Ah-bmmm

Wow, we're already 2 weeks into the new year and I haven't even posted pics from our trip to Iowa yet. We went up there over New Year's weekend and celebrated both Christmas and New Year's while there. It was a fantastic time. The only thing that would have made it better would be if Nathan had actually slept more than 5 hours each night. Man, that was rough. In exchange for depriving us of sleep, Nate did offer a cute new habit. His favorite book is a little number called "Drummer Hoff". This also happened to be a favorite of Uncle Logan back in the day. I'm rather fond of it myself too. It's so hard to find children's books that teach the basics of field artillery and military hierarchy, but "Drummer Hoff" excels on both fronts. The climax of the book comes as Drummer Hoff fires off the cannon with 2 pages devoted to a single word... KAH-BLOOM. Understandably, this is Nathan's favorite part and while at Shauna's he learned to say the word. Well, kinda. It comes out more like Ah-bmmm, but still very cute. See for yourself.

Ah-bmmm is now how he requests that someone read this book to him. Here's some more random pics from our weekend...

While up there, we also celebrated Nathan's first birthday and Grandma Dudley's 29th. You know what that means... SMASHING BIRTHDAY CAKE. Well, not so much. Turns out my boy is quite a dainty eater. He doesn't like getting too messy while eating.

When we got home that Sunday, we had another small birthday party for family that wasn't with us in Iowa. Once again, Nate wanted little to do with smashing birthday cake.

His mother ended up having to smash it and smear some on his face for him. He wasn't super fond of that.
Nate also got his big red wagon from Great-Grandma and Grandpa Dudley. He was quite taken by it.

In other news, the power company is supposed to be here TODAY to get us switched over to our new service. Grandpa and Uncle Logan are coming over to help us rewire the house today and hopefully be back to normal by this evening. We'll see how it goes.