Day-to-day

Nothing really exciting has happened lately... it's just been a typical week. Last Saturday, I scrambled to find a picture of Meg Ryan with cute hair so that I could show it to my hair stylist. I'm so pleased with the way the cut turned out. My hair was getting past my shoulders and it was just icky. I've also been enjoying the video editing software on our new computer. I'm finally making proper movies out of the footage of Nolan when he was a newborn. It's pretty fun. This morning I taught yoga for our enrichment exercise group. I do it every other Friday and it seems to be going all right. We do weights and step aerobics the rest of the time. I love getting together with the other moms!

The highlight of Justin's week was getting his big "lunch 'n learn" over with at work. He did a big presentation in front of lots of smarties (and his bosses) at work. He was presenting a new tool to promote collaboration. It's kind of like wikipedia but for all the engineers that he works with. Don't ask me any more questions about it... it's top secret (kidding; I just don't understand anything past that). Justin has also been busy in the yard. We're nearly ready for the finishing touches! I go out to help quite a bit, too, but once Nolan eats a certain amount of dirt I feel that it's necessary to bring him in.

Nolan has been as busy as ever this week. My cousin, Marci, just found out she's having twins. If Nolan were a twin, I'd have dropped dead of exhaustion by now. But I'm sure she can handle it! I've taken pictures of what Nolan has been doing lately. He was intrigued with me as I blew bubbles (bubble gum) the other day. I kept trying to stop so I could spit out the flavorless wad, but he would do his "more" baby sign language over and over again. Anything to keep the peace. I also tried getting Nolan to color using some nifty toddler markers. They're for kids 18 months and up. Well, you can tell from the pictures that he's obviously not quite ready. He just wanted to eat it, of course. After 3 or 4 minutes, I decided to hide them away for another few months. Nolan also has new sunglasses! Isn't he cool? Too bad he pulls them off after a short time. He is starting to be even more vocal. He says "tickle tickle." It is pretty funny. He doesn't really know what it means but he does a great job of imitating us. Daddy took Nolan on a walk all the way to the mailbox! Nolan was walking himself... otherwise that wouldn't be a long stroller ride at all. So that's our week here. Tonight Nolan will be hanging out with his friend Jaxon while his parents go out on a date. They're darling friends. We hope you all have a happy weekend! And in case some of you didn't know, just click on the grid of pictures above and they should come up bigger if you'd like to take a closer look.

One more thing... here's a cute picture of Nolan and Dad on the way to the mailbox.