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!!!!

A year ago...

So since I probably won't get to a post next week, it being Easter and all, here's a double!

A year ago we were traveling back and forth from my parents house helping them take care of my brother before he passed away from a long fight with cancer. We were back and forth for several months. When we started going Nathan wasn't even crawling yet, but Grandpa taught him how to pull up on his hands and knees and how to move them to start crawling. I will never forgive him! Just kidding! Nathan progressed a lot in those few months we were with my parents so here are a few photos of him finally starting to crawl. I can't believe that was only a year ago!!!

Then because we were packing and unpacking a lot those few months, these pictures show how I kept Nathan in one place while I was packing to go back you know since he had learned to crawl by this time. But he didn't mind this at all!

Chalk

So since Nathan has been so desirous to color with crayons inside the house I thought you would like to see some pictures of Nathan using chalk to color outside too.

This next picture let me preface with the story. Nathan and I were drawing with the chalk. I sat in one place and drew a few things including an eye (don't ask me why, but I've always been fascinated with drawing them, and have always wished that I could draw a really good one so I tend to doodle them) and Nathan of course is running all over the place stopping every so often to draw a few lines when he sees the need. He really enjoys coloring "with" you, so I draw something first and then he adds his two cents in with a few lines of his own generally right over whatever you just drew (So he made my eye look blood shot with his lines of pink chalk... so funny). So after a while he comes over to help me again and sits right on the eye. You can see both the results of sitting and the actual drawing in the picture.

Nice stamp don't you think?

"Ring around the rosey..."

So we have become Ring Around the Rosey enthusiasts here at the Wagoner Ranch. I've played it a few times with Nathan and the girls that I watch, but this week Nathan has been asking to play it. He goes and collects everyone in the room, tears them from what they are doing, and holds their hands and starts jumping or walking. Even Nana and Grandpa, my parents, who came for a visit this this weekend got to participate. We are still learning the all fall down part, but he's loving playing this game. So now you have all been warned... if you come to my house you may be asked by an 18 month old to play Ring Around the Rosey... and who can say no to those blue eyes? and that smile???

Here's the next thing Nathan has been really into lately...

COLORING

Please notice the concentration on his face in the above and below pictures.

And I think this is his favorite color!!! He uses it all the time!!!

What a cute kid!!!! I know I'm his mom and I'm biased, but please!!!! So cute!!

And finally a blast from the past!!!! I found these pictures from last year...

We start them out young around these parts!!!

Yes, he's seven months old, has four teeth, (he will be growing another four by eight months!!! Yes, we had eight teeth by eight months but lucky for me he was nice about them, or else we probably wouldn't have nursed as long as we did!) and is playing with an iPod!!!

Renaissance Fair

And no I did not eat the whole thing... It was HUGE!!!

Every year Norman has a Renaissance Fair at the park. This is the first time we have attended since we've been here. It was pretty fun. We met up with some friends and had a good time watching the animals and eating fair food. It doesn't get much better than that.

Nathan and I are watching the end of a juggling act. As you can see we were slightly concerned for this poor juggler. I guess it doesn't help that this was the part of his act were he was supposed to be juggling the fire batons, however, we are under a burn ban and they wouldn't let him light them, so we were supposed to imagine the fire. Lets just say it didn't go very well.

This was the best part of the fair for my son. He went up and down and up and down for a good long while. I'm sure he loved the animals and such, but this was a blast!!!!

This is my son's best friend, Owen. He's the first thing I hear about in the morning and the last thing I hear about at night. He wants to know what Owen is doing at all times. It's quite cute.

Here's another one of Nathan's good friends, Guy. He was so excited to play with guy in this field while we were waiting for traffic to clear out so we could leave and go home. They ran all around, Nathan trying to hug poor Guy, pointing at him and squealing in delight, playing peek a boo around a park bench, running back and forth... It was quite fun to watch!!!