Nathan 2

[Catty1]

Oh, boy! Getting to see all the panes with Daddy!

He is just so cute! And I bet Charles feels better having a job - and not trapped in an office building!

[sumbirdy]

Oh, boy! Getting to see all the panes with Daddy!

He is just so cute! And I bet Charles feels better having a job - and not trapped in an office building!

Charles definetely feels better getting out of the house every day and getting some new friends. He works in the department that preps the planes for flight and Nathan gets to go see about once a week. The guys Charles works with adore Nathan and they let him get in the pilots seat of one of the planes (of course, we didn't have the camera with us )

[sumbirdy]

Here's some more pics of Nathan. Sorry they're so big, but hey, it's not going to kill anyone to see big pictures of him is it? lol

[jennielynn1970]

*waves to Nathan*
Hi handsome!! It's nice to see those big smiles!! Big hugs to you, sweetie!

[sumbirdy]

*waves to Nathan*
Hi handsome!! It's nice to see those big smiles!! Big hugs to you, sweetie!

I'll give him his hugs from you first thing in the morning.

[Catty1]

He is GROWING! Some pics he still has the baby cuteness, but many others he is a 'handsome little man'!

I love that one of him on the bed being totally goofy!

THANK GOD he has you and your family.

[sumbirdy]

And one more. Today he got a late birthday present from his Uncle Bobby (my oldest brother) and his Aunt Dana (they are Eli and Jaxons parents) I got a few pics and sent to them, because they're in Deleware and couldn't see his reaction, and this one is my favorite.

[sumbirdy]

Yesterday Nathan got a sleigh bed and an Elmo comforter set. (Or "Melmo" in Nathan language) Mom came up with this neat idea of putting a personal, yet inexpensive decorating touch to his room. We got a Sesame Street coloring book, let Nathan color some of the pages and tore them out and hung them on his walls. It's Nathans own contribution to his room. I took a few pics of Nathan sleeping in his bed for the first time, but I don't have them on my computer yet. I'll get them on and post them sometime soon.

[sumbirdy]

Haven't posted in a while. Nathan's growing so much. I can't believe how smart this kid is. He can recognize and name the colors purple, blue, brown, black, white, grey, red, yellow, and green. And it only took him a week and a half. He can also recognize the letters T and C. He knows over 30 animal and object sounds (example of object sounds: ball says bounce, train says choo choo) And even though most kids his age are talking in sentences, I'm still excited (and proud) to say that he learned his first three: "I sorry" everytime he bumps into someone (or something) it's immediately followed with "I sorry" and "Let them out" (comes out sounding like "let em ow" lol) Everytime we have to crate a couple cats he runs up to the crate and says "let them out!" and the last one is "I fall" everytime he falls.
Stephanie tries to critisize us by saying that if she had him he would go to daycare, because he isn't learning anything at all here (as she talks baby talk to him, "Do you want a wok? (rock)" or "See that twee? (tree)")
Speaking of Stephanie, we think she's in jail. She had two warrants on her and they supposedly were served Friday. (Go to www.odcr.com and look under Aubrey, Stephanie. Also look under her former name Gould. Interesting)

Anyway, we're planning a road trip to Delaware around Christmas. That's where my oldest brother lives. Nathan will finally be meeting his aunt and uncle and his cousins Eli and Jax. Should be fun!

[Catty1]

Yow.

I read both reports. A couple of those are kinda scary.

How her lawyer could consider her a good full-time mom - or that she has the right even to unsupervised visits - escapes me.

I mean - Nathan might do well in daycare - but there'd have to be strict regulations as to who picks him up. One idea is to have a "secret password" that anyone picking Nathan up has to know. And change it frequently.

But boy, he sounds SOOO smart! And WHAT a CUTIE!

I hope and bet Charles is really enjoying being a dad more and more.

[sumbirdy]

Nathan went for a checkup today and they found that he had a heart murmer (sp?) Please pray for our little guy that it doesn't get any worse.

[sumbirdy]

Every year a woman in our town hosts a halloween party for the kids. It's held at our community center. The idea is for it to be a safe place for the kids to go. She never hosts in on Halloween however. Why? Because about ten years ago her son was killed on Halloween night while going trick-or-treating. She won't do it on Halloween, but she does do it to honor her sons memory and to keep kids safe. And it's completely free. Tonight was the night for it this year. We took Nathan in his duck costume (and of course, forgot the camera) He played all kinds of games, but there were two he kept going back to over and over. That pick-the-duck game (forgot the name) where you pick a duck out of the "pond" and whatever color or number is on the bottom, you get to pick a prize out of the matching bucket of prizes (They even let him keep a duck when things started slowing down) He went to that about 10 times. And the one where you toss the bean bag into the hole. On his first round he got two out of three in (of course they let him stand real close to it) He was so proud of himself. In the 5 or 6 times he visited that one he usually got at least one in, except for one of the times. He didn't get either of the first two in, so with a sigh of frustration, he just walked up to it and stuffed it in. That got a good laugh from the people that were running it, and got him one of the bigger prizes. I wish we had had our camera. There was only one bad thing about the night. There was this woman running one of the stands (bob for apples), who used to work for dad. Apparently they had gotten into an argument when she worked for him. Tonight she basically took it out on Nathan. There were kids his age there who she let just stick their hands in and get an apple and then get a prize, but she wouldn't let Nathan, then after all the apples were gone she was just giving away the leftover prizes, and me and Nathan walked up, she just stuck her nose up and said all the apples were gone and he couldn't get anything now. We didn't make a big deal of it, I don't want Nathan growing up thinking he can do whatever to people just because they do it to him. I want him to be nice. They're always going to be people who don't like him (whether his fault or not) and then there are going to be the people who are more than happy to overload him with candy and praise him tremendously when he gets his beanbag in hole. I think we should all learn to focus on the candy people.

[jennielynn1970]

Awe, I'm glad he had such a good time! And bad auntie, you didn't grab a camera! Don't you know that's part of your duties??

As for the grumpy apple woman, let's hope she went home to the last apple and she got a worm!

[sumbirdy]

And bad auntie, you didn't grab a camera! Don't you know that's part of your duties??

Yes, I know. I had set it on the table, ready to take with us. I was even talking to Nathan about all the pics I would take. And then....walked off without it. Completely forgot. And didn't realize until we were there.

[jennielynn1970]

Well, that just means you'll have to get more when he goes trick or treating!!

And of course post them all!!!