Christmas Eve!

Since we're spending Christmas day in Houston with the Andrews family, we did Christmas a day early at the Charette house. We opened our stockings and presents. Nathan got a lot of great toys and got to play with lots of paper. Then, we had our traditional cheese loaf for dinner and great desserts. Yumm! Nathan got to eat a bit of everything and he loved it all :)

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

It's Santa! Or his elf :)

checking out the loot

cute socks, huh?

stocking time!

Hershey Kisses!

with Nana

unwrapping presents

with Uncle Eric

opening presents!

Nathan's birthday!

Today was Nathan's birthday! We had a small party and everyone seemed to have had a good time. We had food, cake, presents and lots of laughing. Nathan really enjoyed his cake!

This is Nathan's cupcake cake

Enjoying his personal bday cake

opening presents

playing with his cousins

with daddy & aunt Judith

Christmas tree farm

Today we went shopping for Rose & John's Christmas tree. We went to this great tree farm and we had a great time.
One of the many paths through the trees

Charlie Brown's tree!

Nathan and daddy playing

assessing the tree

Nathan loves to touch the Christmas trees

the tree we picked


Bye bye!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

GO HABS GO!!!

Tonight was the Montreal vs. Detroit game. Grand-papa and Nathan dressed up to cheer on our favorite NHL team. The Canadiens won! 3-1!

Pumpkin Patch

Yesterday, we went to visit a local pumpkin patch. It was a fundraiser for a church and we took the opportunity to take a lot of pictures.

Nathan and grandma picking out a pumpkin


Aunt Judith, Grandma & Nathan


Nathan enjoying some of the hay


Our pumpkin among their pumpkins

6 Flags Fiesta Texas

Today we went to Fiesta Texas. It was Valero Family Day and so we went to check it out. Nathan had good time. We rode the train and walked around everywhere. We played some games and enjoyed the food. Nathan was wiped by the time we decided to go home.

First haircut!

Tonight, we decided it was time to give Nathan a haircut. Not that he has much hair to start with ;) but it was getting a bit long on top and growing over his ears. So, Nana trimmed everything up and this is the only picture I managed to get during the event.

spending time outside & being a biker

We had ourselves a little picnic outside with Whiskey the other morning

Nathan seems to really like his dog! :) it was fun to sit outside (in the shade!) and play. We didn't stay out very long since it got hot really fast but it was fun anyways.

Grand-papa was getting ready to go out on his bike yesterday morning. So we took a couple of pictures of Nathan, the biker!

Visiting family in Canada

Nathan and I have been in Montreal visiting family for almost 2 weeks now. We've had a great time meeting new people and seeing family. Here are a few pictures that my sister, Melanie, took of Nathan during her brief (3 day) holiday to come see us.

He's playing in an exersaucer we borrowed

some yummy corn on the cob!

Nathan loves Coca-Cola!

He's saying "I'm so cute!"

videos

Today has been a fairly eventful kind of day. Early this afternoon, Nathan stuck my finger in his mouth to chomp down on and there was a tooth. Yep, that's right, a tooth! How awesome! It also explains his horrible cranky day yesterday. Anyways, in celebration I'm going to share some videos that I took with my new video camera!

Okay... I've tried and tried and tried but I just can't get videos to upload right on here anymore. It might be that the videos are too big so I have to link you to youtube where I uploaded the vids.

Nathan chowing down :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXIEapeaS6k

&

Nathan sitting up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTcgBzSJVuI

That's all for now but I'll be updating again soon now that my computer no longer hates me :)

Jumperoo!

Nathan and his new best friend, his rainforest jumperoo. He loves to sit in it and jump up and down while it plays music, plays elephant and monkey noises and lights up. He's got himself some very strong legs! :)

Bath time!

Here's Nathan in his bath tub. He's gotten too big and splashes too much to be bathed in the little tub, though, so he's graduated onto the big tub. He loves to kick his legs and make as big a mess as he can :)

Applesauce!

On May 16th, Nathan had his first taste of applesauce. He seemed to really enjoy it (and really enjoyed being photographed!)

news about Warren

It looks like Warren will be leaving Kuwait this week and head over to Iraq. I got an email update from the company stating that the 1st Sgt is already there and already getting things ready for the soldiers. He mentioned that it's a little bit cooler at the FOB and that they will live in tents for a while until they can get a building built. Warren will have access to the internet and will have regular phone use. The soldiers are supposed to be at FOB Warhorse by the end of the week.

I have an address for him, so if anyone would like to have it please email me at gypsysorchid@gmail.com

Warren says that the PX (their store) there is small and so he'd appreciate anything anyone can send. He's mostly looking for snacks, lemon juice (the concentrate), powdered gatorade/powerade in individual packets, beef jerk and stuff like that. He'd also love to get letters from anyone, but emails are just as good. His email address is cat6tech@yahoo.com

Family visit

My aunt Catherine & cousin Stephanie came to visit us Friday.

Here's my cousin Stephanie with her cousin Nathan


On Saturday, we went to the Valero lodge and enjoyed a crawfish boil




And here's Catherine having fun with Nathan

We had a great time with Catherine & Stephanie. Saturday was spent at the lodge, Sunday was spent shopping around town and celebrating Stephanie's birthday. On Monday, we spent the day at the outlets in San Marcos and then on Tuesday (Stephanie's actual birthday) we spent time at the Alamo and hanging out at the Riverwalk.