Month #5

Nolan is five months old. He loves playing in his pool, still thinks Beckett is the best thing in this world, LOVES to eat (greens are his favorite!), hates to be changed (he screams like he is being murdered and twists the entire time), he is starting to inch around the floor, has a leaky diaper EVERY MORNING (yes, I've tried them all), he has started reaching for familiar faces and curls his bottom lip out if Will and I walk away from him and leave him with someone else, is lifting his chest and butt as if he is figuring out the crawling stance but hasn't gotten them simultaneously yet and he does throw the occasional tantrum (head throwing, arm slinging, screaming) but is usually really pleasant and so much fun!



 





Just hanging out after bath time



Waiting on his food, notice the anxious face!



CHECK OUT NOLAN'S SWEET GIGGLES TOO!

Lately...

Lots of new things are going on in our house lately. Nolan LOVES the water, LOVES to eat, and is about as BUSY as he can be!

At his four month checkup he weighed 15.5 lbs and was 25 1/2 inches long...BIG BOY !

He absolutely loves to be in his jumparoo, one of these days I'll get a video, he jumps so hard that the rails shake, not sure how long this thing is going to hold him! He really appreciates tummy time these days but gets very frustrated when Beckett walks by and doesn't stop and pay him attention. He loves Becks so much and she has very little interest in him, I'm sure as soon as he starts moving that will all change!

Yes, he likes his hands alot these days too!

We started eating REAL food after our 4 month doctor visit, we started with cereal...
hes still not a huge fan.




First bite of Cereal

 

He definitely appreciates real veggies MUCH more than the cereal, I am making his food and he is eating carrots, green beans, and sweet potatoes so far but we introduce something new every 4 days so next up...maybe squash?! The green beans surprisingly seem to be his favorite so far! 

To beat the heat we bought a little swimming pool to play in at home on days that we don't want to mess with our community pool and this little man LOVES it! Im so happy that he loves to be in water, and hopefully he always will, but it definitely looks like we will be starting swim lessons ASAP!

My Little Water Baby

Month #4

I cannot believe my baby is already FOUR MONTHS OLD! My how time flies. Nolan turned four months old this past Friday and I'm not kidding when I say that he definitely seems like he has turned into such a little man over night. I took advantage of a few hours at home this weekend and took some pictures of my little man, I must say he's got a lot more wiggle and a lot less patience than he did a few months ago!

And here are a few pics from our photo shoot!

You will notice that he doesn't give me much time to get my shots, he is WAY too busy to appease me!



Cowboy boots from Kristen!



And here is his "I've had enough" face.





Four Month Happenings:

-Sleeping face down ...scary! Thank God for the Algelcare monitor!
-Too busy to eat

-Teething like CRAZY

-Mommys Snuggler

-lots of giggles (one of the best sounds in the world)!

-Baby Lumps! He has really starting to back on a extra layer of padding, last weigh in 13.8.

-Still waking up a 4am every night....hopefully we can statrt cereal soon!

-Yelling at Beckett- he gets SO FRUSTRATED when Becks ignores him and he screams and yells at her.

-LOVES his toys, and throwing them!

-Talking up a storm (in his own language of course)

My 27th Birthday and 1st Mother's Day

This past weekend was a busy one! Friday night I celebrated my 27th  birthday with the family at Tin Angel on West End, Yum-O, followed by a 2 mile walk (one way) to Pinkberry. Needless to say, I don't think anyone from here on out will take me seriously when I say "Its not too far to walk" , ha ha.

On Saturday my "real Birthday" mom and dad came by to bring my birthday present and drop off.....

wait for it.....

A CLOWN CONE ICE CREAM CAKE! I have and always will be 5 years old at heart and stomach, I will never be too old for Spaghettios or Clown Cones (my personal favorite at Baskin Robbin) and mom had them build a cake around it!

Nolan thought it was pretty cool too!

Then Sunday/Mothers Day I woke up to this very pretty omelet that Will had prepared all on his very own (with a little help from Google). It was very tasty, I may just have to let him cook breakfast more often!

Followed by church and some much needed play time at home.

I was spoiled rotten all weekend....and it was NICE! :)

Can you believe how big my little man is getting!?

Nolan's Nursery

Nolan's Nursery has been a work in progress for about a year, it's been finished twice now...and hopefully for the final time. Right after I got everything in his nursery complete and set up he was born and I was so busy being a new/tired mom/zombie that I never got around to taking pictures. I kicked myself later when I caught the kitchen on fire and after a chain of events his room was back in shambles and needing to be reassembled (I wont go through the details but lets just say Hallelujah its DONE!) As soon as I got things back together this time I took pictures!

So here is is, my favorite room in the house.



Thank you Chris and Jessica for such a great way to remember my first birthday !



These are photos from our showers and signatures of everyone who attended.
This way Nolan will see how much he was loved before he even got here!

3 MONTHS!

Nolan is 3 Months Old! 

We are finally back in our house and starting to get back to some normalcy so I am playing catch up with the blog posts.

Little N is now Three Month Old! I cannot believe it (I know I say that every time I post something about him). He LOVES standing & is still not a fan of tummy time, but we do it anyways. He has started to do crunches as we like to call them...if we lay him down on any incline whatsoever he can pull himself to the upright position, scary :). He is really starting to sit up a lot, most of the time he ends up in the pancake position after a few minutes but it wont be long and he will be sitting up with no trouble at all. Right now we have lots of gurgling, cooing, yelling and spit bubbles going on, boy does he love his spit bubbles. He is fascinated with Becks and being outside. Any time he is upset and can't be calmed all it takes is a step out the front door and all his worries are cured (which happens very seldom, we have a pretty happy boy on our hands). Nolan is such a morning person and has really learned to chuckle which is his new favorite thing to do at 5 am. Will and I have already said that we are in for it when baby #2 comes around (hopefully not for a while :P ) because Nolan has been SO EASY that we know we're due a screamer, he is such a good baby!



And the window of opportunity has CLOSED :)