Christmas 2010

Christmas was over 2 weeks ago! I am a bad mommy blogger.

We all had a wonderful Christmas. Noah enjoyed every minute of it. He got better at opening presents as the Christmas season went along.

I hope to do a much better job of blogging for his birthday. Which is just 2 weeks away. (Just typing it brings a tear to this mommy's eye)

I also have been very frustrated trying to get the video to play, without redirecting to another site. Oh well! For now, I will just post the video of Noah's first Christmas.

Basketball, Friends, Cousins, and Leaves.

Noah and I went and watched his cousin Alliyah play basketball. Besides watching Alliyah play, we both got to spend some time with a friend. My friend Emily, has a son Kason, who is just a couple of months older than Noah. She also has a daughter the same age as Alliyah. The two of them are on the same basketball team. So while watching the girls play, we got to visit with each other, and let the boys play. I am looking forward to many more play dates for the 4 of us.

I love going to Alliyah's games. I wish I could go to more of them. She is a joy to watch. She is so fast and spunky! She is a spunky girl period, but on the court, at age 8, she already shows such promise.

Alliyah is such a special girl to me. She was my only neice for so long, and not having any kids of my own, I took to her right away. For the longest time I was her "NA NA". Now she has grown to be a beautiful little girl that calls me "Autumn".

She was so excited to meet Noah. I will never forget the look on her face when she sat on our couch and held him for the first time.




I am thankfull that Noah has such wonderfull cousins. I look forward to watching them all grow up. Just not too fast!





Our yard is covered in leaves. I mean covered! Any day that we have had to work on piling them and burning, it has been to windy. We attempted to remove some leaves from the front of the house. Just what was in the landscaping and front entrance made a huge pile. We gave up pretty quickly, and decided to just play with Noah instead. So we bundled him up, and let him play in the leaves. I sat him right in them. At first he wasn't sure about them. After a few seconds, he lit right up, and had a ball!

Noah's first Halloween

I had Noah's pic taken in his cute costume. Just had to have Dylan join him! Picture was taken by Aubrey Dennis Jones at Younique Photography.

Noah's first Halloween was so much fun. My mom made his adorable lion costume. I found this pattern right after I found out I was having a boy.

We celebrated Halloween by meeting friends at the Marshfield square where all the merchants were handing out candy. Noah fell asleep before we got out of our drive, and slept in his stroller the whole time. (I had fun pushing him around anyways.)

Then on Saturday, we got Noah all dressed up for our many stops.

1. Mom and Dad's where we met up with Josh and his kids.
2. Connie's Noah's babysitter.
3. Grandma Jones'.
4. Grandma Clark's.
5. Babs, Sheila, and Jeans.

Noah got lot's of special treats at each stop. Bab's, Sheila, and Jean got him a "Cars" car which he loved! Then Shelia sent us home with her special, and oh so yummy Halloween cupcakes!

I am already thinking of a Halloween costume for next year!

9 month check up!

Noah had his 9 month check up on Friday October 29Th.

He is now 27" tall and weighs 20lb 14oz.

Noah is in the 50 percentile in height and 10 percentile in weight.

He is growing so fast! Noah went from crawling to walking around furniture very fast. It took him a while to concur crawling, because once he figured out how to move, all he wanted to do was get to a table or chair to pull up. He now can walk along walls and is beginning to let go of what he is holding onto for a brief moment. As soon as he realizes he isn't holding on he starts to wobble a little before he grabs back a hold.

He has had a black eye on his left eye and a scrape on the other. All within 4 days. He just grabs onto stuff before you even know it.

Noah got his first tooth a week before he turned 9 months. His first tooth was his top left. He has since gotten his two bottom, they are still just at the surface.

Noah is quite the lover boy. He is always giving hugs and kisses.

He can say four words. Mama, Dada, baba, and hi.

He gives high fives, and waves bye, bye.

We love our little guy more than words can express. While it makes me a little sad that he is growing so quickly, I am also extremely excited to see what our little boy has in store for us this month, and all the months to come.

Fall Pumpkin Fun

This weekend Ben and I took Noah and Dalyn to Hampton's Pumpkin Patch to pick out pumpkins. We had so much fun. The boys both enjoyed the hay ride, and Dalyn had a great time picking out his pumpkin. Sunday we decorated the pumpkins to display outside. Not sure, but I think Ben and I had the most fun with the decorating!

Ben and I made these pumpkin people. So fun!

Dalyn's pumpkin.

First Hair Cut 9-17-2010

Finally, here are the pictures of Noah's first hair cut. Unfortunately our camera stopped on us. These pics where taken with our new camera. Sadly, the new camera had something wrong with it! So the big cut pictures are not the quality I would like, but I am grateful that at least there are pictures.

Ma put Noah's hair in a pony tail before cutting so I could save it. You can't tell from the pics, but almost 2" was cut off.

After the cut! Much better!

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Wild Hair

So, I have been struggling over the past several weeks with the decision of whether to cut Noah's hair or not. Noah was born with a head full of long(in baby standards) dark hair. He eventually lost all of his hair, except what was on the very top. As it began to come back in the color changed to what sometimes looks like a light red, and others sandy blond. It also came back in curly. It seems that although Noah looks just like his daddy, he did get mommy's hair.

I had thought all along that I would wait and give Noah his first hair cut on his 1st birthday. Over time his hair had become longer, and longer. Curlier, and curlier, and yes much more out of control. I would fix his hair every morning but by the the end of the day it would just be wild! So last Thursday I decided that I had to do something about it.

I called mom and told her that I had decided I needed to go ahead and cut Noah's hair. She agreed that it was time, and volunteered to give him his first hair cut. I have to admit that just the thought of cutting his hair made me sad. A mommy shouldn't have to think about cutting off two inches of their babies hair at 7 months! But that is just what we did. Before I post the pics of the hair cut, I have posted the pics of Noah's ever changing hair from birth to pre-cut.

Noah and Dylan

Noah and I went for a visit to see Jaime and baby Dylan this past weekend. It was fun to watch Noah and Dylan together. Noah sees other babies at church, but this was his first time for him to have some baby on baby interaction. Boy did he have fun!

Noah and Dylan are only 7 weeks apart but for right now 7 weeks makes a big difference in what Noah can do physically vs Dylan. Noah just couldn't keep his hands off of Dylan. When I first sat him down in front of Dylan on the floor, the first thing Noah did was put his arms around Dylan, and pulled him in for a huge hug. This happened over and over. Dylan was so happy he let out the biggest laugh. His mommy and daddy said that was the biggest, longest laugh he had, had yet.

It was so fun to have the boys together! I hope that they grow to be the best of buddies! So far we are off to a great start!

July 2010

July has been very eventful for Noah. He has had two visits with Aunt Monica, one in which he stayed with her by himself. He has also mastered sitting by himself, eating baby food, and has also enjoyed his first 4Th of July!

Noah during a visit to Aunt Monica's

Noah's first meal! Green beans yum, yum!

I think he likes it!

After lunch nap!