11 Months Old

Today our little boy is 11 months old.  I can't believe we will be celebrating his 1st birthday in one month, that is so crazy to me!  I didn't weigh him again this month on the actual month birthday ( I haven't been doing good on the scale pictures) but I did Thursday night and he was 23.4lbs.  He is still just hovering at the same weight.  He has gained 1 lb I think in the last 3 months.  He has really slowed down.  He doesn't look chunky at all to us anymore.  Matthew usually is calling him skinny nowadays but we expected  him to slow down since he has been walking around and crawling all the time.

Today Noah and I went shopping with Grandma Shelley, Taylor and Hannah.  Usually when I got shopping I plan out to leave when it will be about time for a nap so he will sleep on the drive, well today it was a last minute thing and I had to wake him up at 8:30 so I knew he wasn't going to be napping since we were leaving at 9.   I decided that just for today I would put his carseat forward facing so that way we would all enjoy the drive a little more if he was a happy boy.  At first he just stared at mom since she was in the drivers seat with the wheel and all things on the dash.  I never really thought about that he had never seen that stuff.  He stayed awake for the whole way up and did great shopping. The way back he was a very tired boy but just couldn't get himself to sleep.  I tried everything.  I even got out the DVD player and put in a kid movie.  That worked for say maybe 30 seconds, then we were back to throwing our fit.  

  

Once we got home I put him down for a nap and he slept maybe 25 minutes, not long but enough to hold him until bedtime.  Once I heard him up I went in and found the little man playing with his crib machine and standing, what he loves to do in his crib now. 

After catching some pictures in his crib I thought I better show off how cute he is playing on his workbench. I bought this at a garage sale back in May and have had it in the basement all this time waiting to get it out. The other day I was bored with his toys and remembered it and brought it up.  He is probably a little short yet for it and really doesn't play with it like he should since it's meant for an older kid but it's okay he still loves it.  

 And then he also uses it to help him get places by using it to help him move in between the furniture

I've always heard people talk about wanting to freeze their kids and have had many people say to me "don't you just want to freeze him?"  Honestly so far I have always looked forward to the next stage but now I am enjoying him at this age so much and wouldn't definetly freeze him if I could.  He is just such a happy boy now, he understands so much and he is just so fun to play with.  Love him more than I could ever explain!

Woohoo!

Noah will be 11 months in 2 days and finally we have been doing much better at night.  We have had a few stretches over the last 11 months where we would have a few good nights in a row but go right back to getting up multiple times a night. Well this last week has been wonderful. I haven't known what to do with uninterrupted sleep.  I hope I'm not jinxing myself for writing this, but this is really nice.  Also little mr. Noah has been a little cuddler this week, not sure what is up with  that.  He usually only takes his pacifier when he is going to bed and when he wakes up if he hasn't spit it out by the time I go in to get him he will take it out and give it to me.  Well the last few days he has been taking long naps and has been keeping his pacifier in longer and at night he has been wanting it more.  I have enjoyed just having him sit on my lap and cuddle while sucking on his pacifier, I never get to do that unless he is sleeping.  I don't think he has really been feeling too good because I'm not sure why else has my sweet little boy has turned into a cuddler, although I'm definetly not complaining.   Last night after I fed him, he actually just layed on my lap with his eyes open, looking at me, while I rocked him.  He never lets me do that!  It was wonderful after awhile like that I tried putting him on my shoulder and he didn't mind that either.  I'm hoping our next baby is a cuddler because it is so wonderful to be able to do that! 

My Two Boys

Noah loves music and Matthew had gotten his guitar out the other day.  Of course Noah was drawn to it and Matthew let him play around with it with supervision of course.  It's amazing that after just watching Matthew for just a minute he knew what to do with the guitar.  He was taking his cute little fingers and putting them right where he was supposed to on the strings, so cute! 

You probably didn't notice but the ladder in the background has nothing on the bottom two shelves, our little man loves this thing.  He is always putting toys and balls on it, and crawling in it to get them out.  Not sure why, but it provides such a good time.  We have had to do a little more baby proofing lately, now that he is moving all over the place!  I had to say goodbye to all my Wallflowers and replace them with outlet covers.  My candles have now had to resurface, I haven't really used them in a long time.  

Every day we are just amazed, Noah is turning into a little boy, he doesn't seem like our little baby boy anymore.  

First Haircut

About a week and a half ago, Noah got his first haircut.  He got his first one on Friday night by his Aunt Randi with regular scissors.  That was our first mistake.  We should have waited until we had real clippers.  So we did what we could and then Saturday we took him to Matthew's parents and Noah's Aunt Amanda finished the hair cut with some real clippers. 

Aunt Randi starting the hair cut

 Not really wanting to look straight ahead

 We played videos of him on my phone to try and keep him occupied.  He just loves watching himself on there.

The next day with the real clippers.  He didn't like those at all.  It was a struggle and his poor fine hair wouldn't hardly cut with them.  Amanda added some oil to his hair and that helped a little but after awhile we got the job done.  

Our big boy after his first haircut!  The front got a little shorter than I wanted, but that's okay it will grow back!  And we still have the spikey hair, it just doesn't stick up as high.  

What Noah's doing at 10 Months

Noah is quite a character!

at 10 months he is:

-Crawling, yeah!! and getting so good at it fast.  This week he has really started to get into alot, but also plays good.  He loves playing with his cups, balls or other toys on the tile since they make a loud noise.  Now the cool part is he can go get them instead of sitting there grunting at me to get them.  I enjoy playing with him don't get me wrong, the game just isn't always fun.
-almost has 6 teeth, has 4 completely and 2 more that have just barely popped through on top
-Loves, loves table food.  Everytime we sit down to eat, I usually give him some of what we are having, he really got used to Thanksgiving dinners last week
-still doesn't sleep through the night!  Turd, I know
-Likes the first 5 minutes of the Veggie Tales Jonah movie, he will be so engrossed but at the same point every time you loose him and he could care less about it
-crawling all over me, or when he's on the floor and we are standing he has started grabbing our legs to get our attention to get him up
-still loves anything technology and knows the remote or wireless keyboard changes things on the TV, when you lift them up, he looks right at the TV and waits for it to do something different
-holds his own bottle most of the time, but it's not always the cleanest method
-got his first haircut, post and pictures to follow soon
-doesn't really say anything new- still the same ma-ma, da-da, na-na, this, hey (once in awhile) but da-da is definetly  his favorite.  He says it when he's happy, sad, mad,  just all the time!
-doesn't like getting his diaper changed, some days it's quite a struggle because all he wants to do is flip over and get on his knees
-pretty much hurts himself on a daily basis- I hate it but I don't think there is anything I could do besides not let him grow up.  He is such a little explorer.
-still waves but is a little stingy at doing it, sometimes you really have to work hard to get him to do it
-gives high fives
-we are working on blowing kisses or giving them but hasn't quite caught on yet.  I can't wait for the day when he gives me the first kiss, well it better be me anyway!
-loves itsy bitsy spider
-loves his da-da, somedays he is really a daddy's boy.  I just love to see them together

and getting smarter and smarter each day.  Couldn't love him any more unless maybe he slept through the night, at least sometimes!

Christmas Wrapping

I do know this post is silly, but I just love my wrapping paper this year.  I got some presents wrapped, so just wanted to show them off!  I even made black and green labels to match the color theme.  Underneath our tree it is quite bright and bold, I guess it makes up for the lack of color on the tree this year!  I have a lot more presents to wrap yet before Christmas but  it's 25 days away, so I have plenty of time.  Plus now since I ordered so much online, I have to wait until they come in.

What a Week

I've had such a week of thankfulness!  We started Thanksgiving festivities last Sunday with the Nuelle's and had the Jones whole family Thursday and my dad's Thursday as well.  Then Friday we had it with mom and Kevin, Saturday none and today we finished it up with the Jones family (this time with Nathan, Kacie and cute little Micah).  It was quite a busy week but great one getting to visit and see so much family.  We are so truly blessed to have all the wonderful family that we have, love them all! 

Noah has loved Thanksgiving as well because I think he has really enjoyed all the delicious meals.  He has had lots of turkey, ham, mashed potatoes and green bean casserole, however no pumpkin pie for the little man this year maybe next year.  He doesn't need a sweet tooth yet.  I'm a bad photo mom, I didn't get a single picture of Noah eating any of his meals.  It wouldn't really be that exciting but I still missed capturing it.  I guess I'm saving all my picture taking energy for Christmas.  Oh how I can't wait!  I did manage to get a few presents wrapped and under the tree, looks so much better that way and I just love, love the paper.  I will get a picture this week, maybe after I get a few more.  I'm expecting we will get a flood of packages by the end of the week. I ordered lots of presents this weekend online, so once they all come in we will have just a few more presents to pick out!