A boy and his dog...

Nolan LOVES Lucy. He watches her. He tries to follow her. He recently tried to eat her food. And as you'll see in these pictures, he loves her bed too. Watch out, Luce...he's only gonna get faster!

(Don't worry, that is NOT a dog toy that he's chewing. It's a Toy Story character of Garrett's.)

I literally had to pry the shoe out of his fingers because he did not want to give it up. Everything is chew-toy to him these days!

Circus Time!

The Shriners Circus came to our neck of the woods last week and I decided to take the boys to their first circus. I had no idea just how long it would last! Thank you, Hillary, for going with us and carrying the cranky-pants known as Garrett when he was "not tired" as we left the arena. :) It was a fun time with tigers, stunt dogs, elephants, acrobats and crazy people who could spin on long scarves from waaaaaaaay too high up for me. And the ringmaster himself did a stunt on this spinning wheel that made me cringe and hold my breath a little bit. I'd go again (especially since we had buy one, get one free coupons!) and maybe next year we'll last through the whole thing. Since we were having so much fun watching, I only took a few pictures, but here they are!

Anxiously awaiting the start of the circus...

One of their most-advertised features was Bo the Broadway Elephant. He was quite impressive!

This is how Garrett watched 75% of the show.

And this is how he watched the last 25%. Nolan had already conked out on my lap but Garrett was determined to be up there too. I love my boys....

Bluebonnet time!

Yes, folks, it's that time of year again here in Texas. :) This time around I had TWO little guys to try and capture on camera together. Ha! That's like trying to herd cats. Nearly impossible. But I tried and I got a few cute pictures. Enjoy!

They started off like this...

...then this happened...

...and this is what took place the rest of the time we were in the bluebonnets.

Clearly, Nolan does not mind being left alone in a field of flowers. Plenty to see and attempt to eat.

Here's a new seek-and-find for you: Where's Garrett?

He loved being up close with the flowers and dirt. And no, he's not a genius-baby trying to smell the flower, he's trying to eat it.

On our way back to the car, Garrett found a ladybug friend and had to have a chat. He was crushed when she flew away. The only way to revive his spirits was the promise of a ladybug-hunt in our own backyard.

Wordless Wednesday

Too funny...

 Garrett at 7 Months  and   Nolan at 7 Months

They're doing the exact same thing in the exact same chair!! And the really eerie thing is that I have them both dressed in little navy blue shorts outfits.

Baby boy is 7 months old!

No longer can we simply put the little man down in one spot and walk away for a few minutes. He's mobile. He's not officially crawling yet but he can low-crawl (what I call the Army-crawl) and roll until he gets exactly where he wants to be. And he can get up on all fours like he's going to just take off crawling but he tends to flop after the first few seconds. It's only a matter of days, I think, until he figures it all out. No rush on my end! Here's this month's installment of Airborne Bear pictures and a couple videos of the man on the move.

Happy boy!

Checking out the bear.

Gimme that camera!!

Content for the moment...

...until he sees the boppy pillow on the bed...

...then he MUST have it!!

I was just trying to get a video of him low-crawling and this is what I got instead. :)

Crawling attempt video #1

Crawling attempt video #2

My boys

Garrett is showing Nolan the finer points of Angry Birds.

I love the way Nolan watches Garrett. I sense some copycatting in our future.

They're just so much fun together already!

Little man jumping up a storm.

The many faces of Garrett...this one is supposed to be "happy"

"sad"

"angry"

"surprised"

And now he's roaring at Nolan with a tiny little tiger.

Movin and shakin! He is so so so so close to crawling. He can roll around the whole room and has now added army-crawling to his repertoire. He literally crawled over to Garrett and yanked his lunch plate off his lap twice today. Apparently the nuggets looked that good. :)