Photography by Nolan

Nolan can get pretty impatient with me when I'm trying to get a good picture. Now when I bring out the camera he immediately stops doing whatever adorable thing he was doing and runs away. So when he found my camera the other night I was surprised that he wanted to use it. After a quick tutorial I let him take a few pictures around the house. Side note, Pat cried conspiracy as he figured I let Nolan have it so he would break it and I could get a new camera. Not at all what I was thinking but good plan babe!

Nolan seemed to know exactly what he wanted to capture as he quickly ran around snapping away and brought it back to me to see how they turned out.

A picture of his bin of "bubbles". They are actually water beads that I put in his sensory tub.

His favorite car of all, green vroom.

The bottom of Pat's slippers. I guess I know what Pat needs this Christmas, those things are looking tired! Pat was pretty pleased with this shot as he hates pictures of himself. I guess I know where Nolan gets his hatred of cameras from.

He took this picture of me that I actually really like! Great job Nolan!

Here is a picture I took of him right before he took that picture of me. We were obviously grasping for any sort of entertainment that evening.

I didn't even know we had this camera setting, it's called color accent. This is a picture of his train station.

I was pretty impressed with these as I assumed when we got the camera back that it would be broken (shoot, it wasn't), or full of smudgy, blurry pictures. I think he was shooting his favorite things and I'm pretty proud that Pat and I made that list.

Spooky Bath Time

Since we went trick or treating the Saturday before Halloween, Pat and I weren't sure what to do with Nolan on the actual day. We He didn't need any more candy that's for sure so we decided to stay home and just hand out candy. He was cool with that.

To make the day a little special I told Nolan we would have a spooky bath time. I turned out the lights, filled the tub a little more then usual and put light sticks in the water. The bubbles hid the actual sticks and made a fun glowing effect. Sorry the pics are so grainy. I took pictures in the dark so the lights would show up.

It didn't take Nolan long to find down the sticks. He actually turned it into a game, he'd throw them in the bubbles and then search for them again.

He ended up going to bed with those and carrying them around long after the light had worn out. I would say he had a pretty good Halloween. I'm thinking of handing out those glow stick bracelets instead of candy next year. Pat thinks our house will get egged. Thoughts?

Trick or Treating: Cowboy Style

We met up with our friend Bella (aka Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz) and did our very first Trick or Treating Halloween. The business district in our neighborhood did a day time trick or treating the Saturday before Halloween. Perfect for first timers!

He was pretty antsy to get things going, here he is waiting for dad and ignoring my posing requests.

We finally we get there, and my camera dies...this was the last picture we got. I'm dressed as a pirate. Pat was dressed as a dad that would rather be watching football.

Thank goodness for iPhones! Here are the cowboy and Dorothy previewing their loot.

They did pretty good considering this was their first time and the streets were really really crowded. I guess kids learn pretty quickly when candy is involved.

We let Nolan eat whatever he wanted while we were out. When we got home it was straight to bed to sleep the sugar off. When he woke up his candy had magically disappeared! He never asked for it though so it all worked out.

Pumpkins

We trekked down to Auburn again this year to pick out our pumpkins. You might recall that last year didn't go quite as planned so I was cautiously optimistic.

We got there just in time to do the tractor pull. Nolan is all about tractors so he was pretty stoked.

He even got up close to check out the big tires.

Note the muddy those tires are, the field had 6-18 inches of mud. My optimism was taking a nose dive at this point so we made the decision to not go into the field and just pick our pumpkins from the "little" section. Nolan didn't care, he was having too much fun finding the rotten or crushed ones.

We hurried out of there with our pumpkins (and kettle corn, mmmm) without taking a family picture, bummer! Hopefully next year we can get back on track.

Here is our "family" of pumpkins. Pat's is the 1 tooth wonder, mine is the toothy one and Nolan's is the kitty pumpkin. When I asked him to draw his pumpkin face he just kept saying meow meow pumpkin so there you have it.

Stay tuned for our first ever trick or treating adventures!