Ahhhh! I just keep thinking I need to blog again. Afterall this is a great account of our lives. What a great thing for Nash and us to look back on someday and laugh our tails off!! I think of all the things we have been through and the more distant they get the more we laugh!!
2010... Wow a new decade! Yipee! Now Nate is 30 and I am 31, and getting a couple gray hairs! Yep... I told Nate it amazes me how I feel women gray sooner.... He said, "You are going to blame it on me... Ha ha ha... Not cool!" Reality ladies... Men soooo have something to do with it!! All is good fun!
Nash has been amazing me more and more each day. Talking so much more. Walking is getting super good and swimming.... Boy can he swim. We go everyday and he LOVES it! He swims at least 5 foot alone... under the water. He then tells himeself, "Good Job!" and occasionally thinks he is a dolphin!
I do this thing some days where I look at him and think... WOW, my baby is SOOOOO not a baby anymore! Such a little man. I just have to step back and smile and think... "Thank you God for this blessing. Thank you for letting me and his dad, raise your wonderfully made child."
Nash is reading nearly 100 words. He even came up to me and read my shirt the other day. He said, "March of Diapers".... Close it was March of Dimes! Still amazed and even laughed at the reality is... We do march for babies and they do wear diapers.
Speaking of diapers. Potty training is coming along. He tells me afterwards, which is getting there. He LOVES his Elmo Potty Video!! Nash cracks up when they use words for potty. Pee pee and poo poo. Wee wee and woo woo! Amazes me how potty things are funny even at 3!
We have been sledding a lot. There has been snow on the ground since we first got snow in Dec.... So what else is there to do, besides sled in it!!
In January we went to Jordanne's Queen Corination for Miss Rodeo Iowa 2010, where Nash was crowned Rodeo King. He had a Blast walking around in his chaps and vest Aunt Jordanne got for him Christmas... Speaking of Christmas we had a good one... Despite a little wrinkle in travel plans we have Christmas Eve with Gpa and Gma Kuehl and Darrell and JoAnn. Then headed to Evan and Jordanne's house where got to stay the night and have Christmas. We played Charades and it was something I will never forget... Nate pretended to sled and looked like Clark W Griswald off of Christmas Vacation and Great Gpa Evans was a kill! Of course again Nash got spoiled!! Hopefully he will have a sibling or cousin some day to spread the love!!!
Speaking of siblings... I had my 4th miscarriage in January. Even prior to that we had started researching adoption. We are really looking forward to adopting a baby. We are praying that God leads us to the perfect child for our family. I get so excited sometimes thinking of having another child in our family, but then step back and think... "It is all in God's hands." He knows the desire of our hearts so we know in His time we will be the proud parents and big brother of another baby! And yes in heaven we will have five children waiting for us. Just knowing we will get to see them and wrap our arms around them someday makes the loss a little easier.
We are planning our first family vacation to the beach later this May. South Carolina, here we come!!! I cannot wait to let Nash walk in the sand and play in the ocean. And with winter.... A vacation away from the frozen tundra will be great! Yes, we are going in Spring, but anytime anyone can go on a family vacation it is good!
We've been busy... Which is sooooo good in the winter. Helps it go faster! Nash really misses riding the lawnmower, so I am sure summer cannot come soon enough for him. He did get to ride on the skidloader with Gpa Blair to move snow and that was super cool!!! Deep down inside we must all like winter a little or we would not be living in Iowa.
Well I better be signing off.... I hope this helps update you on us and provides us with some good memories 20 years down the road.
I've got to write blogging into my calendar! I do love to do it!
Hope to post pics soon... Got a new camera for Christmas... YIPEE!
Love & Blessings in 2010
Jayme
I love to cook with mom... Well I like to eat what we are cooking better. I get to do a little adding and mixing and a whole lot of eating!! I am a chef in training!!!
I am warm, but I cannot move... Mom and Dad say I look like Randy from the Christmas Story!
Gpa Blair's Redneck Sled!!! I loved it!! Who knew I weighed that much that I needed a tow rope to pull me sledding!! Thanks Gpa and Gma Blair! I had LOTS of fun!
Iowa Rodeo King! I think kissing the queen during the contest really helped!!! I love my Aunt Jordanne! And Uncle Evan.... We make an awesome pair. Chick Magnet duo!! Don't worry mom you are still my only girlfriend!!
Hee hee!! Someday my mom is going to get in trouble for this one. Sitting on the potty while watching Elmo Potty Time video! Now if only I would go more on the potty like they do in the video... Mom and Dad would be super proud! Accidents happen right mom!! Hee hee... Got you back!
The side view of swimming!! I loves it, I love it, I love it! We swim almost two hours a day. I can swim at least 5 Ft under water. I am a dolphin!
