nates but farm


nolen and elliot are 3 weeks apart

there has actually been a touch of fall in the air
(when it's not 98 - it's a lovely 72)
and i have been hankering
to do something fallish....
so we went with some friends
up to bates pumpkin patch


i had to crop this photo cause it looked like i was pooping a giant pumpkin



smelliot can't wait to come back next year
to ride the ponies and
eat more hay

8 months

a tragedy has occurred....
i lost my camera!
and so instead of
posting a goofy photo
i shall describe mr.e in all his
8 month glory...
jon said e looks a bit like
a redneck named cleatus-
since he only has one tooth on the bottom.
but after three sleepless nights last week
that bottom tooth has a friend!
yep he went from no teeth to two
in two weeks.
and the little dude can finally sit.
i think the delay was in holding
up his big old noggin',
cause he has a large owsley head.
and his big ol' head is
still as bald as a cue ball.
but in just the right light and with
just enough sweat,
i can make his few hairs stick up
all stylish and fun.
he's got a gut that rivals his dad
and big buns like his mom
(and cloth diapers only make it worse).
but a grin that stops people in their tracks.
this kid LOVES to smile at people
(unless they are a brown female waitress)
it amazing to see what joy his goofy grin
can bring to all sorts of strangers.
hopefully i will find my camera so i can
share the joy with ya'll.

348 months old!


stats...
height: over 6 feet tall
weight:probably 200 pounds
teeth: a whole mouth full that his wife has to bug him to brush
sitting: very well and very much as he is studying A LOT!!!!
eats: anything you make him with a thankful smile- even when it's burritos for the 10th time
favorites: spending time with his family, movies, sudoku, diet dr. pepper, getting an A on his first organic chem test.
not so favorite: broken xbox (this is however a favorite on the wife's list), homework, and when the mom is grumpy
happiest birthday ever mr jonny z!