I'm not sure how it happened but my baby is now 1 year old! This year has flown by so much faster than I could have imagined and it doesn't seem like things will be slowing down anytime soon. What a special year it has been with our sweet, smiley Nolan. Nolan has added so much joy to our family and I am so thankful to God that he blessed our family with him!! Of course we've had our challenges during the baby stages and have lost some sleep but the love and laughter from our sweet Nolan James has made up for all of it 100 times over! Nolan has such a sweet and happy personality and a great curiosity for exploring the world around him. I love that he loves his Mommy so much and lets me know by shouting out my name all the time and always crawling for me wherever I may be in the house! The smiles and laughter that he has for his Daddy is priceless. He always gets his Daddy's attention, then tilts his head to one side and flashes his beautiful gummy smile and giggles. I know it melts his Daddy's heart every time. And oh how Nolan loves to follow his big brother around and tackle Nicholas. No one can make Nolan laugh like his big brother!
I have to admit that for a while I was quite emotional about the thought of my baby no longer being a baby! Every milestone has been more emotional for me with Nolan as I want so badly to savor each moment of his babyhood yet despite my efforts, everything seems to be moving even faster this time around. But that being said, I now find myself excited for this next year in Nolan's life and the changes that will come. I am so looking forward to watching Nolan continue to learn and grow and discover his world. I love seeing his personality develop with each day and can't wait for him to learn more words so we can hear all he has to tell us (if he can get a word in with his big brother around). And one of the most special things of this year is seeing the relationship develop between these sweet brothers. I look forward to seeing that grow as well as they play more and more together with each day (although I know with that will also come more fights but you take the good with the bad, right?).
These days Nolan is cruising and crawling around everywhere! Still no walking on his own but that doesn't stop him from getting anywhere he wants to go. He's super fast and super curious. He still loves cords and outlets and the dog bowl and basically anything that he's not supposed to get into, however, surprisingly he mostly ignored the Christmas tree (much to my delight!). He is great at eating his finger foods and loves his bottle and is refusing to have his milk in a cup. His favorite game is throwing his cup on the floor and feeding the dog. Nolan has 2 bottom teeth and is currently cutting all 4 top front teeth (poor guy). His favorite word is Mama and he also says Dada and NiNi (night night) and of course lots of other lovely sounds. He's still my sensitive little guy and frightens easily from the dog's barking, vacuums, and some men (sorry Uncle Cliff and Santa!). He is the best starer in the world--you do not want to enter a staring contest with him because he will win! And at his 12 month check up, he weighed 24 pounds and 9 ounces and was 30 inches long. I feel so blessed to have Nolan in my life each and everyday!
We celebrated Nolan's first year with a family party on Saturday the 18th. Nolan did not disappoint with the cake and dug into his own cake with fistful after fistful immediately as the cake was put down in front of him. He was covered in cake and just kept going! After he ate HALF of his individual cake I finally took it away from him but I'm confident he would have kept going had I let him! He loves his sweets! And he got some fun and cute presents although I will say that Nicholas was more into the opening and then playing with all of the new toys than Nolan was. It was a wonderful party that I was actually able to enjoy instead of stress over!
Here's to another wonderful year with our growing boy! I'm sure the second birthday will be here in the blink of an eye!
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