Tube Time!

Finally after five ear infections and six rounds of antibiotics Nolan is getting PE tubes! We went on friday to see his ENT and audiologist Laurie! Nolan was excited to see Laurie and did pretty well considering about 8 different people looked in his ears. I am not sure that he was Laurie's best patient of the day but probably the cutest!

Handsome Irish Boy or Annoying Baby Throwing a Fit at the Table Next to You???

I was so excited to get to post some cute St. Patrick's Day pictures of my favorite little leprechaun on his first St. Patrick's Day. I love all holidays and love celebrating them! Nolan was not as excited about his hat as I was...

We decided to take Nolan out for crawfish to celerate his first St. Patrick's Day!

And that was when "the annoying baby throwing a fit at the table next to you" came out....

so I thought I might as well post these pics as well!!! Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

Parent - Teacher Conference

So today was Nolan's second Parent - Teacher conference of the year. After the first one I was very concerned about his "Pincer Grasp" for weeks! All we did was practice picking up Puffs! Today's conference went pretty well, considering Nolan was pushing another baby down on the steps of the slide while we were talking. I am very thankful for such great teachers! Nolan loves school and seeing his friends and teachers. Here are some pics from his first few weeks of school.

Nolan's first day of school

Playing outside

Hanging out

Buggy Rides

Painting with my feet

Taking a rest in my crib

Best Valentine's Day Ever!!!

We had such a great Valentine's Day weekend! We went to see Aunt Kristi, Uncle Kyle, and Kenzey and had a really great time! I will post some fun video from our trip later.

Nolan had his Valentine's Day party at school on Monday. It was so much fun! All of the kids had matching shirts that said, "Cupid is my Homeboy!" Thanks to Daddy, Aunt Veazey, and GiGi for helping find all the sizes! I also found some really cute Valentine's bibs for all the kids. We brought pancakes for breakfast that morning. Nolan loves pancakes! I left for a while and when I came back I got the best Valentine's surprise ever...

Nolan took his first real steps!!! He took 4-5 steps from his teacher to me! These were real steps, not like his 1 or 2 steps falling to the floor. It was so much fun! It was exciting to get to see this! Best Valentine's gift ever!

Here are some more pics from the party!
Nolan loves going on buggy rides with Ms. Sonali!

These were the snacks we brought for the party. Heart shaped cheese sandwiches, blueberries, strawberries, bananas, goldfish, teddy grams, animal crackers, and yogurt melts. Yum!!!

Nolan is rocking the mohawk for the party!

They also had cupcakes. He wasn't quite sure what to do at first...

Then he got the idea!

It was so delicious he licked both sides of the plate clean!

Yes, that is cake in his hair!

We are definitely going to have a Valentine's Day party next year!

This is dedicated to Daddy whose school did not close for a Snow Day!

I love a good snow day and was so excited to spend it at home with Nolan! We were a little sad to miss his Valentine's Day party, but his teacher assures us it will go on as planned on Monday! All morning Nolan had been playing at the back window watching Mattie outside. We took a couple of quick trips outside to look at our fallen tree, but after his nap we got all bundled up and headed outside. I took the wagon out with us to give him something to hold on to. He was very interested at first....



Then we took a bit of a tumble in the snow....


Does it make me a bad mom that I took the picture before I helped him up???

Do you think Picasso started out like this?

Since the weather has been really yucky and we haven't been feeling too hot, I have been looking for more activities for us to do inside. If they are in the stationary position that is even better! We have taken up finger painting! Now Nolan is still just nine months old so sometimes this activity doesn't last that long!

He is very serious about his craft!

Sometimes it's even tasty too!

Starting a Blog??? I don't even have a facebook page!

So.... I apparently am the only person in the entire world that does not have a Facebook page. I get weekly emails from friends "suggesting" I start a Facebook page. I have to admit I have taken a pretty hard stance on being anti-facebook. I generally don't like people knowing all of my business, but I am doing a terrible job of documenting my son's first year of life. All of my mommy friends have blogs with pictures and memories about their children, so I thought I would give this a try..... So here goes..... But just so we are clear I am still anti-Facebook!