Nathanisms

This past weekend we went to Auburn to celebrate both of my parents' birthdays (Mom turned 69 and Dad is now 72), and my girls also went to their first Auburn Football game (more on that later). Well, Nathan loves to be the life of the party, and he had much attention from all of his aunts and uncles. Grandpa received a classy birthday card of a chimpanzee with his finger in his nose, and Nathan was very impressed by this card. He called it a "gorilla", and any time his uncles/sisters/aunts/cousins asked him what a gorilla did, he would stick his fingers up his nose to much approval. Got to love the influence of the relatives. I figured he had forgotten this little trick until we were at his laptime class at the library today (laptime is a class for 2 year olds and their parents). The teacher was singing the "name game song" with the class, and when she got to Nathan, everyone started laughing. I figured he just had a funny expression on his face, but when I looked down, there he was, sitting with two fingers up his nose. I was so proud!

Another funny thing Nathan did today happened at breakfast. Abby's kindergarten class put on a play last year titled "BUGZ". Abby dressed up like a butterfly, and all of the kids were dressed up as some insect or another. One little boy was a maggot, and he would periodically come on stage and say "I'm a maggot". Ever since Nathan saw the play, he likes to repeat that one phrase "I'm a maggot". Well, he was saying that while eating his waffles this morning, and his daddy thought that he would teach him to say "I'm a chic magnet" instead. He wouldn't say that for daddy, until we were on the way to bringing the girls to school. All of the sudden, he looked over at Karlie and said, "I'm a chicken maggot." So, there you have it, my son, Nathan, the chicken maggot. Got to love him.