You are In My Heart

Dear Buggy...I love you so very much!  You are always inside of my heart.

All of my love to you, always and forever,

Your Mommy xxxooo

Happy Halloween!

Dear Bugaboo, We had so much fun for Halloween this year!  Halloween is one of our favorite holidays because we all get dressed up together as a family. This year, Grandma and Grandpa came to visit and we all dressed up like the Choo-Choo Bob Show!  This is my favorite picture from the day. You and Grandpa look so happy and cute together!

It rained like cats and dogs at the pumpkin patch, but we didn't care because we all had so much fun together!  You, Nathaniel, were Choo-Choo Bob, Grandpa was Conductor Dave, Mommy was Engineer Emily, Daddy was Richard W. Kornbelt, and Grandma was Grandma Choo-Choo!  We went to the pumpkin patch and rode the train and ran through the corn maze and got all muddy!  But we smiled all day, laughed and had fun because we were building wonderful memories as a family!

Here we are before we left for the pumpkin patch!  

Say, "Chugga-Chugga! Toot-Toot!"   

All of us at the pumpkin patch together! 

Choo-Choo Bob and Engineer Emily!

Riding the train!  Toot-toot!  

You are getting to be such a big boy!  

Even Sydney got in on the fun!  

Cousin Kimberly came over for dinner and you both had fun trick or treating in our neighborhood!  Lee dressed up like a butterfly, and she gave you a butterfly net to catch her with. She "flew" from house to house and you ran after her with your butterfly net to catch her!  She even let you catch her a few times.  You were so happy to see each other!  

My favorite Halloween picture of you ever!  You were sitting in the pumpkin bin at the grocery store! You were only 10 months old!

Visiting your very first pumpkin patch!  You were one year old!  

A handsome knight, a beautiful princess and Danny the Dragon!  

(from Happy Hallow Zoo)

Happy Halloween, Buggy Bug-Bug!  

All of our love to you, always and forever,

Mommy & Daddy

xxxooo

Such Sweet & Simple Play

All our love to you, always and forever,

Mommy & Daddy

xxxooo

Hugs & Kisses XXXOOO

You are SO loving! 

And I love you to the moon and back! 

XXXOOO 

All About Me

Hi! My name is Nathaniel and here are a few of my favorite things!

Name:  Nathaniel James

Nicknames:  Bugaboo, Bug, Buggy, Buggy-boo, Love Bug, Cuddle Bug, Nat-Nat, Stink-Bug

Age:  3

Birthdate:  December 24, 2010
Favorite Toy:  My big garbage truck

Favorite book:  Thomas the Tank Engine

Favorite song:  "Let it Go" from the movie Frozen

Favorite food:  Macaroni and Cheese

Favorite animal:  Giraffe

Favorite color:  Black and Green

Favorite game:  Monster Truck Hoopy Hoop

Favorite movie:  Monster Trucks

Fun fact about me:  I love to play in the water!

What I want to be when I grow up:  A Locomotive
A little bit from mommy & daddy:  You are so lively and energetic, and you have the biggest heart, and the most contagious smile! You notice everything around you and are very curious about all that you see. You are very loving and cuddly, and you like to give big hugs and raspberry kisses! And, you also like to wrestle and roughhouse, which is why we call you our little tumbleweed!
What we enjoy doing together as a family:  We love to take hikes together after dinner, we love to play trains together at your train table, we love to play tractors and trucks in your sandbox, we love to dance and be silly and have fun, and we love to play ball in all sorts of different ways!

All of our love to you always and forever,

Mommy & Daddy

xxxooo

Using Your Imagination

Dear Buggy-Bear, Today, I cleaned out the kitchen pantry and encouraged you to play with cans and boxes! You played for hours making different structures and became very creative, building towers and race tracks!

Mommy asked, "Nathaniel, what are you going to build with these cans and boxes?"

Nathaniel said, "I'm going to make a road here. And vroom! Up high!

Later on in the day Mommy asked again, "What are you going to build now?"

Nathaniel replied, "I'm going to build an ocean hole, like in the beach!  I'm going to build a BIG hole!"

You are so imaginative! I took lots of videos of you playing, but you weren't wearing any clothes, and I didn't want to interrupt your creativity to put them on. But you played all day with your little toy cars, and kept on building bigger and better "race tracks" for them!  I will be sure to post more pictures as soon as I have a chance to capture them from the videos. 

All of our love to you always and forever,

Mommy & Daddy

xxxooo

Apricot Picking 2014

We are lucky to have an apricot tree in our backyard, and today we picked lots and lots of yummy apricots!   

This morning, you and I went apricot picking, and you also played "construction site" inside the flower bed underneath our apricot tree. : )

 I showed you how to eat your apricots down to the seed so that none of the fruit gets wasted.

You helped me wash the apricots, and you learned how to seed them, too.

We had so many bags full of apricots that we made apricot jell-o, apricot jam, and gave some away to our neighbors, too. 

One of these days you will be climbing this tree, and picking the apricots from the very top for me! : ) 

Thank you for picking apricots with me today!  We had so much fun together!

All of our love to you, always and forever,

Mommy & Daddy 

xxxooo