First Weekend Trip

I can't believe Matthew and I are both leaving Noah this weekend.  In August I went on an overnight shopping trip with my mom and sisters and then Matthew had 2 separate nights where he went away when Noah was younger.  We haven't both left at the same time and it was never this far, or this long.  We are going with the Reality youth group to Acquire the Fire.  I know it's going to be awesome and I am excited but sad and worried at the same time.  Noah is my little baby.  He hasn't been feeling that well this week but I can't use that as my excuse.  I'm really trying to stay tough, everything in me today wanted to back out because when I looked at his sweet little face I couldn't help but think there is no way I can leave him all weekend!  I know he will be in great hands.  His aunts, and grandparents love him so much too and will all be taking care of him throughout the weekend!  I know Aunt Randi will have him most of the time and will do a great job.  She will most likely have her hands full as he has really seem to learn a lot this week.  More about that in the next post but he has really been wearing me out lately.  I'm just tuckered out at the end of the day.

 We will be heading up north on a bus so I think that is the hard part for us, knowing we don't have a vehicle to just drive home if need be but if anything were to happen (which it's not, but) we would figure something out. Noah just went to bed a little bit ago and I asked Matthew if he could sleep with us tonight but he said no.  Bummer!  Noah isn't a cuddler but last night he actually let me rock him to sleep.  I soooo loved it! After he was asleep I tried to cuddle with him as much as he would let me without squirming in his sleep.  Anyways tomorrow I am off  work and we don't have to be at the church until around 2 so I'm hoping to get to spend some good quality time with my little man before we leave. Then Sunday will be Halloween so as soon as we get back to town we will have to get Noah all dressed up in his costume.  Can't wait, I've only had it since the beginning of August so I've been waiting awhile!  So hopefully tomorrow we make it out of town, because once we make it out, I will be on a bus with a bunch of teenagers and there won't be any turning back.  I'm going to try for no tears, but I still just can't believe how much I miss him and he is just in bed in the other room.  It stinks knowing you are leaving!!! Well wish me luck, I can do this!

First Parade

This afternoon Katie, Hannah, and I took Noah to first parade.  We missed the Homecoming parade so the Halloween was the next one.  I figured he would like it since he likes to watch cars go by, bands, and animals.  Well he did like it but didn't show much emotion like the normal Noah.  He pretty much sat there the entire time with his mouth open.  It was so cute.  He loved most of it except for the beginning I think scared him a little with all the sirens.  We covered his ears because I forgot how loud those things were up close!  It was so funny to me at how many people came up to him to give him a handful of candy as if they felt bad for him that the other kids were getting it all.  One person from Casey's that was passing out donuts came up to him and said here buddy, this will be kind of messy.  My son is 9 months old, we dont eat donuts and we definetly do not eat candy.  I guess it was nice for us though plenty of candy for the adults.  Noah also got hit on the head once with a piece of candy someone was trying to throw one and misjudged.  He just whined for a minute and then he was fine.  I think he enjoyed it though.

 Staring at the parade

 Staring.....

 Kate moved and we are still staring, haha

Great day, it was beautiful outside, perfect day for the parade!

Loving Walking

All Noah wants to do these days is walk, walk, and walk.  Of course it's not that easy because he needs us to do it but the last couple days I have got out some toy walkers to see how he does with those.  He did pretty good with one of them.  I was quite impressed he made it pretty far in the living room the other night.  I just can't get over how fast time has flown. I can't believe my baby will be walking soon!

First of Many

 Monday afternoon I had just finished feeding Noah some lunch and had scooted his high chair back in the corner with him still in it.  I wasn't thinking because I scooted him right next to the candy dish that was sitting on a shelf by the countertop.  I had walked a few feet to get rid of the food dishes and in no time I heard a crash and there went the bowl all over the ceramic tile as well as all the candy corn in it. It was so funny to see Noah's face.  He just stared at the floor for the longest time.  He was actually still content in there the whole time I cleaned it up, impressive for him!  I know this is only the beginning of broken things, once he is on the move I'm sure we will have more.

What a Weekend

Boy oh boy what a weekend we had.  It was quite a busy one.  To add to the weekend we had quite a cranky boy, which sure has me worn out.  I'm not sure if it was all the being away from home, or the teeth or something else that had him in a funk but I'm happy for Monday to be here.  We are going to make a quick trip to the office and grocery shopping then hanging out at home the rest of the day.  I have a huge list for me but that will be for naptime and after bed for Noah when I will tackle that. 

Noah is entering the walking stage.  All he wants to do is for you to hold his hands and walk around.  Well I can handle that here and there but 8 hours a day just isn't going to happen.  I know everyone says I don't want him to walk but at this point I would have to say I wouldn't mind it.  I will probably eat these words before too long.  Whenever I put him down after walking or he tries to grab my fingers and I don't help him up he has been throwing quite the fit.  Some worse than others. I have just been amazed at how good these 9 month old fits are.  He is one strong willed little boy! 

 I haven't been as good lately at taking very many pictures but I did manage to get a few of Noah and one of his little cousins.   Hopefully soon we can get all 3 little Jones boys' together for a picture. 

 It was hopeless to get them both to look at the same time!

 This is my ornery little boy, he kept taking the toy from Micah, and putting it on the other side of him, well then Matthew would  put it back on Micah's lap and he would just take it again.  Noah has a little grin here, I think we are in trouble in a few months.

 Typical Noah, mouth wide open!

 Happy to be walking and playing with the cabinets

My little cheese man

 Even though we had a rough weekend, this boy still melts my heart.  He gives you this smile and you just want to squeeze him!

Love, Love, Love, Love Him!

9 Months

At Noah's 9 month home weigh in, Noah was ......

I was quite surprised when I saw the scale, he seems so much heavier each week but he was only up 4 ounces since last month.  I can't believe how much his weight has slowed but I guess it's expected when all he wants to do is walk around now. 

Just look at this face!  How could you not love this boy?

 I was trying to get some stuff ready for supper, he wasn't really cooperating but still managed to sneak a smile!

 One of his many funny facial expressions showing his teeth, along with his natural crazy hair

 Noah playing his new favorite game, he drops everything off and waits for mommy to pick it up! ( If you look close he does have a ring in his hand)  This is also a good picture from the side of his crazy hair, it's hopeless to get it to lay down!

 Noah just loves computers, I got him out an extra one that he couldn't mess up.  He makes so many random boxes come up and I have no idea how he does it!

 I still can't believe my little boy is already 9 months old.  3 months and we will be celebrating his 1st birthday!  We love him more and more each day!  It seems just like yesterday that all we ever did was hold him and wonder when he would do more.  Now I spend all day playing and entertaining.  He has me worn out someday, especially now that he wants to walk around and needs our help doing it.  I'm really beginning to think he is just going to go straight to walking and skip crawling.  We will see though, he could surprise us someday and still crawl.  None the less, I love him and are so thankful for the days I get to stay home and spend time with him! 

Getting so smart!

Noah just loves this thing however, it's not an independent toy. He doesn't know how to get all the characters up so we have to pop them all up for him and then he puts them all down.  Yesterday it was so cute I was sitting behind him while he was playing with this and watching TV so I didn't always notice right away when he had them all down.  He would turn around and kind of tap my leg to get my attention to put them back up for him.  It was so cute! Every day he just amazes me at how much he is learning.  He still hasn't figured out crawling, but he's getting the rest of the world figured out.  His new thing lately has been walking, that is all he wants to do all the time. Once you try to set him down after walking it usually turns into quite the little fit (which he is very good at already). 

He's just so cute when he plays, love him so much!

Noah 8 Months

One day last week I was trying to switch my closet from summer to fall/winter during one of Noah's naps.  Well he didn't nap very long and so I got stuck in the middle.  I tried to occupy him with the hangers for awhile.  He liked them for a few minutes but then was done.  So I had to wait until he went to bed that night.  Some days  it's amazing I get anything done.  His naps these days have been getting shorter and shorter.

Noah has discovered cabinets. Lately if I leave him while I use the restroom we start a scream fest so sometimes I will bring him with me and set him on the floor.  Well he's been okay with that because he loves cabinets and has figured out how to open and shut them.  Right now he usually just does that but he has been starting to realize there are lots of things in them and wants to play with that stuff too.  The kitchen cabinets he loves too, I introduced him to the tupperware cabinet the other day that kept him entertained while I finished dinner one night! 

Moving??

I don't know where to start or how we really even got started on the idea of moving, but there is a chance we might be!  I'm really excited to get the chance to look at houses.  When we got our house 3 years ago we never had intended of buying one as early as we did and it just kind of happened.  We bought it from family and never looked at another house.  Well 3 years later it's finally my turn to look at house (3 years I know isn't really that long, but it has seemed like it).  There really isn't anything wrong with our house.  We have pretty much completely redone it and there is still probably a lot we would do if we stayed here but I would just like to be done with the house remoldeling stage at least for a little bit. Then again I'm know every house we ever live in there will be things that need done but nothing like what we did to our house.  We have always had so many unfinished projects in this house, because we start another before finishing the last one and one thing always leads to another.  Well now that we are considering moving we have really got to kick in in gear and finish our to-do list.  There is a lot that needs to be done before we could ever put our house on the market. Last Friday we had a realtor come to our house to give us an idea what he would list our house for.  Once we knew that we got an idea of what we might get from our house so we know what kind of houses we would be able to look at next.  Last night we were up until 12:30, I was painting the basement and Matthew was laying tile in the breezeway.  It's also been a lot harder to get things done after we had Noah.  It kinds of keeps me from doing big projects because you just can't fit them in during a naptime and at night there is always so much regular household stuff that needs done.  This week I'm going to just try and stay up late some nights to try and help Matthew get some things finished though.  We are going to look at some more houses today, which none of them have everything on my wish list but I don't think it's really possible in the price point we are looking at.  So we will see, if there isn't anything on the market right now that we really want than there isn't a huge hurry for us to get everything done.   At the same time in case something does come on the market that we want, I don't want to miss out on it because we can't or haven't got our house ready to sell.  There is also some land that I would like to look at it, but I'm not sure if I could handle the stress of building right now.  There are a lot of things up in the air, but the idea of a new house is so exciting! 

Goodbye

We have done many, many, many renovations to our house in the last 3 years.  We had replaced all the lights and fans in our house I think in the first year we lived here, except for we changed Noah's light to a fan after he was born, but there was one fan/light in the dining room that had been left unchanged.  Reason being is we just didn't quite know what we wanted to do about it because the old fan was centered according to how the room used to be.  We had knocked out a closet to open the space and make it bigger, since we made it larger it was no longer centered.  At first I didn't know what I wanted  because we had tossed around different ideas like doing pendants to still use the orginal hole, replacing it with another fan, or just a chandelier and then after awhile I just never really thought about it and was used to it being like that.  Well we have made a list of all the house projects that we have started or things that really need done and we are trying to knock them out as soon as possible so yesterday that was the task of the day for Matthew. Now of course we just couldn't put up a new light since the old one wasn't in the right spot so he had to go to the attic and make a new hole and patch up the old one.  Then I got the fun job of cleaning up all the drywall chunks, dust, and mud mess.  It does look so much better and it was kind of  sad today to throw away the last old light of the house.  There really isn't much of the original house left. 

Here is Matthew removing the last old light/fan ( he had already taken the blades off)

And the pretty new one!  We haven't quite decided yet, but I think we might move it up a little, the light it puts off is a little low in the room with this one. 

Loves to be big

These last couple weeks Noah has loved when you help him walk around places and he just loves to be standing up.  Most nights we usually let him watch the bathtub fill up while he stands outside of it (there is an alterior motive there too because we love his cute little naked butt when he stands there, haha).  He loves standing up against the couch and tries to pull himself up when he 's on his changing table too.  This morning he was just so cute standing there in his footie pajamas, I had to take a few pictures.  It's so funny to see him in sleepers again because he hasn't worn any all summer, he has been sleeping in 2 pc set pajamas and onesies.  His little butt and thighs are so funny in them now! 

Here is our little man thinking he's big stuff!