Nathan

I got an email reminder from Ticketmaster listing upcoming events in Pittsburgh and Trace Atkins was listed. Nathan is a big fan. He has made a million memories for me singing Honkytonk Badonkadonk. At 3, he started singing this song and sang it everywhere he was and just last weekend he came upon the Cd and spent the afternoon singing away.. He entertained the neighbors while they had company, singing from the top of the play set tower in our backyard. He broke out in a raucous rendition while we were in the bleachers watching his brothers playing hockey at the YMCA. At his Aunt's, he shocked her straight laced sensibilities as he crooned "oooo eee shut your mouth, slap your grandma..." Grandma, on the otherhand, just laughed. Nathan's preschool teacher was stunned one spring day to hear him singing at the top of his voice as he bounced into the room one day. He was always so quiet in class, they hadn't seen that side of his personality.

Nathan is our third son and a true middle child, with two older brothers and two younger brothers. He can be the sweetest and silliest kid in the world. He spent the first few years of his life being the family jester - making us laugh. Now he spends equal time fighting with his brothers and aggravating them. He fights for his place in our world. He wants to be recognized as an individual and that he is.