Happy Birthday to our baby!!

How has it been one whole year since our sweet baby was born?

When I started this blog, Olson's first birthday seemed impossibly far away. But here we are, and our little baby is turning into a toddler! He now has 3 teeth (keep waiting for that other top one to drop!), has a toothbrush for his 3 teeth, loves to cruise around the furniture and walk behind his walker toys, still does his bear walk, loves to play ball, enjoys bath time, can't get enough blueberries, would spend all day outside if he could, is down to one nap more often than not, is getting very attached to Woofie, and still loves to torment Lilly. 

Some highlights of his day:

Yummy birthday dinner at Grammy's

Someone didn't think the hat was as cute as Mommy did!

I love my wagon walker from Grammy!

I couldn't wait to get my hands on my present from Grandma & Grandpa Carson

Mom and Dad got me this cool Cars car

Angel food cake with pink frosting served on my great-great grandma's cake plate...a Carson tradition!

What an amazing year it has been. I can't even begin to imagine what the next year holds. Happy Birthday sweet Olson. We love you to infinity and beyond. And back.

xoxo the nelms

Gator Chomp

Daddy came home today with a fabulous new toy for Olson--a Gator Chomp n' Clack! I had never seen such a thing, but he had me at Gator. Olson immediately took to it and knew exactly what to do! We're so proud of him! Here he is on one of his first "walks".

Watch out....won't be long now!

xoxo the nelms

Pumpkins!

Although some might say he is a bit young to really enjoy it, we took Olson to pick out pumpkins this weekend, and had a great time! It was a perfect fall day, and we enjoyed playing in their "park" and picking out the perfect pumpkins. 

In front of the corn maze, which we passed on this year

Oh boy, a slide! I love slides!

Wheeeeee!

How about a video for good measure...

Olson took his task of picking the perfect pumpkin very seriously...

I think this is the one, Grammy!

xoxo the nelms

Fall Fun

We have been trying to get out and do some walks/runs for charity this fall, and Team Nelms participated in the Walk for Hope this past weekend. Of course the highlight for mommy was that STORMY was there!!! For those of you that don't know, I LOVE a mascot. Any mascot. But Stormy is one of my personal favorites, partly because he is the mascot for the Hurricanes and partly because he is engaged to my friend from work! Olson wasn't as taken with Stormy as I had hoped, but I'm hoping that will change!

Stormy!

As we know, Olson loves bubbles, and I finally bought some to enjoy at home! Olson was still mesmerized by them, and we had fun watching them on the back patio.

Cool! Bubbles!

This is so neat!

And just for good measure, here are a few pictures of our little sweetie sleeping this week. Aunt Carlette wears him out during the day, and he could hardly stay awake long enough to get in his crib this particular night!

So sweet

His favorite sleeping position

xoxo the nelms

11 months!

11 months? Really? My sweet little munchkin just keeps growing up and there's nothing I can do about it! I can't believe this is the last monthly photo before he turns 1! Olson is full-on active now. He is a super fast crawler, and loves to pull up on whatever he can, including Lilly's head. Some of this month's highlights include: eating anything and everything, hair long enough that it needs some maintenance, lots of splashing in the tub, cutting his first upper tooth this week, a new love of playing with empty boxes, climbing the whole flight of stairs (with adult supervision, of course),  rolling his ball back and forth (sort of), going to Grammy's for dinner, moving up to a size 4 diaper at night, and still loving to be outside! He is a true boy and quite inquisitive, especially when it comes to trucks, bobcats and backhoes! And yes, his sign does say 'Go Cards'. :)

Happy boy!

Yep, I'm 11 months!

Bedtime with Dad and Mr. Groggy

I love the Cardinals!

xoxo the nelms

Splish Splash

Olson has always enjoyed bath time, but recently he has really started to embrace it! While he usually plays with his squirt toys, now he sits and splashes like crazy! He loved splashing in the pool, so I'm surprised it took him this long to figure out he can do the same thing in the tub. I could watch him splash for hours--his squeals of delight and sweet smiles are amazing.

xoxo the nelms

A weekend with Grandpa & Grandma

Dad and Rosemary flew in for the weekend, and Olson was happy to see Grandpa and Grandma! They had a lot of quality time with Olson, and we saw a few sights in Raleigh. Sunday we popped into the history museum, which was actually quite interesting! Olson found it incredibly interesting...

I love museums

Dad really wished Olson was awake for this

Fun with Grandma!

Olson did wake up to enjoy the open space for some crawling!

And for some reason he really liked "kissing" the floor...

Cuddling with Grandpa

Thanks for visiting, Grandpa and Grandma! We can't wait to see you again in November! We love you!

xoxo the nelms