Track Meet

Nolan competed in his first track meet this evening.  He did pretty well and seemed to take after mom and dad in his love of running.  He said, "more running" after each race.  He ran a 50 meter dash and a 100 meter dash.  For both races, he was slow off the starting blocks since he was looking his competition over and sizing them up.  He got 2nd place in both races but seemed to get side tracked by a pretty little girl a couple of lanes over and wanted to go visit with her until dad called him back to reality and the race! All in all, it was a successful first meet!

Mini photo shoot

While at the lake last weekend, we went on a little adventure during the day Saturday since it was too windy on our side of the lake for any boating or outdoor activities.  We tried a park in town but they were in the process of redoing it so there was one fire truck and that was it.  None the less, Nolan found walking on the old dock fun just as fun as any playground.  I took the chance to snap away and got a couple of good pics of him.  Enjoy!

Two Years OLD!

I realized that we haven't posted pictures from the big 2 year old birthday bash... Nolan loved the day with family and friends.  He loves the trike from MiMi and Papa and the tools from Auntie and Uncle were a HUGE hit too. 

Police Car

For Nolan's recent birthday, he received a police car from mom and dad.  It is a huge hit!

Big Boy Bed

We have graduated to a big boy bed! A couple of weeks ago, Nolan and I were downstairs playing where his future mattress was being stored and I asked him if he would like to have a big boy bed in his room.  He responded with a resounding "yes" because he says "yes" to almost everything these days.  So I had my answer and we promptly began to move it upstairs, just the two of us. I did most of the work but I had a little boy at the other end saying "push push."  Once we got it upstairs, I just made up the bed on the floor in his room for a few days to see how the transition would go before venturing to take apart his crib. The transition has gone great! He has done superbly and there has only been one morning when he must have heard us get up early and was bold enough to get out of bed.  He went to his door and knocked a few times.  There were no words, just pitiful little knocks.  We have since taken apart the crib and made it into his big boy bed.  He loves to run in there and be able to fling himself onto his bed or to catch a quick read! We try to remind him every time we put him to bed that he must stay in bed until we come to get him and now he says "stay in bed" if we fail to mention it!

Dapper Dan

We just got back from the big city and thought we'd post a couple of pictures from our Easter adventure.  Nolan had a handsome suit for the occasion and looked quite dapper.  The one picture shows that Cousin Ky had a matching suit and was also quite a handsome man!  The kiddos had a quick egg hunt between church and brunch.  Both of Nolan's cousins were pro-egg hunters while Nolan took a more leisurely approach to the hunt.  He was more concerned with the treats that were in the eggs than actually finding the eggs!  So much so, that he resorted to picking treats out of the grass that dropped out of his egg rather than trying to find another egg.

Never a dull moment

This post won't include pictures since I didn't have my camera to capture the moments. If I did have pictures though, you would see a look of horror on my face!

The other day while Nolan and I were out shopping at Walmart, we passed a smelly man in the isle. I used my good manners and ignored the smell and kept walking but Nolan was a different story. He got a whiff of the man and immediately scrunched up his little nose and before I had a chance to say anything, Nolan loudly declares, "SMELLY... POO POO... SMELL ICKY!" I am not sure if the man got the hint but I quickly walked away from the situation and got the heck out of dodge!

The second moment must be a testament of how often Nolan has been misbehaving lately and how much time he is spending in his room in "timeout". We were in the living room playing yesterday and all of the sudden Nolan got up and picked up his doll. He took off like he was on a mission. He ran into his room and came back without his doll. He turned to me and said, "baby timeout!" Then a minute later, he ran back into his room and I could hear him ask his baby "ready?" We do this to Nolan after we go back to get him and ask him if he is ready to behave. Apparently he knows the routine of being in timeout well!