Laney Bovermann has arrived today!!

Happy Birthday Laney!! Aunt Lori loves you so much!!

My first car fight (as a mother)

I just experienced my first car fight (as a mother) today. I was driving home from my mom's, both boys in the back seat. Ryan on one side, Nate on the other. Nate grabbed a magazine from Ryan and when Ryan went to grab it back, Nate started shaking it, tearing the pages, etc. I reached back and grabbed it from Nate and gave it back to Ryan, reminding him to keep his stuff out of Nate's reach and then scolding Nate for messing up Ryan's stuff (he's old enough to know better now).

So a minute later, I look back to see Ryan pinching Nates cheek as hard as he could. Nate SCREAMED and cried for a minute or two. And there I was, feeling helpless, driving 70mph down the freeway. Thoughts like "Don't you make me stop this car!!" echoed in my head. I believe this is only the beginning.

My son the bully

Nate is a little bully. When Randy dropped him off at preschool this morning, a bunch of kids were playing with some toys and books. Nate walked over and knocked over the toys they were playing with and took one of the books from a kid. Two of the kids were crying when he walked away from them.

I think we are in for it with this child.

See Bruder?

Nate is talking so much! Wow. His latest is "See Bruder?" (See brother?) He said this last night, as a last minute plea to stay up longer and not go to bed.

His favorite things to say are "A-plane!" "Muk" "Ball" "Ry-nin" (Ryan) "Wait!" "No" "Foood" "Mommy" "Daddy" "Keeeety" "Puppy" and lately "cuuuddle".

But he says so much more. He'll repeat ANYTHING you say to him and will even count. I say "one", he says "two", I say "three" and so on. His favorite number is eight. Everything was eigth for a while. And every letter was "A". Now he says "W". It's funny that he picked such a difficult letter to start off with.

He's 20 months old now and has started in the terrible twos. He pitches fits and melts down when he doesn't get his way. He's a headstrong little guy. Ryan tries to give him love and he smacks Ryan in the face. Brothers.

Here is a pic on New Years Day of Nate being mischievous with his 2 1/2 yr old cousin Logan. As you can see, Nate is big for his age (being a year YOUNGER than Logan).