Happy

Right before we were going to lay Nathan down for bed tonight we were giving him hugs.  I was telling Nathan, "I love Nathan.  Daddy loves Nathan.  Baby girl loves Nathan."

Nathan's response was to point to himself and say, "Happy."

Yes, little boy, that makes me happy too.

Fall at Longwood Gardens

This time at Longwood we tried something a little different.  There's a couple hundred acres of meadow in Longwood that we haven't ever explored.  But the beautiful fall colors were calling me to go take a look.  We hiked around until we found this leaf strewn path that just demanded to be played in.  Nathan did so quite obligingly.

It was also Longwood's mum festival while we were there so we did see that as well while we were there.

And don't forget the trains.  We had to stop to see those too.

I seriously love seeing the wonder in his face.

What are we going to do when we move away and can't go to Longwood anymore?

Tumble Tykes

We started Nathan in a little tumbling class on Saturday mornings.  The first class was rough, but after that Nathan's been loving it!  It's a toddler and parent class so I get to help Nathan with all of the tricks.  Nathan's pretty good at trying everything.  He's great at walking along the beam and he gets the biggest grin on his face after doing a forward or backward roll.  He also loves playing with all the other kids in the foam pit.

Doing a pullover on the bar

Nathan is into labeling colors lately.  When he bends down and touches the beam he is pointing out that the beam is red.

In case you're wondering who the two ladies helping Nathan in the photos are, they are two of Nathan's therapists.  We had a couple of makeup sessions that we needed to do during the week so we invited them to come along.

I love that Nathan loves gymnastics.  I was in gymnastics classes for 9 years growing up and I loved it.  I made the gymnastics team and competed for a few years.  It's really fun for me to see Nathan enjoying something I loved so much.

Happy Halloween!

Nathan loves "Finding Nemo." Nemo movie, his Nemo fishie, Nemo book on tape, Nemo coloring book, Nemo stickers.  This kid loves Nemo.  So it was only fitting that he was Nemo for Halloween.

Lucky Fin

We had a Halloween party to go to this year so we all had to dress up.  I was Dory (with my pregnancy brain it was very fitting) and Brad was Crush the turtle.  Halloween is probably Brad's least favorite holiday so getting him to dress up is a challenge.  As we were leaving for the Halloween party we realized that Brad had a super simple costume he could have used.  He could have been the dentist!  Oh well, Nathan loved pointing out that Brad was a turtle.

Nathan and I also went to our ward Halloween party while Brad was out of town for an residency interview.  We won best mother and son costumes!

After going to "trick treat"

We hope you had a great Halloween too!

Pumpkin Carving

Nathan wasn't as adventurous this year as he was last year with cleaning out the pumpkin guts, but he loved lifting off the lids to the pumpkins and peaking inside.  He loves seeing our pumpkins on the back step every time we go in and out of the house now.