Interview

Asking Nathan questions is always funny. Most often, his responses are simply "No." "No" is his favorite word. However, I interviewed him today and he cooperated. It was pretty funny. Here are his responses.

What's your favorite color? "Yellow."
What's your favorite food? "Chips."
What's your favorite stuffed animal? "Duckie."
Who's your best friend? "Dada."
What's your favorite toy? "Tractor....THOMAS!" (I guess he couldn't decide).

The Future Occupation of Nathan D. Wakeman

I know it's a little early, but I've noticed Nathan is quite talented in many possible occupational areas. Sometimes I wonder what career path he will take. What does everyone think?




A carpenter perhaps?



Or maybe a nurse/paramedic/doctor?




Photographer (specializing in self portraits?)



Farmer?



Drummer for a famous rock band? (Daddy tried...didn't quite make it...maybe Nathan will!)




Dish washer? (Hopefully only as an occupation in high school or college!)



Eccentric individual who never wants to fit in with the crowd? (Apparently reindeer antlers are not acceptable)



If they need to remake "Twilight" in 20 years, Nathan would make a great Edward Cullen





A chef? (This would be AWESOME!)



Pyro?



King of the world? (Hey, it could happen with the way things are going)



Race car driver!

Techniques for Eating Popcorn #3

This is a "Christmas special" popcorn eating technique! You can never have too many uses for a used roll of wrapping paper.

Let the winter begin!

Nathan getting on his boots and snowpants!


Brushing snow off the truck!


Helping Dada shovel snow.

We had our first big snowfall last night. We got about 4 inches so not really that much. It was enough we had to go shovel the walk and brush the cars off though.

This is Nathan's first year in which we think he will really like playing outside in the snow. He's got boots and snowpants so we got those on him. When we got outside, he wanted to make a snowman, but sadly the snow we got was just too dry to do anything with!

Instead, he helped me brush the snow off our our 3 vehicles. That takes quite a long time! The ENTIRE time I was using the big brush, he was brushing the snow off the vehicles with his little gloved hands. It was so cute. He kept saying, "Helping." I need to get him a little brush!

He also liked making footprints. He did get cold after awhile and wanted to come inside for snack, but he did very well for our first snowfall!

On a Christmas note, I've been doing a lot of Christmas shopping online this year. The UPS and FedEx guys have been coming to our house often! Nathan has gotten used to this and has a fun sentence to describe it. It goes like this:

"Truck! Guy. Box. Ding!" This of course translates to: "Here comes the guy in the big truck who will bring a box and ring the doorbell!"

His sentences are so cute. Hopefully, they will turn more and more into real sentences at some point.

Nathan's first school concert

Nathan has been attending a Co-op preschool twice a week. I go with him and stay the whole time to help him. This is great because he is so young. PLUS, I could never send him alone to a school at such a young age because of his food allergies. He wouldn't know what he could eat and what he couldn't. So I love this preschool and that I can be there.

Last weekend, he took part in his first concert at our town community center. The preschool kids sang and rang jingle bells. Well, Nathan did not sing of course, but he did ring the bells a little bit!



Nathan "singing" at the concert. It seems he and the other 2 year old are more pre-occupied with looking at something on the floor!

Nathan's "sentences"

Nathan is getting really good at speaking in singular words and is slowly using more and more 2 word phrases. He's so cute the way he speaks in "sentences." I wanted to record a few of his funnier sentences.

"Dada. Money. Roof. Eat. House." This sentence means, "Dada is at work to make money so we can have a roof, food, and a house." He uses this one a lot when he wants Dada to come home from work.

"Doctor! Baby. Tummy. Kicking. Jumping." Nathan will sometimes get on his play phone and call the doctor. This sentence means, "Doctor, the baby in Mommy's tummy is kicking and jumping around!" He sees me go to the doctor all the time for the baby so he likes to call the doctor and report activity going on here.

"Papa. Grandma. Truck. Apples. Ham." This sentence means, "Papa and Grandma are coming in their truck and are bringing me apples and ham." My parents bring apples frequently and brought ham once so he thinks they are going to bring these things every time.

"Choo-choo. Nathan. Pumpkin. Bah!" This sentence means, "We went to the pumpkin patch where I got a pumpkin and rode on a choo-choo."

"Ding! Treat! Candy. Pumpkin." This sentence means, "People will ring the doorbell. They will say trick r treat. I will give them candy in their pumpkins." (Nathan has a pumpkin he put candy in on Halloween.)

Thanksgiving Fun!

We had Thanksgiving at our house this year. Jeremy had to work, but it worked out as he got home at 5 so we just had a later dinner!

Nathan had a great time being the center of attention. He had a lot of fun playing with his grandparents and Uncle Brian and Aunt Laura. Here are some photos!



Nathan and Uncle Brian mashing potatoes




Nathan liked to pass out the vegetables. You had to go through him in order to get anything!

Fall Videos

 

Techniques for Eating Popcorn #2

This video will focus on techniques for:

1. Spoon feeding popcorn to others.

2. Spoon feeding popcorn to yourself.

Techniques for Eating Popcorn #1

This video will explore:

1. Dropping popcorn from large heights for a little challenge.

2. Dropping copious amounts of popcorn from a large height into someone else's mouth for amusement purposes.

Claire and Jeremy photos