Ma-Ma

So tonight we got an official ma-ma. Last Friday, I thought I heard Noah say it and  then I looked at Matthew and he said he heard it too.  Well I still wasn't quite sure it was what he said so I was waiting to here it again.  Today at Nana Jill's she said he was saying it a lot.  I told her I had thought I heard nana alot but not a sure ma-ma and she said she heard both. The two are really close, not like da-da which is a stronger sound.   Well tonight we had friends over for dinner and Noah starting blabbering and we all heard it.  So officially he now says, da-da, ma-ma, and na-na.  It's funny though because now tonight I never heard him say da-da. I hope he doesn't quit that because I think da-da- is so cute when he says it.  The last few days he has also picked up a new mouth movement it's very odd, it's like he's trying to say something but there isn't anything coming out.  The first of many new words!  Excting!

Labor Day

Today for Labor Day we didn't do anything too exciting. Noah and I went and got groceries like we do every Monday. Today while we were at Walmart I was on a mission to find some balls. Noah has really starting to like them when he has been around one. We have these stackable cups but when you put 2 of them together you can make a ball. We have been playing with them lately and rolling them back and forth. I guess it's more me rolling and Noah just trying to get rid of it and he gets so excited once he does. It's been super cute! Anyways since he enjoyed those I thought we needed some real balls for him. They didn't have what I thought I was looking for but they had a bag of 100 balls (like the ball pit ones without the pit) and I thought they were probably a little too old for him but would still be fun. Once I got home I was quite excited for him to be able to play with them so as soon as I got groceries in I opened them up and put some on the ground for him to play with. Now there are 100 but I don't think anytime soon will we be using all of them. They make quite a mess in my living room and as a neat freak I'm not sure why I thought these would be a good idea, but now I put Noah above my need for neatness and if he enjoys them I will just deal with them all over.

I kept trying to get him to look at me and it took me forever because he was so interested in all the balls. I tried every animal noise I could and finally got a smile!

Since it was nice out again today after Noah woke up from his nap we went out to hang out in the backyard playing with toys and looking at trees. A lot of times inside when Noah has a view of the windows he catches the trees moving outside and goes into a trance staring at them. It's quite humorous, well he was playing today and got into one outside. I captured his famous stare and of course his mouth is wide open. I also just love the blue eyes here!

Cheesy smile here but you can see his tooth on the left side, and today we noticed he has another that I think just barely broke through this morning. If it's anything like the last one it will probably take awhile to get where his other is now because it came up soooo slow. Poor guy!

He was fascinated with the grass but everytime he touched it he wasn't a fan and would sit right back up and just look at it.

What a great day, we even got dad to stop working for a little bit to hang out with us outside. Noah loves hanging out with his daddy. Now we both have to go back to work tomorrow, boo! But then Wednesday we are all off again so not bad at all!

What Noah's doing at 7 months

Still can't believe how old my baby boy is getting, but at 7 months he has just seemed to be understanding so much more.

Noah,

Isn't crawling yet but we know he can get on his knees because he sleeps on them a lot
Still is waking up at night ( I think he just really misses his mom, and wants to see me however this is something we are still working on, it's not my favorite mother/son moment)
Plays so well on the floor, he really reaches for his toys and sometimes falls on his belly, but is usually okay with it. It's so neat to watch him play I love it. Both of his hands are working together now when he plays. It's been so neat to see how his skills are always developing. He has learned how to bang things together
Has moved to the big boy car seat and loves being up higher so he can see outside
Loves jumping in his jumperoo, he can really get it going
Absolutely loves closets, it's so weird but everytime I take him to his closet or he sees Matthew or mine open he just starts flapping those crazy arms of his and squeals in excitement.
Has a huge open mouth smile. He used to have a few different ones but now it's always usually his huge one
Dances when he hears music sometimes, soo soo soo cute!
Has had his first 2 boo-boos.. Made his mom really sad!
Loves sitting in carts at Walmart, his favorite part of the trip is checking out, he always gets so excited at the checkout between all the noises and the pin pad he goes crazy with those arms and his huge smiles.
Loves acting like a big boy at restaurants in the high chair
Starting to use a sippy cup every now and then
Still doesn't hold his bottle I think he enjoys us doing it. He is getting closer because he will pull it out if he doesn't want to finish it. I don't mind this though, I think I will be sad when he doesn't want us to hold it.
Has certain books he already loves
Is starting to like balls, he tries somewhat to roll it back and forth. It's mostly me rolling it into his lap and him just trying to get rid of it. It seems like he kind of understands because he gets so excited when he finally gets it away from him
Says da-da and a few other sounds that don't mean anything. I love hearing him talk, I just can't get over how cute it is. I love watching his mouth move, it's like he has to put so much effort into it.
Squeals/screams a lot. It's not always a mad scream, I think he just loves his voice
Has 1 tooth and 1 that has been right at the surface for so long but still hasn't broke through

We love Noah more than we could ever explain. It's amazing how every day I just love him more and more and now he is entertaining us more than we are entertaining him. It's funny sometimes I'm like what did we do before him! We are enjoying this journey with him and can't believe how close he is getting to 1 year old already!

Love these

I just fell in love with this fabric when I saw it! 1) I love argyle and 2) it's just got the cutest colors. However very girly though, so I decided to make some burp cloths and a bib for a friend with a baby girl and this fabric is good because it's a flannel. I found pink flannel to match so everything is flannel, a lot better for this type of stuff than cotton fabrics!

Sippy Cup

Noah still loves cups and glasses of any kind. We had tried the sippy cup not too long ago but he wasn't interested, he still wanted the glasses we had. Since we hadn't tried it this week and he saw Matthew drinking something and got upset because he couldn't have his glass I got out the sippy cup again. This time he really liked it. He was trying it sitting up and couldn't get it to work too well so we let him lay on the ground on his boppy and try it that way. He just kept drinking and drinking. He isn't used to it yet you can tell because he kept getting too much in his mouth and it would spill over and every now and then he would cough a little from getting too much. It's just so cute how he loves to do big things and how he is just picking up so many new things lately. He looked like such a big boy laying there drinking out of the cup all by himself.

Here he is after he was done drinking, wet shirt, wet pants, wet boppy pretty much wet everything!

Everytime I tried to get a picture he would see me and start to take the cup out so I always got it halfway out of his mouth, oh well.

Plastic Cups

Noah has all the toys a little boy could want but yet still is amazed and entertained for a long time by a plastic cup! He loves to drink out of glasses like us big people. Not to interested in sippy cups though just wants the glass, so sometimes we will let him have some water out of a cup. We usually get out a plastic one so we can let him try to hold it instead of him holding a big glass. After he's done he loves to play with the cup and I'll admit I let him. However we have to keep a close eye because after awhile those cups start to crack, once that happens playing with cups is over. Those things can be dangerous! It is just funny to me that he always seems to love everything that's not a toy better than his actual toys!

Little Mover

Noah still isn't crawling but he sure knows how to use his rolling abilities to get where he wants. I don't remember where I went but I think I left him playing while I got dressed. If you notice where his toys are, that is where I left him. When I got back he was all the way by this footrest.

Apparently he saw the tag on this ottoman and really wanted it. He even managed to rip 1 of the 3 off. He also managed to take his dad's phone with him as he rolled. Every day he never ceases to amaze me in what he does or what he has figured out. They learn so much so fast!