today nolan was talking about his elbow scrape. he told me how when he fell off his bike and hurt his arm it hurt really really bad and then it was bleeding but it stopped and now it is all plastic. it turns out the scabs are "plastic" :)

Our boy has some sensitive skin! I used a new "natural" lotion with spf when we went to the pool the other day... our in-town options are limited and i loathe the smell and feel of the burt's bees brand sunblock so that left me with say yes to carrots. it wasn't even a real sunblock but i figured it would be ok for some of our uses. weeeellll, the 2.6% of unnatural ingredients in the lotion have sent nolan into an itchy, bumpy mess! all over except his legs (i figure they got the gunk pretty well washed off in the pool). the burt's bees is the only one we have found that is good but like i said, i hate the feel!! i guess we are doomed to its use.
Anyway, tonight he saw the bottle of "rash lotion" and he said we should take it back. i told him that we couldn't do that but maybe we should write the company a letter. he says " I am going to write them too. I will write M O C D Y F G A and that says hey people-- your lotion burned my boy!"
Just for the record, I may let him write it ;)

at least he knows his right from his left

Overheard---- a little diddy about poop.
Maybe I should preface. Nolan didn't wipe very well this morning and got a skidmark on the sheet in the spare bedroom. He told Aaron about it as soon as he got home. As you may have noticed, Aaron is goofy and very gifted at making up songs- just ask his college roommates. So he starts singing poop on the bed to the tune of "Pants On the Ground" of American Idol fame.
10 minutes or so go by (Aaron is not still singing btw) and suddenly I hear a little voice singing poop to the right, poop to the left, poop and a poop and some poop on the bed.....
truly his father's child :/

nolan budy what is worng with your back?
i have a radish.


sooooo funny- he had been scratching his "rash" and it was all red and puffy back there :)

Today we were watching Giada (food network) make coleslaw and Nolan commented on how that salad looked good. I said that it was cole slaw and he replied I want some cole slaw and with it i want some cole-water. you know mama, water with ice in it so it's cole??

more of the same

My poor guy- he has the BIGGEST gag reflex i have ever seen. If he cries too hard, coughs too hard, has something stuck in his throat, too big a bite, whatever.... he gags and pukes. I have cleaned up puke more times in the last three years than my entire lifetime before him!
Tonight was a typical choke on toothpaste/spit night and he vomited all over his bed (lovely) and pjs. He stalls for bed like nobody's business too so honestly it was hard not to be a little ticked off- can he make himself puke on demand?? I think not- yet.
As I am FINALLY tucking him into bed he starts coughing a bit and I quickly grab water to brush down whatever residual gunk is still there. He asks why water makes us feel better and we talk about how it washes away all the yuck. He is still very fascinated by water. A typical boy, he is also amused by bodily functions and asks "Do we poop out the extra water?" Sorta- except it is pee- water helps wash out the yuckies and we pee out the extra.... "I like my pee to be orange" he says, "or pink or blue or black." Well I hope your pee is never that color- that would be some crazy pee. "I like it. Colorful pee is some fun stuff."

a look to the future

Today we were playing outside and I was telling Nolan how I don't want him to grow so fast. He said he wanted to grow up soon. I thought it was a perfect time to talk about what he wanted to be when he grows up so I asked him. I didn't get a solid career choice (though daddy has our little lefty slated to be a pitcher) but here are the top three things he is excited about doing when he grows up:
Driving
Playing with scissors
Shooting the big basketball

Oh the things us grown-ups take for granted :)