Long Distance Buddies

Here's a continuation from Nate and Kate playing with Tyler and Reagan. They stopped by our house before they headed out of town to go back home to Virginia.

Kate, Nate & Ty and Reagan and Tammy in the background.

Valentine's Sweethearts

I walked in Kathryn's room on Valentine's Day morning and saw her snuggling with her baby while she slept. It was the cutest thing ever so I rushed out to get my camera.
My little sweethearts!

Tik Tok

Somehow, the kids and I have started a new bath time routine that is entirely too much work and way too long. I have to wrap them up in towels and spin them around the room. It started out as just swinging them back and forth a couple of times and saying "tick tock." It's gotten way out of hand. Now I have to spin them and sling them and twirl them around the room four times each. Then to complete it I have to drag them through Kathryn's room, through their bathroom and into Nate's room before it's over. Thank goodness Paw-Paw and Lady were there to relieve me of that duty last week. They didn't know what they were agreeing to when they gave the kids their baths!

One night I asked Nathan to spin me around in towel and he flat out told me no. If I wanted to play "tick tock" then I should have just asked my mom when I was a kid. Yeah right! I can really see my parents agreeing to this 30 years ago!

Paw-Paw's Party

It wasn't quite as exciting as last year's birthday party, but we celebrated Paw-Paw's birthday while he and Lady were visiting last week.
Nate decided that he would like for Paw-Paw to have a Phineas and Ferb party. Remember he said he and Paw-Paw are like Phineas and Ferb because they're like brothers, always there for each other.

I asked Paw-Paw what kind of cake he wanted and he requested chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. Nathan immediately, but politely, told him no. He wanted white frosting instead. Then Nate came up with a solution. He would allow the birthday boy to have his choice of cake, but only on a small portion. (Can you tell I've never taken a cake decorating class?)
She couldn't wait to give Paw-Paw his gift. She opened it for him as she walked the gift over to him.One of a kind tie-dye socks made especially for Paw-Paw from Nate and Kate. Mostly Nate.
Kathryn couldn't walk by the socks without yelling, "Paw-Paw's socks" every time she saw them up until the birthday bash. She was so excited to give them to him.
Nate kept talking about how much Paw-Paw was going to love his new socks before his birthday.
Here's a peek into all the hard work that went into making such a special gift.
The perfect gift for someone who has everything!

Happy Birthday, Paw-Paw!

Super Shopper

Steve introduced Nate to Star Wars. Just like with all of Nate's infatuations, we're all helping him along in excess. He needs money to buy Star Wars figures, so he's figured out that he can do "work" around the house to earn money. Here he is getting us water. Every cup of water he filled up was worth anywhere from $0.50 to $1. He stood there and watched us chug the water just so that he could go back and get us more water. Did I mention Paw-Paw and Lady started that and set the rate?

At that rate he was able to buy one Star Wars figure.
There's the big spender.
Happy with his new toy that he worked hard to buy.

I was telling Lady about how Nathan keeps on earning money everyday and she was proud of him. She asked what he has been doing and I told her. Steve pays him a dollar every time he completes a hard level all by himself on his Spongebob video game. Lady pointed out how ridiculous that is. Yes, he's being rewarded with cash for playing video games. When you put it that way it does seem a little overboard.

Soccer Saturday

Paw-Paw and Lady got to watch Nate at soccer again last Saturday. This time he was much more accepting of having visitors watch him. Nate is showing off his blocking skills.

There's Nate and his best soccer pal, Claire.

Kathryn walked Mace around while Nate played soccer. She can't get enough of him.

More Singing for the Seniors

Nathan's school visits the senior center to sing for the "grandmas and grandpas" a couple of times each year. It's always so cute to watch Nate and the rest of the classes sing their songs.

If you couldn't tell, Nate is the one directly above the teacher's head.

He doesn't even realize it, but he sings these songs around the house all the time. He even has Kathryn singing some of them.

At the beginning of school Nathan talked about a girl in his class nonstop. That would be the tall girl on the left side of the screen (in the blue shirt) dancing her heart out.