Traveler

Alright, here are a few photos from our friend Maria.  I have a bunch of pictures that I've wanted to post on the camera but Joe has it this weekend hunting in North Dakota....AND I can't find the cord to plug it in to the computer :) Go figure.  So here are just a few from Maria's phone.  Maria is watching Nate on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays while Joe and I work.  Mondays Trisha has him and I have him Fridays.  Joe has been back to work recently so we needed to find some day care.  I try to get paper work done on Fridays but that's hard with the little man wanting to play and roll around!

I love pictures of him in his car seat because I can still picture his little 4 pound butt so tiny in there and now he takes up so much room and is extremely heavy to carry!  When I was home for the Badger/Gopher game Nate got on the scale with my dad and he's around 18 pounds!  Crazy.  He is a little over 8 months old and fills up his 9 month outfits, so he's doing great.  They are a little short lenghtwise but definitely not in girth :)
Nate is active as can be now a days.  I was at Trisha's apartment recently and Nate crawled twice!  Like truly crawled!  Up until now he does the booty shuffle where he lifts his tush and army crawls but these were legitimate kick the legs and pull the arms forward!  He still prefers to roll places though and is an expert stop, drop, and roller.  He moves all over the room.
  Random people like to comment on his eyes and his eyebrow expressions which he is very dramatic with!

Nate is eating pretty well for the most part.  We've reintroduced him to solid foods after he finally started eating his bottle again.  For awhile he was refusing the bottle because he was bored and waaaay more interested in spoon feeding. 
 Looking forward to Halloween next weekend.  Nate is going to be a lion because he is obsessed with all things lion!  He has this same lion character on like 4 of his toys and he goes crazy for it every time!
  Joe has been hunting a lot lately so Nate and I have had a lot of weekend time together.  It's all been great except for him waking up in the middle of the night and then wanting to be up around 5:30.  I usually leave him on his own in the night but he can fuss for up to 30/40 minutes which is noooot fun.  Other than that we go out to eat, shop, hang out with friends.  Nate tends to be much better when we are out and about doing things.  He doesn't get too cranky when he's interested in things going on around him.  He's much like myself and and observes things for quite a while before he's comfortable but once he warms up he's a smile fool!