The Nolan Family: March 2012

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Ballet Recital!

For the past six weeks Cora has taken a little ballet class through Henrico County's Parks and Recreation. It's a very simple ballet class and perfect for her to get started! For her last class they did a little "recital." Basically they showed us what they have learned the past six weeks. Nana came to see her and she was so excited! I'm not sure what Cora "learned", so she will be taking another session starting next week! We'll see if she steps up her game a little:) She really enjoyed ballet, but I still think more of a physical sport will be her thing...she LOVES playing soccer with her dad! They have regular practices (in my living room of course!) I'm thinking of signing her up for soccer this fall, hopefully with Madelyn! Next month Madelyn and her are taking swim lessons through NOVA! It should be interesting! Her are some pictures of her "recital".

I accidently bought the tights with no feet, so she insisted on pulling up the legs!

Nice form!

Doing a little move, not sure what:)

Running through the hoops!

Sitting on the back wall listening to directions (hopefully!)

The end! Poor Joshua, he has been dragged to ballet every Thursday.
Of course it's during his naptime but he's a trooper!

This is a sweet picture from the other day.
I can't express enough how much I love these two:)

Happy St. Patrick's Day & Happy Birthday Ellie!

Ellie turned two on St. Patrick's Day last week! We had a party at the McGuire house late morning and had another St. Patty's celebration at the Nolan house that evening! We had so much fun at each house, we were all pretty tired by the end of the day! We can't believe little Ellie is already two! It seems like yesterday we were waiting for her to be born! She is so sweet and Cora just loves her little cousin! Ellie LOVES her Uncle Sam, it's so cute. She reminds Sam of Cora when she was little so Ellie has a little special place in his heart:) Happy Birthday sweet Ellie, we love you!!

Ready for St. Patrick's Day and Ellie's birthday party!

So silly with her brother!

Ahh, that face!

My sweet sweet little boy

He loved his hat!

Precious cousins

Happy Birthday Ellie!

Dora cake!!

Yay!!

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring!

Once again, the last two months have flown by! We are entering Spring and LOVING the warmer weather! Cora loves to be outside, so thank goodness it's getting warmer out! Cora is just growing up before our eyes. She is the funniest little girl I know! She makes us laugh all day long and comes out with the funniest one liners. She is so happy and loving. But I would say that age three seems to be much harder than age two! Terrible two's?! I would say more like terrible three's! Like I said before, she is the sweetest, most caring little girl, but she can be fiesty like no other!! People say age three is hard, and I believe it! But we are loving every minute with our sweet Cora, and every day is a new adventure with her!!
Today (March 24th), my sweet Joshua is 7 months old!! I say it every time, but time has really flown! My sweet sweet boy melts my heart! He is such a good little boy and so happy! He is always smiling and laughing. He is now sleeping 11-12 hours at night. And finally is on a routine of taking two naps a day (morning and afternoon). It took him a good 6 months to get on a schedule but he finally did it! Cora is an awesome big sister, and he just adores her. When she comes in the room, he lights up! He talks a ton (dada is his favorite). He also uses his M's, B's, and N's! We swear every time he see's Sam he says "hi dada". It's so cute!
We are so proud of both our babies, and we are so lucky and thankful to have such awesome children. They both are the apple of my eye!
Here are some pictures of the last 2 months (yes, I'm behind again in blogging!) What can I say, I'm a working mother with two kids!