Nate starts school!

 When we found out I was pregnant, I quickly starting looking for a Mother's Morning Out type program for Nate to attend.  I KNOW I am not one of those super moms that can handle 2 under 2 (or any more for that matter) every day of the week on my own and I wanted to get Nate into a routine before little brother arrives.  I found a program at a church near our home that has wonderful facilities and a thriving Preschool/Pre-K Program.  Nate is going 2 days a week from 9-1 and it has been such a blessing, for him and me!  He gets some good social interaction, music, art and bible stories and I pretty much get a whole day to run errands, home projects, drs appts, ect.  When we get home he is wiped out and has been napping until 5:30 on most school days!

This was his meet the teacher day.  He warmed up to Mrs. Denise very quickly!

 This is the table they use in his classroom to eat snacks/lunch and do art and other activities.  It must be hilarious to have all those little toddlers jammed in there! (you can also see Nate's awesome face bruise in this picture...his bluest yet...)

On the first day of school with his big boy backpack :-)

Since Nate comes home with an art project every day, I've started scanning them and made a gallery on our SmugMug page here.

Let's go to the mall, today!**

**A little HIMYM reference for some of you :-)

This summer we got a coupon booklet from our local mall.  They expired at the end of August, so we went one Saturday to use a few.  Nate and I go to the mall at least once a week to play in the indoor play area, which he loves.

We started off with a pretzel....

  

Played in the play area (which we forgot to take a picture of...oops).  Then rode the train that circles around the play area

 

Had a Chick fil a lunch

 

 rode the carousel (despite this picture Nate really hated it and I got woozy...we'll  probably wait a while before we try that again!)

  

Then while I ran to a few stores, Joel and Nate went back to the play area.  There happened to be a balloon animal artist down there, so Nate got his first balloon animal, a monkey!