Nathan Fought the Law and the Law Won

An oldie, but a goodie.

Nathan is a juvenile delinquent. He ran away from us at the football game (not out of sight, just daddy wasn't real fast at catching up to him, we don't let him "run away"). He got mixed in with the refs as they were leaving the field and the sheriff just so happened to be behind the refs and he picked up Nathan. Thats right, he got picked up by the cops. Now hes got a rap sheet and the top of the list is "wreckless wandering". I don't know what we are going to do with this kid.

Sorry I have been slacking with the camera. I know it is highly unusual of me.

A Buckeye in the Family

When I say "family" I mean that pretty loosely. I was friends with #89s mom before I knew her as a family member. Garrett, #89s, dad is Keith's dads 1st cousin. So that makes Garrett and Keith further cousins apart. I taught with Terri and that is how we became friends. Not the "family" connection.

Garrett made it as a walk on back in January. I like to keep my students posted because I think it is neat for them that one of their own made it on to the team. It's a dream big and work hard kind of thing. They are so lacking for positive role models.

These pics were taken on media day. They are Terri and Deny, his parents and Tiffany and Brooke his older sisters.

These are important players I think, but I don't know who they are. I do know 17 is the quarterback.

Nathan, Can You Say Busy?

We are still here. William and I have started back to school. He is more excited about it than I. Because when I say I am back to school, that means teaching and going to college, which is a real drag (the college part). I graduate in May.

William is so excited to be back. He has been making up stories about kids calling him stupid head and being spit on. According to his teacher neither of those things happened. William can also write Will and he is trying real hard to write William. He is also very into 100 piece puzzles. He didn't get that from me. I can't do 100 piece puzzles.

Nathan is finally talking more. He says bye all the time, hi, yeah, no, wow, whoa, wheee, block, juice, moo, mom, dad. We got in a little trouble with the Dr. because we weren't trying hard enough to make him talk. He has had a 102 fever all weekend. But he has no symptoms of anything else. 2 year molars? He has all of his other teeth. He went to his first Crestview football game on Friday.

Sorry the pictures are old ones that I didn't post before. I have been to busy to even take pictures.

We spent Labor Day weekend in Troy with grandma and grandpa Hummel. The kids had a good time. We went to a festival and they rode the ponies. William rode without a side spotter for the first time. He wants a pony really bad. Which works out great because I want to get him one. I'm still bitter that no one did that for me.

The Kalahari Trip That Was

Obviously my camera made it home, with me, from Kalahari. And I even took pictures with it. We had a great time. Thank goodness Grandma Barb, cousin Jessica and Aunt Jennifer came because lets just say a hotel room with two little boys for 4 days gets real old and it is nice for mom and dad to get a little break from them. We even got to try out the grown up water slides.

This is a great place for families. There is a ton to do in the water and there is a ton to do inside. We stayed at the resort from Sunday afternoon until Thursday morning. They absolutely love the indoor play area and the kid friendly restaurant had contests and dancing. I loved William's limbo moves. He was hilarious. We participated in games and activities that were put on throughout the day.

It looks like the Hummel boys took time out to check out the babes.

William at times was like taking our little grandpa. He didn't want anything to do with pesky kids splashing him. His favorite water activity was sitting in the hot tub. I guess it made his achy 3 year old joints feel better!!


Nathan our little daredevil went alone down slides and was always soaking wet.

Big Prizes, Some Pig and The New Super

Here we are at the Richland Co. Fair. We came out 4 times because we were exhibitors. William and I won a grand total of $22 with our wares.

William couldn't get enough of the rabbit and poultry barns. He loved petting the rabbits, like this one that looks like a poodle. He enjoyed riding the rides. He made it easy for us, he just kept riding the ferris wheel and the Batmoblies over and over again.

Uncle Dustin and Aunt Tera met up with us a night. Nathan couldn't get enough of them. He likes to hang out with Dustin all the time because he knows Dustin will share his goodies with him.

Nathan got to have his first ice cream cone. He didn't do to bad actually. Except now he likes to savor it and I end up having to take it away from him because it starts to melt.

I am supposedly going to be the new "super" for the hobbies section in the arts and crafts barn. It pays $8/day during the fair. You do the math, how could you walk away from that????

Welcome to the OOL...Hopefully no P but plenty of barf

William is officially a swimmer. He just kicks around in his life jacket. This is the first summer since having children that swimming is fun again. Nathan doesn't even need to be held. He just floats around in his little tube. He even kicks his little feet. When you first put William in the water he kicks so hard that he loses all of his energy.

William started gagging on water and he threw up in the pool. I must say that is the first time I knowingly swam in puke. In June when we went swimming Nathan had diarreah in the pool. Hopefully his little swimmer kept it in, but I guess we will never know. Would you rather....swim in puke or diarreah????

Lazy Days of Summer

Some fun outside and Nathan's first attempt at corn on the cob. He loved it. At one point he had one in each hand.

We've been doing a little swimming and lots of cupcake eating.

On The Road Again-Glutton's For Punishment

Another family trip...we made our yearly stop in Indianapolis. We hit the museum and then the zoo. If you have kids, this is a great place to go. It makes for a nice little weekend getaway. We stopped at Ft. Wayne before we went home. It was actually the stretch between Indy and the Ft. where things got hairy. Nathan screamed the whole way. He fell asleep 15 seconds before we got to our destination. Kids are fun!!!!

It's not a real big zoo, but it has some different animals and expericences. Like giraffe feeding and shark petting.

Build a dino.

Dino time. Playing and digging



The museum is so much fun. Again we were there from open to close. We had to drag them out. Dinner afterwards was not much fun.

Carousel time and William pops up in the oceans.

Baby Dinos. Nathan wasn't into the dino suits.

Nathan always had 1 item in each hand. Here it is a pot and a peach.

No Need To Lock Our Doors

Spidey Slidey

Spider Nap; Being a super hero really takes it out of you. The super hero duo, Spiderman was a little disgruntled however because he doesn't have a lazer.

William spent 4 days alternating between the Spiderman and Buzz costumes. Being the great mom that I am, I even let him wear them out in public. He chose to wear them when it was 90, he got a little hot and hasn't been real eager to fight crime lately. Maybe when it cools off he will be ready for some action.

Retaliation

3D glasses we wore during a dino movie at the Imax. Another fun moment.

Myrtle Beach...Well we thought that we were being good parents by providing our lovely children with such a nice vacation. Yeah, they didn't care. We went to the beach as soon as we got there. It went very well as the 2 photos illustrate. However, day 2 on the beach left little to be desired. William was flinging sand and got some in his eye. He screamed on the beach the rest of the time. The next day he continued to rub his eyes. The next day he ended up with Pink Eye. We tried the beach for the 3rd time that day and again with the screaming. That was William's last go with the beach. We never heard any other kid screaming on the beach. Just our little prince.

We went to the Aquarium. Everyone actually had a good time. We are touching a hermit crab.

Nathan was the happiest when he could be on the loose. He acted like a 1 year old and I was ready for that.

William loved the thrill of needing to go to the bathroom during putt putt. Putt putt is different down here. It was unpleasant and took forever to get there and back. Especially considering we got lost on the course.

Broadway was really a great place. We stayed here all day.I love the pose of the kid in yellow. William does that all the time. The lady in the white tank and jean capris was smoking and pregnant. It took some restraint. Apparently she has never had a preemie and wants one.



This was at the Family Kingdom where few spraken the English. We couldn't find tickets for the rides and no one there knew what we were talking about.

Family Kingdom. He was so funny. Around every corner he made this expression and screamed "whoa whoa" we couldn't decide if he loved it or hated it. He said he loved it.

Family Kingdom. This is his speed.





River City Cafe. Indoor play area. We finally got to eat a meal in peace. Whenever we went to dinner they didn't eat. William ate his grilled cheese on this night on the move. Later, in the car he started coughing and he gagged and threw up all over himself in his car seat. That is a fun smell to try to get rid of in a hot car. And of course we didn't have clothes for him so we had to make an emergency trip to the mall.

Barefool Landing. Another fun place. Not as fun as Broadway.

I will be retaliating against all of the people whom I told we were going to Myrtle Beach with the children and they said "oh that will be fun" They were lying and setting us up for disaster.