Saturday, November 15, 2008

A Reservation For Three

We went to Capri Ristorante on Friday night to celebrate Mommy's birthday. Nolan loved sitting at the table in the restaurant. He enjoyed a delicious Italian meal. He liked the bread with oil and parmesan and his shells with sauce. We had a fun family night!
Nolan crawled over to the door when we were ready to go. He read some books at the table.
This is great!
He read more books.
Nolan and Daddy
Nolan with Mommy and Daddy
Mommy and Nolan
Nolan's meal put him to sleep!
Nolan was the best baby in the restaurant!

Nolan's New Truck

Mommy and Daddy gave Nolan a riding truck for his birthday, and he is having so much fun with it! He can sit on it, put things inside it, ride it, push it, etc. He loves the noises that it makes, too!




Tuesday, November 11, 2008

A Visit With The St. Louis Pruntys

Uncle Kevin, Aunt Kelly, Jack and Henry came to Chicago last weekend for a nice visit. We celebrated Nolan's birthday with them on Friday since Uncle Kevin was out of the country in London, Dubai and India for work during the weekend of Nolan's birthday party. Nolan loves his new story-telling music cube with all of his favorite rhymes and songs! Thanks again for the awesome gift! Jack loves Bob Marley, so we had a dance party. Pops and MoMo were getting down with the boys!
We had Fox's pizza for dinner. It was delicious!
Nolan was so excited about his birthday cookie.
He wanted to finish his pizza first.
Then, it was time to sing!
Happy Birthday, Nolan!
He helped himself to some frosting.
Mommy and Daddy posed with the happy birthday boy!
Nolan was covered in icing again! He loves using utensils now.
MoMo brought up the cars, garages, ramps, etc. and Nolan thought they were so much fun! He is so excited for new toys to play with at Pops and MoMo's house.
Nolan and Henry were next to each other and didn't seem to notice (even though Nolan's body was on Henry's leg)...
Then, they took a look at each other but
still didn't seem too interested.
Suddenly, they interacted...
and shared a teether.
Cousins are so much fun!
On Saturday, the Prunty side came over to Pops and MoMo's for a visit. GG loved hanging out with her great-grandsons!
Jack and Pops are best buddies!
Aunt Mar and Uncle Ron bought the boys matching pajamas for Halloween, so we had a nice photo shoot. They were "bearly" sleeping!
Jack ran away, so we took a quick picture of Nolan and Henry.
Nolan and Jack had lots of fun with Nolan's new rhyming toy!
We had a nice weekend with our St. Louis family!

Playing and Ads

Nolan loves to play and is so into his toys! He is so happy! He really loves his new xylophone! He also loves playing with the Sunday ads.
Nolan loves his new popper car.
He chases it around and around.
Then, he takes a rest from chasing...it really wears him out!

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Election Day and Leaves

Nolan wore his finest red, white and blue outfit and headed to the polls with Mommy and Daddy on Tuesday morning. He thoroughly enjoyed the experience! The poll watchers really liked Nolan and gave him lots of "I Voted" stickers! We went to his second session of Baby Business at the library after voting. Nolan loved it, and Daddy loved going with us since he was off work.
I Voted!
We spent most of the day outside raking leaves. Nolan spent lots of time pushing his wagon.

He liked crawling in the leaves.
No hands!


Back to the wagon!
Nolan was surrounded by crunchy leaves!
He was a great helper with the shovel and rake.
Nolan helped push the leaves down in the bags to make room for more leaves.
Nolan rolled around in the leaves!
It was a fun day and Nolan's first election day...how exciting to be an American!