All About Nate

I thought I posted this last week but I guess not.
We had fun making this poster for school.
I dont think Nate's favorite food is really celery or that he really wants to be a police man but I just went with his first answers.

Three posts for the price of one!

Here's a few things I forgot to blog:
Last month Ryan took just Nate on an overnight campout. They camped right on the beach at Pt Mugu.Zach was crushed when they packed up and left with out him:( Luckily I had a few unopened toys from his birthday to bring out.
There were no hookups and the beach was rocky but they had a good time.
Played some "chess"
We got this "hitch-hiker" bike that attaches to the back of Ryan's for him to take Nate out on longer rides.
Gotta roast those mallows!


Another fun thing was the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie last month (what you didn't celebrate?)
Our Taekwondo class had a pizza party (of course) and all the kids got dressed up to watch the movie then work on some moves. Nate wore a full turtle costume and was constantly attacked by the little kids there.
Seth was very serious about his karate and his moves - he's a natural!
Not to be left out, here's little brother gettin some moves on, the boys learning head blocks & Nate dissing Miss Gordon on the high five.

Last weekend we went bowling with the Lassiters after church!
The big brothers:
The little brothers:
Bowling with the ball slide:Feel the excitement...
Wyatt was a little sleepy.

Back to school, back to school

Today was Nate's first day of his second year of pre-school at Clouds. He was super excited to go today, not one bit of whining even though we had to get him up at 6:45am.

If the shoe fits

I got Nate some new shoes for school and when I got home I noticed that my 4 1/2 year olds shoes are about as long as MY foot! Jeesh!

Catch of the day

Caught this thing in my backyard today. It's about a inch and a half all spead out. Yikes!

He-yah!

This week Nate started a summer session of Tae Kwon Do. Here he is at his first class checkin it out (black shirt - before we got his uniform)

He still has to "earn" his belt but he was super stoked to put on the uniform and show us some moves.

Ahh... such a gentle boy :)

He here is not paying attention in class (happens alot)

He's lucky to already have 3 freinds in his class: Travis, Nathan & Noelle

Carp (Thats what all the cool people call it)

We were lucky enough to have completely beautiful weather for this year's Carp trip.
First thing the kids want to do when we get unloaded: ride bikes. This is a MAJOR pastime, I joke that we must go around the loop at least 100 times a visit.Even the little guys are totally into it.Our site, we flipped the trailer backwards so we could face my folks and have a larger common area between us.Peeking thru Nana's trailer windowWe brought the kayaks again. Here's Nate ready to go out w/daddy, does this thing look too tight? :)out:Little boys + sand + bucket of water = hours of fun.Even the little guys went out this year with their daddiesand caught some wave action on the way inNate sticks real close to shore and loves to jump over the waves

Peeps found some crazy bugs that lived on the seaweed and looked like leaves

Emma chasing ZachDiggin a hole with EthanOne thing about Carpinteria... the train runs RIGHT by the edge of the campground. We were on the back row this year so this was the view out my trailer window!Another thing about Carpinteria... coons! They come into your campsite at night looking for food, they don't even wait until you're inside. We had 3 in this same tree later that night!Gotta have smore timeThis is how Zach likes to roll... with Momo and Emma :)Nate picked me some flowers on our bike ride to the Bucks.Chillin, watchin the bikes go by

This guy wanted a closer look at our beautiful tablescape and got stuck! Sadly he did not make it out, but the kids had a good time getting close up looks at him.Lovin the beach:

Our trailer has a shower/toilet but no tub so we wash the boy every night in this bucket. Someday we'll look back at this and laugh (well I laugh now too, it's funny)We had a super big group this year, here's some of us the morning we left (yes I look horrid, glad this is a low res copy I stole from Gina)I really like side-by-sides so here's a few with 2008 on the left and 2009 on the right: