Time for "school"

We had our first week (2 days) of school (aka Mother's Day Out). Caden has been ready to go back for the last 6 weeks and has been asking if it is fall yet so he can go back to school! I'm glad he likes going! This year I am teaching a 3 year old class right next to his 3 year old class so I can peek through the window whenever I want. :) Now if only we can get through this hitting my friends phase. :( His teacher had to bring him to me for a stern talking to on the first day because he was hitting too much. He did better on Thursday but still hit a couple times (oh and threw a big temper tantrum after I put him in timeout on the playground).

Noah has not had any problems adjusting to being at school instead of at home. He even went down easily for a nap! We just have to get him past the biting stage! :( Wish his 1 year molars would hurry up and come all the way in so hopefully the biting will decrease a little bit.

 Not the perfect start to the school year, but just reminds me how imperfect we are and how important my job is as a mom to train up my children in Christ. The week overall was good, just seems like the behavior we are constantly working on with the boys, at school, at church, at home, at soccer, is very frustrating because it is not getting better as fast as I would like. ;P  I guess I am supposed to be learning patience! ;)

First day of school 9/4/12

Haircut

Noah finally got his first haircut! (btw this post is a few weeks late!) Yes, I know it was past due but we wanted to wait until after we had his first birthday pictures taken before we completely changed what he looked like! He did good for the first half and sat still but then was over it so I had to hold him so she could finish! He is now a big boy!

Sweet Tooth

A little dessert before bedtime... Daddy's special strawberry milkshake

This kid loves his sweets!

He is supposed to be sharing with Daddy!

 

Not wanting to give it up! :)

What could be better?

Than free Chick-fil-a!!  Yum!  :)

One

It is hard to believe that a year has already passed since Noah was born. At birth he weighed 10lbs 3oz and was 22 1/2in long. He is now 24lbs 14oz. (75%) and 32in (95%). 

I love seeing his little personality forming. He is very determined and passionate. If he wants something, he wants it now. And if you tell him no, he gets mad, sticks out that bottom lip and cries.

He is loud. He always screams if he wants something and other times he will randomly just screech at the top of his lungs for no reason.

He loves to play tackle, roll on the floor and be tickled. Always wants to join in with Daddy and Caden.

He has an infectious smile and laugh. Or maybe its just me because I'm his mama but I love it all the same. :)

He loves to eat. It seems like he is always hungry. He eats only table food now and drinks cows milk during the day. Still nursing before bed but not for much longer. He loves pizza, chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes, fruit, rice and beans, and anything sweet (ice cream, cake, cookies). Not so crazy about his veggies but we are working on that. (He does better with them when they are mixed in something)

Noah is a light sleeper, much more so than his big brother. When he is asleep, I don't dare go into his room, not even to check on him. This has been hard for me to learn because I like to check on the boys before I go to bed at night. However, I have quickly learned not to go in his room or he will wake up.

Noah loves to play with balls. If he is after one of Caden's toys, I can usually distract him by having him look for or play with a ball.

Loves to pull his friend Caroline's bows out of her hair at church.

Noah consistently says Dada, Mama, bubba (for Buster, our dog), ball ball, book (without the k sound) and buh for everything else. He also has said a few different times pee (for please), Nana, and Papa

Noah likes to bite and it hurts! He has 8 teeth and may be getting more in because the biting has increased but he won't let me look in his mouth long enough for me to see. He puts EVERYTHING in his mouth to chew on.

He is still crawling, not quite ready to take those first steps. He will stand by himself by pulling up on something and then letting go and then usually claps for himself and wants you to say yay!

Usually sleeps from about 7:30 to 6:30 - 7 and then naps for 1.5-2 hours in the morning and then another hour or so in the afternoon.

LOVES to be chased!

Noah at 1 month and 12 months

Birthday Party Fun part 2

We celebrated Noah's first birthday party (and Jimmy's surprise 30th since their birthdays are only 2 days apart) at the park! Caden's birthday is in November and it's usually cold so I wanted to have it outside at the park and it was a PERFECT park day! (weather wise) The hour and a half before the party started, getting all those last minute things together on the other hand, was quite the opposite!! Started out sending Jimmy and his mom to the party store to get balloons and then over to the park to reserve the pavilion but they were not going to be able to blow up the balloons for another 45 minutes! So, just sent him on to the park and told him I would go pick them up. (I was going to go there anyways to get him a balloon!) Made it there and had to wait for them to do my order then went to DQ to pick up Jimmy's blizzard cake that I had ordered and they took a LONG time looking in the freezer for it! Thankfully, they finally found it! Last stop, Dominoes to pick up the pizza. I had ordered it the evening before because I wanted to pick it up  shortly after they opened. When I got there, none of the pizzas were made! My order had been CANCELED!! The girl had no idea why. (I was freaking out! I was already running later than I wanted and now had no pizza!) She said she would make them right away so I asked if she would deliver for free and she said yes she would do that and that everything would be free! Thankful everything worked out (maybe not the perfect way I wanted it to go) and Noah was a little late to his party but we made it there and had so much fun with wonderful friends and family! The bigger kids played on the playground, we ate lunch and had cake, opened presents and gave away hot air balloon brownie pops as favors! Even though the day started out very stressful and I didn't think anything was going to go right, the day was beautiful and we were able to celebrate 2 out of 3 of my favorite boys for their special days!

Birthday Party Fun part 1

We had so much fun planning  Noah's Up Up & Away hot air balloon themed party! We started with a photo shoot a month before to make the invitations. (Thanks to my incredibly talented husband...unfortunately the picture quality of the invite is not very good)

 Noah loves balloons and had so much fun and gave us the best smiles! :) All of the pictures turned out so cute, I could not have asked for it to go any better! Well...could have done without Noah tipping over backwards in the basket and popping half of the balloons at once, but thankfully we had already taken quite a few pictures and Noah was not hurt. :)  Here are some of my other favorite pictures we took. The last one is when he fell over and popped all the balloons! It was also when Caden was wanting to be in some of the pictures. I love how he is just sitting playing with the grass not noticing anything was happening! :)