Sweet boy

Tonight before Nathan went to sleep he said, "I always love you mommy". It was so sweet.

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Aunt Heather bought us these super cute Valentines day shirts.  Thank you Aunt Heather, we love them!

Happy valentines day!

 

 We want to wish all our family and friends a happy Valentines day. We love you all so much!

Aunt Kristen got her valentine a bit late (the mail takes a lot longer to get to Korea), but here is her picture!

 

Aunt Caitlin

Aunt Heather & Cousin Braedon (he is so tall!)

Grandpa & Grandma Rygmyr

Cousin Zoey, Jake and Kyler

Uncle Russ & Aunt Bonnie

 

Aunt Llew

Grandma & Grandpa Anderson said "Yes!".

(Aunt Kristen, your Valentine is going to be late, sorry. I didn't plan ahead very well.)

Also, today is Anderson's 5 month birthday. He is doing great, despite a little cold. He is still as happy as ever, we love him so much.

3 steps

Yesterday Nathan had a piece of paper that had numbers 1-3 on it.  He told me "Step one, make cookies.  Step two, make popcorn.  Step three, daddy comes home."
It was pretty cute, but sad too. 
Yesterday we made cookies.  This morning when Nate woke up he said "Step two, we have to make popcorn"

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David and I had our February date on Wednesday. Unfortuanately we had to improvise. We were supposed to go to The Cheesecake Factory for dinner then to a bookstore to browse, but David had training exercises all week, and left this morning for a month in Florida. So instead, we went and got Steak & Shake for dinner (brought it home to eat with the kids) and we watched a movie from Netflix (RED). It wasn't what we had planned, but it worked. Hopefully we will be able to make up our Cheesecake Factory dinner some other time.


Since we didn't have any pictures from our date, here is one from our wedding.

Monkey Joe's

We have gone to Monkey Joe's a few time in the last couple of weeks. Nathan likes it a lot better this year, than he did last year. He will actually go in and jump and play. He still won't go down the steep slides, but there is one slide he likes, the big curving slide.

Brothers

Here are a few pictures of the boys from the last few days. Anderson continues to be such a happy baby (as long as someone is paying attention to him). He just smiles and laughs if you look at him. (FYI- some of the pictures are out of order)


Nathan wanted to hold AJ the other day, so he sat on the couch and held him. He lost interest in it pretty quickly, but Anderson was just wedged in there nicely so he wouldn't fall off. Anderson is very observant, he likes to watch everything, especially what people are putting into their mouths- like Nathans juice cup.



AJ has started eating "solids". He is eating oatmeal cereal first and seems to be liking it. So far he is not too messy about it (I think he doesn't want to waste any). He kept grabbing my pinky finger and pulling the spoon to his mouth.
Daddy gave Nathan a haircut last night. Usually Nathan freaks out about it before it even starts and continues to freak out throughout the haircut. This time he did really well. Daddy was the "cutter" and mommy was the "wiper". If any hair fell on his legs or feet I had to wipe it off immediately, Nathan does not like to get dirty.

After the haircut the boys had baths. Anderson loves baths so much more that Nathan does (which makes me wonder if he will like swimming more). As much as Nate doesn't like to get dirty, he doesn't like to get clean either.

Yesterday Great Grandpa and Grandma (Ma & Pa) came over. Ma brought Nathan a train. Nathan loves it, he has been playing with it since they left. He even had to take the train (all the train cars) with us to go to daddy's work. It was really cute.

AJ loves to suck on his fingers, and he is not quiet about it. Look at those big blue eyes!



Sorry this video has taken me so long to upload, videos take longer to upload. Anyway, here is a video of Nathan driving his Jeep he got for Christmas. He is not very good at driving it yet, but he is getting better. It has two speeds (2.5 mph & 5 mph) the 5 mph is locked right now, we want Nate to learn how to drive it before we unlock it (good thing too, one of our friends kids fell out of it and got road rash on his back).
The other video I was trying to upload never did, so I will have David compress it, and try again.