he never ate in ages to his pillow where his plate is. I'd sit on the floor and watch him eat. Listen to him chomp his way through it all. He was a messy eater and would sometimes get green romaine juice all over his cheeks but he does know how to clean up nicely too. Sometimes he did get help from dada (Andrew) and they would clean each other. Nico allows Andrew to groom him to pull apart clumped fur and clean up his cheeks as it's messy and clumpy. They called it "pully time". I miss seeing Nico flick water off his paws, stand up to clean himself. Left ear, then right, then his entire face, then body. At the end hes all puffy and clean like a fresh baby bunny 🐰

9PM - Bedtime 🌙
- When he gets sleepy and runs straight to his room all by himself 💖 He does his bath time himself and then he sleeps where he wants. I often would carry him up onto the bed to cuddle him in my left armpit/shoulder area. Tell him sweet nothings and our lil mantra "No matter what, near or far,....". Nico would give so many kisses and melt in my arms and sleep. Sometimes he would hop off but only after our mantra. Most times he's asleep in my arms snoring away softly 💖 He always snuggle in specific spots in my left arm - armpit/shoulder area, elbow, or wrist. Or on my right side of m

I miss my sunshine baby. This is after breakfast, just him finishing up his breakfast. Now its time to sunbathe for the next few hours ☀️🐇

Rare moment Nico was fussy but omg what a cutie 😭❤️
He made an accident on the floor. I had to clean his foot as he stepped in it by accident. He wasnt happy and so that was his way of showing that to me 😭🤣❤️

I miss petting his smol chonky self. He had such a baby tail. Only 1 thumb long. He allowed me to pet it. Hes so smol 🥹❤️

I'll miss spending Christmas with you Nico. Everyone that has seen you, loves you. I spoke to so many people about you - they haven't even met you and they all think you're amazing and sweet 💖 Rest well Nico. Mama loves you so much