Water Park

Tuesday was the first day of Summer and it just so happened to be about 80 degrees in Seattle. We kicked on the a/c and brought out our baby pool to celebrate.

Nolan was so excited, we played outside in that pool all day.

He would've played all night too but he had splashed out most of the water.

Cups

This just makes me laugh.

Boy Stuff

Nolan is definitely a boy. When I found out we were having a boy I imagined a gentle cuddly guy with an adventurous streak. The perfect combination of Pat and I. Some days he is more Pat.

Like when he drinks out of puddles,

whenever he finds them.

Or when I find live snails in his mouth.

Or when rough housing leads to fat lips.

He's slowly coming around to cuddling too but most days he is 100% Nolan. Like when he insists on wearing Annabella's hair clip and then pouts the whole time he's wearing it.

Or I find him in his crib shirtless and wearing a fedora. I'll take credit for the temporary tattoo on his chest but the rest is mind boggling. I have concluded that there is either a ghost that lives in his room and sneaks him toys and such or he is hiding things in his crib before nap time. Either is possible.

Insisting that he have his favorite night night blanket while he goes potty.

Or the way he shields his eyes from the sun but looks like he is saluting.

He's such a silly guy, we have really enjoyed watching him interpret his world and invent his own language. I'll have to do a separate post on our favorite Nolan -isms.

Juicy

That is what Nolan calls Popsicles because he helped make them out of juice. After we poured the juice in the forms he asked about them all day. Try explaining the freezing process to a 2 year old! Needless to say he was not happy that I was testing his patience. The next day as soon as he woke up he asked for his juicy and I told him after breakfast. He remembered that too so we had yogurt and Popsicles for breakfast that day.

Did I mention I made these using 100% Cranberry juice? He only slightly noticed the tartness.

He did pretty good for his first Popsicle, although I am glad we were outside for this experience. Cameras don't really pick up sticky but we definitely had a bath that night!

Chalk

We finally got the chance to break in our new sidewalk chalk over a particularly warm Spring weekend. Obviously I got the most use out of it, but Nolan did a few bricks before running off to play on his new slide (many thanks to Brad, if you are reading this) or eating the chalk. It turned into a pretty cute photo session though so well worth it.

I should mention that I am going to be drag out these day to day things because we really haven't done much in the last 6 weeks besides wedding and 5K planning. Enjoy!

Blogging

Sorry we have been MIA for the last...6weeks?! I guess that seems right. A combination of work and fun kept us out of the house more then we would like but now that Summer has hit we will be up to all sorts of things. Hopefully this will include blogging! :)

I did my best to document our adventures so bear with me as I catch you up on the day to day excitement that is the Clingman household.

Since we've been cooped up for what feels like the longest winter ever, we have been taking advantage of each sunny days (and some questionably overcast days) and getting out in our yard to play.

It all started out with me trying to take pictures of our garden to save in my inspiration files. I like to have as many pictures as possible to remind me in the dark grey winter of what I have to look forward to come Spring.

Examples:

This is my favorite color combination in our yard, it only lasts about a week but I have about 20 pictures to remember it by.

A close up of my lovely lilac tree.

This is when our mail man, Marty showed up and thought I was taking pictures of Nolan. I didn't want to correct him and leave him thinking I'm a crazy person taking pictures of my plants instead of my child. So he posed for this photo op to add to the album.

Then Nolan made things a little harder by photo bombing me any chance he got. Here he is with an unidentifiable but lovely bush.

This one is harder, can you see him in this one?

We ended up a with an even better way to preserve our flowers all year long.

Nolan fun fact: He can't say flowers quite yet but whenever he sees them (on TV, magazines, fake ones at JoAnns or in real life) he makes a sniffing nose like he's smelling them. So if you ask him to say flowers that is what he does, sniff sniff.