Nolte News

I had surgery last Thursday and got to finally come home yesterday (Wednesday).  It was also my dad’s birthday so we had a lot to celebrate!  The surgery went well.  The anesthesiologists found out the hard way that I am allergic to rocuronium, but otherwise the rest was textbook.  My tummy took a few days longer to wake up from surgery.  This didn’t make me feel good at all.  I also had lots of tests on my bladder and spine that were tough for me to handle.  However, I had lots of family that would cuddle me to make me feel better.

Now I am back home, playing with my toys and sleeping in my own bed.  I am much happier.  However, mom and dad need to do a procedure on my bladder 3 times a day and I am not making it easy for them.  Maybe I’ll get use to it someday.

Thank you to everyone for your cards, gifts, thoughts, and prayers.  I am so happy that I have so many nice family and friends.  Check out some pictures of my in our August folder in the Pictures section.

Love, Natalie

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Red Anvil, where I work, was recently selected to the 2009 Future 50 list.  This list serves to recognize the outstanding achievements of local, fast-growing entrepreneurs.  As part of the selection process, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel also chose Red Anvil and it’s owners to be the cover story and photo!  See it in Business section of today’s paper or at JSOnline.

Thank God for such a nice job during these rough economic times.

Natalie just turned 9 months on Friday, April 24th (where is the time going?)!  She is currently 29″ long and weighs about 19lbs.  We just wanted to give an update of the many things she has learned so far.

She has learned to crawl this past month.  That’s fine and dandy, but her true love is standing. She can even bring herself up to stand!  She loves standing and looking around, and walking with help.  She’ll be walking by herself in no time!

We’re working on starting Natalie on solid foods.  However, her favorite thing to chew is her toes so this is a tough process.

The dogs are getting use to Natalie chasing them.  Natalie really loves Willow’s ball!  Thankfully, both dogs have been really good with her.

Natalie also has learned how to clap, give high fives and roll a ball!  She has really good hand-eye coordination.  Dad is working with her on banging on pots and pans – lots of drum-type instruments.

Oh, and she learned tantrums!  She throws herself backwards if we take something away from her.  That’s been pretty fun.

During he downtime, Natalie loves looking at pictures.  She just smiles and giggles at pictures.  Feel free to send us pictures of yourself for Natalie to laugh at!

Mom and dad haven’t posted anything recently, so I thought I would keep everyone updated on my exciting milestones.  On December 24th, I turned 5 months old.  I realized that I was now a big girl and I didn’t need anything to help me sit up.  Mom and dad were a bit surprised (especially since they’ve been focusing on my rolling over – still yet to happen).  I don’t really like laying down much anymore – there’s just so much to see sitting up. 

Over the last few days, I’ve been trying to eat my feet.  I’m not sure why, but tonight I finally did it!  I got to suck on my toes for at least 30 seconds.  I’m so excited!!

My gums have been pretty achy over the past month.  Mom says I’m “teething”, but nothing has come through yet.  I like chewing on my turtle the most, but anything pretty much goes right now.

I still am getting use to eating vegetables.  I usually have cereal for breakfast and either carrots, squash, or green beans for supper.  I really like squash!

Dad and Mom are teaching me how to pet my doggies.  Both Willow and Maggie are really soft.  We are good friends.