Black and White (Week 12)

The past several weeks, Nolan has been going crazy for high contrast black and white objects. His favorites are some cards that Similac sent us for free. There are six cards and there is black on white and white on black. There is a frog, a poodle, a monkey (that looks like a scorpion), a peacock, and of course the ladybug you can see in the video. Gammie had Nolan on her colorful playmat and he wasn't even playing with the cool hanging toys. Well, here it is Gammie, Nolan going crazy on his playmat! All you need is Black and White!

Ten Weeks

In the time it took Stella to remove Ted's butterfly tramp stamp tattoo on "How I Met Your Mother," Nolan has learned some minimal hand and arm control. He now likes to stick his hand in his mouth and make a nice long spit trail from lip to wrist.

Nolan loves his walks too! We take a nice long walk just about every night before bed and Sierra loves them too. Nolan is such a good boy on walks and has only fussed a couple times.

Nolan has been going to Gammie's house for two weeks and is great despite not wanting to nap in the guest bedroom sleeper. Instead, he loves afternoon tummy naps on the couch, just like me!

This weekend we have some errands to cram into Saturday so we can have another pajama Sunday and Grandma is coming over to watch Nolan so we can take Sierra to the Dog Wash, which is quite overdue. She may have licked out the clumps of formula she got into and saved in her arm fur, but she hasn't had a bath since Nolan was born and is one stinky monkey!

2 Months

On August 10th, Nolan turned 2 months old. He had a doctor's appointment Friday. He measured 23 1/2 inches long which is in the 75th percentile. That explains why his onesies are getting hard to snap. He weighed in at 12 pounds 4 ounces making me the winner of Mike and I's over/under wager. I said he was over 12, Mike went with under. He is in the 50th percentile for weight despite the growing rolls on his arms and legs. Now I can correct those annoying strangers who feel the need to comment on his size. You'd look big too sitting in a little car seat! The pediatrician asked if he was drooling yet, and I didn't care too much for the "yet" part. Coming up next: teething! She also told us he would probably roll over soon, so it's time to stop laying him down anywhere we wanted. I'm going to miss that. When she tested his head lifting strength, Nolan performed marvously. Thank you Gammie for making sure he's getting tummy time everyday while we're at work.

Nolan misses the extra family that was in town last weekend. Great Grandma and Grandpa, Great Uncle Rick and 2nd cousin Brittany gave him lots of love, although a few were baby reluctant. He didn't poop, pee, or spit up on anyone! Uncle Trev was forced to hold his nephew a couple of times. Another of my baby shy family members. He'll be Nolan's best bud in a few years, when he's a walking, talking, toilet using boy.

Gnarly Boo Boo!

Nolan got his first boo boo today when he scratched up his schnoz. We have been trimming his claws a lot so I guess we'll have to buy a power sander.

8 Weeks

Nolan is eight weeks old today! His mom went back to work on Thursday and he has started to see Gammie during the day. Being a super grandson, he brought Gammie flowers on the first morning. He loved to dance with Gammie and was smiling and laughing at her. On Friday afternoon, he even was watched by Poppy before Mom and Dad came home. Poppy did such a good job too (even with a poopy diaper!)

Nolan is also meeting some more family this weekend! Uncle Trevor is here from Montana already. As many pictures as he snaps, he makes funny faces in every picture we try to take of him. (The jokes on him, we'll still post the pics we snapped later anyway!)

Tomorrow Great Grandma and Great Grandpa are coming from Colorado with Great Uncle Rick and Cousin Brittany. Nolan will be putting on his best clothes and there will be plenty of pictures to come!

Speaking of pictures, here are some pictures of Nolan before Mom went back to work. We love the picture of Nolan holding the black and white card!