Holy Moly!!

I seriously cannot believe how much our garden has grown in just the last month. As a reminder, this is where we started from around the middle of May...

And this is where we are now (These pictures were actually taken at the end of June, the night before we had Nolan!)

This was the biggest zucchini that we have picked thus far...can't wait until everything starts to ripen (although I think we will end up having way more tomatoes than we will know what to do with!!)

Shoemaker

Abby seems to have the greatest imagination when it comes to creating things. Here she is making her own style of high-heels using tape and building blocks. She spends most of the day creating things like this and drawing pictures. She is definitely becoming quite the little artist!!

Brothers

After going through all the little boy clothes that we have, Landon declared that he wanted to match Nolan when he saw this little baseball outfit (he remembered that he had a similar shirt in his closet!) I thought they looked so cute together with their "matching outfits."

Landon is such a great big brother to Nolan and we couldn't be more pleased with how he is adjusting so far. I know that these two little boys will become the best of friends in the years to come!!

First Bath

When it was time to give Nolan his first little sponge bath at home, I had lots of help!! Abby is still completely grossed out by his umbilical cord stump and she'll only look at it like this (somehow the hands like binoculars over her eyes makes the stump a bit less scary looking!!)...

Abby and Landon both picked out their favorite color of washcloth and helped me wipe Nolan down with them...

I think I will have more than enough help with this new baby with these two little munchkins around!!

Flowers

People were so generous to us during our brief stay in the hospital. It seemed like every few hours we received some new flowers or balloons. They are all so pretty but since I know they won't last forever, I wanted to be sure to document the ones we received. We felt so loved!!

Coming Home

After much debate back and forth, we finally decided on the name "Nolan Thomas" just hours before leaving the hospital and signing his birth certificate document. We were debating between "Eli Thomas" (Jason's favorite) and "Nolan Thomas" (my favorite) and eventually I won out!! Of course it didn't hurt that the kids were already calling him Nolan since that was the name that they liked too!! I just love his little name and it fits him just right. His middle name is Thomas after my Grandpa Henry Thomas and also after the current prophet of our church...Thomas S. Monson.

After coming home, we put him in his swing to see how he would like it...you can obviously tell from the picture below that he absolutely hated it (Just kidding!!) We are so not used to having a baby this small!! He just looks so tiny in this swing...

Mom, Dad and Baby Nolan with our hospital tags before cutting them off...

Big brother Landon loving on his little brother...

Going in for this kiss (he gives him about a thousand of these each day!!)...

Going in for the "kill"?!?!?

My two little men...

Hospital...Day 2

It was really hard for me to watch my little family leave that night to sleep at home. Nolan and I had a rough night with lots of interruptions by different nurses so when I was given the option to go home on Wednesday rather then Thursday, I decided to go for it. I was feeling great (amazing what a difference delivering a 7 lb baby vs. an almost 10 lb. baby can make!!) and once Nolan received a clean bill of health, we were ready to make our way home that afternoon.

I did get a chance to try out my new carrier while we were still in the hospital waiting for our discharge to go through. It's a Baby K'Tan and I LOVE it (so does Nolan!!)

Some final moments of rest before leaving the hospital...

I felt really good about my decision to leave the hospital early. It was nice to come home and have everyone together again. That night both Nolan and I got some much needed rest. He slept from 11 p.m. until 5 a.m. when I finally woke him up to eat. He's been consistently sleeping for a good 5-6 hour stretch, eating, and then going back to sleep for 3-4 more hours. Can't ask for much better than that!!