What's in a name???

As in my previous blogs, Nathan refuses to be called Nathan. When asked, his name is Nay Nay. When you ask Noah was his name is, he says that it's Nathan. Ask him how old he is, he says three! My boys are so silly. Nobody gets their name right. Maybe I should change my name. I've always wanted to be Zoe.

Obsessed with Balls...

Anything round to Noah is a ball. He goes in our backyard and picks an apple and uses it as a golf ball. He sees an orange from our fruit basket, it's a ball. He opens the refrigerator and sees eggs and he is excited to see a ball. Grant it, we try to keep the eggs at arms length from him! I have eaten many bruised fruits thanks to Noah!

Nate started preschool!

I don't know who was more emotional...me or him. I thought we would have an easy start to preschool. A few weeks before school started, Nate was so excited to go. In fact, he cried when we just dropped off some paper work and didn't stay. So the first day was totally different. Nate was crying hysterically. I heard him crying as I was leaving the parking lot. I also started to tear knowing that my baby was really a big boy. His teacher said he did fine after 10 minutes. It is now the third week of preschool and he is finally getting use to it. Now I can drop him off and he'll whine as we walk in but completely fine afterwards. He is currently going 3x a week, half days. We are putting him into 3 full days and hopefully he'll adjust quickly. Erdy and I went to our first of many back to school nights. I'm still in shock he's in school--time sure flies!

Noah is talking

Noah has now learned to say several words. His vocabulary is growing everyday. Here's his list of words:
Daddy
Erdy
Mommy
banana
ball
thank you
doggie (ruff, ruff)
wawa (water)
Nathan (this was actually his 4th word...I wasn't the only one who has heard him say it)

He also signs more. Grandma Tina taught him that. Noah also points to different parts of his body like head, tummy, ear, mouth etc. He also understands well and can be given two step directions like "please pick it up and throw it in the garbage" And he actually listens and does it!

I always have mixed emotions about milestones. It's great that he's able to reach them but I also realize he's growing up too quickly. I try to enjoy the moments....

Nathan renames himself!

So for awhile now, Nathan has been calling himself Nay-Nay. He officially got the nickname in daycare. Some of the kids had a hard time saying his name and so hence, Nay-Nay was born. It stuck and everyone in daycare called him by that name. I thought it was a phase he'll go through but he really likes the name. He now corrects me if I call him Nathan. I ask him his name and he says Nay Nay. He is adamant that Nay Nay is his name. I've been correcting him and he gets upset to the point that he starts crying. So what do I do? Cave in and hope that one day he'll revert back to Nathan.

Nathan is potty trained!

I never thought we'd get to this stage but finally Nathan is potty trained! Yippee!!!! It's a milestone. It's been our (my) goal to have him potty trained. I was getting worried that he wouldn't be potty trained by the time preschool started but we made it! He does pretty well with peeing and he finally got the hang of doing #2. He has been going to the bathroom consistently on his own. He even goes to the public restrooms just fine. He has never gone #2 out in public and I hope he'll be ok in preschool.

He wears underwear now. Goodbye diapers! One down, one more to go. I'm so proud of my little boy! It's another sign that he's no longer a baby anymore and that makes me a little sad.

You know you're a parent when...

You know you're a parent when...

Friday and Saturday nights don't mean a thing. While everyone is partying, you're going through the same routine as any other day.

you get excited when your child does #2 in the potty!

you carry wipes everywhere you go.

a night on the town means going to the park and ordering something to go.

the wiggles is playing loudly in the car and you start singing to it.

you don't know what it's like to eat uninterrupted

taking a 10 minute shower is a privilege

your car trunk is loaded with strollers

everytime you go to Costco, you buy diapers and wipes