Bo at one

Today Bo is one! This is what he can do:

Say dada, Georgia (jaja), hi, bye bye (dye dye), cheerio (eerio), and choo choo.

 

 

Wave bye bye ... at himself, cause that's how it looks when people wave at him. Adorable.

 

Sign "more." (We're working on thanks and water.)

 

Crawl (often with two hands, a knee, and a foot), cruise along furniture, and take about a step on his own as of yesterday.

 

Eat ANYTHING with four little teeth. A common breakfast is an entire banana and two pancakes.

 

Climb upstairs faster than you can catch him.

 

Remove the batteries from the TV remote control in 2 seconds flat.

Give kisses.

Everyone in the family loves this little guy so much! He's sweet and lovable, funny and feisty, and always smiling! Happy first birthday, little Bo!

First day of school

Georgia told me everything that happened, and several things that didn't!

She had a purple folder!
Everyone loved her dress.
There was a baby there the same size as Bo, and his name was Bo, and it looked like Bo, and he cried a lot.
There was a fire and they had to go out to the playground, and the loud alarm scared the baby.
There were infinity bathrooms.
The toilets flush over and over again but she wasn't afraid of them.
The teacher had an important thing to tell them. It was: Do not mix the sand and the water.
They sang a song. (She made up a song right there about a little girl and a dress and Cinderella.)
She painted me a picture but it blew away on the playground.
She swung on a big girl swing.
She went to the lunchroom all by herself to eat and then came back to the classroom where all the other kids were.
If she stays on green all week she can pick a prize out of the prize box. There was a bracelet in there, and she's been needing a new bracelet.
The baby got in trouble and was put on yellow but got back on green before the end of the day.
There was a rest time and they laid on little beds. She didn't go to sleep. Some kids weren't quiet, but she was.
They sang karaoke, and she did a song called "One Little Lamb." (She made up the song right there, about a lamb and a baby, socks, sunglasses, lipstick, a purse, and a unicorn.)

As usual, Nate didn't have as much to tell.
Nate likes his teacher. The class doesn't go too fast (like she said it would).
He didn't have time to eat his KitKat at lunchtime, and he threw it in the trash. (sad face)
They went on a short walk on the sidewalk, but then it started raining so they stood in place and did yoga.
They did not do "sharing time" during their morning meeting, cause second graders are too old for that.
They learned about using dashes "on a date," which confused me at first, but I quickly figured out he means, "in dates."

So far everyone is loving school!

Interview with Nate--7 years old

Every year I like to interview the kids around their birthdays and compare from year to year. I'm a little late. Nate turned 7 on June 25. I cannot wrap my brain around him being this old. In my head he's still 5. I think the weirdest thing is that I can vividly remember being 7. It's so crazy, and a little intimidating, that he is going to remember so much of what's going on now. Like I could mess up a little before and he was too little for it to have any lasting damage, but not so now. :) It's kind of like a grace period to get your parenting stuff together ... and now it's over.

Anyway, I love talking with Nate cause he's so honest and thoughtful and funny. Here was our conversation tonight.

What is the coolest thing about being 7?
Nate: Getting new toys and stuff for my early birthday weekend.
Like what?
Nate: Boy stuff.

What do you think 2nd grade will be like?
Nate: I don't know. I never saw it yet. Wait, mama, I want you to change what I said, Ok? I think we'll have sleep time there, and I really think we're going to have to read the newspaper.

What will you do that's different than 1st grade?
Nate: We'll have to write more, and we'll have to write on harder paper than first graders' paper. Paper gets harder and harder until you're a grown up and it won't have to be school paper anymore. But it will just get a teeny bit harder every year.

What has been your best age so far?
Nate: Um, it's been 6, but now I love every age that I get, and I'm probably going to get used to being 7.

What do you want to be when you grow up?
Nate: A train engineer. I might have to be a train engineer and a singer! I want to be a singer and a train engineer, will that be okay? I really want to be both.

Are you going to be married?
Nate: Yeah.
Who you going to marry?
Nate: I don't know yet.
What kind of girl do you think you like?
Nate: I don't know I just have to get a little bit older to see.

Georgia: I want to marry you!
Nate: You got to marry someone you don't know.

Where will you live?
Nate: I'll see when I'm a grown up.
But if you could live anywhere?
Nate: I don't know yet. I'll just have to buy a new car and stuff. I don't know how I'll get stuff yet.

What will be great about being a grown up?
Nate: I get to have kids! And I'll have a better house than this one.
Georgia: But Nate's kids might be wild! They might be mean to each other cause kids are mean sometimes.
Nate: I'll control them. I'm so excited cause when I'm a grown up I'll get to do whatever I want, like put them in timeout.
Anything else?
Nate: I can't wait to buy new vehicles. And the mom that I choose can pick out a car that's girlish, and I get to pick one that's boyish.

What do you like about being a kid?
Nate: I get to play with my sister.
Georgia: That's cool.
Nate: I get to snuggle with daddy. Mama, I don't like it cause you don't let us sleep in your bed, but  daddy does. So, Mama, I think you should start doing that cause your covers are so soft it makes us want to stay in there. Mama, why don't you do that? Mama, why don't you do that? Mama, why don't you do that?

Nate, age 7