The Nelson Family

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Its a beautiful day for a walk!

One afternoon while Greg was home because of his break, we decided to shampoo our carpets. Or I guess I should say, I decided and Greg graciously played along:) We had to be gone for a few hours afterwards, so we decided to take advantage of the beautiful spring day that it was and walk around Green Lakes; one of our favorite places in this blessed state!

Please forgive my hair...it was humid that day.

He was so smiley after our walk! We seriously have 100 pictures taken back to back trying to catch his smile. He is pretty cute don't you think:)

For some reason Greg has this thing where he "eats" Kayden's hand when Kayden lifts his hand up, and Kayden always makes this face when he does it. So cute:)

Poor kids looks scared to death. We are pretty crazy, so I don't blame him:)

It was so funny because Kayden and Deagan's roles were totally switched on this walk. Normally Kayden would be the one sleeping through it all, but this time Deagan was sleeping. I wanted to document this.

Deagan finally woke up and played in the sand and water. This is his favorite thing to do when we go there.

*I don't take credit for these pictures. They are all Greg. He is pretty talented!

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Take me out to the ball game!

Greg wanted to take Deagan to a baseball game. I think it is every dad's dream to do that:)

To prepare for the game, he bought Deagan his very own glove and ball.

It was a great day at the field!

Sunday Fun

Sundays are lovely days:)

Chocolate Mess

Deagan was eating chocolate in the car one day...

At least he was suppose to be EATING it, but these pictures speak for themselves:)

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Being Prepared

You have GOT to check out this website:

http://foodstoragemadeeasy.net/

If you know you need to get your food storage in order, like myself, then you will LOVE this website. They break it down into steps that don't make putting your house in order so overwhelming.

It is my current obsession:)

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

We enrolled Deagan in a preschool for this upcoming school year this morning.

I am really excited about it.

As we were talking with the director of the program, I found myself feeling that there was no way that my little Deagan was actually old enough to be in preschool. He will be 3 in September though. THREE!

I can't believe that.

It is a great school and I think he will thrive in it. He is so smart, and no I am not biased; he really is! They have a simple curriculum that helps prepare them for kindergarten.

Kindergarten?! When did he get old enough to start thinking about something like that???

My baby is growing up, and he has a great life ahead of him.

Monday, May 3, 2010

My boys

I am so bad about updating our blog, but I am taking lots of pictures. Too many to post all on here, but here are a few of my favorites from the past week and a few stories to go a long with them.

Kayden is talking a lot more, and here are a coupe pictures trying to capture that. In the first he is just screaming. I think he was mad that I was taking his pictures and not feeding him:)

Deagan's green shirt and his green bike.

He gets on random kicks where he likes a certain toy and that is the only toy he really wants to play with for a while. This day it was his green motorcycle. It was kind of fitting that on that same day he was wearing his green shirt.

Kayden has a lot more awake times now. Most of the time it is fun to have him awake more, but he has his moments of fussiness and crying and I kind of wish he would be sleeping instead:) Does that make me a bad mom?

Deagan is just the cutest thing ever still. He is a little boy now. He is totally not a baby. I love that he is growing up, and I love watching him learn and develop, but he is more challenging now for some reason to me. He is very independent and always wants his way. That is typical right for an almost 3 year old, but I am struggling with my patience.

It is hard to stay frustrated too long though when he pulls faces like these:

There is a cute story behind this picture:

Whenever Deagan is doing something he shouldn't be, I ask him to please by a nice boy and to show me from now on how he can be a nice boy. Out of nowhere one day he was crying because he was getting in trouble for something he did, and I asked him to show me how he could be a nice boy and he raised his arms in the air. Now every time I ask him to be a nice boy he raises his arms. I have no idea where he got that from, but it is really cute and helps me to smile at a time when I am really frustrated.

Right before this I asked him to show me how he is a nice boy, and he turned to me and pulled that face. Every time I look at it I laugh:)

Kids do and say the darndest things...

I don't want to forget all the cute things that my children have said or will say, so check back often to see what the Nelson family has to say!

March 26, 2013

Kayden: Do I still have my eyeballs or are they still at Grandma and Grandpa's house?

Me: I never knew they were there...

January 8, 2011

I was tired this afternoon, and I needed to nurse Kayden. I felt too tired to go pick up Kayden from where he was, so jokingly I asked Deagan if he would go change Kayden's diaper, nurse him, and then put him down for a nap.

He took it seriously, and said, "I have little boobies mommy! But do I have milk?"

Me: "No you don't have milk. I was just kidding."

Deagan: "But do I have water in my boobies?"

Needless to say, he did not follow through with what I said:)

January 6, 2009

*We went to Olive Garden for dinner tonight, and after the waitress brought us our breadsticks my son yelled after her, "Thank you lady!"

*My oldest loves to bring toys with him to bed. Tonight he had a couple of toy dinosaurs that he got for Christmas. The rule we have of bringing toys in bed is that the toys can't play, they have to sleep too. Tonight, he was having a hard time just letting his toys sleep, so I kept asking him to stop playing with the dinosaurs so he could go to sleep. He was getting really frustrated at me because of this and towards the end he started saying, "I am very mad at you!" It was so hard for me not to laugh at that.

January 4, 2009

He has done this for a while now, but whenever we are in the car he will ask, "Where are we going?" in a annoyed kind of voice. Later on he will ask really sadly, "Where did my house go?"

October 29, 2009

My oldest woke up really early this morning, and was whiny and impossible to please. At this point, I am dreading the day ahead and it is only 7 a.m. My oldest was sitting on his play table coloring and playing with his paint box (that was empty). He dropped the paint box, and began whining for me to pick it up. The conversation went something like this:

D: "Pick it up Mommy!"

Me: "It is right by you, you pick it up."

**Pause from Deagan**

D: "Michelle! Pick it up!"

I couldn't help but smile when he called me Michelle. Maybe this day will be better then I am expecting.

September 6, 2009

I think that wanting your privacy while going potty is a natural instinct that we are all born with and that develops over time. D is beginning to show signs that this privacy is a very important time when going to the bathroom. This afternoon I was making dinner and came in to the living room to check on him. As I walked into the room, he held out his hand and yelled, "No Mom! Go back!" I can always tell when he is done by him allowing me to stay in the same room with him.

August 30, 2009

D wants me to always watch what he is doing regardless of what it is. His new favorite thing to say is, "WATCH MOM!" over and over.

July 11, 2009

I was taking a bath, and locked D in the bathroom with me while I did so so I could keep an eye on him. During this process, D was very interested in his old nursing buddies (if you get my drift) and kept saying "Yummy!" "Yummy?" I asked him. "What did it taste like?" "HOT DOGS!" He replied!

July 8, 2009

D is a big help around the house. He puts things away when I ask him to, sometimes. He helps me fold the laundry, by that I mean he lays in the laundry. He is just a great help. One of his new things is to throw away his diapers after I am done changing him. After a diaper change this afternoon, he proceeded to pick up the diaper and head to the trash. His normal trash that he uses was out of reach, so I told him to go into the bathroom right off of the kitchen and to put the diaper in the trash right next to the toilet. I think all he heard from that was, "Put it in the....toilet." because that is where he put it. Like I said, very helpful! :)