2 weeks until 1 year old!

Nathan is now less than two weeks shy of his first birthday. We don't know where the time has gone. This weekend we started getting ready for his birthday and party. Can't wait!
He is pictured with a monkey that Auntie M gave him for Easter - talk about having a monkey on your back! He is also in a Clemson jersey from his Grandma Wanda - Daddy loved it!
Not much more to report. Can still feel the bottom tooth, but it has yet to break through.

Nathan's First Hair Cut

On Wednesday, April 15, 2009, Nathan got his first haircut. We were going to do it earlier but refer to posting about Easter weekend. Our first thoughts were to wait until he was 1 to get his haircut - but soon realized that our child who was born with a head full of hair had too much hair to wait that long. His hair covered his ears on the sides and went to his nose in the front(see before photos)! We had to go with the comb over do all the time. So I got a recommendation of a place from a friend and made an appointment days in advance. The place had all the makings to be a great place to get your kids' hair cuts. They had a play area, video game stations, the little ones could pick a taxi or firetruck to sit in. They had TVs at all the stations.....my husband may go back! Unfortunately, they failed miserable at being a nice place. The play area was dirty, the place had sun coming in to where you needed sunglasses, it was hot, the floors (everywhere) were filthy, they took us 30 minutes AFTER our scheduled appointment and I had to ask her to wipe Nathan's seat out twice. I was also told we would get a frame to put a lock of his hair and a picture of his first haircut- we did not. We were able to capture most of his hair but the lady kept forgetting and throwing in on the filthy floor with the rest of the hair. Jason and I were not impressed and almost left. They also took a walk-in ahead of us and one worker even tried to get us taken next because we had an appointment - but the other worker just took the walk-in instead. So when the lady cutting Nathan's hair said. "thank you for being so patient" - I said "We're not". She GOT it. Oh - Nathan also got hungry and tired and started to cry while we waited. Finally time for the haircut. Everything was going along just fine. He was doing great, we were getting his hair trimmed and then....he hits his head on the steering wheel - and cried and wanted me. So we finished the haircut with Nathan in my lap. They actually asked if we wanted to fill out and "incident report" because Nathan had this big red goose egg on his head! We declined. So his hair cut looked great - he then screamed for 30 minutes until he got to nurse and go to bed. He was worn out. So what should have been this nice, fun experience.......not so much, but at least it is done. Hope you can enjoy laughing at our trials - we did later.... Enjoy the photos and video.



The other news is that we have teeth buds! You can now see the presence of teeth and feel one of the bottoms ones about to pop through!

HAPPY EASTER!

Easter arrived at the DuBose house very quietly.

First of all - it is times like this that make me really sad that we are so far from family. Nathan will miss out on midnight egg dying and eggs hunts with other kids and family. Since it was just the three of us we opted not to dye eggs this first year since Nathan is still young and what would we do with them? We also do not have the close friends here that we had back in SC that would invite us to spend holidays with thier families, so as usual it was just the three of us - so we planned for a very low-key and quiet holiday - which is exactly what we got.

Secondly - Nathan came home Wednesday with the stomach flu. He started vomiting and it turned to diahhrea. Vomiting was gone the next day, but the diahhrea is still here and the doctor said it could last a week or two! Thursday and Friday I was home with him. Friday at 6am I offically had it too. Friday evening Jason had it. Saturday I was better and by Sunday we were all feeling much better. We missed Maundy Thursday but Nathan and I attempted church Saturday night - didn't go so well. I returned home defeated and Nathan in borrowed clothing. (He was also called a girl 3 times, even though he was in blue.....because "he's so pretty!")

Sunday the Easter Bunny had left a basket for Nathan and hid Easter eggs around the den. We had been practicing with the plastic eggs for a week so he did a pretty good job putting them in his basket - and then dumping them all out! He had his first taste of chocolate and probably didn't enjoy it as much as he would have healthy. He LOVED playing with the bubbles and pulling all the grass out of the basket.....we are still finding it. Jason was vaccumming at 8pm last night trying to get it all up!

Monday we are all back to work and school and hoping for a very boring, uneventful, predicable week!

Hope you all had a better Easter than we did.

March - April updates

Me-Ma & Pa-Pa left on Wednesday, March 25th. It was sad to see them leave and Nathan certainly felt the loss of arms to hold him.

The very next week he turned 11 months old - we don't know where the time has gone. We still remember when I was pregnant - and delivery - the three of us staying in the hospital - bringing him home alone and not knowing what to do with him! Now we are pros at the 0-12 month phase! Can't wait to see what's in store the next year.

So the birthday plans are in full swing. You will either be getting a party invite or a birthday announcement. The party will be small and low-key since he's only 1! Grandma Wanda and Pappa Jim will be flying in and we will be celebrating Friday at his daycare and Saturday at the house. We keep forgetting that our birthday is 6 days before that - all focus is now on Nathan - if Jason and I thought it was bad sharing a birthday - it was nothing to being upstaged by Nathan! :)

Nathan's 11 month photos (4/2/09)

St. Patrick's Day 2009

Again - we attended Denver's 4-hour St. Patrick's Day Parade, the largest parade west of the Mississippi! We arrived an hour early to stake our place right in front of Coor's Field main entrance (first base). The morning started out in the high 30s but once the sun shone down on us it felt great - and got into the 60s. There were 200,000 people in attendance.

This year the group consisted of: Jason, Nathan & myself - Mom & Dad Mole - Chris & Susan Dennison - Kayce, Morgan, Abby O'Brien & Kellie.

Grandmama & Poppa Jim's (Holberts) visit

Grandmama & Poppa Jim visited us March 5-8th. It was a quick trip - but a lot of fun. They arrived Thursday afternoon - then Nathan stayed home with them all day Friday then we had Saturday together too. There was a lot of playing and eating out. Enjoy our photos. :)