Big Steps...

Today Joshua did his portion of the kindergarten registration papers. Tomorrow, Brian will drop them off at the school on his way to work. All Joshua had to do was write his name...the paper didn't specify first and last or just first...so he did both to cover the bases :) Today he also discovered that he could count to 100. And he has shown us this several times throughout the day. Nathaniel is fascinated by this marvelous event...and when he was fussing today, Joshua would start counting and he'd settle down. The power of numbers :) And then, to top it off, after he wrote his name, he picked up a book that I had out to work with him with for preschool tomorrow. An early reader book that is written using lots of short "a" words. Well, he decided he was going to read it and he did...he stumbled on a couple of sounds, but after reading it once, quickly reread it to me. He memorizes really fast, so I think that's how he read it to me the second time, but he read it to Brian when he came home from work and read it very well. I used this book (and others in the set) with my lowest reading group when I was teaching...sad as it sounds, it's true - I had 4th graders that were reading at kindergarten level or below.

Nathaniel is no longer content to crawl...now he wants to be standing at all times. And that doesn't mean Mommy or Daddy standing and holding him - no, that means pulling himself up and standing while holding on to the couch, the TV table, the window sill, a toy, someone's leg...you get the picture. Thank goodness babies have tough heads and hopefully he's inherited the "hard headed Hurlbut" gene from me, because he doesn't have the greatest of balance yet.

He's also trying to cut his second tooth...I told Brian maybe it'll be through Saturday on his (Brian's) birthday...only fitting since Nathaniel's first one came through on his Great-Grandpa Ken's birthday. Also makes it easy for me to remember what day the tooth comes in :)

We had a busy weekend with company and all kinds of fun...will post more about that and more pictures later. Nathaniel is in my lap trying to "help" me and it's really not that helpful. Joshua accompanied Brian over to the church to "man" the trailer collecting stuff for Deseret Industries over in Sacramento. We told Joshua it'd be kind of boring, plus Daddy would be home past his bedtime, but that didn't matter. While Brian was getting ready, Joshua got his shoes and jacket on and collected some coloring books, etc. and was ready to go. Fine with me...just hope he doesn't put up a fuss when they get home and he has to go straight to bed. He usually doesn't, so maybe we'll be lucky tonight.