Copy Cat

Nolan watches us so closely these days and likes to do whatever we are doing. Nate was putting together an IKEA desk (always a fun task!) and Nolan decided he would help out!

Winter Wonderland...or not

Normally I would be extremely excited about snow. I love it. Skiing, snowball fights, building snowman...all of it! But not so much this time. It started out innocently enough. Cold, but not frigid, temperatures and a few inches of the white stuff. It was Nolan's first time experiencing it and he had a lot of fun (see pictures below) until his hands got too cold.

Well, later that night the temperature starts to drop and the wind picks up. (Another topic, but we did NOT realize how windy it gets around here...a problem when you are surrounded by trees.) Right as we are putting dinner in the oven the power goes out. Not completely uncommon, thanks to the wind and trees, but this time it was out for 20 hours. And it was freezing. Like 10 degrees outside freezing. Our house was in the 50's. I'm cold pretty much all the time, so this certainly didn't help things, plus I'm pregnant and still dealing with morning/all day sickness...it wasn't a good combination.

Around 11 am I got desperate and starting calling hotels in Gig Harbor because most of the town still had power. I found a couple of rooms (Nate's parents were visiting for Thanksgiving) and started packing. Literally the car was packed, and we were about to climb in and head out when the power came back on. Praise the Lord! I turned the thermostat up to 80, took the hottest shower and crawled into bed for a nice warm nap!

JUMP!

Gig Harbor has an indoor bounce house place that Nolan loves! We have been a couple of times now and he just has so much fun. The best part is that kids under two are free! We plan on spending some time here now that winter weather has started to settle in. Nate was able to go with us and Nolan loved having Daddy around to play with!

Look at the smile on his face!

Life with a toddler

Nolan is routinely pulling stunts like this! He is able to get into so many things now and he does it so fast! He's so cute though, we can't get mad at him!

And look, he's so proud on himself!

Surprise...Surprise!

We headed to the doctor for my 12 week ultrasound appointment and this is what immediately popped up on the screen:

My first thought was, "hmm...that looks like two heads. That can't be right! Maybe I just don't know what I'm seeing." I look at Nate who has a half-smile, half-shocked look and I realize that I was right when I saw two heads. Our doctor then asks us if we know what we are looking at and I say, probably very loud, "Is that TWINS??"

Well, yes it is! We are expecting two bundles of joy next spring. We are very excited and very nervous! What an adventure this is turning out to be!