Nolan says Happy Mothers’ Day to all the moms and grandmoms and great-grandmoms and, heck, all the dads and aunts and uncles and cousins and friends and everyone else who is involved in raising children! But, today, most especially there is lots of love and appreciation for the moms out there…
Tomorrow Nolan will be 8 months old, and you can see from the picture that he weighed in at 9lb, 1.5oz last week at his weekly weigh-in. Nolan is working hard at getting big and strong. He’s also getting more and more interactive, using his hands and making lots of noises. Kara and Ronan have been doing lots of physical therapy with him and he’s really doing great with it. The physical therapy is stuff like having him do pushups on your chest and getting him to turn his head all the way to both sides and that sort of thing — mostly aimed at getting him to use both sides equally and gain strength and flexibility in general. A bit of catchup from spending so long in a bed when the other kids were out playing…
Apparently Nolan went to the Farmers’ Market yesterday and loved it. He was facing out in his carrier and Kara said he was kicking and talking and generally getting very excited. As he gets bigger and stronger, he’ll get to go out into open spaces with people even more. Undoubtedly followed by a bit of quiet time with the fuzzy friends, like this.
The auction on May 4th was a huge success! Immense thanks go out to all of those who participated by organizing (an unimaginably major commitment!), donating, volunteering or attending. I don’t know exactly how much was raised, but I do know they definitely surpassed their goal. I think more details may be posted on the auction website soon for those who would like to know more.