NOLAN! Can you hear me!?

Noley-bear...loving the swing

family photo thanks to random student who asked to take our picture

Nolan kicking back after a hard day of eating and sleeping

This afternoon we enjoyed the warm weather raking leaves. Nolan supervised from his stroller and made sure we didn't miss any. Be forewarned...this video is semi-loud...

Whirlwind weekend, pt. 2

See, I told you they were here...

swinging at the park

trying and loving a lemon...he didn't even make a horrible face, it was pretty disappointing

snuggling up after dinner

Whirlwind weekend

This past weekend was incredibly busy but great fun! Half of Nolan's amazing grandparents were down for a visit and we really enjoyed spending time with them. I have very little photographic evidence of them being here but I will post more pictures soon! As usual our camera was focused almost entirely on Nolan. More to come!

On Saturday I "ran" the Ardmore 5k with Ashlee, Laura, and Erica

Nolan LOVING a gift from Aunt Mary

A dark little video of Nolan growling like a bear in his new winter hat and mittens

Simple pleasures

What could be more fun than throwing plastic lids on the kitchen counter?

(yes, he is playing with a bottle of multi-vitamins until we can invest in some maracas for the boy)

New tricks...

swinging at the park

strolling without the infant carseat

wearing shoes (or an entire outfit for that matter)

being threatened by his father..."give me your milk money!"

Proof

Ha! After just posting some of Nolan's favorite things I caught him doing two at once...Sorry for the not-so-good quality, but it's just a little clip.

Halfy Birthday Nolan!

Yesterday was Nolan's half birthday...6 months old! We sang "Halfy Birthday" to him but he didn't seem to get as much enjoyment out of it as we did.

These are pictures of Nolan in the photo booth, aka a chair on our little porch. Our camera takes horrible pictures inside, and now that Nolan sits really well I am taking advantage of the nice weather and natural light. Lets just hope he takes his first crawl and steps outside or our camera will just capture a dark moving blur. : )
Here he is taking up most of the changing table. His feet are almost touching the end now and when they do, he's going to learn to change his own diaper...

A Nolan fact for each month...

1. He likes to roll like he's the crocodile hunter when we're trying to put a clean diaper on him.

2. He loves to pull on his toes and socks and always ends up looking like a little elf with curled shoes. (see photo above)

3. He can't get enough pears and also is loving sweet potatoes, green beans, peas, and butternut squash...but HATES carrots so far.
4. His favorite book to look at and listen to (and conveniently, our favorite to read) is Snuggle Up, Sleepy Ones, which is one book I plan on keeping forever now.

5. Current favorite toy is one of his brightly colored spoons that he examines closely, twirls around his little fingers, and repeatedly sticks in his mouth (making ridiculous gagging faces when he does).

6. He says "buh da da bah da da ba ba da" all day long while blowing bubbles and letting out cupfulls of drool. Sometimes the entire top half of his onesie will be soaking wet.

We can't get enough of this boy (but we do like when he naps). Happy 6 months Nolan!

Goodbye Summer....Hello Fall

This past weekend we were in Wilmington, NC for Jesse's triathalon and had a beautiful day on the beach while Nolan napped in his baby tent (thank you girlsnight friends!)

This week has been cool and crisp some days and warm and sunny other days, which is always a great time to be in North Carolina...stretching out the summer days while still having a taste of fall. Here is a small preview of Nolan's Halloween costume...

Short order cook

The other day Nolan pulled all three of these out of the cannister by himself while I was making dinner...

He inspected each one before dropping it...
and made sure he was choosing exactly the right spatula.
Okay later that day I was telling Jesse about what he did and we decided to oven mit him even though the mits were longer than his arms...
He makes cooking fun.

I've never been so excited for messes!

As you can see we started Nolan on solids. He LOVES eating anything he can off the spoon and gets his whole body moving when it's coming at him! It's been really fun to feed him (and take pictures of him being messy) and we are excited to keep introducing new foods to see what he likes!
Finger lickin' good...