In Tractor Heaven- picture overload

Two weekends ago, we went to a tractor fair (yes, in case you were wondering, they really have those here in NH). Nathaniel was in Heaven.

The nice firemen served us lunch & let us play with their toys







It was time to get to work. Just can't decide which tractor to use!








Then we were off to the races!




It's going to be a close finish



Look how laid back that other guy is, How in the world did he expect to win??



Just when you think we'd done it all, they had a bounce house too!



Now where do we go?



How about we torment some animals!




Hi Ho Silver!


This not so little guy was hanging out on our car when we left.




Had to throw in some girl cuteness too.

Sling

We were heading out for a walk today and Nathaniel wanted to sling his baby too.
We then had to be quiet the entire walk, because his baby was sleeping.

This was the final product:

some videos

I finally downloaded all the videos off the camera from the past 2 months. This one is from 7-5-08. Nathaniel has been so in love with Audrey since the day we brought her home. He asks every day if she's big yet, so they can play together. He gets so excited when she watches him and now that she's making noises, he's estatic that she talks to him. It means the world to him that he can make her smile. He loves laying next to her and having them touch hands or feet or whatever it may be.

She's always had some crazy head & neck strength.

These pictures were taken when she was only 18 hours old:





I was trying to figure out if when our camera said 561 mintues, if it meant it had 561 minutes left or that I'd recorded 561 minutes. I had Nathaniel sing for me so I could watch the timer to see which it meant. Sometimes he gets all the letters, sometimes he recreats it.


8-16-08 ABCs from dcm923 on Vimeo.

fwiw - it meant i had 561, now 560, minutes left.

We went to see the band 8-9-08

There so much I could say right now about how much fun we're having this summer. It's now 11:45 and I have to get up to start tomorrow in 5 hours. Sleep is winning The argument between sleeping and writing an intelligent post. SO I figure The best way to update is to tell the story with pictures. Here's the story of last Saturday night. I brought Nathaniel & Audrey out to see the band play. We had a great time. Nathaniel got to play drums for a while, he sang with Dan "I Can Fly" and he danced with the crazy locals.

Helping Daddy set up




Marla & Audrey became best of friends

"I Can Fly"

Crazy Dancers, they kept him busy

Certain points in the night, Nathaniel felt more comfortable becoming a statue on the stage

There are those crazy dancer people again

I had to tackle Marla at the end of the night to get her to give the baby back.

You can tell the music really bothered Audrey

we've been a little busy

Late June & July were extremely busy months for us.. I've been quite distracted but now am up & running online again and will soon work on getting the site up to speed as well.

While you wait for that, you can watch this July 2006 video of the band.
It's not a full song, I ran out of memory, but You get the point.

(by the way, it's not nice to make fun of the white people dancing)



FWIW I've since upgraded my memory card to ensure this won't happen again.

4th of July

We decided to skip the parades and fireworks this year and opt for a more mellow day off together. We went for a long walk in the woods around the lake instead with an impromtu cookout at friends house later on.

See how many beaches we can find

Audrey took in all the sights

Another Beach!

The Perfect Rock
Watch it Go

Perfect way to end the day, snoozing together.

He Constantly asks to have Audrey sleep in his bed with him

Just kidding, they weren't sleeping

You don't honestly think we'd trust him like that, do you??

you can go anywhere

Two Mondays, I decided enough was enough and This was the week that we were going to conquer potty training. That day, the timer went off every 20 minutes and Nathaniel & I marched into the bathroom. If he went, which he did every time, we did a funky potty dance and he got to put a sticker on the sticker chart. By the end of the day, we were stretching the timer out to every 40 minutes. He did excellent. The next day wasn't as structured and he still did great. Each day improved. The only time he had an accident, was if I got involved in something (that something is roughly 8.5 pounds and Very cute) and forgot to remind him.

Three days later, we upped the bar & stopped allowing diapers for nap time. In 2 weeks, he's only had 2 nap time accidents. Pretty impressive I think. We're still working on him actually telling us he has to go. The #2 issue is a whole nuther matter.

I'm thrilled that it's been this easy. I'm even more thrilled that I'm not supplying TWO kids with diapers. Big sigh of relief.

The whole reason for this post is all so I had a reason to post the following picture. I think the part of potty training that Nathaniel has enjoyed the most, is being able to drop his pants and go, whenever & whenever. Because he can.

I couldn't resist picking up the camera when I saw this: