Vitamins

A couple of months ago, I was getting my breakfast ready while Nathan was tooling around the kitchen. When I got down my morning vitamin, he decided that he needed one of whatever Mom had too. Now, I was pretty sure that fifteen-month-old boys didn't need prenatal vitamins, so I had to find a substitute. First thing in the morning isn't the time for a meltdown. The leftover Easter jellybeans were on the counter, so Nathan got a yummy pink jellybean instead.

Every morning (and after every nap) since, Nathan has decided that it's time for another "vitamin." He crawls straight for the pantry closet, not even bothering to go find his beloved Daddy or ask to go play outside. It's funny, it means he's guaranteed to be open to the idea of real vitamins when the time comes, and it's only three jellybeans a day, so I indulge his sweet tooth. Here he was this morning asking for his vitamin, not happy that Mom was taking a picture instead of getting his vitamin.

Nathan walks! Really!

Over the past few days, Nathan has *finally* decided that walking is a much better way to get around than crawling. He realized that walking allows him to carry things around and is much easier on the hands and knees. He now walks more than he crawls, and it's fun to watch the progress he has made in just the past few days. Here he goes...

I had planned to include a video of him walking, but Blogger and our ancient computers are not getting along at all these days. Eventually I'll try to sort out the reasons behind their disagreements, but for now, sorry. Here's more pictures of Nathan with his sunglasses, wearing his new swimsuit and rash guard. We're hoping to have a more successful beach trip this weekend.

Nathan's new shades

Nathan loves sunglasses. He is always trying to grab Chad's or my sunglasses and wear them. The problem is that, as big as his head is, our heads are bigger and the sunglasses just don't fit. Plus, Chad and I get annoyed with all the grimy little finger prints from his attempts to put them on and his playing with our sunglasses. Today, while we were browsing Toys R Us for bath toys and a ball for the pool, we came across Nathan-sized sunglasses! He kept trying to put them on in the store, even with all the packaging. As you can tell, he's pretty excited about his new shades. Now he can look as cool as the rest of us all summer long :)

You may also have noticed Nathan's new summer hair cut - short all over, just like his daddy.

The Beach, part 2

After the rousing success of our last beach trip, we decided it was time to try again this past weekend. We should have known it would not go as well when Nathan didn't get any nap in the car on the way there, thereby missing his morning nap. This child lives for his naps. All seemed well as we picked out our spot of sand, laid out the blankets, and got ready to go play in the water. The weather was again beautiful - mid 80s and sunny. The water had also warmed up since our last visit, making it quite comfortable for playing in. Chad and I were excited.

Nathan, however, had decided that the ocean and the 1-2' waves were scary and not good and so spent most of our visit crying. He tried to crawl or walk with my finger as far away from the water as we would let him go. Whenever we brought him close to the water, the crying intensified. The only truly happy moments involved the consumption of several peanut butter cookies. This is what he looked like for most of our trip.



Hoping that it was just a beach phobia and not a general water phobia (this kid *loves* baths - all bodies of water are called "ba!" meaning bath), we took him to our neighborhood pool Monday night. He loved the pool. He loved being tossed between mom and dad, he loved playing with the leaf he found, he loved everything about the pool. When we went back on Tuesday, he loved it again. At every diaper change since, he excited asks, "Ba? Ba?", wondering if we're going to the pool again. And he gets quite disappointed to be told no. No worries, Nathan, we're going to the pool this afternoon :)

Nathan sleeping

As of yesterday morning, Nathan's quilt is now also completed. Woohoo! Not too shabby, completing two quilts in two and a half weeks. Nathan likes his new quilt and wants to sleep with it, but he also insists on sleeping with his other doggy blanket, bringing the total crib count up to Nathan, one pillow, one doggy, one teddy bear, one ducky, one puppy blanket, one pacifier and two doggy quilts/blankets. It's a pretty packed house in there, but Nathan wouldn't have it any other way. If anyone or anything gets lost, either by falling out or getting buried, there will be no more sleep until it has been retrieved, especially the puppy blanket and pacifier. Chad has had to go in several times over the last week to find lost items, both of which Nathan was sitting on and thus couldn't find. At least he's an awesome sleeper when he has everything - twelve hours at night plus two two-hour naps during the day. Here he is, sleeping soundly through the thunderstorm with all his favorites.