If you were a Nathan this is what you would have done this morning

You would have woken up at 5:45 and crawled into bed with Mom and Dad. You would have laid there peacefully for 2.4 seconds until bursting up and shouting, "I NEED A SNACK!"

You would have said you needed to poop and sat on the toilet for 15 minutes with nothing happening while you sister gives your mom the play by play. "Mom, Nathan is pushing SO HARD, like this, grrrrrrrr! I looked but there's not poop yet. Nathan, do you want a book?"

After getting off the potty with no poop to show for the work you would have promptly pooped your clean underwear and shorts.

You would have been in time out at least five times for various indiscretions like biting your sister, repeatedly not being gentle with your baby brother and shouting "NO WAY!" at your mom when she asked you to finish your milk.

While in time out you would have thrown every shoe off the shoe rack onto the floor. When forced to pick up the mess you would have done so but only done it while wearing a pair of your daddy's shoes. You know, to speed the process up.

You would have dumped out a bag of fishy crackers into your mom's purse at your sister's dance class.

You would have dumped a cup of dad's chewed up sunflower seed shells (see earlier post) onto the floor of the van.

You would have said, "Look Mommy, I do it by myself" to show your mom that you had colored your Uncle David a birthday picture. On the counter.

You would have tried to sign "I love you" to your mommy over and over again and asked for dozens of exploding kisses.

You would have done all of this with the BIGGEST smile on your face.

I LOVE YOU NATHAN!