Nolan: 27 Weeks

So proud of my little man this week! He’s really enjoying eating solids now at 3x a day but that may be due to the fact that he’s growing teeth!!!  My heart kind of skipped a beat when Rob told me last Friday. This weird feeling of “not ready” swept over me; I felt completely silly for feeling that way but I truly felt unprepared for it.  He’s been very cranky due to the pains; still smiley and laughs but now also very needy and bothered. We suspect that biting down on the spoon eases his pain, hence the reason he’s taking so well to eating. Weird thing is he also prefers the food cold, straight from the fridge. The cold probably helps ease his painful gums. Hoping we’ll get through these “growing pains” soon.

We took this photo of his emerging teeth on Saturday. This was a very difficult shot to take; he kept sticking out his tongue and wiggling around a ton. You can see two tiny white slithers emerging at the bottom there. Anyone know how long it takes to fully emerge?

His official 27th week photo posing in a super cute onesie from Uncle Ken that says:
“I don’t always drink milk but when I do…I prefer DOS BOOBIES”.
He totally looks “milk drunk” here trying to balance himself sitting. The stunna shades help hide his drunkenness too ($2 from Children’s Place).

This past Sunday we attended the annual “Christmas in the Cages” event at Rancho Las Lomas where we also celebrated our wedding day over 3 years ago. It was nice to bring Nolan to visit the grounds and to do our holiday family photo shoot at the same time. There’s normally a fee to shoot there since you can’t access the grounds unless you have an event hosted or you pay a fee to have a shoot done. This is the easiest way for us to have the photos taken on the grounds w/o any additional fees. We may take advantage of this event every year to have our family photos done. It may be cutting it a bit close to the Christmas holiday but it holds a special place in our hearts so we’ll wing it anyway.  (I really hope the event doesn’t get all super crowded next year with photographers shooting families because I said all that. It would be kinda funny, sorta, not really cuz it would spoil my “secret” loophole. hahaha!) Enjoy some of the photos taken by Duy below. We’ll reveal our holiday card in next week’s blog post.

Me with Noly and one of the tigers enjoying the yummy Christmas present–a whole turkey!

A few of our family shots taken around the grounds.

These 2 are definitely twinsies–both laughing then mouths wide open at the same time!

The grounds, beautiful as always on a toasty 75 degree SoCal day!

We also got to take photos with the cool SoCal Santa.

Cousin Quinn and Godparents Quang + Nancy were also on hand for the fun. Quinn is completely intrigued with Nolan, can’t take her eyes off of this person that is the “same” size as herself.

Some candid’s while roaming around the grounds. See that pocket under Nolan’s bum? That’s a nifty slot for your cellphone!