May 2007-Part 2

The Debut of the "Wiggle Worm"! We recorded a great video of Nolan "wiggling" on command and we've posted it on our YouTube account. Here's the link and login information: http://youtube.com/watch?v=xZKHJAelWHk

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*You have to log in and go to My Account/My Videos to view-we didn't want the whole world to see them-just you guys.

Noan was sick for the first time from May 20th-25th he had a high fever of about 101-102 degrees and was just a miserable little boy until his fever finally broke on the 23rd and then the next day he broke out in a rash. A visit to the Dr. had diagnosed it has a "Viral tummy bug", but both Grandma's Whittaker and Merrell said that it sounded like Roseola once they heard his symptoms and I'll have to say-the grandmas made the better diagnosis this time because that was exactly what it was!

Memorial Day Weekend 2007

Nolan started feeling better just in time for the much anticipated Memorial Day trip to the cabin. We headed up early on Thursday with my parents and then Kenny came up Saturday after he'd finished up work on his master's research. Nolan had started to do more "Revving" as we called it in preparation to start crawling. On one particular "Rev" he reached out for Beagsly's tail, and as you can see from the look on his face he was quite shocked that he got it, as well as not sure what to do with it after he did!

He had his first bath in the cabin tub and thought that it was really fun.

Nolan learned how to run on the deck in his walker.

Played in his pack-n-play outside with his bandanna on to protect from the bugs.

He discovered pine needles:

and chipmunks....

and watched the big boys hard at work....

But the most exciting event of all was when he learned how to kick a ball! Sunday afternoon Kenny was helping Nolan play catch with Jason & Heidi and he surprised everyone when he lifted up his left leg and kicked the ball back to them several times in a row. That was also followed by giggles and lots of adult cheers! He has since then learned how to kick a ball all the way down our hallway, and also uses the kick mechanism to approach Beaglsy or the cats Boris and Natasha...oh well, all good soccer players like to kick things right??