Attention all Speech Pathologists:

We are going to be in need of your services if he keeps this up.  Trees are frees and trucks are...well..... :)

Big, Stout, Husky....

What ever you want to call it....it all started with this............................

Once I was able to keep more than a cracker down (somewhere around 12 weeks pregnant), I became addicted to the "grand finale chocolate cake" from Harris Teeter.  Seriously, I ate this particular piece of cake 5 out of 7 nights of the week.  It explains why my husband gained a significant amount of baby weight, but I am not sure how I only gained 30 total pounds.  I do, however, have a theory................

Meet Nolan.  He is the little booger growing in my belly during my cake obsession.  My theory is a little far fetched, but here it goes.  I feel that Nolan has special chocolate loving fat cells that developed during pregnancy.  As he gets older the chocolate loving fat cells explode helping my Boo gain weight :)  All Nolan's life...all two years of it...he has been on the large side.  He was a very average weight when he was born, but soon soon there after he started putting on the pounds.  I get comments every where we go and always have.  No one has ever been mean about it, but hearing how fat your baby is can only be cute the first 100 times.  Here are some past pics of my chunk o love. 

See what I mean :)  So, toady when I was in Harris Teeter getting some food for dinner the "big" comment should not have surprised me.  A super nice older African America woman told me that she thought my Boo was too old for a sas (of course she called it a paci because no one else on the planet calls it a sas)...why do people feel the need to throw their opinions in your face I will never understand.  I smiled and told her that I planned to take it way before he turned two.  She got the biggest, widest open mouth grin and said, "WHAT! That boy ain't two!"  She thought he was pushing three :)  I laughed, looked in my cart, and saw my piece of "grand finale chocolate cake".  If Boo was the "reason" for all the cake eating when I was pregnant, then what was my excuse now??? 

TX sized BOOM BOOMS

What a perfect angel.  10 hour trip there and 10 hours back....he slept the whole time.  NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  About a week before our "open window", Elise and I decided that if we were going to make a trip to TX it had to be now.  It was a perfect time.  I had not one school commitment and Elise had a day off of work for the 4th so her "vacation days" would be to a minimum.  So, we did what any good daughters would do...we set out to surprise mom and give her a good old fashioned heart attack.  She was super excited and rather pleased about our visit.  While we were there we spent an enormous amount in the pool.  Nolan loved the shallow area, but could have done without the deep end.

Looks like fun, right? 

He went in the pool with a regular diaper, swim diaper, no diaper and clothed.......

Right as I took this pic, this kid walked right of that step and started sinking.  He got brave towards the end of our trip.

Nolan and Pat had tons of fun in the pool.  I guess 12 year old boys are more fun the mamas :)

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While we were there, Nolan hit a mile stone.  He went down a size level in Lego blocks.  Grandma introduced him to the Duplo size and he has played with them every day since. 

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As if going to Grandmas isn't like a mini vacation destination already, there is more.  With in walking distance, there is a cute little park.  At this park, there is a water play area...its free.  Can you believe it?

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Another bonus about our 4 day stay was that 4th of July was thrown in there.  We went to the Botanical Gardens in Fort Worth to listen to the symphony and see some fireworks.  It was nice, but it was HOT. 

Boo did what he could to stay cool...eating ice from the cooler. 

Grandma trying her best to keep him busy so he would stop running away :)

And here are the BOOM BOOMS as Nolan calls them.  It was nice to here the symphony play Independance Day music while the sky was bright with color.  Every fireworks show has a finale.  Well, I think this finale went a little overboard.  Everything's bigger in TX is not always better :)  Look at this picture....

See what I mean.  This was the begining of the end.  Those bright white fireworks were sooooooooooo bright.  I turned my head to not look at them, and when I did I saw my family do this.......

There was a huge flash of light and then a LOUD BOOM, and I just so happend to have my camera ready :)

The actual day of the 4th we spent in the pool.  Garrett and Stephanie came over, we ate yummmo dinner, and then WAITED for it to get dark.  The silly state of TX takes forever for the sun to set ;)

We had such a great time!  Never know when we will strike again!  :)

Surprise!!!!!

HE MISSES HIS GRANDMA



AND WE DO TOO....

SO, SURPRISE!!!  WE ARE COMING TO SEE YOU!!! 

Be there around dinner time...get that Jovi ready :)  Love you!