January 29th, 2011 by Busy Mommy

So I got a webcam for the first time a couple days ago.  Daddy and Nolan decided to try it out and they came up with some funny stuff while playing with the webcam software effects….

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDbLMUNQWkc[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzrp7dYWf1Q[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ_LGdI0PQ4[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhKTApJYcDs[/youtube]

January 21st, 2011 by Busy Mommy

Ooh the new words are coming quick now….

OUCH! (sounds like Awch!)

Bed (sounds like dead)

Shoes

Socks

Dada

And on occasion, but not within my earshot I’ve been told he says Mama.

Moon (sounds like MMMMM)

Moo of a Cow (sounds like MMMMM)

Nolan is 15 months old today.  His 12-18 month pants are now officially flooding on him, so we’re on to his 18-24 month pants already.  He is climbing up on chairs now (scary).  Starting to get those boyhood injuries.  Split lip, gash in his gums, stuff like that.

He is quite taken with the dishwasher and everytime I’m loading it he wants to be a part of the action.  Unfortunately I’m not cool with him removing the knives I’ve put in there so he’s learning that’s off limits- but he’s taken to adding things to the dishwasher instead of the no-no of removing them- recently it was a paper cup I somehow didn’t notice and when I opened the clean dishwasher I found one of the forks stuck to a paper cup that had gone through the whole cycle.

January 13th, 2011 by Busy Mommy

At least a portion of each day, often the early part of the morning when Nolan wakes up at 7:30 all bright and perky and I’m half-dead, trying to wake up by the heater, is spent like this: