Happy New Year!

Our first picture of our little GIRL!!!!

Nolan on Christmas morning. He loved the Elmo
slippers Santa got him and the books too of course!


Nolan is so good at helping let Bauer in and wiping his paws.

Poor little guy's rash

Nolan got a cowboy hat from his Grandma Mae for Christmas

and it matched pretty good with the shirt he got! He felt pretty cool

riding the horsey later that night.

Dancing with Grandpa on Christmas. He also

got his first (and last) Sioux jersey from Jake and Krissy!

Just a GLIMPSE of the wonderful craziness at the purpur Christmas

(Nolan is hiding on the couch with Sydney by the window)

Well, it has been a very busy month with Christmas and the new year. We all enjoyed our Christmas and were able to spend lots of good time with family. Nolan did have some anxiety for the Purpur Christmas, which is expected when there are 40-some people at your Grandma's house and he usually rules the place! Finally by 8:00 he started to come around. He didn't make it to bed until 10:00 and slept in the next day until 9:45!! Too bad I couldn't sleep in...I was too anxious for him to see what Santa brought him. Luckily before Christmas came Nolan got the flu bug and my poor guy dealt with a double ear infection and bronchitis. I was just glad he got over all that icky stuff before Christmas. He was on amoxicillian and after about 8 days broke out in hives. Hopefully he doesn't have a true allergy to it. I can't forget to mention our BIG NEWS!! Dan and I had our ultrasound last week and to our complete surprise it looks like we will be having a little girl!!!! I could hardly believe it, but I am of course thrilled! Most importantly everything looks good and healthy. My due date has now moved from May 16th to the 18th. This little one was not moving a whole lot (just rubbing her eyes mostly) but her mouth was sure going! I hope this doesn't mean we will have a lippy girl to deal with! LOL! The ultrasound tech said she had a very nicely shaped head...good to know I guess! I will end with a few new things about Nolan: he liked saying "Ho, Ho, Ho" every time we saw a Santa, he really loves to watch the kids at the park play hockey and yells "go, go, go!" when he watches ( I just hope it's because he wants to play and not cheer for hockey like I did!), he loves, loves, loves to ride the horsey at Gma B's, his eye teeth are getting close to coming in and are bugging him a lot, he loves to put his Daddy's hats on and he says "hat", he says "it's hot" every time he eats or looks at the microwave or oven, he is very busy and I can hardly take a picture of him or video tape him because he wants to take the picture or tape...just a happy and healthy boy! Happy 2011 everyone!