Nate's Birthday Party

We celebrated Nate's 2nd birthday with family at a local park. We had a wonderful time. The weather was great and surprisingly pleasant for July. Nate had a great time playing with his cousins. We didn't get a single good picture of him because he was on the go the entire party...except when we lit his candles. He thought that was pretty cool. We also don't have any pictures of him eating cake, because he was more interested in eating M&Ms.

Gotta love an Edgar's cake :)

My feeble attempt to be Bakerella.

Nate and Pops

Nate loves his cousin Karmen. She is such a sweet girl and is so good and patient with Nate.

Kepler, Nate and Karmen

Happy Birthday Nate!!!

Dance Party

Nate loves music and occasionally we have dance parties. This involves me, Darren and Nate listening to music and dancing and acting extremely silly. Darren took this picture during one of our dance parties. I love this picture of Nate. It perfectly captures his sweet smile. Why can't I get a good picture when he isn't in his dance party garb?

4th of July

Our celebration of the 4th started a week early. Our wonderful preschool minister planned a patriotic parade at a local park. We had a great time.

Nate loves to swing and usually giggles hysterically almost the entire time he's swinging.

Just hangin' out. This is his favorite thing to do these days. When we are walking he wants to hold our hands and "hang."

This is what Nate does when we ask him where's his boo boo. He's showing us his knees, but I'm not sure he gets his shorts up quite high enough.

The parade

Can you growl like Nate?

On the 4th we had lunch with Darren's family. They have a pool and Nate was in heaven. He loves to swim and we have been trying to swim as much as we can this summer. He does really well and isn't afraid of the water, but he does not like to go under. He is in a water babies class (basic water skills for babies) and he knows when it's time for the underwater techniques and he starts shaking his head and saying No No No!

He always wants to jump off of the diving board, but when he gets up there and realizes how high it is he changes his mind. So, Darren just lowered him down off the the diving board.

That night we watched our town's fireworks show. We had been to another fireworks show on the Wednesday night before. We weren't sure what Nate would think about them since they are so loud. He LOVED them.

Very focused on the fireworks...

for a few minutes. Now it's time for some Yoga. Downward dog anyone? His water babies instructor would be proud. She's also a yoga instructor.

Happy Birthday Nate!!!

It's hard to believe that Nate is 2 today! These two years have been so much fun. Darren and I love this little boy so much and are so blessed to be his parents.

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Peach Parade

Waiting on the parade - I don't know why we even got his chair out of the car. I think he sat in it about 1 minute.



At first Nate was more interested in watching the parade than picking up candy.

Someone gave Nate a moon pie. I would suggest not giving out chocolate moon pies at future peach parades. It was a melted mess by the time we got home.

There were lots of politicians in the parade. One group was giving out hats and t-shirts. Darren put this hat on Nate's head just to be funny. I must say for the record that I have no idea who Tim James is. So, this blog is in no way endorsing Tim James. I bet he would like an endorsement from my blog, don't you think?

I forgot to bring a bag for Nate, so it's a good thing Darren had on cargo shorts. Nate loved putting candy in his pocket.

Enjoying a yummy sucker