No new pics . . .

So as some of you know we had a pretty significant house flood a few weeks ago and my memory card reader is currently located somewhere in a POD with most of the rest of my belongings. So, even though I have lots of cute new pictures (Nolan wiht Gracie, Nolan with a sippy cup, etc . . .) I have no way to post them yet . . . Hopefully I'll get some up here soon. For now, I hope everyone is having a great holiday season!

We're all in trouble now . . .

Nolan is doing several new things, two of which are quite concerning to me . . . Hes started to put himself on his hands and knees and move his little bootie back and forth. Apparently he thinks he will be crawling soon . . . He has also started to root around in his little toy box for things. I'm starting to wonder why the baby-proofing has been put off for so long!!

He's trying!

Trying again

I almost fell out of my chair when he did this

Some new foods, sleeping and Ryan's weekend

Nolan is now officially eating lots of new food . . . He started on peas, moved on to bananas (or nanas as we like to call them . . .) then started carrots and most recently pears. Yum. He seems to like them all though he still occasionally makes various faces when eating something (especially peas.) Other than that, no too much new stuff is going on . . . Nolan is sleeping really well in his crib unswaddled which too a little adjusting, but not too much . . . Ryan was out of town last weekend for the Head of the Hooch, a rowing competition in Chatanooga, TN. Nolan and I are hoping we can join him there next year.

First feeding of peas . . . someone's not so sure about them

Eating nanas

One of his most common sleeping positions . . . I can't help but laugh, its amazing he gets any sleep with me laughing and taking pictures all night . . .

Ryan rowing (this is an older picture, actually from last years Head of the Hooch) he is 4th from the left

Pre-Halloween

Its almost Nolan's first Halloween . . . last weekend we made a trip to the pumpkin patch with G and some friends to pick out pumpkins so Ryan and I could carve pumpkins for the first time since we were children. We got several good pics of Nolan sitting with pumpkins . . .

Nolan and G at the pumpkin patch

Missing a shoe

Lyndsey's twin daughters, Meredith and Katherine with the pumpkins they picked out and their webkins in their Halloween costumes

Leaving the patch with some pumpkins

Cutest Picture Ever (says the photographer and mother of the baby . . . biased you say???)

Our carved jack-o-lanterns . . .

Tonight, Nolan was invited to his first Halloween party, where he went dressed as, you guessed it, a pumpkin . . . There were 3 other babies (triplets that are about 7 months older than Nolan) and I think Nolan enjoyed staring at them though there wasn't much interaction . . .

With Mommy before the party (in his Halloween outfit that he wore under his costume)

Dressed as a pumpkin with Daddy

On the floor playing with Daddy . . . The triplets (Ian, Elinor and Sterling) are close by dressed as pirates and a pirate princess

A trip to see Nana and Papa Harold

Last weekend we took a day trip up to S Georgia to visit Ryan's dad and stepmother (Papa Harold and Nana to Nolan) and then went over to see Ryan's mom and step dad . . . It was a fun filled day for Nolan, who took only a few short naps and (thankfully) slept all the way home (the alternative would have been for him to cry all the way home . . . hes not always a great rider.)

Papa Harold and Nolan

Nana and Nolan

Sitting in the grass

First Friends . . .

Here are a few pictures of Nolan and his friend Gracie. I met Gracie's mom, Erin, several months ago at a mom's group we both attend . . . Nolan and Gracie are a week apart in age and its been lots of fun for us to watch them grow together and talk about all of their firsts . . . Nolan rolled over first, Gracie made razzing noises first, Nolan sat up first and Gracie played peek-a-boo first . . . These pictures were taken about 2 weeks ago, and this was really the first time they seemed interested in each other for any length of time. When they saw each other today there was even more eye contact and smiles, they are just way too cute together, and we are looking forward to more play dates in the future.

6 months . . .

Today (10/17/08) Nolan is 6 months old and we can hardly believe it! It feels like its been longer than 6 months and much shorter than 6 months at the same time . . . Nolan came down with his first cold last week, he woke up last Friday coughing and all stuffed up . . . He still has some remnants but luckily things never got too bad . . . He is also almost fully sitting up on his own. He can do it for several minutes at a time. Of course, the second whoever is watching him turns their head he flops over, but its amazing how much his sitting up has changed in just a week . . . I'm posting some pics of a beach trip we took last weekend. Two friends from my college days in Missouri, Tim and Micki, were vacationing in Destin, FL for the week with their family and some friends so the three of us spent the day with them last Sunday hanging out on the beach.

Nolan relaxing in his play pen on the beach

Tim and Micki's youngest, Eli, partially buried in the sand

Tim and Micki's oldest, Jacob, playing catch on the beach

Tim playing catch with Jacob

Micki and Eli trying to soothe a cranky Nolan

Fun with Daddy

Some recent favorites . . .

These are just a few recent favorite pictures . . .

At Mema's house

Playing guitar with Daddy

After a bath . . .

Playing with his toes on his changing table

In Memory . . .

At the young age of only 10, my mothers dog Kelly died earlier today from a sudden illness. Kelly was kind of the queen of the Cormier household . . . She loved to run in the woods, she liked to swim at the beach, and she especially loved going on trips with us. She's been to St George Island numerous times, Dauphin Island and even braved the drive to Massachusetts more than once . . . We're all especially sad that Nolan won't get to know Kelly as she was the kind of dog you could imagine a little boy falling in love with, but we are glad to have had this time with her. Rest in peace Kelly . . .

Lots of firsts . . .

Nolan is doing all kinds of new things these days . . . He is sitting up pretty well if he is supported, he can roll from his back to his tummy and vice versa, and is now eating "solid" food (rice cereal and barley cereal) . . . In addition to all of this he is also teething . . . He doesn't act like hes in too much pain, but if he gets one of your knucles into his mouth watch out!!

Laughing at Mommy and Daddy

Starting . . .

Almost there . . .

Yay! Notice Toby J watching all the excitement . . .

"Yummy" rice cereal . . .

We also had another nice visit to Ryan's mom's last weekend for a family birthday party celebrating all the September, October and November bdays. Nolan had a fantastic time playing with his cousins and getting more attention than he knew what to do with . . .

Happy Birthday to Rodney, Sheri, Pamela, Steve, Patrick and Ashlan!

Visiting with Mema before bed . . . Nolan was up until midnight and was totally exhausted

Sitting with Ashlan

Nolan with Reagan

Sitting with Cailan

Some fun visitors . . .

Last weekend we had a fwe very fun visitors . . . Two of my friends, Meredith and Joey, came from Missouri to visit and meet Nolan. For those of you that were at our wedding you may remember Meredith as the maid of honor. We hadn't seen Joey since last summer and hadn't seen Meredith in just over 3 years so it was a great visit. Nolan hardly fussed again the whole weekend (he seems to fuss the most when its just him and mommy at home . . . hum . . . ) it was lot of fun and of course we were very sad to see them go and hope to see them again very soon.

Meredith and Nolan

Joey and Nolan

Nolan helping Mommy play hearts

This is how we spent most of the weekend . . . fun for Meredith and I since playing cards is about our favorite thing to do . . . Not as much fun for Joey who doesn't enjoy it quite as much.

G and Nolan at Nolan's first FSU tailgate

Paul, Myrna and Nolan at the tailgate

Nolan's 70's Dance Hour

Bad Daddy.

Happy Grandparent's Day!!

Last Sunday was Nolan's first Grandparents Day and he celebrated in style . . . The G/Mema celebration started on Saturday when Ryan and I had a wedding in Destin, FL to attend. Destin is about 2 1/2 hours away and we made the trip by ourselves . . . Mema did us a huge favor and drove to town to babysit Nolan for the first few hours, then G did us a huge favor and took over (which meant putting Nolan to bed and waiting at our house until we got home at 2 am!) Nolan barely napped at all and I'm pretty sure thats because he was trying to soak up all the attention he could get :) Sunday morning we had G over for a nice breakfast which Nolan almost slept through. Happy Grandparent's Day to all and thanks again to G and Mema!!

Nolan and G on Grandparent's Day after breakfast

Nolan and Mema a few weeks ago at Mema's house