Nathaniel and Dogs: July 2011

Monday, July 25, 2011

What's New with Nathaniel

Many new developments are taking place around here. First of all, more words.

Hippo
Grass
Backpack
Spoon
Beans
Cat
Street
Church

And he has learned to play chase . . . lots of fun for us both. The first time we started we were chasing each other in a circle in our house, and he even stopped and turned the other way to try and get me. So smart already. Oh, and the new word that we don't like . . . "No." He has a pouting expression he uses when he tries to get his way. He really furrows his eyebrows. I haven't been able to get this on camera.

He also likes to play ball with me in the driveway in the evening. We are just starting to work on not going in the street . . . that is going to take a lot more work, I can tell.

Another thing he does now is yell "OFF!" He does this when he has food, or dirt, or a hair on his hands and he wants it off. He waves his hands in the air yelling "OFF" and it is actually pretty comical.

Friday, July 22, 2011

Gifts from Grandparents

Nathaniel was a lucky boy this past week - he got 2 boxes in the mail. One from each set of grandparents.

Box #1 - inside was a backpack! with matching lunch box.

And in box #2 - a lion stool!

Thanks again grandparents!

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Cheering Up Dad

Will had pneumonia, and so Nathaniel and I have been doing lots of playing while he rests. One night before bed he decided to wear this hat, and put on a show for everyone.

I mean, how can this not cheer you up?

Friday, July 15, 2011

Uncle Les comes to visit

We were excited to have my Uncle Les come visit us. The first full day he was here we decided to go to Moody Gardens Palm Beach. We hadn't been before, but had a wonderful time. The stuff they have there is perfect for kids Nathaniel's age.

The wave pool was a hit

Les' Birthday Lunch

Swimming at at the pool

Eating Cheerios with Les (or stealing Cheerios from Les)

Reading with Les

Thanks for coming Uncle Les! We had a great visit.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Anniversary Post

To Will - Happy Anniversary! What an incredible journey. I decided to compile this post of pictures throughout the past 10 years. I started out with just pictures of us, but ended up including pictures of us, our friends, our friends kids, etc. :) I tried to get an accurate look at our life the past 10 years, including great times and sad times. I can't wait for the next 10 years. Thanks for always being there with me.

*Note - these start in 2005 once we got our digital camera. I have pictures from the first 4 years in albums, I just need to scan them in. I had intended on doing this by today, but since you got pneumonia, I've kind of run out of time. I will include them later on in a separate post. And for those of you who don't know, our anniversary is actually tomorrow, I just posted this today in case I run out of time tomorrow.

April 2005 - Visiting Hillary at UT - us in front of Texas courthouse