Nathan Nation

Friday, October 28, 2011

Nathan's A Cowboy Kid

Happy Halloween

You best be ready

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Hello to all, it's been a while since we have had a story to tell about our little Nathan.

It's 9:30pm, and Nathan comes barging into our room. Normally we would quickly correct him and return him back to his room. This time it was different.

I notice Nathan has red marker all over his face. I asked Nathan, "Nathan what did you do to your face?" He replies, "Katelyn drew all over my face...." LMAO hahahahahaha.

Katelyn didn't do that Nathan, "Yeah she did"

Ok here are the facts, Katelyn has been in bed since 8:30pm, No I would say Katelyn didn't do it.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Nathan gets benched at Little League

Nathan went to baseball practice and he was given three rules to concentrate on:

1. Don't cover your face with the glove
2. Don't play with the sand
3. When you throw the ball, watch where you throw it.

I asked him to repeat the rules to me and he did.

So we are at practice, I noticed that the head coach was actually coaching Nathan, not so much one on one but close to him, specific directions, he was on him. I thought, it's about time. Being Nathan's first season, zero experience, and everything is still new to him, it was probably one of the best moves.

Nathan was actually running his bases pretty good, he was throwing better than I have seen him throw, and Brian told me he was batting ok. So all in all I thought pretty good. I had to call him out a couple of times, in which Nathan replies, "Nathan, Nathan, Nathan!!!" I have to admit I got a kick out of that.

What I didn't get a kick out of is the coach send Nathan to the dug out, all I heard was, "Nathan go to the dung out"

You know I must have turned my head for five seconds, I then I watched my son walking towards the dug out.

I wanted to say what the F***. Really dude this is T Ball not the National league. Aren't you suppose to encourage these kids instead of turning them off to the sport. If you don't have the patience for four year old kids than go coach something else. I put Nathan In T Ball so he can learn sportstmenship, teamwork and stay busy. Not to get send to the dug out on a time out. He has me for that. Have you tried talking to Nathan? No you haven't. Even Pre schools do not give kids a time out, because its shameful and a form of punishment.
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How are you going to do that to Nathan, I really felt like having some words with this man. But I walked away. He did talk to Nathan after the practice but I disagreed on how he addressed it. Every kid has their quirk, not every child at four years old listen to specific instructions and most four year old children aren't going to stay focus for an hour. New flash coach.....You were an educator right?????

Nathan Little Lies

We were getting ready to leave this morning, I was grabbing some few things out of my bedroom. Nathan and Katelyn were in the hallway. I heard banging, wasn't really sure what it was or where it was coming from. I walked back to the hallway and Katelyn tells me, "Hurt Fish", Hurt Fish".

Umm I knew exactly what she meant, "I said Nathan were you banging the fish tank?" You are going to scare the fish. Nathan replies, "No Mommy it wasn't me, it was Katelyn, she brought a chair and bang the fish tank and hurried up and put it away before you came."

OK first of all I was gone 20 seconds. You mean to tell me your toddler sister, who can barely carry a cup in one hand and a toy in another without falling. She brought the stool over, bang the fish tank and ran back and put the step stool away without any trace or evidence of such event occurring. Nathan's response, "Yes mommy Katelyn did it." I tried to explain to Nathan that Katelyn is talking more and she can actually tell me what happened, so his version won't always be the only version.

In addition, I have caught Nathan in some very elaborate lies, he has been coming up with the most outrageous chain of events, and Katelyn always seems to be the guilty one.

I don't think Nathan realizes that Katelyn is still not capable of doing all the things his imaginations leads him to believe she can do, thus turning into Nathan little lies.....

How do I explain it

This morning I woke up got in the shower. I brushed my teeth, As I was brushing my teeth, Nathan walks in and says, "Mommy why do you brush your teeth in the morning?"

I should have said, "Because it's important to brush our teeth and keep our teeth healthy and have pearly whites."

But it was the morning and I was tired, so I could not come up with a good explanation other than, Well people (I at the time) have bad breath in the morning. It sounded so ugly and disgusting. I quickly tried to rectify it and call it morning breath. But Nathan was quicker than I could think at the time and said, "I don't have to brush my teeth in the morning because I don't have bad breath in the morning, right mommy"

Newsflash Nathan, yes you do. So in the morning when mommy says, "Let's go brush your teeth, it's not because we want to, but I could still smell last night's dinner on your breath."

I know that the question of brushing your teeth is one of the many first to follow, "Daddy why do you shave, why do you put deodorant on, why this why that. In four year old terms How Do I explain it........