Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood

For those of you not familiar a current show for the little ones is Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood.  It is the replacement to our generation's Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.  It teaches good morals and deals with a lot of toddler issues like sharing, potty training, dealing with frustration, being scared, etc.  Each episode will teach the concept with a little jingle.  These get quoted/sang at our house quite often.  So, Joshua has been having a lot of accidents lately.  This is frustrating as he hasn't ever had any problems before.  The most annoying part is that he will literally be dancing and jumping on the couch face down trying to make the sensation of needing to go to the bathroom to go away.  I am telling him to go to the bathroom and he is crying, "I don't need to go."  Then he agrees and takes off and wet pants occur.  This scene happened again today.  I did not yell but I said very firmly that I was very frustrated with him.  He simply looks at me and says, "Remember what Daniel Tiger says, 'When you feel so mad that you want to roar, take a deep breath and count to 4' see do you feel better?"  I respond in a very calm voice, "Daniel Tiger also says, 'When you have to go potty stop and go right away..."  He looks at me and says, "Hmm good point.  I will try to remember that next time.  I'm going to change my pants."

Oh my!

Brothers and Best Buddies

 I watch these two together and I find myself wondering what the future looks like for them.  I love that right now Nathan will do whatever it takes to look at his brother as soon as he walks in the room.   I love that his eyes light up and the smiles begin as soon as Joshua visits with him.  I love that Joshua will cry real tears  because Nathan is taking a nap and he wants to visit with him.  I love that Joshua tries to take care of Nathan and is very protective of him.    I love these two boys and love love love that they love each other.  I hope this friendship continues forever.

Breaking Free

Hmmm.  I don't know how much more swaddling is going to be happening here.

5 months Old

Happy 5 Months Nathan James Turek!

This "little" boy is on the move!  He has figured out how to roll all over the place.  He gets angry though sometimes when he gets "stuck" as he rolls and is up against the couch or some other piece of furniture.  He loves to smile and laugh.  He is constantly on the move as you can see in these pictures. 

Check out these pictures from birth to now.  It is amazing how fast this little boy has changed.  

Viewer Discretion Advised

We all made a quick trip to Target.  I spent longer than intended because the Halloween stuff was all 70% off!  Matt ended up taking Nathan to the car to feed him.  He was a little extra fussy due to shots that morning and the lovely rotavirus kids take orally.  Nathan started pooping and Matt kept checking and thought all was clear.  He stands up and a little spot of poop falls onto the door frame.  He is exclaiming how gross and then I told him to look at his pants.  By the way, Nathan remained spotless since he was only in a onesie and it just leaked out of the side.  Joshua needed the window rolled down as he kept gagging and acting like he was going to be sick.  I must confess I found the whole scene pretty hilarious.  

Halloween 2013

Halloween 2013 was a fun day for the boys and I.  We made sugar cookies and cut them out together to make fun ghosts and pumpkins.  We did our normal games, books, and such but it was a long wait according to Joshua.  All I heard all day was the repeated question, "Is it Halloween time yet?"  

It was finally time to get dressed.  Nathan had many options.  He had his Robin outfit that I posted here earlier.  I wasn't too thrilled about doing a Robin without Batman though.  I had a thick dinosaur costume that Joshua used at Nathan's age but we live in TX and it is still hot here in the Fall.  Nathan gets hot very easily.  He also had some other Halloween pjs like a skeleton and monster.  We decided on this little doctor onesie.  Joshua said they would still match because doctor and Dusty both start with D.  I thought my sweet little Nathan was a very cute doctor.

 Joshua was thrilled to be Dusty from the new movie, "Planes" which hasn't been released yet on DVD and wasn't really advertised that much so most people weren't quite sure who he actually was this year.  He didn't care though!  He has been pretending to be Dusty since he saw the movie with Matt.  This costume got a lot of use before Halloween and I am sure this will continue for quite awhile.

 We went to our church's annual Trunk or Treat.  I was happy to use my stroller and walk over.  I didn't have Matt so I knew I couldn't pass out candy anyway.  

Joshua posing with our sweet friend Roxy.  I couldn't get them both to look at me for anything but they had their cute matching Halloween bags provided to us by Roxy.  

Matt made it as were finishing up so he snapped this picture of the three of us.

Joshua was his usual reserved self actually at the trunk-or-treating making it very easy to manage him.  He was nervous about most of the costumes so he had the death grip on the side of my stroller.   He said, "Happy Halloween and Trick-or-Treat" followed by "Thank You."  Most of the time those phrases came 3 feet before their car and 3 feet after their car while looking at me.  He did spot a few of his favorites though from church and ran right up to those people.  He was very excited about the candy and once again just thrilled to death with his costume.

Nathan giggled and smiled at anyone that paid him any attention.  I wonder what he will be like next year at Halloween?  

A little recap of Joshua's Halloweens so far....