Big Brother and Big Boy....

Nolan is now almost 4 years old. It has been over a year since I last wrote on here, and has been a challenging one. On some moments Nolan plays very well with Selah and then others he is trying to upset her. We are trying to sell our house right now, so he's been very helpful and hurtful at times with that. He has finally decided he likes to clean his room and get rewarded. The wonderful thing now are all the conversations we have about church and God and all the other things that he can try to wrap his mind around. I'm going to add some pics to show how much the kids have grown!

New Baby Sister

Well, it's been awhile since I last wrote. We've had many changes go on and I finally had the baby! We have named her Selah Kate and Nolan is such a wonderful big brother. She was born 5 weeks early on March 1st, 2010 at a whopping 5 lbs. 12 oz....pretty big for being that early. When I was pregnant, Nolan would always roar at my belly and was never into being mushy. I will say he very sweet to his little sister and tries to give her a bottle at times and toys....most of the time not needed but it's the thought that counts. When Selah makes noises, Nolan will put his hand to his hear and say, "What's that?" and go check on her. She is very good baby and allows me time to deal with him, because he is very wild these days. I'm going to try to keep up with this thing now!

Nolan is going to be a big brother!

We just found out a couple days ago that we are pregnant with a girl. He doesn't completely get the baby thing, but he does know to point to my belly when I ask him where the baby is. The other day Nolan came up to me and pointed to my belly and said, "Baby." I thought that was the sweetest thing, but then he proceeds to roar at the baby in the belly and I didn't really know how to take that. I would just like to get potty training done and Nolan in his big boy bed before the baby gets here.

Surgery, Lyon's Farm, and Nolan's Birthday!

Okay, so it has been awhile. We had a crazy October. Nolan ended up having surgery to help his breathing and he had to stay in the PICU for a night and then at the hospital for another night. He was a trooper! I think the surgery was harder on us at times than him.




Nolan's Birthday is on November 1st but this year it fell on a Sunday, so we decided to have his party on Halloween. There were at least 25 people that came and it was a blast! Nolan enjoyed opening all his presents and the highlights of present opening were: getting the trash can he picked out 6 months ago, being more excited about the box that a present came in than the present itself, and having no one else hold the green lizard that Hannah got him. Nolan's friend, Eli, brought silly string and the kids really liked that....especially Eli. We had lots of food and I even made a special Mickey Mouse cake that took 2 days to make. I'm glad that I have a whole year before planning the next one





We visited Lyon's Family Farm with Granny Lou, Daw, Aunt Nell, Piper, Rachel, and Marie the day before Halloween. Nolan loved all animals and his favorite was the pot-belly pig. He also got to go on a cow choo choo train. The funniest part is that he kept going down this large tunnel slide but would only do it if Granny Lou went down after he did every time. We eventually found a distraction so that Granny Lou could get a rest.


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The Potty War

I had already in my mind that Nolan would not be potty trained until 3 years of age...they seem to make you think that boys take so much longer. When Nolan had 3 days in a row of using his potty 4-8 times in a day, I thought how much easier this was going to be. Now we are averaging 1 time a day. I have now realized that it make take longer and he'll have to decide for himself when he wants to consistently do it. I at least know now he can make himself go if he needs to go but it will have to be on his own timing. I just wish that he didn't get my hopes....I really hope it's by baby #2 when he's potty trained!

Visiting Granny Lou and the Zoo

We visited my parents in KY about a week ago. Nolan just loves my mom so much but her name is still something he won't say. As of right now, he calls her NakNak. We visited the zoo while we were up and Nolan loved seeing all the animals. I think that we could take him anywhere and he would find some sort of entertainment.! One of the animals that he reacted to the most was the ostrich. He was on top of Eric's shoulders and once he saw the ostrich moving towards the front he just started yelling and telling Eric all about it.

Nolan's New Potty

We just recently bought Nolan a potty. It's nothing special, just looks like a frog and the middle piece comes out. He was so excited about it the first day we got it and wanted to sit in the living room on it while watching Mickey Mouse Club. Later that day, when Eric got home, I told Nolan to go get his potty. He brought it out and took the middle piece out and put it on his head and kept saying, "Dat, Dat."---meaning hat. It was so funny and Eric and I couldn't stop laughing. At least he had not peed in the potty yet so it was clean.