Laughing...

Nolan is consistently laughing!! I finally was able to catch it on video and its the cutest thing ever!! I am enjoying every moment of cuddle time this week from both boys before heading back into the craziness of being a working mom!! I truly have enjoyed and needed every moment of time off work with this one!! I did much better staying uninvolved this time around too!! I am going to soak it all in till the second I have to go back!!! The day I go back to work is a banquet to honor employee for many reasons, I was invited for being there 10 years and was happy to  be working that day so I didn't have to make up an excuse not to go. Well my manager texted me today wanting me to go!! Its my first day back to work and already going to be a long, sleepy, stressful day so I am just not sure I am up for it!!! Nolan still has no idea what he is in for next week, but will get a taste of it on Thursday!! I am anxious and scared of how he will be both for them and for daddy!!! It is so nice now to have a back up for him since he started having "fussy time around 5 or 6 till 8 or so. I thought that maybe we would be free from fussy time, and I know that it will not last forever, but that 5 weeks early hit us I'm afraid!! Nolan is starting to stay awake more consistently for longer lengths of time. He is frequently awake for 1.5-2 hours with each feeding, then sometimes takes a short nap and sometimes takes a long nap!! He continues to eat 5 ounces about every 3-4 hours!! He weaned himself down to 6 feedings per day, but thinking maybe he is in between growth spurts! Who knows!!

Brayden starts swimming lessons this week, and he is SCARED!!! He is not scared of the water, he is scared because there will be no mommy or daddy in the water with him!! I keep telling him he has to learn to swim so he can go down the big slides at the pool this summer because they won't let him wear a life jacket!! He has to be able to swim about 10 feet on his own. I have really enjoyed watching him over the last 3 months!! He is growing so fast. Last night we were at a Baptism celebration and I watched him interact with older kids conversing about video games and he was actively a part of the conversation!! So impressive for this mommy to watch!! After the party we asked him about it and he replied so grown up like with "Well, it was a little boring at times". He had to wait in line for ever a balloon sword!!! Love to see the world from his eyes and look forward to every conversation I get to see him participate in or have with him!!! Kids have such a refreshing outlook on life!!

 

He found his hands!!!

Nolan again continues to get bigger and meet more milestones, this week he found his hands and is mesmerized by them!! I don't remember much about when Brayden did first things, so I find myself using the blog to see how they compare often!!I notice that Nolan was born early at times and other times I don't!! Nolan continues to like to be held all the time even when he is sleeping during the day!! He is going to get a little surprise after next week when he goes to daycare!! I again hate the fact that I have to leave him but know it will all be ok this time around!!! Look at how good the other one turned out so far!!!

Yesterday Brayden woke up with a runny nose, not bad just a little, Donny asked him how he felt and he replied with "I'm sick", Donny asked what hurts and he told him his "Red Lips hurt"!! To make a long story short he stayed home with Nolan and I and got to spend the day playing video games and drinking sweet tea, but was not really sick!! I think before kindergarten starts its not too bad to let him play hooky a little!!! I enjoyed my day with my boys too!! Win/Win!! I don't have much more to report this week but a ton of pictures!!!

Attached...to his mommy!!!

Well, I have achieved yet another little boy that loves his mommy, it took me a long time to win this one over but I've done it!!! I hope daycare's Miss Mary can handle this one too!! LOL!! Friday Nolan and I went to mommy's work for a class and then to meet some people around the unit!! He did amazing, he slept all the way there and through the class, then woke up and ate and met everyone, then slept all the way home and for almost 2 hours after!!! I was anxious about it since I had scheduled it but someday I will learn to relax, in time for both kids to be in school probably! Nolan is just perfecting all of the skills that he has learned and getting ready for whatever is next!!

Brayden had his last party at school on Friday for Valentine's Day!! He wanted to do balloons filled with candy and the balloons kept popping so we had to use punch balloons, they worked well but were very hard to pop!!! He loved it!!
Brayden went to the dentist with daddy this week and did awesome!!! He didn't even flinch while he was there, ofcourse there was bribery and lots of hype over it!!! Another successful first!!! He's getting so big!!! 

Growing so fast

This past week I have noticed that Nolan prefers mommy, he calms down faster for mommy anyway!! Brayden preferred mommy much sooner, and I was shocked it took almost my whole maternity leave for him!! He wants to be held most of the time now, he is only taking short cat naps if we are not holding him!! I am getting a lot less done around the house and a lot more snuggling in!! Oh well, they are only babies once, and this is my LAST baby so I should just enjoy it right!!! He is full of smiles and likes to be talked too, he is still trying to get a laugh out and he frequently mimics sounds that we make to him. He has many facial expressions that are visible in the pictures, he is hilarious to watch!! He has been showing his temper a little more lately, and you can't miss it!! Nolan still doesn't like tummy time much, but rolling over is a little harder for him since he's been gaining weight, he still does it but not as fast!!

Brayden has been preparing for Kindergarten at preschool for some time and we have been working on letters at home too, this week he's been recognizing letters very well and typing letters into his ipad himself instead of us!! He is doing great!! We finally picked Valentine's out for school and he wanted to put candy in balloons and then have the kids pop them for candy!! Balloons didn't work too well they were very fragile so we ended up putting candy in punching balloons!! The teacher is going to kill me for sure!! Then he got brownie pops as his treat!! He put stickers on his card Valentines we made that said "You make my heart POP!!" He continues to love his brother, actually this week Nolan was in his bouncy and fussed a little in his sleep, and I walked in the living room to check and Brayden was holding him!! He was just trying to help!! I love the love he has for him already!! Brayden has been making up songs for Nolan, Nolan likes to be sung to according to Brayden so he does it frequently including what he calls the PAS song!!!

 

Enjoy the pictures, sorry there are a ton!!!