The Allers

I can’t believe how Noah is his own independent little person now.  He loves to golf.  If we give him a club and a ball he will hit it around the backyard for an hour.  He swings so hard that he has broken all of the plastic clubs.  He is also left-handed and the clubs are right-handed so he hits them all backwards.  We finally got him a real set of clubs this week that are left-handed.  They are so cute–metal with a little bag and everything.  This week I caught him climbing out of his crib.  I went to check on him during his nap and he had one leg over the side, so we decided to convert his crib to a toddler bed.  We took the front rail off and put up the toddler rail, so now he can get in and out of bed on his own.  The first night he didn’t realize that he could get up.  He realized it the second night though and kept getting out of bed and opening the door and coming out to see what we were doing.  I finally told him to go to bed and I went and held on to the door knob so he couldn’t open it.  I heard him trying to open the door from the other side and when he couldn’t he laid down on the floor and looked under the door.  He said "I see you" and I started cracking up.  I told him to get in bed and he did and slept all night without coming back out of his room.   He remembers people’s names and things that happened several weeks ago.  He will also repeat anything we say so we have to be careful about what we say around him.  He is so excited about this summer because he tells us that Mimi has a swimming pool in her backyard and he wants to go swimming.  He will move up to the older class this summer at MDO and I’m excited because I think his teachers are moving up with him and I really like them. 

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Nathan is getting so big and changing all the time.  He loves to jabber.  When we talk to him his face lights up and he smiles or laughs at us.  He adores Noah also.  Noah talks to him and Nathan watches his face and smiles at him.  He also loves Mickey Mouse.  When I turn on the tv for Noah to watch Nathan is fascinated with Mickey and smiles at him.  He got baptized on April 27.  The cool thing about that date is that he was 5 months old that day but it’s also the date that Ryan and I started dating in 1996.  Ryan and I had been together 12 years on the day he was baptized.  We stopped swaddling him at night a few weeks ago and he’s doing fine. He sleeps from about 8:30pm-7:30am.  He has figured out that he can travel around the room by rolling.  We started him on cereal this last week and it’s hysterical to watch him eat it.  He sometimes sticks his tongue out or does the "motorboat" where he spits it out at us.  He is wearing size 6 months now.  He is a very good-natured baby.  He is laid back and doesn’t cry or fuss unless he’s hungry or tired. 

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