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.