Nathan: Spring

My sweetest little Nathan how I love you so. You are such a beautiful little boy with beautiful brown hair that is so fun to leave a little on the longer side. You are such a little cuddle bug. I could just stare at you all day and sometimes I can't believe that you are mine. I am amazed at how smart you are. You are talking so well and one of my favorite things you do is repeat everything said to you. You are starting to learn some of your letters and you can count to ten and recognize numbers 0 to 10. I am constantly amazed at something new you have learned or have started doing. You have a very stubborn spirit about you and want to do things yourself, more so than your brother ever did. You like to throw yourself on the floor when something upsets you and you tend to be a little on the dramatic side. It must be so frustrating not being able to do everything Everett can do even though you try so hard. I constantly want to record everything you say because your voice is just so sweet. Sometimes it is the simplest little whisper and other times you are booming what you want to say in the deepest hilarious voice.

April

You do this hilarious growl sometimes and a huge vein on your neck will bulge.

Some of your favorite books right now are anything with trucks. You love road builders, busy trucks on the go and chicka chicka abc.

Some of your older favorite books are paw patrol, goodnight numbers, goodnight goodnight construction site, and read to tiger.

Your favorite shows are little baby bum and paw patrol. You can say chase and rubble. Rubble is your favorite paw patrol pup.

Your favorite colors to say are yellow and purple.

You are almost always hungry and will usually eat more food than Everett at mealtime.

Between you and your brother I could see you being the first one to ever end up with stitches because of your wildness.

If you see a pair of shoes lying around than you want to wear them.

You have so many bumps on your head and cut up lips from falling all of the time.

You have started saying "oh" after we tell you something. It is so precious.

After meals sometimes you will head to the floor and eat what you missed or dropped while eating. 

You are so smart in so many ways.

One of my favorite words you say is hot dog.

Frog and donkey sounds are my favorite to listen to you say.

While playing one day I realized you can count to four. I had no idea. It is also so cute when we say 7 you immediately say 8.

May

It is so funny when you tell us to "sit dare." You are usually referring to the couch next to where you are sitting. It is especially funny when we pour a bowl of cereal for ourselves and you run to the table as fast as you can and point to the bench saying sit there so that you can eat most of it.

You started saying Everett (Evreet). You still refuse to say Nathan. You will say me instead.

You've started calling me mommia and say it about 100 times a day.

You like sucking on one finger during stories.

June

One of the most precious things is walking in to kiss you goodnight and seeing you cuddled up like a little bug on dads lap while he sings to you.

When you first learned to count to ten you would count so slowly.

You have this hilarious look you will give us sometimes where you will look down at the ground but your eyes are still looking up at us.

Every time you bonk your head or hurt yourself on something you like to show us the spot where the hurt happened. If you can't remember exactly where it happened you guess in the general area and point to it.

It is hilarious trying to get you to say Nathan. You just refuse to say it. When we ask who you are, you refer to yourself always as Bubba.

For a week or so instead of the regular songs I'd sing to you at nap and bedtime you asked me to sing the wheels on the bus and the five little froggies song.

You love getting into the shower.

You can say most of the colors now and know all of the paw patrol pups names now.

My favorite thing about you right now is repeating everything that is said to you. Is is precious. You like to repeat lines in books as well. 

When we say smile for a picture you give a big grin and say cheese. 

Everett: Spring

April

One of your favorite activities is looking for dinosaur fossils in the backyard and on our morning walks.

Your favorite dinosaur is the Stegosaurus.

We will forever have an inside joke about the white haired women in the red truck.

You talk about going fishing all of the time. Every time we go to the duck pond you find the biggest stick you can and pretend to go fishing. Sometimes getting right into the water.

I asked you to close your eyes. You responded "I can't close my eyes for more than a few seconds." My response "But you sleep with your eyes closed." Your response "No I don't. How would I see my dreams if my eyes were closed?" Good point.

You create dinosaur traps all around the house and outside.

Explaining to me one day that when I eat food the baby in my belly is then eating the food.

Digging up worms in the front and back yard with dad to go fishing with.

You love bugs and aren't afraid of them one bit.

Singing the fall asleep song to Nathan when he was crying in the car. Then Nathan started saying fall asleep and singing it too and stopped crying.

You picked up a giant cricket on our walk and showed dad and Nathan. I am horrified of crickets so I said I thought it was very cool from a good distance away. 

One morning you asked if we could go to the North America park.

"Mom when I wake up in the morning want to discover every fossil in the whole life?"

Giving me blanket hugs and being so sweet to mommy.

May

You had a great fifth birthday. We loved celebrating your special day.

You brought a slimy slug into the house one day to show me. We kind of have a new rule now that bugs need to stay outside unless they are in a container.

I love when you dance around the house. I love seeing your silly dance moves.

You are getting so creative with your legos. Lately you would much rather create than put together a set with instructions.

You have officially reached the age of chatter box all day long.

On the way to the beach "My body is hurting and I am starting to poop."

Dad took you to your five year check up and I was so glad you didn't have to get shots because last time is was not very pleasant for anyone involved. You are 38 pounds 29%. 43 inches 60%. Your bmi dropped a bit because you grew a few inches. You are my sweet tall blonde boy.

June

I love our little story telling about dinosaurs and singing songs cuddling in bed each night together. Then a stand up hug and kiss on the cheek before I go.

You like to make plans for our days. Especially when it gets close to bedtime.

You had summer camp for two weeks. Day one: Played dodge ball with all of the older boys. Second day: Needed to poop and told the director "I'm going to kindergarten soon so I've been practicing wiping." Made 8 baskets playing basketball and cheered to yourself after each basket. Day three: When I picked you up I watched from the car for a few minutes you playing lacrosse with an older boy. You looked like you were having so much fun.

Playing in the backyard one night you created a little chalk drawing of all of your surroundings. It was adorable. You included the grass, a ladder dad was using, the hose, sun, clouds, a rainbow. 

We were talking about baby sister in my tummy. I showed you pictures of when I was pregnant with you and Nathan. You said to me "I was so impressed when I was in there." referring to being in my tummy when I was pregnant with you.

Your goofy side that comes out when you dance is one of my favorite things.

One of my favorite things you do right now is making art projects with stickers and sometimes copying scenes from your favorite books.

You created your own book one morning and told me what to write for each page. It was a dinosaur story called dinosaurs of the world.

I love when you scrunch your little nose. Its wrinkles are so cute.

We have been discussing people of color and I've been trying to teach you a little more about respecting and loving everyone no matter of their differences in skin color and to especially stick up for anyone you ever see being treated wrongly. It was a pretty short conversation that turned into everyone has a different skin color. Some have brown, white, or black skin color. You added and pink, purple and yellow. Even though you don't quite understand yet I love having those special conversations with you about loving everyone and sticking up for people if you ever see anyone being treated wrongly. 

You have started smiling again when I ask you to smile for a picture.

In the mornings when I want to stay in bed a little longer I love that you will go to the kitchen and start doing art or playing with legos until Nathan wakes up.

You are loving the beach this summer. On days that the waves aren't crazy you swim in the water almost the entire time we are there.

Everett you are such a special boy. You have such a sweet presence about you and I love our funny and random conversations that we have non stop all day long. When preschool got canceled early we struggled a bit getting along that first month or two but now I feel like all of that time we were given together was something special I hope to cherish forever. I am so proud of the boy you are becoming. Your summer camp director said you are the most polite boy there. Your little brother just adores you and wants to be just like you. I know it can be frustrating having him around constantly because he messes up your toys and creations a lot but I love that you still find times in the day to show just how much you love him. I am excited for you to start kindergarten in the fall and am really hoping that it happens. You thrive so much in a school environment with structure and friends. Seeing how much you have learned about dinosaurs in the last couple months truly shows me how much a little person your age is capable of learning. Thank you for making me a momma and showing me how much joy can come from motherhood.

May

Pictures pretty much sum up May the best. I had a rough month still being home in quarantine and I had a lot of anxiety over the virus and just everything going on in the world. It is too much to handle sometimes. But we still had some laughs and fun times mixed in with it all.

Mother's Day was such a nice weekend. Stephen took the boys fishing Saturday morning letting me sleep in. Then on Sunday the boys made me breakfast in bed and handmade cards. It was very sweet.

We started getting tomatoes from the garden and love having blt's with them and bruschetta.