Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Nathan - 4 months

Nathan had his 4 month dr appointment Monday. He was happy as usual. He measures long and skinny, like I thought. Weight: 14lbs 1 oz (27%), Length: 25 3/4 (75%). He fussed when he got his three shots but had settled back down before I even picked him back up. Joshua watched the nurse give the shots and I thought he was about to cry himself. Even still, he was willing to get two shots of his own. Instead of taking two stickers, he was told he could have, he took one and then picked one for Nathan.

Nathan discovered his feet Sunday night.
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We also started Nathan on rice cereal a couple weeks ago. I am just now getting around to posting them.
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Joshua loves doing things for Nathan! Most recently he acts really silly and laughs really hard to get Nathan to smile and laugh too.
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Sunday, February 7, 2010

2010 Blizzard

Here are our pictures for round one of the 2010 blizzard. I don't know an exact inches count for where we live other than A LOT. It started snowing Friday morning and did not stop until Saturday night.
Brant cleaning off our friend's car.
Joshua has loved the snow more and more. He now willingly walks into it the snow that is up to his waist.
Brant having fun clearing snow.
Joshua and Ben working hard filling their pail.
We attempted to have the boys sled down the stairs in a laundry basket. It didn't work so well with both in the basket. Moving off the stairs they would just sink.
There was a moment of sledding success that Joshua thought was great.
Cleaning off the car Sunday morning. Let the digging begin!
Climbing over the snow bank to play while we dig. Check out that skill.
Nathan taking a cat nap in the back of the car so we can both work at the same time. And when Joshua wanted a break in the snow he got to "drive."
Cars are dug out, now it is time to play. Joshua begged for a snow man. And then wanted a snow man fight (snowball that is).
You see Brant...
...Now you don't.
All the snow from the parking lot/road has to go somewhere. Brant and Joshua were playing snow man (snow ball) ketch. Joshua liked it until Brant got him with one in the face. Then the rest of the day he would tell us, "no faces!" Which is a common thing we tell him when he is tickling or lion "clawing" us.
Attempting to sled Joshua down the hill.
We would love to do some real sledding but unfortunately sleds and snow shovels are a hot commodity and if a store gets them in they are gone in about 10 minutes.
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The forecast calls for another 20 inches by tomorrow night.

Nathan will hold his own...

Joshua was growling at Nathan the other night and Nathan wasn't taking it. He started growling back at Joshua. As you can see in the video Joshua would growl, Nathan would growl back, Joshua would laugh his head off so Nathan would laugh too. video
Our house is going to be full of laughs with these two boys!

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Towel time photo shoot

I love the hooded towels so I took the time to make it a photo shoot.

Nathan is showing interest in things he discovers in his hands.
This is a classic position for Nathan. Right arm up, hand behind his head and left thumb in his mouth. (I frequently find the pacifier lying under his left hand. He will take the pacifier but prefers his thumb.)


You can maybe see the bruise on his forehead. He fell out of bed. Big crash and crying, but he never actually woke up.



My lilltle helper

Joshua likes to help me in the kitchen. We made Muddie Buddies the other night. He was a great helper and an even better helper cleaning up.
Joshua thinks it is funny to turn away from the camera and tell me he doesn't want pictures. But then as soon as I put the camera away he gets upset that I am not still taking pictures of him.

Stickers

Joshua loves stickers! Grandma Chris sent some stickers for him and on this particular night this is what he decided to do with them...
Stick them on his face and run through the house like crazy. (I had one stuck on my face as well.)
This is how Joshua patiently awaits for me to come play baseball with him.