Nolan Turns 3!

On May 24, we celebrated Nolan's 3rd birthday in a very small get-together at the very commercialized Peter Piper Pizza. Nolan loves to play the games and he had a great time feeding tokens into the machines. I was pleasantly surprised that we had the place to ourselves for the first hour we were there. I'm not kidding! It was absolutely great (well, as great as a kids' pizza place can be!!)

Nolan's due date was June 1, 2005. When he was born, Laiken was finishing up her 1st grade year and Carson was in his final few days of preschool. Carson's preschool was scheduled to have field day on May 24 and I wanted to go up and help and take pictures, so I was determined not to go into labor until the 25th. Because Carson had weighed 9 pounds, 11 ounces at birth, my ob was not going to let me carry Nolan any longer than the 25th. I was scheduled for an induction that day and besides, how cool would 5-25-05 have been for a birth date!?

The night of May 23, I started having what I had hoped were just some pains. Farrel went to sleep and I remember lying in bed trying to convince myself that I was not going into labor. Remember I wanted to be at Carson's field day the next morning and this was messing up my whole plan!! You all know how much I need for everything to be scheduled and planned out! By 1:30 a.m. on the 24th, it was obvious that I was in full labor and I had to wake Farrel up so we could get to the hospital.

Nolan was born at 10:30 a.m. on the 24th and weighed 9 pounds, 6 ounces. Despite my best laid plans, Carson went to his field day with my parents while Nolan entered the world on his own terms at the time of his choosing.