Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Nolan has at least 3 outfits with an Irish influence. A shirt that is covered in green shamrocks, a onesie that says "Lucky Me" with a 4 leaf clover and of course the green "Who's Your Paddy?" onesie. Unfortunately none of these fit him yet so I put him in his most green outfit that he owns. There are cows in Ireland!

note the tail on his booty

2 Month Update

Nolan turned 2 months old last week and along with that came his 2 month appointment with his new pediatrician, Dr. Molly. He was poked, prodded and stripped but was granted healthy status, YEAH!
The part I was looking forward to the most is getting his weight and height stats as I knew he was getting very big! He weighs 12.5 pounds which is just right for his age. His head on the other hand measured in the 90th percentile, meaning that his head is bigger then 90% of other 2 months old...he has a big head! He measured 25 inches which was completely off the charts!
I had a sneaking suspicion that his height/weight ratio was wacky when last week I finally gave up on stretching his 0-3 month onesies and went up to the next size. But when I tried (yet again) to put him in his 0-3 month pants they were way to big for his little belly, they fell right off. Today, his outfit consists of newborn pants (which look like long shorts but at least they stay on him), 0-3 month shirts and 3-6 month onesies. He's in for some awkward growing years, i can feel it!

The Many Sides of Nolan

I have very little experience dressing a boy...but I try hard and that counts...right?

Nolan The Duck

Nolan The Blue Bear

Nolan The Polar Bear

Nolan The Cow (I also have a brown bear jacket, which means I'm officially cut off of things with animal ears on it!)

Nolan The Surfer Dude

Nolan The Cat Farmer

A New Woman

Pat got me a gift certificate for a 1 hour massage for my birthday. I got a free upgrade from the spa for a 90 minute massage! It was wonderful. I truly believe that a massage should be part of the standard post partum treatment plan. I came back from my appointment today feeling like an entirely new person. I felt 6 inches taller, 10 pounds lighter, incredibly well rested and ready to take on anything Nolan could dish out.

Thank you Pat T for the PERFECT birthday present!

Nekkid Nolan

As I look through the hundreds of pictures I have taken of Nolan in the last 8 weeks I realized that there are quite a few of him with no clothes on. Here is one of many:

You might think to yourself that I'm a neglectful mother, leaving her infant son naked in the winter. There is a very good reason for this. Nolan has always been a very impatient guy when it comes to eating. When I was pregnant, if I got even a little bit hungry he would give me a quick jab in the side to get me moving a little faster. Now that he is not hooked up to the 24 hour umbilical quickie mart he is even more impatient.

Parenting books say to look for non verbal hungry messages that come before crying. These messages include lip smacking, clicking their tongue and turning their head from side to side. Well he gives these messages but he goes from content to non verbal messages to screaming in 2 minutes flat and usually I am right in the middle of changing his diaper when this transition takes place. I try to be patient and rationalize with him that if he lets me put his onesie back on that we will get food right away but that is when he starts doing his deep lung screaming which requires him to take a big deep breath and scream until he turns purple-y. I give in, grab a blanket and feed him just as he is. Then when he's good and full, he is a happy baby and so I start snapping pictures or in this case take a quick little video.

I was trying to catch him "talking" which he refused to do once I hit record but it's still cute! I'm thinking I might need to just get him dressed and let him scream for 30 seconds longer if it means he is warm. Who am I kidding? When it comes to eating he always calls the shots!

He is my baby!

I was beginning to wonder where this beautiful, well proportioned, olive skin toned, full head of hair baby had come from and where my bald, translucent skinned, alien looking baby was. I don't have any baby pictures of myself that i can post here but my family can testify that I was pretty funny looking. Long neck, bony fingers and wide eyes dubbed me the name ET as an infant. My sister, a fellow baldy had better luck as a baby, she at least had equal proportions and her daughter Clementine turned out best of all (although she did lack in the hair department until her first birthday).

I thanked the stars for the strong Clingman genes that gave him all that hair and beautiful skin but began to wonder if I would ever see any of myself in him. Well yesterday it finally happened...he started to look...well...a little awkward.

Note the bony fingers, long neck and slightly buggy eyes...that's my boy!

I'm Sorry!

I apologize for being MIA on here lately, we have been super busy with the life happenings and haven't been able to post all of our adventures. Luckily Auntie Em reminded me to post some dang pictures already! So out of shear fear that she will post embarrassing stories about me on her blog (camandemily.blogspot.com) I am making the blog #1 priority for the evening.

This week I started my new job. It just so happens that this is a job that I can do from home and my employers even let me bring Nolan in when I do happen to need to come in to the office. So we headed in this week to get situated, meet our new coworkers and organize the office. Nolan was a huge hit of course and it definitely doesn't hurt to have an adorable 7 week old strapped on to you when you are trying to get to know people.

The first day was rough as Nolan was in a new place and meeting new people to charm. He recently discovered that if he spits out his binky at just the right time he can wake himself up and drive mommy CRAZY! So he was using his new trick all day long and getting grumpy. Then he had one of those "diaper blowouts" that we discussed in previous posts so that required a full outfit change right there on my office floor. I was exhausted by the end of the day!

Luckily things were all up hill from there. He became more comfortable in his new environment and I became more relaxed. I'm just so grateful that we were able to find something that would allow me to bring in an income and avoid putting Nolan in childcare, I'll make this work if it kills me!