Nolan the terrible (terribly good)

one of Nolan's favorite games is "i'm gonna get you!" and he'll usually charge at you as you come to him. it's a game of chicken, crawling. he really seems to understand what this phrase means, a concept hard for me to grasp that he will someday go from grunting and pointing to talking back. tonight we teamed up and got daddy. we'd run at him, then run away and then Nolan would "redirect" me to get him again. by "getting" i mean flopping down on daddy and sqealing for joy. people say that the mind of a baby is like a sponge, and i think Nolan may finally be breaking out his language sponge. he's experimenting a bit more.

musically he has expanded. the radio was on in our bedroom after his bath, atypical, but since dad gave him his bath, not surprising. instead of heading straight for the books and pulling out one for me to read (usually The Okay Book and Pat the Bunny) he headed straight for our radio. their was some jazz playing and he was flapping his arms wildly and rhythmically. he then somehow managed to change the tuner to a station playing African music heavy on the drums and started moving his baby bottom around to the beat. i believe the boy knows his music. he's picky it seems. we were in a record store yesterday and he had ample opportunity to dance to several songs but only grooved to one electronica type song.


he's definitely testing the limits of what he should and shouldn't do. the terrible toddler Nolan is about to be unleashed.



this sunshade was on sale and i thought it might be nice for next year. it amazingly packs down to the size of a frisbee. however, it has become a fun toy for Nolan now. he loves to play peekaboo around it, and even tricked me once by crawling around to where i was hiding. again, small people and their affinity to things their size...

we're all getting very excited about Nolan's upcoming birthday. it's one week from today, next Saturday, and all the family will be together (almost). he has no idea what's going on so i'm going to be enjoying his surprise sooo much. just thinking about the whole year is bizarre and incredible. just thinking about going into labor about 3 AM the day of his birth and all the craziness that ensued makes the craziness of the past year seem mild. but our lives are practically unrecognizably different, my feelings regarding life and my practice of sustaining it changed forever. Nolan has brought a whole new life to us in so many ways.