Updates on Nolan

Nolan spent some time playing in the first snow of his life (the minor flurries we have had here in the past two years do not count!). His first trip out in the morning went well for about two minutes then he fell twice and had a melt down. Turned out all he needed was a nap (about three hours of nap) and after that he was good to go. He loved watching Neaka and Sambuka playing in the snow most of all though he thought stomping in it was pretty fun too. It was nice for all of us to get to see the snow again after so many years of false alarms. We hope to show him the joys of sledding in the future! We got a few pictures we will eventually post but we are once again without internet so it may be a while.

P.S. At his last weight check Nolan was twenty-five lbs (they now weigh him with clothes on).

ok, finally got more photos in the gallery. Enjoy!

Wow, has it really been over two months since the last post?! Well, time flies when your chasing a two year old.

We are well here. Nolan is now an old pro at the whole walking thing. He still trips regularly but can practically run and is showing us some fresh dance moves- look out Beyonce!

He has finished his physical therapy though she is calling once a month to make sure things are still progressing. We miss seeing Randah not to mention the motivation she provided for cleaning the house… We are going to start speech therapy soon. On the last test Nolan was still on the low end of normal which just qualified him for speech therapy. We decided to go ahead and sign him up; we still don’t feel worried about him talking but figure it certainly couldn’t hurt. He definitely knows-and uses-the word “NO!” Hopefully we will make another friend in his speech therapist as we did with Randah.

We had a big holiday. We were here for Christmas day then drove to Poplar to have another Christmas with our mountain family. With all the parties, presents, cousins and traveling we were (um, still are a bit) worn out. Nolan was a champ and held up quite well for all of it. We gave ourselves a camcorder as a gift and hope to get some footage on the blog. Right now we are having trouble getting our computer to read the disks so it may be a while before you (sorry Squarepants!) get to see Nolan in all his glory.

Happy 2009 to all. We feel it is going to be a good year and look forward to all the adventures ahead. Just in case I let time zip by again I will go ahead and post a celebration: On February 11th Nolan will have been home for two years, good work little man!