Bathtime, Basement & More!

Last Sunday after church.  Nathan was showing me a car on daddy's device.

He loves cars, motorcycles airplanes...he says "vroom, vroom!" about 50 times a day!

Posing for daddy to take his picture so he can see it!


He let me in on this one :)


Getting ready to take a family walk on the trails in our neighborhood.  We LOVE that we can walk out our back door & gate and be on a trail.


The other night Matt was changing a sprinkler head.  Margo & Carmen came over to play with Nathan.  I think Daddy is telling Nathan to not throw mulch here.  See Nathan's innocent hands behind his back? :)

Margo and Carmen are so good to him.  They are picking up the mulch he threw in the grass!  Girls are SO different than boys!

Matt giving Nathan a bath before bed on Saturday night.




Playing in the tub.












Looking at his daddy.  Matt squirted him when he wasn't looking!  He, of course, thought it was hilarious.


All clean...and sober.


I don't think I ever posted these from a few weeks ago.  We are all in the basement.  Matt is putting together shelves for storage!


I'm going through Nathan's clothes and organizing them into bins now that we have room for that many bins instead of space saver bags!


What a good helper.


Getting really excited to have another boy and be able to get these clothes out again!

Oh the money we will save! :)

Nathan helping me.


Timeout for a hug...he's a sweetheart!

Nathan loves being in the basement with us, playing with his toys, getting into whatever we are into...
We are working on getting organized down there and getting rid of things we don't need or want anymore.  Matt now has 3 shelves up and our wardrobe is down there as well now thanks to our small group guys :)  It's fun to get it all organized and labeled!

23 Weeks

Matt took a few pictures of me (& Nathan) in our backyard to document our baby boy's growth at 23 weeks.


Nathan wanted me to hold him.   I have a great seat for him these days!


Snap it quick while Nathan's distracted!

There we go...got it :)

This is hilarious because it is so Nathan.  I asked him for a kiss and am puckering up for it...  HE is laughing, shaking his head and running the other way to tease me!


Don't let him fool you...he loves his mama!


He gave in!


Chatting away on the patio.

Do you notice a color on the house that doesn't go with the rest?  I paint large test spots :)  The painters are coming next week! 

Garage Sale

We had our garage sale on Saturday!


Looks like a nice enough day, right?


It started out that way.  A little cool, but the sun was shining.


We didn't have a ton to sell.  We make several goodwill trips during the year.  But we had more than usual.  Things we now knew we wouldn't be using in our new home...doesn't match our decor, no place for it, etc.


Excited!


Nathan of course enjoyed running around the garage and driveway.




Mommy munching on a granola bar for breakfast...Nathan climbing into his chair.


I had to move out into the sun to not freeze!


So Daddy & Nathan took a spin around the neighborhood to see if there was anything good to buy.  They came back empty handed.  Matt didn't stop over at our neighbors across the street and was kicking himself because they were selling Wii Fit and Guitar Hero.  It was snatched up right away.  I wasn't bummed at all though considering we played the Wii maybe ONCE since Nathan has been born!

So it got cloudier and windier and then it started to sprinkle on and off.  Not good for a sale!   There wasn't a lot of traffic and we actually closed up quite early because we didn't want to waste our time!  It was still a good day because the couple did come for the dog run and was thrilled to get it just as we were thrilled to get rid of it for cash.  I think I put Nathan down for a nap around 11 and then went out to help Matt pull things in.  So we didn't feel like it was a total waste, we went ahead and put the things we were ready to send to Goodwill in a box, itemized how much it was worth for a tax deduction and got it ready to take over later that day.  Then I took some good pics of the things we wanted to try to sell on Craigslist before giving them away...pictures, mirror, 3in1 game table (left by the previous owners) etc.  We posted that stuff on Craigslist that day and got several inquiries that night!  We sold a mirror on Sunday that we paid $48 for at TJMaxx 3.5 years ago...for $40!  We have now sold a total of $397 in the last two weeks...$7 of which was from the garage sale!!!! No joke.

What's the bottom line?  Craigslist is for us, garage sales are not!  We know that better weather would have helped a lot, but it seems that you can often sell your stuff for a lot more on Craigslist.  People are looking for a specific thing on there and not simply browsing for good deals.  You can take really nice pictures of items in your house instead of them sitting out on a table and get them to fall in love with it before even seeing it!   Plus, most years we will just not have enough to sell more than likely.  We'd rather get rid of things as we go along then save them for a sale.  But it was a good experience!  Plus, we ran down to the south side to pick up a reel mower from another Physical Therapist that Matt works with...he gave it to him for free because he wasn't using it anymore!  We were going to buy one so that was a huge blessing.  And with taking our smaller ticket items to Goodwill we still cleaned out a lot of stuff.  Someone came by to pick up a large piece of plywood that was left here too...so it was nice to get rid of that.  Not huge fans of garage sales for future selling, but all in all, still a good weekend!

This Past Week

Nathan loves these two things: 1) Being outside  2) Water.  So taking his this little spray bottle outside was a good combo because it wasn't enough water to soak his mommy!


Spraying the bushes.








Lounging in his chair from Nana.


Oops! ha ha.

He landed softly in the grass :)

Love this cutie pie.


See the glint in his eyes?


He's coming to spray me!








Daddy's home!


He is such a ham.  Posing for a picture so I take it and he can look at it!

What have I done? :)

Showing off his dance moves.


Walking on his tip toes.  A new thing he started this week.


Small group came over for a cookout on Tuesday...except for Andrew & Brittney.  They were having their ulatrasound!  Jamin and Nathan got to play together.


Jamin mowing.  He doesn't look too sure about me taking his picture here!


Playing in the dirt.


Rudy (our neighbor) let us borrow his mower the other day since our grass was so long and think it would be hard to get with the weed eater.   Matt is getting a reel mower from another therapist at work but they don't do well with long grass either.  Rudy actually mowed our front lawn while I was home and I didn't even know it!  He is a nice guy.  Nathan ran to get his mower when he saw daddy mowing.


Daddy showed him how to do it on the grass.


Nathan liked pulling it better!


My outdoorsmen.


Nathan is really getting the concept of how my camera works.  He likes to be in pictures.


Look at this big cheeser!




We love him so much.


Grandma Liz, these next two are for you...

Just as the reviews said, he has decided it is most fun to sit on it now!
Somehow, he has not broken it though!

 We put our dog run up on Craigslist.

Somebody is supposed to be picking it up tomorrow for 150 bucks!
Hope it works out.

So Matt took it down last night and Nathan helped him spray it off.

Nathan thought it was pretty fun.
I have some cute videos of this. Again, I'll let you know when we have all of our videos posted!

We went to Jamin's for a playdate this morning.  Jen and I took the boys for a ride in the Jeep!  Nathan sharing his cars with Jamin.

They were having some yard sales in their neighborhood so we checked some out. This is the life.

Sweet right?

Jen and I were laughing at the site we must have been: Two pregnant women driving around the Jeep, crawling in and out of the back to lift our boys out of the vehicle!

 These two are pretty cute.

Jamin has a big sand box around his play set now!

Nathan wasn't too sure about it first but got used to it pretty quickly. Stomping around.




Malachi is so good with these boys.
 

He has to put up with a lot from them! But it was totally cute when Malachi would run up the steps of the play set and then run down the slide. The boys laughed hysterically and Jamin would say, "again, again!"

Thanks for having me over, Jamin!

Okay!  Need to get the pork chops on, Matt's on his way home!  We have to get ready tonight for our first garage sale tomorrow!  Hopefully it is worth it...we don't have a ton to sell but the neighborhood garage sale seems like a good and fun time to have one!