Friday, December 20, 2013

Santa 2013

Seeing Santa this year was so much fun.
Nash is at an age where he is starting to understand the holiday concepts.
At home, we have been explaining how Christmas is Jesus's birthday.
And Santa likes to help celebrate it.
When we do the Advent Calendar he counts down how many days til Jesus' Birthday!
He also likes to tell us the other birthday's in Dec.


When we saw Santa, Nash was very excited.
He went up to him and sat on his lap.
He excitedly told Santa what he wanted;
"A big boy bike like Shelby's and Spencer the train"
then he told Santa Sadie wanted a doll.
Santa said ok and asked him if he was good.
Nash told him he made good choices.
Then he asked if Santa was going to come to our house for Jesus's birthday.
And to help blow out the birthday candles.
Santa did not know how to respond, but I was teary eyed.
My child understands who Christmas is about!
That makes this Mama's heart very happy.

Nash is 3

My Nash
You are three and your Daddy and I have loved this year
You have such a great personality
and this year has taught us so much.

 (You are showing three on your fingers)
STATS:
Weight - 34.6 lbs 75%
Height - 38 in 70%

 Your imagination has blossomed this year.
You love to dress up and pretend you are a Doctor (You say you are Dr. Saul who is your pediatrician)
You pretend play with your cars, planes and trains.
While playing with them you will recite lines from shows or movies that the cars or trains are characters of.

You transitioned into the Pre-K 3s class this month.
It is Monkey C.
It has been a big transition for you.
In this class, everything is very independent.
You can now: put on your own clothes (with help)
put on your own pants (working on them not being backwards)
You can put your own socks and shoes on
You can cut your on food, pour your own drink and clear your plate and put it in the sink

 Toys:
You are a lover of toys.
Right now your favorite toys are trains, tractors, cars and planes.
You love to pretend play with them and act like they are in the movie.
You recreate the scenes.
You will take them anywhere we go; to the store, restaurant, movies and grandparents houses.
Your favorite is still Kachow and Mater but you have started to fall for Dusty the Crophopper.
Sometimes you want to sleep with the cars laying next to you on the pillow.
In the train room, there are tracks and trains everywhere.
You will lay down and push the trains around the tracks.

 Activity:
You are a very active little boy.
You would be outside riding bikes all day
On your strider bike (balance bike) you are so fast.
Everyone is impressed at how fast and how you ride that bike.
You can swing from the bars and cross three bars of the monkey bars by yourself.
You love to play on the playgrounds.
You are very cautious.
You want to make sure you can do something before you do it.
You love to race Daddy - be it with our big trucks, shopping carts, or playing tick tock croc.

 Everyday:
Wake Up at 6:30
You still take a nap everyday around 1
You go to school every day from 8-3:30
Go to bed around 8:30
You have two snacks a day - one around 9am and then around 4
Everyday I pick you up from school you ask "what you brought me"
which means what snack did you bring today.

Food:
You are a great eater.
There are not many things you do not like.
But you do know what you like and do not like.
If you had it your way you would have pancakes for every meal right now.
You are also in love with frozen strawberry bars.
Likes:
Hotdogs
Bean and Cheese Burritos
Carrots
Green Beans
Chocolate Milk
Corn Dogs
Chicken
Fish Sticks
Trader Joe's Protein Shakes
Swiss Cheese
Bagels and Cream cheese
Grapes
Watermelon
Strawberries
Yogurt
Melon
Strawberry Ice Cream
String Cheese

Dis Likes:
Pasta
Chocolate
Soups
Any other flavor of ice cream except Strawberry

 Sayings:
There are so many funny things that you say. Below are a few.
You like to add an "s" to a lot of words
Oranges - for the color of orange
Underwears - for underwear
Copping Shart - Shopping cart
"What you got me"
You OK?
Oh Sorry
Thanks for coming to my house


 Friends:
You love your friends
You call your cousins "Your Guys"
our little neighbor up the street - Shelby is your best friend
You ask to see her and her brother Cameron everyday.
You want them to come everywhere we go.

 You love to be such a good helper.
At the market you love to push your own cart and help me find the foods we need.
You will run and find the foods and put them in your basket.
I love the help and love watching you grow.

(this picture is of you getting to watch Planes for the first time, you were so excited)

Shows/Movies:
TV Shows: Jake and the Neverland Pirates
Jungle Junction
Sofia the First
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

Movies:
Cars
Planes
Despicable Me

 Sleep:
You are not the best sleeper.
It is getting harder to put you down to bed every night.
 You want to stay up and play and put up a fight to sleep.
I think you lay in bed for about 45 minutes fighting sleep but eventually you fall asleep.
You will sleep until 6:30
You take a nap everyday for about an hour or so.


 You have gotten really into birthdays this year.
You loved yours and when it is someone else's birthday you love to help blow out the candles.
Presents are a new concept and you love to open them.

 You have become very adventurous some lately.
You climb everything.
Here you are climbing on the stroller

My Nash
You have become such a wonderful little boy.
Full of life and spunk.
This year has been an amazing year to see you grow and learn.
You love Jesus and love to go to church.
You love your family and friends
You love Daddy and Mama.
I cannot wait to see what this year holds.

Friday, December 13, 2013

Thanksgiving 2013


The Kids and I spent the week at my parents house before Thanksgiving.
They love to be at my parents house.
Noni got Nash this robot fish and he wanted the fish in the bath every night.



 A favorite room at my parents house is my little sister Micah's room
The kids love her mirror and the colors


Micah and Nash bought an art project that consisted of painting little wooden cars.
I think Noni did most of the painting:)


On Wednesday, I was able to meet one of my best friends at the mall.
We met her first year of marriage and our first year of dating.
Now her three kids and my two kids later
here we are meeting up and trying to talk between the
Do not stick the cars in the water
Do not run around the fountain
Do not fall in
Don't put that in your mouth
Ohhhh the life of motherhood.

On Thanksgiving morning,
I got the kids up and dressed.
My goal was to get a picture of them together.
This was very difficult and not successful.

One looking

Now the other one looking

Both of them looking but not happy

The kids loving on Daddy

How Nash likes to eat his snack at Noni and Papa's
on the step stool

Thanksgiving morning tradition is the Thanksgiving parade
We watch it while eating breakfast
When we see the Rockettes we call my Gran to tell her they are on
(I have done this for as long as I can remember)
Nash enjoyed the parade more than I thought he would
 Sadie watching the parade

 My Parents invited some of their friends over for Thanksgiving.
They have a son that is in the Marines and he brought a buddy.
It was nice to have a table full of people along with food.

We decided to fry the turkey this year.
The best part of frying a turkey is you get to fry all different things!
 The girls:)
 My family
Again not looking and not the best picture

Time to carve the Turkey


Someone could not wait for the food

Maddie and the table

A Tradition at the Smith Household is to decorate for Christmas
on Thanksgiving Weekend
Nash loved riding his bike by the tree
Yes Noni and Papa let Nash ride his bike in the house.

He wanted to see the star up close.

Maddie and Sadie decorating the tree


It was a great Thanksgiving!
Holidays are so much more fun when you have kids.

Monday, December 9, 2013

Miss Sadie is 9 Months old

 Our Cupcake
9 Months!
You are 3/4 the way to a year old.
 Please slow down, it is going way to fast.
 Stats: We did not go to the doctors this month so I do not have your measurements.

 Diapers: Size 3
 You are not having explosions anymore
Thank Goodness!

 Clothes: 6-12 Months
We are probably on the last month of this size
However, you are little one and the next size up is still pretty big.
PJs: 12 Months
 Sleep: Sadie, Sadie, Sadie
You are the best baby until it comes to sleeping.
You still take two naps a day:
Morning: 9 - 10:15
Afternoon: 2:00 - 3:30
Night time: you go to bed around 7 and wake up probably 3 times a night.
We do not go in there and around 4:30 I will go in and feed you.

Eating: You Rock!
You are on table food and love it!
In fact you love it so much that you are almost refusing for us to feed you.
You want to feed yourself.
The only person that is able to feed you is Daddy.
New Table Foods:
Risotto
Carrots
Peas
Green Beans
Pickles
Great Northern Beans
Baked Beans
Cottage Cheese
Pears
Peaches
Pasta
 Teeth:
Still no teeth
(This your new thing sticking out your tongue and smiling)

Milestones:
You are cruising - all over the place and transfer from one standing object to another
You are 100% crawling, no more army crawl:(
You follow your brother around and play with all of his toys.
Put toys in a bucket and take toys out of a bucket
Push doors open
Open drawers
Climb under chairs
Feed Yourself
Drink out of a straw

 Talking:
My cupcake you are a talker.
You like to tell us what is going on.
Words that you say:
Mama
Dada
Bye
Hi
All Done
Puffs
More
This
That
Yes


Personality:
You have no shortage of personality.
You are an extremely happy baby
Fuss when you are tired or want food.
You love to be around people and on the go.

 Activity:
Girlfriend you are into everything.
You love to explore
You will crawl into any space and all over the house.
You like to get into the tiniest spaces and I am not even sure how you get into them.
 Favorites:
You love these plastic princess dolls
Love Nash's sippy cup and snack bucket
You do not like blankets on you
The Little People are your favorite toys
You have started taking an interest in balls
Love to bank items together
 Daily Schedule:
Wake Up at 6:45
Eat Breakfast around 7:30
Breastfeed around 8:45
Nap at 9
Lunch around 11:30
Nap around 2
Dinner around 5:30
Bath at 6:45
Breastfeed at 7
Bed

You are the best errand buddy and love to be out and about with me
Sadie Girl
It has been so much fun to watch you grow.
We pray that you continue your fun loving spirit
Until next month's update!