A Random Second Post

Well, since this is really my first real post, I am just going to lump a bunch of things together. First of all, we had a really nice Holiday this year. We stayed local. On Christmas Eve we had dinner with Jesse's family, his brother Luke was in town with his wife Lauren (aka, the other Lauren, or Lauren #2, or Lauren E.)

Christmas morning we spent at our house. Nate was excited about his presents, and it didn't take too much goading to get him to open his presents. He seemed to like things, and he plays with all of his new toys. None as much as his new Cars action figures. He loves Doc Hudson, and Sheriff, and rarely goes anywhere without them. More about them later though.

Nate's big present this year came from Grammy and Grandad Markham. He got a train table, and now he can finally fit in with all of his friends. I think he may be the last one of the boys in the play group to get a train table. We went with the one from Costco, and I am very pleased with it. Plus, Nate loves it. Always a bonus. He doesn't really play with much else when we are downstairs.
So I promised more about Cars. Cars is his absolute favorite movie, and if he had his way, it would be on all day every day. As it is, it is on too much, but often it allows me to take a shower in the morning. He often walks around quoting lines from the movie. Anyway, we met our new hometeachers last night, and one of them is a County Sheriff. He had driven to our house in his Sheriff's car, and at the end of the appointment, Nate got to go out and look at the car. He loved it. However, when he came back inside, he picked up his Doc Hudson car, and said that he wanted Doc Hudson to be outside. He thought we were just picking characters to come to life outside of our house. It was pretty funny.


So the next random thing on the list is the most exciting thing that happened this weekend. We got a railing for out steps down to the basement. Nate used to love to sit at the top of the steps where there is no longer a wall, and he would lean over to look at things downstairs. It made me cringe every time I saw it. Now I no longer have to worry. Thank you Theresa the landlady for getting that fixed!

And finally, here is the first picture of Graham that I have been able to take of him smiling. There was one other, but his face looked too fat, so this one will have to do for the post. Anyway, it's just in here, because he's so cute.
So that's it. Our little family. I'll keep on posting, and I'll put in pictures as often as I can bring myself to spend the time in the cold basement. (At least when Graham will let me spend time on the computer.)