What's new?

Not much is new here.  Still same ol' same ol'.  Well, other than Nathan really learning new words and phrases.  Some of his favorites are "Nope" with an emphasis on the "p".  He thinks it's funny when I ask him random things and he just keeps saying "Nope".  It's sure to bring on that laughter that we love so much!  He also is learning to say his own name.  I ask him, "Nathan, what's your name?"  He'll look at me, and I help him to say it (sometimes).  He just says the "than" part, which sounds like "thin".  Oh yes, he knows "me" and "mine" and uses it regularly.  At 25 months now, he sure is quite the character!

Yes, he thinks he can put his feet up on the table when he's done eating.  Yes, I explain every time that we do not put our feet on the table.  Yes, he giggles and puts them further up on the table.  Little stinker!

Tom is still struggling with pain, on a daily basis.  Since I fell carrying laundry downstairs on Saturday, we've both been to the chiro 3x this week and both of us are feeling much better!  Although, keep in mind Tom's continuing pain is also due to the enlarged lymph nodes in his body.  Tom's been sleeping better at night as a result of the chiro adjustments, so that is a relief.  He's had quite a few visitors coming over to watch football games, and visit and just hang out.  His friend Jeremy picked Tom up the other night after work, and they played a few games of pool on Jeremy's new pool table.  Tom was tuckered when he got home, but he had a fun time, and I'm so glad he got to go do something fun.  J came over and watched football last weekend, too.  It means so much just to have someone for Tom to visit with, other than Nathan and myself.  I think he's going to his friend Greg's for the Packer game this weekend.

Have you seen the tie shirt I made for Nathan with this cool Alexander Henry skull print?

Well, Tom thought it was so cool, he requested one.  Since Tom's been loosing so much weight, I wasn't sure if he wanted a L or XL shirt, so I came home from the store with both just to make sure.  How perfect, because Tom took the L and I made a matching one in XL for Papa!  How flipping adorable are these Schwandt boys?!

So I had to post both pictures because it's just too funny how Nathan 'smiles'.  He sure takes after his Auntie Suzie with goofy smiling faces when he is in front of the camera!  Nathan really thought it was pretty cool Daddy and Papa had shirts just like his.  He loved every minute of it!

Florida, here we come!
We are getting really excited about our upcoming trip to Florida!  I reserved the rental car online.  I found I had 20,000+ miles left on my old NWA worldperks account, so I was able to redeem some of those points for National car rental gift certificates, and just for fun I redeemed more points for a Sephora gift card for me to indulge in something fun.  I haven't yet redeemed Sephora yet, but I will sometime.

I'll post more about our preparations getting ready for Florida in another post before we leave.

Thank you, again, everyone for your support, your kind words, your prayers, everything.  We really appreciate all your love SO much!  It's not easy, but we are finding something fun about every day we have together.  It's all about making memories.

Luv & Hugs,
Roxanne