Easton is officially 18 months old and finally made his way into nursery. I thought Nathan would be excited for this day (as most parents are) but instead it turns out that he was missing his little buddy (or maybe snacking with his little buddy : )). In any case he lost his first child to nursery but will soon gain another to play with in about six months. I’m pretty sure most everyone knows that we are expecting our second child in June (another Gemini-poor Nathan) but if not…Surprise! Easton is going to be a big brother and we are going to be parents again! We are all really excited (well I guess I can't really speak for Easton since I'm not exactly sure he completely understands what is happening). The picture below is what we emailed to family to announce our wonderful news.
Thanksgiving was great! We got to spend the feast with a bunch of friends who like us don’t have any family in the area. Thanks guys! The best part was that Nathan got to spend the whole day with us. He was supposed to work on call that day but luckily for all of us they were nice enough to let him have the day off. He had to go in Friday early morning but got off a little before noon. Thank goodness for me because I was sick (and when I say sick I mean sick) all day Friday (morning sickness) so it was nice to have him entertain Easton. Easton and I did try the whole black Friday thing but that lasted a whopping 1 ½ hours with no success. We tried to get a GPS at Kmart but it turned out that we were almost an hour late for the deals. Apparently Nathan and I looked at the ad for Thanksgiving Day (not Black Friday) which started at 7am. Black Friday started at 6am. Next, we headed to Kohl’s to grab some kitchen knifes. Nathan actually went earlier in the morning to get them but because the line was extremely long and he only had 15 min before he had to leave for work he hid a box of knifes in case there were none left when I went to get them. Of course there were no knifes left so I called Nathan to find out where he stashed the box of knifes. As my luck would have it, those knifes were gone too. Easton and I were tired (I had to wake him up) and I was sick so we called it a day, hoped into the warm cozy bed, and fell asleep.
On Sunday we decided to decorate for Christmas. Easton was very interested in everything and more than willing to help out in anyway that he could. His absolute favorite was the Christmas boxes that we put under our tree. He could play with these boxes for hours if we would let him (he has started to ruin them a little so we had to put most of them away). Unfortunately with no boxes to keep him entertained he has moved on to tree decorations. I wouldn’t mind so much if they weren’t glass and I wasn’t afraid that he would break it and cut himself. We finally had to move the tree to higher grounds. Maybe it was a little too soon to bring out the decorations. Also on Sunday we had to take Easton's stitches out. Nathan had the pleasure of taking them out while I had the pleasure of holding Easton down. It was not as easy and as smooth as I thought it would be. Easton's wound had scabbed over his stitches so we had to remove the scab before we could remove the stitches. If that wasn’t painful enough, the stitches were so close to his skin that Nathan had to basically cut pieces of Easton’s skin off with his stitches. It was not a pretty sight. I hope we don’t have to go through this again. FYI Easton had eight external stitches not seven.
Video of Easton with the boxes. Not in the video but so far he has lined up all the boxes in a somewhat straight row, he has stacked five boxes on top of each other, and he is constantly moving the boxes from out under the tree to one side of the room and then back under the tree. He is a very busy little boy. Who needs Christmas toys when you have boxes?
Along with fits almost daily these days, Easton is also doing some new and really cute things. The other day when I was changing Easton’s diaper I decided to sing to him the wheels on the bus to distract him since changing his diaper these days are a huge challenge. He absolutely hates getting his diaper changed. Anyways, while I was singing the song Easton started to do all the hand movements to the song all by himself. In the past he has done the wheels and the horn part but never any of the other ones. I was a little surprised but definitely amazed that he could remember all of these all by himself. I keep trying to get this on video but he won’t cooperate with me. Easton also likes the song head, shoulders, knees, and toes. He tries so hard to do the movements but he goes from his head straight to his toes, missing his shoulders and knees. He does pretty well with his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose but he does need some assistance. It is cute to see him try to keep up and do all the movements. Also, recently Easton will grab a tissue and come up to me or his monkey stuffed animal and wipe one of our mouths every so softly. He loves all his stuffed animals and will hug them and carry them all around the house. I hope this along with wiping his monkey’s mouth is a sign that Easton is excited and ready to be a big brother. Easton has also taken a liking to shoes. Just yesterday he figured out how to put my shoes on and was walking all around the house in them.
The other day I decided it was time to redecorate the spare bathroom. Since Easton is really the only one who uses it these days I decided to make it a kiddy bathroom. Also because Easton seems to really love his monkey more than any of his other stuffed animals I decided naturally to do a monkey theme. Easton absolutely loves his new bathroom. He gets a big grin on his face when the door is open and runs straight to the bathroom rug where he will lay on it and cuddle with the monkey on it.
