pulling up...at 6 months

 Yesterday was the day! Anderson looked at the TV stand, and got it in his mind that he could pull up closer to the TV, so he did. He did it once and I tried to get pictures, but I was to slow he only stood for a few seconds. Then he did it again, and David and I both saw it. Later while I was making diner he crawled over to the gate and pulled up and just stood there talking for a couple of minutes. He is way to young to be doing things like that already, right? But I guess we shouldn't be surprised, he has had crawling mastered for about three weeks now so it is time for a new trick.

Our little stander

With brother

 

Soccer has started!

 Soccer was supposed to start last week, but it rained all night and was to wet to play, so we went and picked up Nathans shirt and ball.

 This week we got to practice/play. While doing the warm-ups, Nathan asked, "when do we kick the ball"?

Nate did a ok job of listening to the coach (much better than last year). Nathan really like to wear his shin guards, so no on can kick him in the legs. He had a fun time today, and did a great job.

Nathans new friends

 We would like to introduce you to Nathans new friends, Worm Friend 1 and Worm Friend Two. So your not confused, WF1 is in Nate's right hand and WF2 is in his left, you can tell them apart by their length.

 Yesterday we were outside playing and Nathan found a worm and started playing with it. It surprised me for two reasons- 1. a little over a year ago we found a caterpillar and let Nate hold it, it pooped on him and he hasn't wanted to hold any bugs since (for fear of them pooping on him too). 2. Nathan doesn't like to get dirty, but he did. He played in the dirt with his new "very slimy" friend. Nathan was the one who named him, and he kept telling me what a good name it was. Then we found Worm Friend 2 and Nathan was very excited. He kept putting them in the dirt and on the rocks and telling me it was "their new habitat" (yep, my 3 year old knows what a habitat is).

Nathan decided that since mom wouldn't let him bring his new friends in the house, that this plant would be their new habitat, "they will be so happy in here".

Please disregard the fact that Nathan is wearing only a diaper in these pictures. He was fully dressed and ready for nap time before he ran outside and got a-hold of the hose, spraying the car and getting himself soaking wet, and taking off his clothes all while I was weeding the yard.

Where did the time go?

AJ 6 months

He sits up by himself, and is working on crawling.

Courtesy of Nathan

I think they look alike, however, Nathan was never this blonde!

Anderson is 6 months old today! I can't believe my baby is so big already. He has his six month doctor appointment on Friday, so I will post his stats then, but for now, here are some pictures of my boy(s)...

Everything went great at the doctor today. AJ got his first shots. He didn't like it at all, but after it was over and mommy picked him up, he was fine. Here are his stats: Height 26 1/4 inches (33%), Weight 18.11lbs (73%) and head circumference 17 inches (45%). While we were there Nathan got on the scale, that little boy weighs 27lbs. Nate has some growing to do, so AJ doesn't catch up!

Visit with daddy

 This weekend David had off, so we drove down to Florida to visit him. The Braves were playing the Yankees on Saturday, so we decided to drive down (3 hours) and catch the game. It was terrible!  The game was sold out, luckily we had bought our lawn seats earlier in the week. They were selling standing room only tickets, it was so crowded, and the worst part was that there were more Yankee fans there than Braves fans (and Yankee fans are way worse than Philly fans). It was 200 degrees outside (the car said it was only 79* but it was way hotter than that). It took an hour to play the first two innings, because Jurrjens was pitching terrible, and the team couldn't get the outs. AJ fell asleep and was sweating like crazy, as were the rest of us. We decided that after the second inning we would leave. We left and went and got some lunch and cooled off in the air conditioning of the car. After lunch we headed back to the game so that Nathan could run the bases. We got there just after the game ended, and the Braves lost 8-3, but we were just in time for running the bases.

 Nathan did much better this year. He ran all the bases without stopping to play, and his shorts didn't fall off at home plate this time. He did however stop to stand on home plate, and held up traffic. He was very proud of himself.

 AJ and daddy watching Nate run.

Spring training family picture

 With baseball Mickey

AJ wearing Nathans hat

 Some boys at the game taught Nathan how to catch. You hold out your hands, catch the ball and pull it into your body.

Nathan showing his catch-y hands

With his new baseball hat

 After the baseball game we went to downtown Disney to spend the rest of the evening. Nathan wanted to take some pictures, he did a pretty good job with most of them. The Buzz and Woody, and Woody are made all out of Legos. It was pretty neat.

Nathan and daddy playing Legos. The best part for Nathan was building and racing a Lego car on the race track.

Riding the train

AJ hanging out

Nate took this picture for us.

 Nathan really liked the "geysers", so we took a picture in front of them, but Nathan was very concerned that we wouldn't be able to see the geysers.

On Sunday we drove down to St. Augustine, (founded in 1565 by the Spanish it is the oldest city in the U.S.) There was an old fort/castle that we got to go in and check out. Nathan was excited to "storm the Castle"

Nathan took this picture of David and I.

Nate took this one too. Pretty good, huh?!

Nate really liked all the cannons

Nathan "storming the castle" You can't really see it, but he is holding his plastic sword, and "threatening" the people on top of the castle.

Nate wanted to take a picture with one of the "pirates".

 We drove back to Camp Blanding Sunday afternoon and played at the park, in the water (went out to sea), and played some baseball. It was a really fun visit with Daddy, to bad it was so short on time. Luckily daddy will be home in two weeks.