Happy New Year!

It's been almost 2 months since our last post, and we've had a lot of fun during this time. We've got so many photos that we're thinking of creating shared albums online soon - maybe in another 2 months we'll have that done :-) In the meantime...

Thanksgiving in MN

The day after we got back from MN we picked out our Christmas tree...

... and that evening we cut Nathan's hair for the first time:

early December (cookie day at our house)

Christmas Eve

Christmas

(Grandma and Grandpa got Nathan a great carboard brick set; Betsy loves to build stylish towers and Nathan loves to knock them down Hulk Hogan style!)

(Nathan's Nana with all 9 of her grandchildren on Christmas)

The Great Pumpkin rides again!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Pumpkin

Thanks for the rocking horse Dwight/Grandpa :-)

Last year Nathan dressed up as Tigger:

This year we got him a lion costume, but that didn't quite work out...

Nathan has a love-hate relationship with animals (real animals, stuffed animals, and apparently costumes, too). We picked out a lion costume, but we had to show it to Nathan for a few weeks before he wasn't scared to try it on. Once we were able to have him try it on we realized his head wouldn't fit through it :-) At that point we weren't able to find a larger lion costume, but luckily Nathan was able to dress up as a pumpkin.

Columbus Day Weekend in NH

We had a great time in NH this past weekend. The weather was amazing (high 60's), the foliage was picturesque, and Nathan had the time of his life playing with his cousins and enjoying the outdoors...

18 Months Old!

This post was actually written quite some time ago... We've had a busy September with Betsy back to the routine of classes again. Nathan is enjoying his time in the toddler room at daycare and beginning to say quite a few words. Here goes with our old update.

On Sunday September 7th (at 5:45 AM!) Nathan was 18 months old, and we had a nice long weekend to celebrate. He came home from daycare on Friday with a bit of a cold, and was wiped out; he was so tired that he fell asleep while sitting on the stairs...

By Sunday he was totally over the cold, and had a lot of fun outside with us while we were doing some garden work.

On Monday we went to a farm nearby and did some raspberry and blueberry picking - Nathan loved that as well. He got off to a good start picking raspberries and putting them in the box Betsy was carrying... but soon enough he discovered he could eat them. We picked bluberries next, and that seemed to rest things. Nathan loves bluberries, but chose not to eat any (i.e., he didn't realize he could eat them... but he did eat quite a few later at home).

On another front, Nathan is doing so-so with height (42nd percentile) but is giving all he can to his weight (95th percentile!). He get's to have a nice switch from whole milk to 1% milk, and we'll see if that helps out.