I hope everyone’s summer has been as fun and exciting as mine has been! I’ve done a lot of growing, learned a lot of new things, kept mommy and daddy on their toes and had lots of fun in the process! There’s so much that’s happened that these are just a few of the highlights of my summer:
“Nathan The Builder”
In the beginning of summer, I learned how to stack things. First it was blocks:
Next, I moved onto cars. And, to make it a tad more challenging, I stacked them while strapped in my highchair, one-handed, while watching TV.
Then, by the end of summer, I knew I mastered stacking when I could do this:
Learning To Ride
Mommy and Daddy thought it would be a good idea if I learned how to ride a tricycle. It would’ve been a good idea if my legs were long enough to pedal! Maybe after a couple of growth spurts I’ll be able to, but in the meantime, I’ve been pretending to ride the tricycle with daddy’s help and I’ve learned to be a really good bell dinger!
Splashing Around
No summer is complete without splashing around in a pool. Grandma & Grandpa got this for me in time for summer. I love to sit and pour water from one container into the next. It’s so much fun!
Weekend Getaway
Mommy, Daddy & I went to Las Vegas for a couple of days over Labor Day. Here I am getting ready to go. Mommy bought me a swimsuit with built-in floaties. I’m also trying out the sunglasses mommy bought me when I was an infant- they didn’t fit me back then because my head wasn’t big enough! Am I ready or what?
I didn’t understand why it took so long to get where we were going. It was a long drive! It was a good thing mommy & daddy brought the dvd player. Once we got checked in, I saw that our room had floor to ceiling windows and I immediately ran over to it and looked outside. I did that every morning. I didn’t understand why that made mommy a little nervous. We were only on the 28th floor! I just loved watching people go swimming (we had a pool view) and the airplanes land. My favorite was watching the helicopters. I would say “cop-ter” whenever I saw them.
Mommy & Daddy took me swimming in the hotel’s Lazy River Pool- they put me in my swimsuit-floatie and an inflatable ring and we just bobbed along in the pool. It was fun! There was a waterfall along the way, too- I didn’t like it because it was loud and I was afraid I would get splashed, but daddy did a good job helping me avoid it. I even tried to teach myself how to swim by kicking and flapping my arms around, but I think I just ended up splashing mommy and daddy in the face with water (which was pretty fun, too). We spent hours at a time in the pool while we were there. Even though I was all pruney, I didn’t want to get out! Mommy had to entice me with cookies before I’d get out. Because I was having such a good time, mommy made sure we could check-out later so that I could go swimming one last time before we left for home. I was having so much fun I didn’t want it to end.
Here I am all tuckered out after spending 2 hours in the pool. Then, mommy & daddy took me to the pool again for another hour. It was fun, but I was so tired I slept through the night! Hey…was that their plan all along!?
We also went to see the Bellagio Fountains. I was so mesmerized by the water “dancing” on the lake. Every time the water went shooting up in the air, I would say “boom”. Sometimes the music got loud and it scared me a little bit. But, daddy was holding me so I was safe. I liked it so much that we watched it 4 times!
Here are some more photos from our vacation:
Mommy & me at Paris!
Daddy & me at Excalibur- we were going to pretend to be knights and slay the dragon, but it never came out.
Here we are at the elephant fountain near the entrance of the beach/swimming area. Every time we pass by it I had to stop by and say “hello” and then wave “good-bye”. I had so much fun there that I didn’t want to go home. I put up a really good fight when mommy and daddy tried to buckle me into my car seat, but they’re surprisingly strong. Once we were on the road, I fell asleep and woke up when we were about an hour away from home. Hmm…is that why they took me swimming that morning!?
*Note from mommy & daddy: While on vacation, Nathan said some new words: “cop-ter” for helicopter, “po-po” which is Chinese for “carry me”, and “no more” for when he runs out of something (like cookies) or he’ll say it like a question to find out if there’s any more of something (like cookies). We had been trying to teach him to say “po po” for awhile and he chose to say it while on vacation! That’s great that he says it, but because we wanted to reinforce it, we had to pick him up and carry him every time. He said it every time we went from our room to the elevator or vice versa (and of course we were in the furthest room from the elevator!) and when we were walking around the hotel/strip. He’s no light-weight either! Our legs & hips were very sore afterwards!
