Some pictures

So it has been a while since I last blogged. Not much going on here, so I just thought I would just share some pictures from this week: breakfast with Daddy and playing at the park.

Nate Talking...

So I wanted to document for myself and share with others Nate progression with communication. He is now 16.5 months old. Here is a list of things he "says".... I hope I didn't forget anything. :)

Animal Sounds:
Dog – panting
Horse
Turkey
Monkey
Duck
Owl
Pig

Signs:
More
All done
Eat
Milk
Water
Pop
Table – looks like pop
Cat – doesn’t use often
Please
Bye Bye
Sleepy
Hat
Diaper
Ball

Verbal words:
Nana – means both grandma and banana
Thank you
Mama
Dada
Uh oh
Hello – means telephone
Eye
Shoe – just sounds like “Ssss”
Hot
Hat – doesn’t say often
Vroom – “car”
Blankie – sounds like “baby”
This? – asking what something is, sounds like “dis”

Combinations:
Sign and say “hat”
Signs “more please”
Occasionally signs “more milk”

What a big boy he is becoming! I will try to post more pictures soon.

From Hawaii to Texas

So I didn't get a chance to wrap up our time in Hawaii and now we have been in Texas for 11 days! Whew, how time flies. So Hawaii was WONDERFUL! What an amazing experience. Any of you USUHS spouses who have a chance....GO!! The housing is old and run down and TINY, but it was wonderful. Tom was on Psychiatry and had more free time than he has had in a LONG TIME! I feel like it was a wonderful time of renewal for us. I feel like I got to know my husband all over again...and man I have a BIG CRUSH on him!!! He is a pretty great man. Nate also had a wonderful time with his Daddy and playing on the beach!

Tom, Nate & I at the Arizona Memorial. Nate playing dress up in Daddy's shoes and hat.


So far Texas has been GREAT!! We have had so much fun in just a week and a half. Tom and I watched "Man vs Food" on the travel channel in Hawaii at night. So we wanted to go to two places he featured in Austin our first weekend here. The Salt Lick BBQ was great, but we missed breakfast at Juan in a Million. We'll go another time. We have mostly spent time with my extended family. My Aunt, Uncle and cousins live here. We have had a blast playing with them. Nate LOVES my cousin's kids!

Nate is proud of his new big boy shoes. And here he is riding a horse at the fair!

Sunsets on the Island

Sunrise on the east side of Oahu. Something about the ocean just makes them so much more beautiful. Also makes me stop and think abot why the heck we even appreciate them in the first place. Must be something about being made in the image of the one who thought the whole thing up.

Trina and Nate in the foreground as the sun begins to head down on the north shore, Waimaea Bay. Surf wasn't huge that day but it's much bigger than in the pics from the eastern shore.

There's a post below with Nate. Trina wanted me to let you know since these are far less fun pictures I guess. What can I say I'm not nearly as exciting as him.

Hawaii - weeks 2 & 3

I didn't get a post done last week, so here are the last two weeks in Hawaii. We start with the recent pictures here on top and go back in time. Yesterday we went to the beach. Daddy was surfing, while Mommy & Nate hung out on the beach. After getting wet in the ocean Nate decided to lay out on the sand. He was SO sandy. He had it in his ears and eyes and every crease and crevice.

For breakfast yesterday we had "malasadas" which are a Portuguese doughnut...yummy.

Some pictures of Daddy and Nate hanging out. Nate loves stuffed animals, like the penguin he got from Grandma & Grandpa for Christmas.

Nate is suddenly very interested in driving. Anything with a steering wheel is a favorite toy. Here he is playing at the playground, driving the playground equipment and hanging out with a swim diaper on his head.

The second week we were here some of Mommy's dear friends from her Utah days were here on vacation too. This is a day at the beach with Mommy's friends and a picture of the sleepy boy in the car heading home.

Nate and I have gone to the Honolulu Zoo a couple of times now. He likes the "Keiki" (kid) Zoo the best. They have small petting zoo where you can go in to pet the goats. He LOVES that. Here is a video of him running between two goats and kissing them both on their sides.

Also below is a picture of Nate playing with Daddy on our bed. He loves it when you try to steal his pacifier or when you pretend to suck on it. He frequently tries to put it in your mouth!

The Beach

Playing on the beach - weekend #1

Bellows Beach

Big boy getting into things :)

My little boy is getting so big.  Doesn't he look so old here?  Just some hanging out pictures.

Nate was playing with keys for like 45 minutes, first trying to unlock the leg of the coffee table and then the doggy door.  Here is a picture and a video of that, as well as a video of him singing "Old MacDonald" with Pappy.  He has started saying something that sounds like "duck" in the middle of the song.  He is so cute!!