Back to the swing of things in Week 62

Dear Nathan,
It's good to be back into the swing of things. The weather has been perfect so we've been to the playground at least once every day. You are getting braver and braver. You like to hang off of the monkey bars, play with the steering wheel, climb through tunnels, climb up and down stairs and you can pretty much climb up the playground equipment and go down almost any slide. There were a few times where you tumbled down, or came down head first and fell into the mulch or gravel, but you quickly shook it off and before you knew it, you were sliding down once again. There was one time you decided to try the spiral slide. I had just watched you go down and very soon I heard a bump, bump, bump. Your shoes had gotten your stuck and you tumbled down half of the slide. That was my bad parent moment 1 of the week. Bad parent moment 2 happened when we were taking your new tricycle out for a spin. I pushed you down a slope and you suddenly turned the handle bar, the trike tipped over and you toppled over too.

You still have a drippy nose, but you are happy and are back to normal with your eating habbits. No new teeth yet. You are starting to say a few things like "all done," "that" "teddy" and you are able to point to more things when we are reading your books. You also now know where your head, hands, feet and belly button are.  It's pretty amazing how quickly you are learning everything.

We took advantage of the abnormally nice weather and put up the Christmas lights outside. You like the lights and was pretty helpful in cleaning a few of the bulbs in your mouth. Bulbs are not very tasty.

We will not be putting up a tree this year because the tree stand that we stored in the attic got warped by the hot Texas heat and I'm not comfortable with someone in the house who's very clumsy around an unstable tree. Sure, I may hang the stockings (which reminds me that I need to work on your felt one some more), put up some greenery around the mantle, but we will for sure put up a tree next year. 

Now that your rate of learning has slowed down significantly, I may be making monthly posts instead, with an occasional special edition when something exciting happens. That's it for now.

Love,

Mommy