"Soul on Fire"

Nathan has been singing with the radio for a while now and each time it's so cute to hear him trying to sing along. One of his favorites right now has been "Soul on Fire" by Third Day.

Since Barry's work now ships for Provident, he has access to different CDs now and guess who he picked up the other day??? Third Day - Soul on Fire!

I've been trying to catch him singing so here we are, singing along in the car.
(You have to download it from File Dropper and then play it with your audio player.)

Two for Wednesday

(It just doesn't have the same ring to it as Two for Tuesday.)

I hadn't taken a picture of Zachy for a little bit and thought I'd get him on the rocking chair.  Unfortunately, I couldn't get a picture of him smiling, but here he is being cute!

Poor thing has a terrible diaper rash so it was rough with bath time. He has been working again on sleep training and doing well (thank goodness!).

Here's a picture of Nathan about the same age - 13 months plus. He was showing off his front teeth.

March 22, 2013

Practicing Printing

I don't know if it was a rude awakening or what, but we were told in order to get Nathan in the preschool class at daycare, he needed to work on a few things. Personally, I don't see how she can set these demands when the rooms have been based on age - not ability.

So, we've been working on printing Nathan's name and also colors & shapes so that he will be able to move up. What do you think?! It's hard to tell since he wrote in green too, but I wrote three of them and then he wrote three.

Playing

We were helping Daddy with the crib, but of course by the time I got the camera, they were done with that.

 This was a funny shot to get as Zachy had the paci sideways.  He has frequently done this during the teething process but it was fun to get a shot of this in the midst of hanging out.

We tried another thing to help Zach with sleeping at night.  We moved his crib down to the lowest level to see if that would make it less appealing to stand and cry. Guess we'll see what happens.

Friday Flashback

As we finish up the month of May, we end up with some firsts.

 5/14/16 Zach's first bath in the bathtub! It was hard for him at first with all the freedom, but he's done surprisingly well. With Nathan, we kept him in an inflatable tub till he was much older. Guess this is the bonus of having an older brother.

 5/15/16 Woo hoo! Tent time. :)

 5/21/16 Our first vacation! We spent time at the Clydesdales in St. Louis.

 5/21/16 We went inside Grant Farm and saw elephants.

5/22/16 Hanging out in the hotel before the next phase of the trip!

Hanging Out in the Crib

This little cutie has figured out how to pull up in the crib and we're to the point that we need to drop the bed down to the lowest level.

I guess there's a sleep regression at 12 months and we're struggling through how to get him to go to sleep and stay asleep. He had learned this a while ago, but with this regression, he's forgotten how to do it himself. I think we've got another round of sleep training to go. :(

Look what fun you can have in bed!

Two for Tuesday

 Zachy had been walking a little funny in his sandals so we thought it may be time to try running shoes. We pulled out Nathan's first pair (a size 3!) and had them wear them today.  I don't recall how old Nathan really was when he wore them, but there's a post from June when he'd have been 4 months old when Barry was trying for Nathan to wear them (see here). He got the funniest look on his face and then lifted his legs up as he was trying how to walk with them on.

Nathan's daycare teacher had her birthday today. We decided to make her a card. Nathan requested a zebra, but since I don't know how to draw that, he settled for a polka-dotted horse. He picked each color and I helped him color the horse. Don't you think this was the most original card she got?!