Baseball season is approaching!

So Nolan has been practicing in our backyard when Dada gets home from work. He truly enjoys his time with Dada in the evenings! Today he said to me "Momma, I'm really sad that Dada isn't here right now." Heart breaking! Too bad someone's gotta make the money around here! Okay, back to baseball. Then, we went last weekend to the ball park with Uncle Chris, Aunt Laura, Eli and Ava. Nolan had a great time and he said that he wishes he had a uniform like Eli's! :) Eli will get to play on a team this season since he is old enough. Poor Nolan will have to wait a while longer!

Not sure what this was all about...

Good hit Nolan!

Eli

Good throw Eli!

Trying to get Nolan out!

Nolan needed a little help with the heavier bat!

Eli's up to bat...

Baseball chat time

It looks like they are going to beat someone up, or at least Nolan does!

Eli running the bases, he must have hit a homer!

Happy Valentines Day!

Hope everyone had a great Valentines Day like we did here at the Sparks house! Patrick made some yummy steaks, Asparagus, Squash, and baked potato! YUMMY!!!

Adeline enjoyed her card!

Momma and Addie~

The whole gang. Happy Valentines Day!

Adeline is 6 months old!

Yes, it's true...time flies when your going out of your mind with a fussy baby! Ha! No, she has really turned into a great baby. Still a little finicky at times, but worth it because she is such a cutie pie! She can make us all light up with her smile! She really gets going with Nolan sometimes. She just LOVES to watch him and laugh at him.


Adeline started crawling a few weeks ago, just about two reps forward and then she decided that army crawling was more her thing. But just this last weekend, she changed her mind. She is still unaware of her capabilities but she has made it across the room to get to me. I'll post a video soon! She has also started pulling herself up on her crib (time to lower the crib matress) and today she officially pulled herself up to a standing position - in the bathtub no doubt! She was in her little bath seat which helped her from not slipping. She will be one to watch after just like Nolan. Our children are little rebels! Lastly, Addie started solids this month and she is doing pretty good with that. She likes to stick her fingers in her mouth after I feed her so she always makes a mess!!!


I had several little "photo sessions" with her in the past month with our new camera and some snap shots from our other camera, here are some of the favorites...

Sweet Smile...

Here she is trying to take her brothers face off!

For a while she was doing this thing with her pacie. It was too funny to turn around and see her looking like this, but we decided to get the bigger pacie so that she doesn't choke herself!

My baby girl reaching out for me! "Hold me momma, please!!!"
This one I loved but it is a little out of focus...

Lil' Stinker!

I used to sleep like this when I was a baby too!

First taste of food other than momma milk!
Gimme some more!!!

Lovin' the wind in my face!

Gettin' some dada lovin'!

Hi!

Cutie Patootie!

Again, lil' stinker! Ahh...the many faces of Addie!

Nolan and Adeline love to sit together in the recliner every morning! Too cute!

A view from upside down! :)

Silly girl!

Growing up so fast! She wants out of this crib!

So that's Adeline at 6 months!

Shannon's Graduation Party!

We managed to pull off a SURPRISE visit to California for the weekend of my sister's graduation party. I only got one picture of my pretty sister at her party. She graduated with a Bachelors degree in Communicative Disorders and she was accepted into the Masters program, so it's back to school for her!!! Congrats Shannon!

Here's one of Brian and Adeline...

My Mom asked me to do some hands/feet/head shots for her hallway. I had fun taking the pictures with our new camera that we got for Christmas. The star represents the Lone Star state where her grandbabies reside.

(My dad hated the star, so we justified keeping it that way!)

And on our last day there (the only day I had to go visit friends) Nolan decided it would be fun to go to the ER apparently! 3 stiches later... (second set before turning 3 years old!) They're covered with a bandaide so the picture isn't that exciting, sorry...

3 Day Potty Training - Conquered!

Well, I'd say it was more like about 4 or 5 days before the night time bed wetting stopped, but we are pretty much in the clear! Of course last time I said that to someone, he had a poo poo accident on the playground at CBS (Community Bible Study) but an accident every now and then is to be expected. So, very exciting! We just conquered the fear of the "big" public automatically flushing toilet as well. I had to cover the sensor and then he made me promise not to flush it until he was out of there! He was so proud of himself! He went out and told Patrick that he "wasn't scared." Too cute!

Now, I just have to get him off of the "special treat" EVERY time we go tee-tee or poop! :)

Here's a shot of some "Lightening McQueen" bottom! :)

Quotes of the Day

I thought I would throw some "Nolan" quotes in here since they are happening so often these days. (sorry Ralphie, I'm sort of "stealing" this idea from you!)

Quotes of the Day today:

"Momma, my toes are tired"

and

"Momma, I'm too hot and I'm too cold" (this was in one sentence!)


Adeline is DRIVING ME CRAZY TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just thought I'd throw that in there! :)

Potty Training & Crying it out

Potty Training for Nolan is going great, and no...the "crying it out" is not referring to me during the process! Although I have to say that more laundry is not fun! Really it hasn't been that bad, each night he has had two accidents. I've got to figure out how to tackle that. But anyways, the "crying it out" is referring to Miss. Adeline. Yes, she is getting old enough to make her understand that I am in control as to when she will sleep!!! :) No, I'm starting out slowly to get her used to me not coming right to her when she wakes. She already went back to sleep yesterday after screaming for about 10 minutes. I'm currently listening to her scream, poor thing, and we are going on almost 10 minutes. We'll see...

But for those who remember, poor Nolan fell asleep standing up in his crib when I was letting him cry it out. Here's the picture I snapped of him just before he woke back up. My poor kids...

I just realized that he was 7 months old in this pic. Maybe I'm starting too early for Addie. I'm going to go get her now! :)