Friday, October 31, 2008

HaPpY HaLLoWeeN



Noah is almost 34 months old.. 2 more months until he is 3!

Noah and I had a fun halloween day. Noah played all morning in his elmo costume that we borrowed from a friend at church. Nana B came over the night before and Nana came over on halloween day. Later we then went to the Plainville Rec dept halloween party with Noah's playgroup friend Emma and her family. They had costume judging, balloons, treats for the kids, trick or treat bags and a magic show! At the end, the highschool marching band took the kids on musical march! We then went to dinner with Emma and her family at First and Last Tavern. We had so much fun! Mommy wnet to work after, but daddy and Noah went home to pass out candy. Noah decided he wanted to get on all 4's and bark at the kids like Paris as he greeted them at the front door. He had a fun day!

New/fun things noah is saying and doing. He is getting ready for Christmas/winter season already. I had bought him new snow boots as the forecast was calling for snow towards the end of October! Noah kept calling them roller skates and insisted wearing them around the house. Keep in mind he is usually naked from waste down for potty training purposes. I walked into the living room to check on him and he was reading the "Big Toy Book" from toys R us and laying on his belly, with his snow boots on, choosing which toy he wanted for Christmas! It was the funniest thing!
He keeps asking me to make Christmas cookies, too, which is funny that he remembers from last year. He has already told me he wants a train table for Christmas. We are getting him one, so I am glad he is requesting it! I started to sing "dashing through the snow, on a one horse open sleigh....." and when I got to the end, he proudly sang, "JINGLE BELLS, JINGLE BELLS".. Noah, how do you remember that from last year?????

Noah is having a wonderful time in community bible study (CBS) each Thursday at church. He loves his teacher, Mrs. Zarolli. She was absent one day, and her co-teacher told us that she had jury duty. Well, Noah over heard that and told me later on that "Mrs. Rolli got dirty. She needs to wash up." So we called her phone and left her that message. She said it totally brightened her day to hear that message!
The next week I asked noah, "who loves you?" expecting he would say mommy. Nope, he said, "Mrs. ZZrolli"... He is starting to get her name right.

Noah is very observant right now, and really is noticing each day all of the leaves. He tells me all the time that "the leaves fall from the tree and the sticks fall from the tree." and when he wakes up in the morning, the first thing he says is, "the sun wakes up!" and then he might at, "it's kind of cloudy out." and as we go outside he'll remark, "it's kind of chilly out." and at night he'll say, "it's getting kind of dark out, need a flashlight!". I could write forever how funny and creative he is, I just love this age!

When I put noah to bed at night, my hair is usually messy, pulled up in a pony tail. As I leaned over him one night to give him a kiss goodnight, he make a strange face at me, and proceeded to fix my hair! he told me that I need the blowdryer-robot to fix my hair. and I needed a hair cut! in the morning after a shower, he'll tell me that my hair's all wet, I need to fix that. So observant!

He is so obsessed with curious George. or K-george as he calls him. He will tell us which show he wants to watch. "watch pirate one? watch pirate one? watch pirate one? alright, watch pirate one." Like I offered and he was just agreeing with me.

and finally, when Joe brings noah to his mom's when he and I are both working, Noah for a long time would bring stinky and elmo blanket. Lately, he has been putting stinky on his pillow and putting a blanket over him and saying, "good night stinky. time to take a nap. see you later." such a big boy!

Monday, October 13, 2008

Fall Colors

Today we went to pick out our mums. When we got home, noah posed for some fall pictures by the scarecrow and pumpkins.




Sunday, October 12, 2008

Pumpkin time!







Today we went to Pickin' Patch Farm in Avon. Noah went on a tractor hay ride and got to pick his very own pumpking out in the field!
Then he rode in a wagon to pick out his favorite gords and baby pumpkins. We did this last year and Noah had so much fun, we had to do it again. I think this will be a yearly ritual. After noah got to drink the best yummy apple cider out of a cute plastic pumpkin-shaped cup and eat some homemade orange nut bread.
Then we went to see the largest tree in Connecticut; a sycamore tree in Avon that is hundreds of years old.





When we got home, Noah got to help carve his very first jack-o-lantern! He had so much fun chosing the face he wanted daddy to cut, help scoop out the seeds, and watch the candle glow inside!

Friday, October 10, 2008

Forts!



After a meeting at mops the other day, I decided to take some good advice from a wise mom, Liz Abramson, about simple fun play. We went home and made a fort in the dining room with a sheet stretched over dining room chairs. Noah was so excited! We had lunch underneath and then even took an afternoon snooze!


Then, daddy got the idea a few days later to pull out the big guns.. and make a fort out of his camping tent!

We have had so much fun play fort inside the house!

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Boys will be boys....

noah, being a boy, is obsessed with poops. he has to check his out every time he poops.. and it is hard to change a dirty diaper when he is struggling to sit up and take a view of it.
so yesterday we were going for a walk with paris attached to the stroller. paris stops to take a poop and of course noah has to watch, all impressed that dogs poop too. (he is repeating elmo in elmo potty video that everyone poops. so he was telling me, like I did not know this, that dogs poop too.)
so then paris was done and had a little doggie turd hanging on to his back end as he was walking. noah explaims, "EWWW, POOPY!! YUCKY!! paris needs a diaper on!!!"
I almost peed my pants laughing.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Noah is 32 months old!


Four more months until he turns 3!

OH my goodness....how did that happen? It seems like just yesterday he was a little itty bitty baby!

Two funny things happened yesterday that I want to write about. The first, noah and I were reading one of his library books (which he now pronounces library and not "eh-tay-tay"). It was an alphabet book, with big and little letters. I was showing him how some upper case letters look like lower case letters, like C and c and then some do not, like the letter A and a. So when we got to letter F, Noah exclaimed: "OH NO!! E's broken!! E's broken!!!"... He pointed to the bottom part of the letter F, where there is no "foot" like the letter E has. How smart is he to notice that?
The other funny thing was last night I was getting ready to catch some sleep for work. Noah wanted to cuddle in bed with me. I asked him to sing "rock a bye" to me like how I sing it to him each night. So he sat up by the head of my bed and sang, "rock a bye mommy, on the tree top... when the wind blows... the cradle with drop..." It was so funny and yet so sweet and endearing of him. What a sweet little guy I have!!

Friday, August 29, 2008

As summer ends....


As the summer winds to an end, I am sad thinking of the things we did not get to do. Last summer and the year before, noah and I walked every day with his stoller, all around the neighborhood. We became an icon of the neighborhood, people have told us. I remember this time last summer becoming nostalgic that it would soon turn cold and told noah he would have to start wearing a jacket and socks and shoes when we went out. then in the spring, the first warm day in april, we were outside and so excited! now it is the end of august, the summer has FLOWN by and we only walked 3 times. I guess as he gets older, activites change. walking was our activity and that was great. but I am realizing things change. it is great to have those first memories, but we cannot always recreate them. and in the vain attempts to do so, we become disappointed.
We also did not play outside in the front and back like we used to. his water and sand table sat for most of the summer. same with the bubbles and side walk chalk, bikes and buckets. the front yard tree swing is covered in fallen leaves.
but this summer we created new memories. Many carousel visits all through CT and RI. Trips the different parks and zoos. Vacations on the beach, theme parks to ride roller coasters, visits to see Thomas and ride a train and go to car-washes to see robot arms helping... his favorites. Trips to the library and mall. He enjoyed art and music class at gymboree and began going to the ymca while I exercised. he likes to play with "different friends at the Ymca". He even asked me to leave so he could stay and play! He loves to search for snakes and bugs with daddy and pick tomatoes from the garden.
so I guess I am learning in my new stages of motherhood that it is ok to have different schedules each summer and things cannot be recreated some times. I look forward to what we will learn and discover next summer.