Random shots

So my hubby pulled out his camera again recently and started shooting random photos of us. I'll spare you the pictures he took of my Barbie feet and buildings (You can see some of his pictures here if you are interested) and since this is a family blog show you pictures of our most handsome member, our son:

Aunt Beeka got married this summer so here's Nathan at his finest!!!!

And another:

I had to do some errands one morning and this is how I found my son when I got back. Shirtless and happy. I guess that's all that really matters, right?

Looking in the mirror.

You know the bed time routine is really hard to get through when daddy is taking pictures!!! It's true but they turned out really cute. Nathan was washing his toothbrush out after taking his bath. Trying to turn the water on and off... hence the tongue of concentration hanging out.

More tongue... He's been into building with blocks, trucks, and of course...

TRAINS!!!!!! Oh my goodness!!!! So this was actually supposed to be for his second birthday coming up soon. I had hidden the train set in his closet under the stuff we had piled in there. He never goes into his closet unless I go into his closet, and when ever I did get into his closet there was so much stuff there he never saw it. However, with baby number 2 on her way I pulled everything out and am trying to organize and get rid of some of it and I left the set on the shelf where I had stashed it and of course he followed me in there, saw it, and pulled it out. Now it's all he wants to play with. I knew he would love it!!! I gave him enough of the track to make a circle and the black engine and put the rest away. He's in heaven... and happy with the bit I let him have. We'll get the rest out on his birthday.

Fourth of July

So this is the first year Nathan has ever seen fireworks up close and personal, so we were really interested in seeing how he reacted. (last year they were rained out and they had them on Veteran's Day in November instead... so we saw them from afar, which isn't quite the same.)

So we had dinner with some friends and then went to the park to wait until it was dark enough for the fireworks to start.

One of the few pictures of my husband and myself. Thanks Laura for insisting on taking one. It really doesn't happen very often.

Lydia practiced several times what she was going to do when the fireworks started. She didn't like them very well.

Now Nathan..... who I thought would be scared, who I thought would cry, who I thought would be clinging to me the whole entire time... Here's is his reaction...

We lasted for about ten minutes (at the most) and then he was done, ready to get off my lap, play, and roam around the park. I at least figured he would be awed and enjoy it... but no.

Christmas will be at our house this year...

and Thanksgiving for that matter because we won't be leaving the house. I know that sounds slightly rude, but I have a good excuse....

I know you can barely tell in these pictures, but we're expecting baby number two!!!! I hide it really well!!!! And this picture was taken at 16 weeks so now that I'm almost in the third trimester, you can tell a little bit more. Not much, but a little bit. All is going well! We are so excited!

Nathan even has a baby in his stomach too. I think once he told me it was a puppy, so we'll see how that one goes when the time comes!!!

May's hike to the river.

So I haven't blogged since summer started, so we need to do a little catching up.

So in May when the temperatures were still bearable we went on a hike to a stream that isn't too far from our house. And of course Charlie took the camera and so here are some of the pictures he took on our little outing.

So the whole path is sand, sand, and more sand. And so you know Nathan had a blast picking things up, looking for bugs, and hearing the animals that were along the path.

Don't ask me what's he's pointing too, I just thought it was a cute picture and is totally Nathan.

Running on ahead.

Found a stick. Can't go hiking without a stick!!!

I think we here hit several times by that stick, on accident of course, but still, it was a little too long for him, but he loved hitting the grasses along the trail with it and tormenting poor bugs with it.

My boys. Of course I took this picture. Aren't they cute!!

Please excuse the HUGE booger coming out of my son's nose. Of course I didn't notice it until after the photo was taken.

Running in the sand... His shoes are covered with wet sand so obviously he's already put his feet in the water and wet sand. Like I said he's loving it!!!!

Time to go...

Payback

So this is the picture that my husband posted to Facebook around a year ago. I wasn't very happy about it because who wants a tired mom picture on line???? I'm sure it's cute and all but I was so tired and out of desperation I put him in bed with me so we can both get some sleep since he was waking up 3 or 4 times a night to eat... a normal mother's plight I'm sure. So when I saw this the other day I thought, ahhh finally I can have payback!!!!

Aren't they so cute!!!!

Playing in bed

So we kind of have a tradition after bath time and toothbrushing. After I let him out of the bathroom he runs to our bed and climbs on and starts jumping and rolling around. So I have to wrestle him down to even get a diaper and pjs on the boy. So we play for a bit before bed time. It's nice family time. So one day as he's rolling around, I get a few pillows and cover him up

and we play a bit of peek-a-boo through the pillows (don't worry he has air holes). It was so funny to see him emerge from the pillows, grin, then fall back down on his belly saying "more. more!" It was way cute!

The day before we had a "pillow fight." Well it was more one sided I was hitting him with the pillows and he'd just laugh and say "more, more!" He loves playing on the bed!

Jumping back to Easter

So here are a few pictures of my son and his Easter basket that we took at the museum Easter Egg Hunt. We didn't get any eggs, they were gone so fast, but here are a few pictures of my son and his basket.

I promise he does have a basket in his hands, its just that every time I told him to smile and show me his basket, he would walk closer to me and so this was as good as I could get with a smile.

See he does have a basket!!!

Luckily we have a friend who offered their back yard for an Easter egg hunt to all of us without back yards. There were tons of eggs and Nathan had lots of fun finding them!!! I don't have any pictures of Nathan in his Easter suit nor finding eggs at my parents house. I'll have to get with some of my siblings to see if I can get some to share.

So Nathan has been jumping on and off of everything lately. I'm quite impressed! He lands on his feet at least some of the time and crawls back for more. I think he was jumping off this rock for at least 15 minutes all by himself. You should see the air he gets in his crib!!!!