He's Growing Up Already
December 24th, 2009 by Overallgirl
Nolan is looking so much older, so much more mature to me already. I mean, his face really has a certain look now. Before he just looked like a baby, but now he looks like a specific person. I don’t know if that makes sense- maybe it’s just mommy-ramblings, but it makes sense to me. At the pediatrician’s office last week while we were in the waiting room, a mother with her newborn daughter came out. She was so…tiny…and then I looked at Nolan and he wasn’t…tiny anymore. I couldn’t believe it. How could that newborn stage already be over?
Nolan is getting so expressive- besides smiling, he’s making all kinds of new sounds- daily it seems he adds a new sound to his vocabulary. You can tell he’s trying to talk and communicate with us. Sometimes when he smiles now, his eyebrows will go up at the same time. Last night while Ben was singing and playing guitar, Nolan started making extra long sounds and Ben looked at me and said, “Has he done that before? Does it seem like he’s trying to sing?” And it really was something new. Often before jumping right into crying when he wants something he’ll make sounds instead- sounds that you can tell he’s saying he wants something different now even though we can’t always be sure what that something is. He’ll look directly into your eyes and make these little sounds…then if that doesn’t work he resorts to crying which is always effective. :)-
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December 28th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
This is my ‘melt the girls with steely-blue-eyes look.
I’ve been working on it for almost two months now. I use
this look whenever I want to look more mature and wiser.
It works every time. I’d be talking to them now too, except I want to give mom and dad a few more months before I start dishing out orders….plus, not knowing that I can talk, they can’t talk back at me yet, which is also part of my plan.
December 29th, 2009 at 12:08 am
I babysat Nolan last Thurs. eve when he was 2 months old. Mommy had just nursed him so he was making happy sounds with lots of smiles as I talked to him. Mom and dad left while I continued to talk with him. Then he got tired and took a nap. The it was time for THE BOTTLE since mommy was gone. He drank with a slight look of realization on his face that said “This is not made of flesh, but it sure tastes the same.” Then after 2.5 hours of being with grandma his talking changed. His eyebrows were bent in a slight frown and his voice was expressing sounds of concern…he wanted to know where that other person was that he feels super comfortable with…I could actually hear the question in his voice. I tried to explain, but since he can’t understand yet, he started to cry, probably thinking if he did that maybe she would magically appear…and you know what? It worked! Home she came to his utter joy and happiness.