Happy 8 Months!

Happy 8 Months My Sweet Baby! You are doing so much and growing at an unbelieveable rate! You love to talk, crawl, stand, climb over your train and take baths! At this point your Daddy and I think you might just jump right into walking since you love to be on your feet rather than your knees. You also just started feeding yourself! You LOVE anything banana flavored (and who can blame you). You would prefer to eat fruits and cheese favored stuff and stay away from anything veggie or meat flavored (this has been challenging). *Although yesterday you ate some spagetti O's and seemed to like them. We can't wait to watch you continue to grow over the coming months but here are a few photos and videos to capture you right now! Love, your Mommy.

Like Mother, Like Son

Everyone has a story that there family tells over and over and over. Before you know that story almost defines a period in your life. For me, the story is all about how I would fall asleep at the dinner table - first in my high chair and later at the actual table. For most of my life the telling of this story was to say the least annoying. HaHa Raven falls asleep with food on her plate or better yet food in her mouth. Well, now I'm the Mommy and seeing this same trait tonight with Nolan I couldn't help but see the story get new life! Rest assured that 20 years from today we will all be telling the same story only this time about Nolan! Like Mother like Son!

7 Months and Growing

Nolan was offically 7 months old on December 28th! He is growing by leaps and bounds! He has started eating baby food and is very opinionated about the ones he does not care for (another area that he takes after Mommy on). He is also teething - we went from no teeth to 2 bottom teeth and now he is working on 4 top teeth! Needless to say he hasn't been feeling well with those.

The most exciting part is his ability to crawl (although only backwards for right now)! I've posted some video to share with everyone on all the things this baby boy has been up to. We love and miss you all! Our family can't wait to experience all the wonder that 2011 will bring!

Nolan's First Christmas

Starting the Season Off Right

We started the Christmas Season off right after Thanksgiving. In fact, the next day we decorated and that weekend everyone headed back to our house to watch as Nolan put his first ornament on the tree. What we did not expect was a tree of Nolan's very own and enough first christmas ornaments to decorate it! This is to start him off with a love of Christmas just like his Mommy and Grandma have. Nolan now has a tree in his nursery and we enjoy looking at it while we rock to sleep each night.

"Grandaddy" started Nolan off with his first present, (although he claims this to be a Thanksgiving day gift) a rocking horse. Our sweet baby boy LOVES his horsey! Check out all the festivities:

Thanksgiving 2010

We had so much to be thankful for over the Thanksgving holiday! Our family has (over the past 4 years) come to our house to celebrate the holiday and we love having a house full of family. Everyone brings something and we sit around reminded of how lucky we are to have each other. We enjoyed our family, good food and watching Nolan take his first taste of baby food (carrots).

5 Months and Growing

Nolan is growing at such an alarming rate - I can hardly believe how fast he is learning. You can see in his eyes when he is watching and thinking deeply about something (the majority of the time he is trying to form sounds and words).

He is sitting up and rolling over with zero difficulty. He loves to hear himself talk and we love to listen - he can get quite loud (like Mommy)! He is eating rice cereal once a day at dinner time when Mom and Dad eat. This was a challenge at first but he is getting to be a pro. Veggie baby food is coming up soon so we are excited about that.

Nolan can turn and somehow rotate himself 180 degrees on the floor? No crawling yet but we are seeing his interest in moving grow more and more each day. Check out the FABULOUS photos Aunt Liz did to capture this time in his life.