How long can a sweater shaver keep a 1 year old occupied, about an hour or two. Which translated into Mommy hours is a very long time. He shaves the couch, carpet, kitchen floor and the walls. He just likes it because it makes noise and dont dare turn it off or you will see a tantrum. Why is it you spend money on toys and they want to play with a sweater shaver or an empty milk jug. He actually throws the milk jug at the cat and thinks it is hillarious. 
Tiffany and I were brave enough to take the boys to Chuckie Cheese. Wow, was not prepared for it either. The top picture I think is my favorite. While we were eating our pizza, Nathan was too worried about what the people next to us were doing. I just love the way he is standing, he looks so grown up. We did have an incident with another child, I was about to put Nathan on the Barney car and a little boy (maybe about 2 years) came out of nowhere and pushed nathan by his face so he could get on before us. I reacted before thinking, I grabbed the little boy by the arm and told him NO. He proceeded to push Nathan again and again I grabbed him and pulled him back. I eventually got Nathan on the car and the whole time he cried because that little boy pushed him and the little boy stood right beside us and cried. That is when you wonder was it all worth it. NO!!!!
I kept waiting for a mom to come from somewhere and say something to me, but no telling where she was. As you can see by the bottom picture, Nathan was exhausted.
We went to Hayden (2nd cousin to Nathan) 2nd Birthday Party and had a great time. We just love Kourtney, Jeremy and Hayden. They had this mini moonwalk for the kids, which was a huge hit. Great idea Kourtney!!!! Anyway, Nathan loved it, he stayed occupied the whole party. That is until Hayden got his big gift, the Tricycle. As soon as Nathan saw it he wanted it. As you can see, he was trying take it away from Hayden and being the sweet child Hayden is, he let Nathan ride on it.
How many hot wheels can you get into the ball popper??? Nathan knows how many and he also knows how far his arm will go down into it. The cars in the curve, I did not think were going to come out luckily they did. 
Okay, he found this in his halloween candy and before I knew it he had the paper off and eating it. I guess it just surprised me that he knew what to do with it. By that I mean, to hold it correctly and eat it correctly. SO, of course I had to take pictures.
Halloween night was alot of fun this year because we got to go with my dad, dougs dad, Janet, Peyton, Hunter, Sharon and Eddie this year. Nathan loved going up to the porches and did not want to leave. So at each porch we pitched a fit. Hunter was hard to keep up with because he was pretty much running the whole night and Peyton had the best part of it, she got carried to each house. I will say the only part I did not like was no one would give us the GOOD candy, only the candy Nathan could eat. Isn't the reward for the parents taking the kids out, they get to eat their candy. Anyway, I took alot more pictures than this, too many to post.
Like I said before I am way behind in posting pictures. These were taken at a Halloween festival at a church near our house. It was nice because everything was free, including food. We met my friend Tiffany and her little boy Mason up there and they a ball. 
Austin was our first baby boy. He was born prematurely at 20 weeks. Now he is our precious angel watching over us.
