It Happens so fast!!!

Well in the last post I mentioned Nolan started crawling!! He's still crawling but with in 5 days of learning to crawl he also started pulling himself us, got his first two teeth, and standing on his own for a few seconds!!! I knew it was all coming but I didn't expect all this!!! It's been a busy two weeks!! Nolan has begun weaning himself from bottles and drinks limited amounts at this point, he continues to love FOOD, all food he can feed himself!!! He is not sleeping as well as he has in the past, guessing it's because he has so much going on!!! Tomorrow we go to the NICU reunion, I look back at those two weeks and can't believe it really happened that way!! I feel very fortunate that he is not developmentally behind being born so early!!! I also had his school conference and they didn't have too much to say except they are HAPPY he is crawling and a little more content!! They also said he is forming friendships already with the other two moving boys!!! He even was gentle and sweet to a little baby girl!! Makes me a little nervous!!

Brayden is doing so well in kindergarten, I still am shocked at what he comes home with!! He is a little sponge soaking up all kinds of knowledge. He continues to be Nolan's number 1 fan!! Nolan loves to be around his big brother every chance he gets!!! He keeps telling me that I need to go on his class field trip and Halloween party so ofcourse I wouldn't miss it for the world!! Luckily with my new job I have the flexibility to do these kind of things!

We had family pictures a few weeks ago and I am sooooo in love!!! My boys are just precious!!!

We got a mover!!

He's officially 10 months old and we have a mover!!! He is finally crawling!! He loves the freedom of being able to go where ever he wants to go, but still after a long school day wants mommy to hold him or be right next to him!! I have to keep telling myself things can wait and that I should enjoy these times because they won't last forever!! They tell me at school that him and another little boy crawl in a big circle and leave toys everywhere they go again and again!!! It still amazes Donny and I every day how different two boys really are, but how their looks are getting closer!! This week has been our first real taste of fall and thinking about spending the winter and cold months indoors make me cringe!! Nolan loves being outside, and he is going to miss it this winter!!!

 

Its been a while!!!

Both kids are growing up faster than I ever wanted them too!! Brayden is adjusting to kindergarten very well, and actually enjoys it except for the homework!! It's a long day for him and he is still adjusting so I understand, but can't be too lax on it because it's inevitable that he will have homework!! He is putting letters together to make words, short words but still words, he is singing all kinds of song, he knows his letter sounds, he tells us what double digit numbers are!!! He is adding!! All kinds of stuff, I can't believe how much he has learned in a months time!!! He is officially a school kid!! He plays soccer on Saturdays and seems to enjoy it!!! He loves his new after school program and enjoys the new playground with his old friends!!! It's been great!!! Brayden had to take a sick day from school already because of croup and a BAD ear infection!! Luckily the ear didn't hurt him, but the fever is what really kept him down!! We restarted him Zyrtec and gave him a steroid and a little antibiotic and he did great!! The best part was mommy and him got to have a snuggle day off at home!!!

Nolan is almost 10 months old (tomorrow it will be official), he is starting to crawl, and I mean just starting to crawl normal, he's been scooting and spinning in circles, and going backwards for a while!!! He loves big kid toys, and one of his favorite ones is a drumstick!!! Luckily he doesn't use it on the drum yet!!!  He is a huge mommy's boy!!! If I am around he wants to be held by me at all times, and if he wants down he wants me within arms reach at all times!! He loves food still, he can eat just about anything without having teeth, and he doesn't like baby food!! When he eats he almost always has to be bathed after because he is MESSY!!! He continues to take bottles but loves his sippy cup!!! Donny and I are ready for him to be mobile because he gets very aggravated that he can't get where he wants to go!!! He continues to love being outside and very rarely complains when he is!!! He got his first fever, but thankfully it didn't last long and didn't accompany any other symptoms except needing a little more attention and being a little grouchy!!!