Harvest Time Happenings

I realized that I never put pictures up from our annual trip to the pumpkin patch. As you will notice, there are a limited number of pictures where Nolan is actually looking at the camera. He was busy the entire time and it was a challenge to get him to look at the camera long enough for me to snap a good picture. Nolan was also a little golfer for our church's harvest party. He received many compliments on his costume and he even left the hat on the entire night!

Swing Set!

Nolan received a new swing set last week from his grandpa and grandma and thanks to the great weather he has been getting a lot of good use out of it. He loves climbing and going down the slide most of the all. Swinging seems to be fun for about 30 seconds! The only problem is now every morning he sees that swing set and says "Side!" - his word for outside. I think he would spend 10 hours a day outside if his parents would let him.

Jump around!

Our neighbors have a trampoline in their backyard. Nolan loves to watch the boys jump on it and apparently has taken notes on how to land successfully! He was practicing his landing skills on our bed last night!

Cape Cod

Nolan and Danielle took a little vacation out to Cape Cod last week and were joined by Danielle's dad, Steve. It was rainy many of the days they were there but they were able to see quite a bit and spent one day on Martha's Vineyard in the midst of the President's vacation with his family. It was a zoo around there and they did their best to stay away from the action but the Presidential motorcade followed them around the island from one town to another! Apprently they were always at the happening place.

Laugh

Nick took this video last night of Nolan laughing. He is usually such a fun and happy little guy. Enjoy!

Splat

Isn't is amazing how closely kids watch their parents actions? Last week I saw a big fat fly on the window and decided to swat him against the window. Guess who was watching? Not more than 5 seconds later Nolan grabbed the spatula which was the closest thing he could find to a swatter and proceeded to also "kill a fly" like daddy. Funny stuff.

Elephant Tail

Nolan is a fan of sucking his thumb. He is pretty good about only sucking it if he has his blanket and is in bed but there are a few things that he will use as a substitute for his blanket. The tail of his stuffed elephant is one of those substitutes! He likes to pull elephant Horton around by it's tail or lay with him on the floor and roll around.

We also had a little drama here the other night when Nolan put his blanket into the bathtub before I had a chance to fully drain it. Spot the blanket was soaked and there was a very unhappy little boy because he couldn't have his blanket and mom had to go in search of another one from the laundry. Nolan kept trying to pull it down from the shower rod where I had hung it up to dry.