Just a quick hello!!

Had a second to say hello.... and wanted to say a very big Congratulations to Allie and John (and Hank of course) on their precious baby girl, Emerson Kate. She is soo cute and looks JUST like her Daddy!!!!

Here are some pictures that Aunt Corinn took yesterday of Nolan!

Ok so I lied....

Yeah, I know I said I was going to be better at blogging....guess I lied. It's hard when I have my camera here, my cord there, Nolan has been sleeping but now he is stirring so will I really have time to blog...you know how it goes. But I figured I could at least start tonight and then if he started crying just finish, hopefully I can just finish though.

Well my little baby seems like he is already becoming a little boy. Haha I know not really, he is just 11 weeks still, but he is growing up so fast. He started acting interested in his toys, so I decided to put his toy bar back on his bouncy seat. And what do you know, he started trying to hit them. I was like way to go mom, delay his development by not putting his toy bar on sooner. Oh well...what are you going to do... :) He is smiling and cooing...always just when he wants to though. So I tell people that he is doing this, "yeah he is smiling, he coos, he kicks his legs when you show him his toys.." then people come over and he just looks at them. I'm like way to go Nolan, make me look like a liar! But he is doing just fine.

He weighed 12.12 and was 23 inches at his 2 month appointment. He grew out of his gowns and now wears his footy pjs to bed. And he grew out of his size 1 diapers before he had a chance to wear them all. So they are just in the box of stuff he is growing out of daily (or so it seems.) I'm still not back to work...I just don't want to put him in daycare, and then I feel bad for the person that watches him, because sometimes he just wants to be held...all day. So obviously someone can't do that, and so I just decided that I just can't go back yet. Lol. But enough of me going on and on...here are some recent pictures of my precious boy...

A little smile...

Sleeping on mama!

Getting a little excited.

Chubb cheeks!

Sleepy head..

Elvis lip!

Thanks for putting my toy bar on mom!

Little stud outfit. He's standing already!!

Not too happy with me here...

Ok so I have fallen behind a tad....

OK so I haven't kept up as much as I thought I would. Breastfeeding is totally to blame!! I swear every time I am finished, and get my head together to what I have to do, I come upstairs and sit down and it's time for him to eat again...so since he is doing pretty good at getting on a little routine at night--I thought I would come and try to get a little updating done in this 3 hour stretch...

I haven't been doing so hot at taking pictures either...I really need to get better at that!! I do have some though of some recent things...he is a growing boy..I was looking at the pictures that I do have and noticed that he doesn't even fit into his newborn onesies anymore, and hasn't for over a week.

Here he is still in his little onesie...he can't fit in these anymore :( !! Growing boy!!!

Sleep, sleep with daddy.

So his umbilical cord took the absolute maximum amount of time to fall off. "1 - 3 weeks. " It was exactly three. I was so excited because I wanted to give him a real bath... with milk all over his face, and 35 doo doo diapers a day ( a little exaggeration ) I didn't think the sponge bath was cutting it. I thought he would like it...

So I started getting him ready....

Ok so I was wrong.

He screamed...

and screamed....

and screamed!!! haha poor little guy...

Content, and CLEAN, with mama!

Just a little info..he does love his baths now. I do it in his bather upstairs...I just think he hated the sink. He is actually getting his routine down good. He has a bath between 6:30 and 7:00; then eats, then goes to bed!!

He loooves to sleep with his arms in the touchdown position!!

Today he had his 1 month check up!! Time is flying by!! He weighs 9.72 pounds!!! He did soo good and only cried for a second when he got his shot.

He was such a big boy!

His boo boo.

Now time for a nap!

I will try and be a little better at keeping things updated. A lot of it will probably be a major post with lots of pictures!! As soon as his newborn pictures come in, I will put those up here. They are awesome!!!!

He's HERE!!!!!

Well Nolan made his debut a little early and arrived exactly 2 weeks early on August 10!!! It has been so amazing, he is just so precious and sweet. We are adjusting quite well....Grandma is here and we will have more help the next two weeks, so we will see how it goes after everyone is gone, but it has not been bad at all! Sleeping is a little challenging because he doesn't like to sleep by himself at night...he has to be held, which goes against everything I ever thought I would do. I do not let him sleep IN the bed though. He is on my chest with my boppy under him for support so he won't move, and I sleep sitting up... hopefully he will do a little better so I don't have to worry so much.

Here is Nolan very fresh!!

This is going home outfit #2...not very interesting. Right before we were about to leave he poopied, and when he was getting changed he peed all over his daddy, and all over his outfit...

We went for a little check up yesterday. He weighed 6lbs. 4 oz, and his jaundice levels were very low. His collar bone is also doing just fine. It broke when he came out :( . He is doing excellent at breastfeeding and showed off for the nurse at his appointment. He ate soooo well, burped good, and pooped three times while we were there!

After the appointment we went to visit Aunt Dara and cousins Jackson, Hailey and Grady. Everyone wanted to hold him, especially Hailey.

She was sooooo excited when she finally got to.

He is usually pretty peaceful....

Especially when he is sleeping on his daddy's chest!

100 Cake Balls!!!

Allie's baby shower was today and it went sooo well! I had a great time planning it with the other hostesses, and everything went so smoothly! She got a lot of great stuff which I am sure you can see on her blog soon...this is what I spent my time doing the night before, 100 CAKE BALLS!!! It was hard work but Allie loves them, so we had to have them! (I was trying to do a little Bakerella close up action... :) )

50 Chocolate with Chocolate

50 White with Pink

2nd Anniversary...a little late!!!

I am posting this a little late...but we had a wonderful TWO year Anniversary... we had dinner at the Cuervo Club before, and then went to the Red Sox game. We had a great time!!!! It's sooo weird that we have been married two years, and now have little Nolan on the way!! CRAZY...but exciting!

Maternity Pics!

We got our maternity pictures this weekend, and even though Jonathan acted like it was going to be the worst thing in the world he did VERY good. He actually did better than me! Click on the fotobydeedra link in my blog list and you can see some of them! Don't mind the double chin in some of them!!