Posh baby photo contest

So I entered Nolan in a fun little photo contest! I have been researching making a blog that would be fun and informative. Todd is going to help me. But this is a cool blog and has a little photo contest.

So....Vote for our Nolan

http://www.poshlittle.com/baby/baby-photo-contest.html?&task=show&id=428

The Little Village Playplace

 

Today we visited The Little Village Playplace in Arlington Heights. It was part of Nolan's early preschool class. He had a great time playing with the school bus, in the house, at the dentist office, in the grocery store, making crafts, and just running around!

MY SLIDE!

 

Nolan is fascinated with our basement, he LOVES, absolutely LOVES to play in the basement. I believe he loves the basement so much because we are playing with him. He has our undivided attention. I placed his storybook cottage in the basement a few months ago and that was quite the hit. This past weekend we decided if we are going to play in the basement, we needed some carpeting. So we bought some, and now it is a big play zone...

Today I moved the slide into the basement, and Nolan was thrilled. Up and down the slide he went, for over an hour. Here is a collage of pictures of the fun he had.

"HI!"

Nolan is 20 months old now, and his vocabulary is expanding as he is getting bigger. My little boy is growing up so FAST! I am trying to remember and capture all these little everyday happenings. He is at a very cute age, and it is fun to hear his voice and little words. He recently started saying Wrigley, well more like Wrie, ree. And the past few days he has developed his first two word combination. He now says Hi. He will say it for hello, goodbye, and he now added Hi with another word like Wrigley, mama or dada.

Here is a little video of him saying his word, HI for his favorite buddy, Wrigley.

As you can see in the video he loves her so much, so much so that he gets kissed by her, and he shares everything with her. He is also learning how to brush his teeth, so you will see him try to brush Wrigley too! We are working on not sharing everything with his favorite friend.

The FACES of Nolan

 

The many faces of Nolan--all I can say is that I love everyone of them, he is just CUTE! What this collage made me see is how Nolan has grown and learned about emotions and how to express himself within his environment. He has learned how to have other humans respond to him. He has so many expressions, our visit to the Kohl's Children's Museum just captured a few of these faces. But I am so happy that I have these flickers in time. He is growing up so quickly, and we will be able to look back at these moments! All I can say is that I love Nolan and all of his faces!