Guess Who, Part 2!

Guess Who part 1 was with the same shirt, these pics are of the boys at the same age (4 mos).

Guess Who....?

It's kind of a question, I think you should be able to tell by the pictures who is who :) I just remembered having a picture of Nate in this shirt so I took one of Aaron and wanted to put the two beside each other to see how much they looked alike.

Greer

A little backwards, but here's some pictures from our recent trip up north!

Another digital scrapbooking design by Smilebox

It was so awesome to be in the cooler weather. The lodge we stayed at gave us access to fishing poles, kayaks and-Nate's favorite part-bikes! He rode a bike with training wheels for his first time and loved the bike mommy rode that hooked up to a trailer behind. We mostly hung out around the cabin walking around,fishing,feeding the ducks,biking and Josh took Nate on a hike close by. Just a little bummed we didn't see deer this time around, we usually do. There was a lot of preaching about Greer still being green-but boy you could tell that the wildfire there was VERY close. VERY. They lucked out.

Four Months

Aaron hit his four month birthday this week! Oh my. We saw the pediatrician yesterday and he's at the 60th percentile for about everything, higher than Nate was! At four months Aaron is...

-15 pds, 26.5 in long
-drooling a ton
-just started rice
-wearing 6 mo clothes
-loving to "eat" his blankets
-enjoying bathtime increasingly
-laughs at his big brother
-doesn't mind sitting in the booster seat in the kitchen

Those are a few things that stand out. It was also decided that Aaron will need to see a specialist for his head-the back is slightly flat so we are going to get it measured to see it it is severe enough to wear a helmet to help shape better. I'm suppose to get a call from the office on Monday and hopefully will have an appointment sometime next week. For now I'm on strict orders to have Aaron on his tummy whenever he is awake,whether he likes it or not!

Also just this week-Aaron and I have started sessions with a friend of mine who is a Sleep Coach-basically,someone who helps coach us on how to establish healthy eating/sleeping habits to have an end result of Aaron being able to sleep through the night (bottom line, through establishing a sleeping and eating schedule for Aaron it should help him sleep through the night!) We had our first session on Monday,so we've been trying to follow a set schedule. He's doing better in some ways but we still have some work to do. Kinda hard when Nate is also getting up during the night as well, I'm not feeling like I'm getting any additional rest yet. Aaron has been able to make it through the night longer without eating,but he still wakes up upset that his paci isn't in his mouth. I'm hoping to see more,even if small, changes in the next week.


Sitting with big brother-first visit to the zoo



Left the zoo with a little monkey




Circle time with new friends at Gymboree




Throughout the class he only had eyes for his new friend Emily. Oh my goodness.



Eating rice for the first time-not so crazy about it either.

Young Chef Academy

I got a great deal for a few cooking classes at a kids cooking school-today was Nate's first one! We both loved it (he loved doing it and I loved that he had a great time and it was such a cute place!) Thought we'd share some pictures from our time there!



Waiting patiently for class to begin


Stirring strawberries into his muffin mixture


Adding in a Hershey kiss


While Nate was in class, Aaron and I played out in the lobby-he loved his new Eric Carle teether!



Eating his creations


So happy we got copies of the recipes Nate made-he'll have to show mommy how to make them! ;)


Cool wall in the kitchen


A little blurry, but I LOVED the bright colors in the kitchen they were using!


Yum-"Sealed with a Kiss" muffin and a Chicken Crescent roll



Chef Nate is ready for his next class! :)

Silly Nate

Nate's been a funny boy this past week-here's some recent pictures!

We got this out for Aaron to use-Nate wanted to try it out first. Yeah, a little too big :)

The award winning chef-who apparently is getting ready to cook outside!

Nate is becoming a big Curious George fan-or as he calls him, "Monkey George"-he loves stickers! We went to one of our favorite events last week-Meet The Creature where we got to meet some new friends.

Watching a fox get his bath-poor little guy, ten years old and blind :(

Petting a big lizard Nate had a great time with my parents in Greer. Good thing, because we're going up there the end of this week! :) We are FINALLY taking our trip there that we were suppose to have taken a few months ago but didn't because of a wildfire. This will be our first long trip with both boys. I'm so excited to get away from our heat and enjoy high 60's/low 70's for a few days! For about the last two-three weeks we have been proud leasers of a Nissan Leaf! They aren't typically on the leasing program for employees but because Nissan wanted to do some studies with it, they offered a limited amount to employees who had to apply for them. Somehow employees got picked and Josh was chosen! We have a charging station in our garage and Josh obviously uses one at work too. We love it-it's nice to know we're not using gas (and saving $$ and the environment while we're at it!) It's going to be a busy and fast week-time to turn in!