There were silly hats and noisemakers at Nate's second birthday party.
We’ve got a few new photos and a video from Nate’s second birthday. Enjoy!
22 Jan
Birthday number 2
Today is Nate’s second birthday! We had a party for him last night with Aunt Melany and Uncle Ben and lots of pizza and cake and presents. The kid’s haul was impressive, so impressive that he didn’t want to go to bed. He kept creeping back into the living room to play with his toys, despite being exhausted.
Today, being his actual birthday, should be a little quieter.
Photos and videos to come when I get a chance to process them tonight or tomorrow.
19 Jan
Two Years Old???
Nathan’s birthday is this Friday. This Friday. Just a few more days and Mike and I are officially the parents of a two-year-old! How exciting!
Nathan doesn’t have many friends his age because he doesn’t go to daycare and the various children’s programs we attend(on an irregular basis) have a revolving list of fellow attendees. As a result, we’re having a small family party instead of filling our apartment with hordes of sugared-up toddlers.
Sounds good to me! Besides, he’s really unlikely to remember any birthday parties before he turns four. We mostly just need to get a few great pictures!
On Thursday night my younger brother and sister, who both live here in Bozeman, are going to come over for a birthday/Christmas dinner(we still have some Christmas presents to open!) I got some sports themed party hats, streamers and paper plates from the dollar store. He’s going to love it!
We will, of course post pictures.
Two? Two years old? Really?! My, how fast it goes!
19 Nov
New photos
Some new photos are available on the Flickr feed for your viewing pleasure. If you’re my friend on Facebook, you can also see the photos there.
13 Nov
Phrases
Nathan has taken up a few two-word phrases lately and is learning new words like mad. However, I thought I’d share two of my favorite of his sayings.
Whenever he wants you to come or go with him, he says “meesh,” as in “Daddy meesh… Come. Meesh.”
Also, when he wants daddy, specifically, to come with him in the evenings, he’ll say, “Daddy, hop. Hop. Crutches. Hop. Meesh. Hop.” or words to that effect.
A talker indeed.
1 Nov
New photos (and a video)!
New photos are up, including some from Halloween. Check them out and enjoy!
I should probably note that we took Nathan down to the Gallatin Valley Mall for trick-or-treating on Halloween. It’s pretty common to take your kids to organized trick-or-treating events in Bozeman, and it gave him the chance to see all sorts of other kids and their costumes.
Nathan wasn’t sure what to make of the whole trick-or-treating experience. The notion that people would give you candy and that you’d put that candy into a bag didn’t really sink in. Eventually, he got into the pattern of it, but I don’t think he really understood that he was getting candy since he didn’t give most of it a second look.
He enjoyed it, though, and he also enjoyed the making of a jack o’ lantern when we got back home that night. He spent most of the evening giving the lantern little kisses and saying “hi” to it. That was also the first thing he did when he got up on Sunday morning. Very cute.
Probably the best thing to come out of the trick-or-treating was the orange balloon he got at the mall. The kid’s crazy about helium balloons.
Oh, and here’s a video for your viewing enjoyment!
3 Oct
The Sandlot
The movie “The Sandlot” happened to be on TV tonight, so we all started watching it. After seeing the kids and the dog, Nathan got hooked on the movie and actually sat there and watched most of it.
The best part, though, came at the end, when the kids are trying to get the Babe Ruth ball back from the dog and one character gets chased by the big ol’ dog. Nathan was apparently pretty emotionally involved in the movie, because as the dog nipped at the boy’s heels, Nathan started fidgeting and crying a little. We’re guessing he was either scared of the dog or worried for the boy.
Either way, it was highly entertaining.
29 Sep
Visit from grandma and grandpa
Grandma Pat and Grandpa Dave came to Bozeman for a visit on Sunday, bearing fruits and vegetables of all kinds. Nathan was delighted to see them and spent most of the afternoon running his grandpa around the apartment complex and making him read books — he’s really grandpa’s boy ever since the tractor ride earlier this summer.
He ate like a horse at dinner that night, a little KFC with the grandparents. Unfortunately, he got a little upset after bumping his head later on and threw up all over mom and then all over the bathroom floor. After that, he was exhausted and slept through most of the night. (He’s been waking up pretty early lately, around 6:15 a.m., so it was nice to have a day where he slept a little later.)
If things go as planned, we should be down to Ballantine to visit grandma and grandpa again this weekend, kind of a late-summer-ish visit before the holidays and winter really kick in. I’m sure Nate will have a blast then too.
3 Sep
A few updates
It’s been quite a while since the last substantial update here, so with the changing of the months and the start of a new school year, I guess now is as good a time as any.
In June, I wrote that Nathan had gotten his big kid bed and was sleeping pretty soundly in it. Well, lately, Nathan has taken to sleeping very soundly in his little bed. In fact, he’s sleeping through the night about 80 percent of the time. He goes to bed around 8:30 at night and usually doesn’t stir again until about 7 a.m.
Oh, and here’s the best part: For quite a while, he needed one of us to lay down with him to get him to go to sleep, but in the past two weeks, he’s just stayed in bed when we leave the room. No fussing, no fighting. Just sleeping. Ah!
One tradeoff, I suppose, is that his baths have grown shorter, usually only about 10 minutes now, just enough time to soap him up and make a stab at getting his teeth brushed. Maybe that’s a summer thing; the weather has been warmer lately that it actually was during the height of summer. He might start taking longer naps when it cools down some this fall.
Oh, and the words! He’s starting to talk up a storm. So far, he can say several words (and mean them):
- “no” (although sometimes he means “yes”)
- a crud version of “yes” that comes out sometimes sounding more like “jesh” and is often accompanied by vigorous nodding
- “Elmo”
- “elbow”
- “boo” (sometimes)
- “weee!”
- “momma” and “dada” (of course)
- “iPod”
- “please” (sounds more like “peeesch” but is accompanied by the correct sign language)
- “thank you” (sounds like “an ku” but, again, comes with the right sign language hand signal)
- “up”, “down” and “out”
There are more new ones every week, it seems.
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