updates from 3424082 years ago

Um, we moved! And I've been avoiding doing this for some reason. Here are some snapshots of the last two months or so....

Our friends threw us a great going away (aka happy to get rid of you) party. It was a fiesta! and as you can see I killed the pinata...

The day our movers came we took one last trip to our park across the street...

Then we hurled Nolan into the air in celebration! Just kidding. We spent a really relaxing and fun weekend in Cashiers, NC before the drive up to DE.

After driving up here and unpacking all our junk, we headed back down to NC for Jesse's law school graduation! (He's the one on the right who looks like Harry Potter)

We're unpacked now and completely settled here in Wilmington, DE...just getting to know the area and our neighborhood. More pictures to come!

what we've been doing

We've driven in Jesse's Jeep, but not with the top down yet...

we've practiced-hiked with our "new" back pack from the 1990s...

we've laughed...

we've cried...

we've done the dishes...

and we've napped with our bums in the air...

well, nolan did at least...

As you can see, we've been very productive.

Steps!

Check out some of Nolan's first steps! We enjoyed doing the "victory jumps" almost as much as the steps themselves...

Happy 1st Birthday Nolan!

He's ONE today!!!

I feel like he's so much older when I say, "he's one" instead of "he's 11 and a 1/2 months". He started clapping today and has not stopped clapping for himself all day. Ironically, when everyone sang "Happy Birthday" to him, he cried like a baby. And when I say cry, I mean SCREAM. Hopefully this will not be a trend for future years, because that will be pretty awkward when he's in his teens.

More pictures to come!

can I have a redo?

Sorry. When I uploaded the video, I accidentally forgot to make it "public". Thanks for the e-mails letting me know the error of my ways. Here's the one from yesterday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYEyo0-TLqc

"not uhhhh"

Nolan has mastered shaking his head and will sometimes do it on command if we "prompt" him by doing it first. The trick is that you have to be really exaggerated as you're about to see Jesse demonstrate:

://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYEyo0-TLqc

6 reasons

I may or may not have forgotten to post a little Happy Birthday post for Jesse. His birthday was Monday...so I guess technically you could say I forgot. Whoopsies. Happy Birthday Jesse!!

Reasons I love Jesse: (these aren't the only reasons, by the way)

he's strong!

he's insane!
he shares his hats with Nolan

he helps me grocery shop for silly babies

he carries our son like a duffle bag

he sits in the backseat of our car in the parking lot of coldstone so we can share our ice cream as a family

Happy 25th!
I love you.

outtakes

Nolan is exactly 11 months old today! Here are some of the rejects of his 11 mo. smushed kiss picture.

All I have to say is, thank you God for digital cameras and my freakishly long arms.

There were many more of these, but I'll spare you...

smoothies

Nolan LOVES the spinach/berries/yogurt smoothies that Jesse makes and attacks the glass as soon as it is near his mouth...

How ridiculous is this picture? He looks like a cross between a crazy frenchman and the joker. Can you feel the joy?

When he's finished smoothie-ing, we wipe off the floor and his clothes but he still probably needs one of these**:

**but this is actually from last night. I just wanted to show his curlhawk and pudge.

baby "mop and glo"

We spent last Friday morning doing this over and over and over again until Nolan stopped laughing and was crawling a little crooked. But hey, the dining room floor is REALLY clean now...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7919295428325189251