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3 months

Last Friday Nolan turned 3 months old.  I know I say this every time, but I can't believe how fast time flies.  The sad part of Nolan turning 3 months is that my maternity leave was over and I had to go back to work.  This week has been very tough, I've missed Nolan like crazy.  Luckily I work for a wonderful company that has let me ease into coming back full time.  Today I took Nolan to the doctor, he now weighs 14 pounds. He has been spitting up a lot after he eats, turns out he has acid reflux and is on liquid prilosec twice a day.  The doctor said he should grow out of this by the time he is 6 - 9 months old, we are keeping at fingers crossed.

This month Nolan has become so alert, he is seeing more and more everyday and he definitely knows who his mom and dad are.  It's so fun when he looks at you and smiles because he knows you are his mom & dad.  Nolan is also talking and laughing non-stop, it is so much fun to see how happy he is.  The best is when he wakes up in the morning and is smiling and talking and not screaming at you.  Nolan is also trying to sit up by himself, we haven't had any luck yet, but he is very determined.  We have him sit in his bumbo seat every day to try and make him stronger.

Nolan now loves bath time, this week he has figured out if he kicks his feet in the tub that he can splash water all over the place.  It is so funny to watch him because he just cracks up.  He still doesn't like it when I put lotion on him after his bath, we are taking baby steps, maybe next month.

Here's Nolan in his first robe at my parent's house.  He looks like a future Hugh Hefner, watch out girls!

Last Tuesday Katie and Aiden came over for a play date.  This was the first time they actually realized the other one was there.  They had a blast playing in their exersaucers and talking to eachother.

Aiden loved the camera

Nolan laughing at Aiden

Nolan spent New Year's Eve in Greensburg with my parents, it was so nice of them to watch he and Dierks so we could go to Louisville with our friends.  Nolan celebrated by wearing his tuxedo shirt onesie, thanks Angie!

Tis the Season

We had a busy 2 days celebrating Christmas with our families.  We went to Greensburg on Christmas Eve and visited with Gammy, went to church, and hung out at Porter's house afterwards.  We woke up Christmas morning at my parents house and opened presents with them.  Nolan slept through everything!  He was definitely spoiled and got some wonderful presents. After breakfast with my family we went to Cam and Joey's to celebrate with Travis' family.  We had such a nice visit with everyone and again Nolan was spoiled to pieces.  Thank you to everyone for all the nice things you got us, we truly appreciate it.  We really enjoyed Christmas and the time we got to spend with everyone.

Nolan with Grandma and Grandpa

Nolan with Gammy

Christmas morning in our PJ's

Nolan loves his Auntie Lauran

Helping Nana open her presents

Last week Nolan and I went to Lafayette to have lunch with my friend Missy (she as my big sis in AOII).  Missy now lives in Boston so we only see her once a year.

Here are a few random pictures of Nolan that we took the past couple of days.  Two nights ago we put him in his exersaucer, he loves it!

Wearing Daddy's hat

This is fun!

 Look at me mom

Nolan's 1st Vacation

We recently took Nolan on his 1st vacation to Florida. Travis attended the annual PRI tradeshow in Orlando. Nolan and I tagged along for fun and to visit family. The flight out there was wonderful, Nolan slept the first half of the flight and then he woke up and talked to us for awhile and then ate. Before we knew it we were back on the ground and survived our first flight! Nolan is a great baby so we weren't worried about how he would do, but you just never know. We are very lucky to have such a great baby.

We started out our vacation by spending the first night in Orlando. We checked into our hotel and ventured to Downtown Disney for dinner. Nolan got to try on his first set of Mickey ears, too cute. He slept through most of Downtown Disney, I think traveling wore him out.

The next day we went to Sea World to see Shamu! I've always loved marine animals so I was very excited to go to Sea World. We had a great day, the weather was perfect (80 degrees). Again, Nolan slept through most of the day, but Travis and I had so much fun. We went to the dolpin show, played with stingrays, checked out the penguins and the sharks, watched dolpins underwater (my favorite), wathced the manatee's swim around and ended the day with Shamu.

After our day at Sea World and headed to Lakeland where my Auntie Colleen and Unlce Brad live, we stayed here for the remainder of our trip. We had such a great visit with our family in Florida. Nolan got meet 6 more of his cousins, 2 of his great-aunts and 2 of his great-uncles. I definitely didn't think that we would have been able to introduce Nolan to everyone at 10 weeks, but we are very fortunate. We were also very lucky that Nolan slept 9 - 10 hours each night we were in Florida. Unbelieveable, he was only sleeping 6 hours before we left, now he is sleeping 7 - 9 hours a night, it's awesome!

We ended our trip by going to the Magic Kingdom with Nana and Pac Pac. Travis' parents were in Florida because they brought his grandma down for the winter. The Magic Kingdom was great! I haven't been there in 10 years. You definitely feel like a kid again as soon as you step into the park. Surprsingly, Nolan was able to ride every ride with us besides Space Mountain and Thunder Mountain. He won't remember the day, but Travis and I will and we have plenty of pictures to show him one day.

This trip was a great way to end my maternity leave. I'm not looking forward to going back to work, but I know it will be good to get back into an everyday routine. I'm really going to miss hanging out with my little man everyday, the past 3 months have been the best!

Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus

Today Katie and I took Nolan and Aiden to the Castleton Square Mall for their first meeting with Santa, they even wore matching outfits. Katie and I bought these onesies last winter. We knew she was having a boy, but we weren't sure what I was having. Good thing I had a boy, a little girl would not have looked cute in this outfit. The boys were so good, Aiden was alert for everything and Nolan slept through most of our trip to the mall, he woke up and started screaming at me in the last store. The boys had a great play date and Katie and I were able to get some shopping done. I can't wait for next year, the boys will be running around, that's scary to think about.

Comfy cozy on Santa, next year will be a different story

Nolan letting me know it's time to leave the mall

Naptown Rollers

Saturday night Justin, Allison, Travis and I went dinner at Mamma Corollas and to the State Fairgrounds to see the Naptown Rollers, the Indianapolis Roller Derby team. Allison (she is a graphic designer) designed t-shirts at work that were sold at the roller derby so she got free tickets for us to go. We had a blast, those girls are rough and tough! Here are few pictures from our experience.

Naptown Rollers in action

Allison and I with Sin Lizzie

The boys (not sure what this girl was)

2 months old

On Wednesday Nolan turned 2 months old. I can't believe how fast the time has gone. Before I know it I will unfortunately be back at work. I've really enjoyed my maternity leave and time off with Nolan; it's going to be hard to go back.

This morning we had Nolan's 2 month check-up. Dr. Moreland said that Nolan is a very healthy growing boy. He is 23 1/4 inches and 12.4 lbs. He is still measuring in the 50th percentile for his age.

Nolan is growing and changing so much everyday. Here are few things he has started doing this month.

• He can lay on his stomach and hold his head up
• He is can follow voices when people are talking in a room
• When we talk to him he will laugh and coo (this is the best!)
• He is now sleeping 4 - 5 hours a night. I don't want to jinx us, but last night he slept through the night for the first time.
• He has rolled over in his crib a couple of times, of course he was really mad and screaming, not sure if that counts or not.

Thanks for the Christmas shirt Grandma!

Nolan's Christmas shirt that Dad picked out

Hanging with Grandpa in matching hats

Next week we will be taking our first family vacation. We are flying to Florida on Tuesday. Travis has a tradeshow in Orlando and we are going to stay with Auntie Colleen and Uncle Brad. We are looking forward to introducing Nolan to them.