Short Post

I am DEFINITELY not going to say that today was uneventful, because it was not! But I spent most of my day volunteering at the Speech School and none of the volunteer work was with Nate, so who cares to hear about that!!! That is why this is going to be a short but sweet post!

I did manage to sneak some time in my crazy schedule of helping with “Enrichment Day” at Nate’s school to be able to eat lunch in the classroom with Nate and his assistant teacher! It was so fun! Seeing his face light up when I walked in was priceless! He introduced me to his classmates like a true gentleman!

After my long, hot, exhausting day at the Atlanta Speech School(I would abbreviate that but that’s inappropriate. Hehe. You know it was funny, Julia!!) Nate and I went to swim with Ms. Linsay for PT. On the way there I told him that I needed a nap. He looked at me and said, “Suzi, it’s almost dark then it will be bedtime soon.” I love that precious boy and he was so right. When we got to the pool he played several games and swam like a fish!  He loves swimming and playing with Linsay.

We were both excited to get home. He was mostly excited because his mama was home. I was excited to eat! Julia cooked breakfast for dinner and we had pancakes, biscuits, and scrambled eggs! Yummy!!

I spent the latter part of my night watching my dear friend scrape wallpaper off the walls in the downstairs bathroom. Julia can make ANYTHING entertaining! We live an exciting life here in the Hudson house!

Whew, what a day!

We had a great day today! After school Nate and I went for cupcakes at Gigi’s Cupcakes in Marietta for our afternoon snack! They were so yummy! We both had the Texas Milk Chocolate.  Nate picked it out and if you follow the link and look at it you will see why! It is a chocolate cupcake, with chocolate icing, chocolate sprinkles, and a bright yellow fondant star. He saw the star and immediately decided that was the one for us! It also didn’t help that it was chocolate on top of chocolate on top of chocolate!  Here’s my precious boy posing in front of the yummy cupcakes!!

and his half eaten cupcake! We brought the rest home for another day! They are HUGEEE!

After we got home we wrote our name some more. I am loving how excited he is to write his name and he’s even more excited to show his mommy when she gets home!!!

Nate showing you his work!

Nate loves playing with his trains. Today as soon as Julia walked in the door he summoned her to the living room and roped her into playing with him. If she left the room to check on supper in the oven he would look at me and say “Suzi, do you want to play trains?” That boy is a hoot! Here are some pictures Julia snapped of him playing with his trains! (P.S. Julia should be a train mapper. She did awesome laying out the tracks for him!)

WOW!

Nate and I have been working on tracing his name so I made a work sheet in which he traced the dotted letters every day. I traced the dots on the left side of the paper in order to reinforce the concepts such as starting at the top to form the letters, writing left to right, etc. and he traced the right hand column. He did a great job and you can see the improvements he made as he practiced. We have a routine after school we come home and eat our snack and then write our name. After that we do what he wants to do whether it be go outside, color, play with trains, etc. 

Today after he traced his name I asked him to give a shot at copying it with no dots. He did a great job! In the picture above you can see where he wrote his name once and in the bottom picture I helped him with the 'a'. He did very well. I did coach him to start at the top and prompted what to do (ex. draw a straight line down for your 't'.) but as far as moving his hands, it was all him!!  

He is so cute. I always tell him to take his time and stay on the line and give him a lot of positive feedback when he does so. Today when I was tracing my letters he kept telling me to take my time and stay on the line and was telling me "good job!" and "yay, Miss Suzi is taking her time!". I love that munchkin!

“Suzi’s car is broken…”

On the way home from school today I stopped at the entrance of the neighborhood to let the top down on my convertible car. It was very sunny and warm and perfect weather for a ride through the neighborhood. Nate LOVED it! He seemed scared at first, but who wouldn’t be, that thing sounds like a robot and he wasn’t expecting the top to lift up and let back! I managed to snap a good picture before we got going. We didn’t ride long because I didn’t want my fair-skinned boy to get sunburned but he had a blast! He was excited and said , “I am going to tell Mama!” We will definitely have to take more strolls topless!!

We also painted this afternoon with his dot paints. Nate had a blast as he added color after color to his paintings. I think I had more fun than him though! Here are our paintings and my little buddy in action!

Daddy’s here!

This morning after taking Nate to school I hung out with the girls across the street while their mom, Julie, ran some errands. We had a blast coloring and Rebecca even “made” me some cookies with SPRINKLES!! We had fun as usual!

This afternoon, Scott made a visit to Atlanta to see our boy. Nate was very excited about seeing his daddy! We had a busy afternoon! We went to Home Depot to see the tractors(riding lawn mowers) and Nate had a blast. He sat on each one of them, even the ones that weren’t John Deere! We know how much that boy loves him some John Deere!

 

After Home Depot we went to the Learning Express Toy store! All four of us had fun playing with the toys and Nate got to pick one out! He picked out a set of construction trucks to play with in the bathroom!

After that we went to Old Navy and Nate enjoyed looking at the mannequins.

We then went to Cheeky, an amazing Mexican Restaurant in Marietta. We all know how I love La Hacienda, but this was SOOOO good! I had a shrimp and spinach quesadilla. It was AWESOME!

Of course we had to stop by Menchie’s tonight also!

May 22, 2012

I woke up to a lovely note on my daily schedule. I am so excited to be here, too!

 Nate went to school this morning as usual but due to a change in our schedule he had physical therapy this afternoon instead of Thursday. After school we went to the pool for therapy with Mrs. Lindsay. He enjoys swimming so much! I didn't take any pictures because he was too far away for a good one, plus he was very involved in working with Mrs. Lindsay. Julia and I sat by the edge of the pool watching him.

This morning Julia promised Nate ice cream afterschool. Since we had therapy we waited until after that to go to Menchie's for froyo. For my Valdosta friends(or South Georgia friends), Menchie's is a self-serve frozen yogurt bar where you pick what toppings and what-not you want on it. Like the Mix in Valdosta. After we ate our frozen yogurt Nate had some fun on the chalkboard wall. He drew for a few minutes but I think he enjoyed erasing the chalkboard wall more!

Polo shirt conversation

My Blogger on my phone is doing all kinds of wonky(Not sure if that's a word) things. So I am posting the video that wasn't included in yesterday's post from my laptop today because it was too cute not to share!

(P.S. not sure why my pictures and videos look grainy on the computer. They look fine on my phone.. Weird!)