Sunday, November 1, 2009
Yankee Candle
We went to Yankee Candle up in South Deerfield, Mass today. We went with noah back in 2006 when he was 9 months old and not even crawling yet. It was so fun to go back with him and see him look at all the things again, but through older eyes. He was so excited to see Santa's workshop where he makes all the toys, but he did not want to say hi to him. After we went to the butterfly conservatory called Magic Wings. Noah had a great time looking at all the exotic reptiles and seeing tons of butterflies flying around freely. One almost landed on his head but he screamed and freaked out and it flew away. It was a nice fall day, 55 degrees out and sunny. But most of the leaves were gone, but it was still a nice drive.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
apple picking was fun, a nice fall warm day. we got a few pumpkins too and our fall flowers. every fall there seems to be a warm weekend and I am glad we got to go again this year.
We went to Leo's bday party. It is so fun watching the cousins play together. Uncle Dan gave Noah his first fire helmet. This is a big tradition to a firefighter Becky told me and I am honored that Dan gave it to Noah. We got a lot of cute pictures.
It is so sweet hearing noah say he misses me and loves me. I wish I could forever remember his little voice, "I love you too, Mommy." and "I missed you so very much mommy!"
I offered Noah some nutella and strawberries. noah responded "sure! what do I want to tell ya?" hahaha
Joe told me the other day Noah was watching tv and the cartoon character asked the audience if they could get up and help them? Noah responded that he could not b/c they were in the TV! so cute!
noah is doing awesome staying dry for naps. a few accidents here and there, but really well. He is driving his success.. letting us know when he is ready for each next step. so when he is ready to give up night-time diapers, he will let us know.
he is doing well going to the bathroom independently now, not asking for help to pull up his pants or underware. and he is trying to wipe his own bottom now too.. and today I found the whole box of wet-wipes used in the toilet... good thing he did not flush!
he is getting out of bed now when he is done sleeping, vs sitting there waiting for me. still loves curious george, thomas and now diego and dora. he is saying his colors in spanish and counting to 5 in spanish. days the days of the week, we are learning the months of the year, he knows his city and state and to dial 911 for an emergency. He loves to cook, and always is asking to help in the kitchen. he wants to make leave piles outside and asks to go out all the time. today he climbed the roof to his playhouse outside..which I was wondering when he was going to finally do, being a boy.
he likes to go to "school at church", as he calls it and is learning a lot there about jesus and the bible. and he is doing well keeping his toys out of the saturday box by picking up at the end of the day. he is doing well writing his name, almost independently and really does well coloring in the pictures, not just scribbling. he knows his bday is January 2nd and that he will be 4. and that christmas is coming up.. and he is excited to be spider man for halloween this year. we are going to becky's "uncle becky" still and now uncle bunky" as a snafu noah said the other day and subsequently cracked himself up.
We went to Leo's bday party. It is so fun watching the cousins play together. Uncle Dan gave Noah his first fire helmet. This is a big tradition to a firefighter Becky told me and I am honored that Dan gave it to Noah. We got a lot of cute pictures.
It is so sweet hearing noah say he misses me and loves me. I wish I could forever remember his little voice, "I love you too, Mommy." and "I missed you so very much mommy!"
I offered Noah some nutella and strawberries. noah responded "sure! what do I want to tell ya?" hahaha
Joe told me the other day Noah was watching tv and the cartoon character asked the audience if they could get up and help them? Noah responded that he could not b/c they were in the TV! so cute!
noah is doing awesome staying dry for naps. a few accidents here and there, but really well. He is driving his success.. letting us know when he is ready for each next step. so when he is ready to give up night-time diapers, he will let us know.
he is doing well going to the bathroom independently now, not asking for help to pull up his pants or underware. and he is trying to wipe his own bottom now too.. and today I found the whole box of wet-wipes used in the toilet... good thing he did not flush!
he is getting out of bed now when he is done sleeping, vs sitting there waiting for me. still loves curious george, thomas and now diego and dora. he is saying his colors in spanish and counting to 5 in spanish. days the days of the week, we are learning the months of the year, he knows his city and state and to dial 911 for an emergency. He loves to cook, and always is asking to help in the kitchen. he wants to make leave piles outside and asks to go out all the time. today he climbed the roof to his playhouse outside..which I was wondering when he was going to finally do, being a boy.
he likes to go to "school at church", as he calls it and is learning a lot there about jesus and the bible. and he is doing well keeping his toys out of the saturday box by picking up at the end of the day. he is doing well writing his name, almost independently and really does well coloring in the pictures, not just scribbling. he knows his bday is January 2nd and that he will be 4. and that christmas is coming up.. and he is excited to be spider man for halloween this year. we are going to becky's "uncle becky" still and now uncle bunky" as a snafu noah said the other day and subsequently cracked himself up.
Friday, October 2, 2009
3 years and 9 months
We measure Noah on the wall every 3 months. Today he reached 38 inches and weighed 32 lbs. I sat with noah and looked at a lot of his baby pictures on line and he was amazed at all of his toys and the faces he made when he was little. He loved seeing him and emma playing together as babies too.
we are going apple picking tomorrow and to get our pumpkins. Noah is looking forward to the hay ride. we are going to a different farm this year. Karabin farms in southington; this one has farm animals.
we are going apple picking tomorrow and to get our pumpkins. Noah is looking forward to the hay ride. we are going to a different farm this year. Karabin farms in southington; this one has farm animals.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
September
Where has the summer gone? It rained all June and part of July and august flew by. Now the leaves are changing and it is coooold!
crazy New England weather.
I have been trying to write down on scrap pieces of paper all the things I wanted to include in Noah's blog so it will read kind of like a bulletin.
He started all his church activities like last year. On mondays he has Mops, and with the same teachers as last year, miss anne and miss sue, so he is thrilled.
tuesdays he is at nana and poppa's (john is not working and so Noah loves that he is home with them). Every other wed he has mom's bible study and then every thursday CBS. He has Mrs. Zirolli again, and is so excited! He kept asking me to go to church when I told him she was his teacher again. I felt bad he had to wait a few days.
and on Fridays we get to relax.
sat, joe and Noah do something fun together as I sleep from work and on Sun noah is in sunday school from 9am-1145. This is why he is not in preschool yet.
Noah has started watching dora and diego. they speak spanish and english on their cartoons and noah likes to say his colors in spanish like dora. at times, he forgets the word and makes his own word up. He forgot yellow and said it was "beeno" and then asked what brown was. I told him I did not know and he said maybe it was "aneemo". He is too funny! He also is learning to count to 5 in spanish.
we went out to dinner last week and noah and I shared dessert. He ate a lot, so I jokingly asked to have my dessert back. He said matter of factly, that he can't, because it went down to his belly, and then down by his pees. smart kid!
he is staying dry at nap now and gets a jelly bean when he wakes up. he is doing so well! he gets up at night to go poos as well. last night i forgot to put the nightlight on in the bathroom and he went in the dark! luckily he called me when he was done.
he went to the dentist yesterday and had the best checkup. he saw the hygienist and she kept asking if he was always this good? he behaved so well, I was so impressed!
a few weeks ago, I went to put noah to nap and he said he could do it himself. he walked me out of his room and shut his door, and got himself in bed, covered up and went to sleep! he is so funny! but at night he still asks me to sing him rock a bye :-).
he has a cup by the water cooler and now gets himself his own drinks. I love his independence. for a while now, he asks to be excused when done eating, will put his dish in the sink, milk in the fridge and push his chair in. I love what a big boy he is becoming. he is so polite, always says please, thank you and excuse me. we also got rid of his sippy cups. for a while he has been using a cup with a cover and straw. I made it official yesterday and put them all away. yay!
he now pees standing up, which helps greatly in public restrooms. sometimes his aim is off, especially if he has to go really bad, but it is easy to clean up.
he loves to rub my belly and say hi to the baby. he asked for a key to unlock my belly the other day to get the baby out. he has a baby boy doll that he sometimes will feed and hold. he'll get some practice.
we went to six flags with the legers a few weekends ago. noah and emma had a great time on the rides together. it was a hot end of summer day, lots of fun! daddy won noah a basketball.
today we are going to the Big E. Noah is so excited about the animals, rides, food, games and carnival..
Noah really plays independently so well. during a mops meeting, the lead teacher used noah as an example of how the really good kids like noah sometimes get neglected by the teachers b/c they behave so well and they have to focus on the "prickly" kids... I would rather have a well-behaved child.
when he misbehaves though, with his toys such as not picking them up or misusing them, we now put them in a Saturday box, which a pastor at church told us about. instead of getting in trouble or time out, we just put his toys that were misused in a box until the following saturday. this really has helped!!!
when noah sleeps now, when he wakes up he tells us about his stories, which are dreams. one time he woke up crying b/c he could not find me in his story. I felt so bad! and another time he was crying b/c joe took something away from him in his story. I love when he tells me that I was in his story and what fun things we did.
they are usually about boy things.. trucks, trains, motorcycles, robots...
and when he plays now, he makes pretend voices for his little people, or toys. and exploding noises and he rescues them. I absolutely love to stop what I am doing and just sit and observe him. He really is such a great kid!
He also loves to cook, often dragging a chair over to the counter and getting the cook book:
crazy New England weather.
I have been trying to write down on scrap pieces of paper all the things I wanted to include in Noah's blog so it will read kind of like a bulletin.
He started all his church activities like last year. On mondays he has Mops, and with the same teachers as last year, miss anne and miss sue, so he is thrilled.
tuesdays he is at nana and poppa's (john is not working and so Noah loves that he is home with them). Every other wed he has mom's bible study and then every thursday CBS. He has Mrs. Zirolli again, and is so excited! He kept asking me to go to church when I told him she was his teacher again. I felt bad he had to wait a few days.
and on Fridays we get to relax.
sat, joe and Noah do something fun together as I sleep from work and on Sun noah is in sunday school from 9am-1145. This is why he is not in preschool yet.
Noah has started watching dora and diego. they speak spanish and english on their cartoons and noah likes to say his colors in spanish like dora. at times, he forgets the word and makes his own word up. He forgot yellow and said it was "beeno" and then asked what brown was. I told him I did not know and he said maybe it was "aneemo". He is too funny! He also is learning to count to 5 in spanish.
we went out to dinner last week and noah and I shared dessert. He ate a lot, so I jokingly asked to have my dessert back. He said matter of factly, that he can't, because it went down to his belly, and then down by his pees. smart kid!
he is staying dry at nap now and gets a jelly bean when he wakes up. he is doing so well! he gets up at night to go poos as well. last night i forgot to put the nightlight on in the bathroom and he went in the dark! luckily he called me when he was done.
he went to the dentist yesterday and had the best checkup. he saw the hygienist and she kept asking if he was always this good? he behaved so well, I was so impressed!
a few weeks ago, I went to put noah to nap and he said he could do it himself. he walked me out of his room and shut his door, and got himself in bed, covered up and went to sleep! he is so funny! but at night he still asks me to sing him rock a bye :-).
he has a cup by the water cooler and now gets himself his own drinks. I love his independence. for a while now, he asks to be excused when done eating, will put his dish in the sink, milk in the fridge and push his chair in. I love what a big boy he is becoming. he is so polite, always says please, thank you and excuse me. we also got rid of his sippy cups. for a while he has been using a cup with a cover and straw. I made it official yesterday and put them all away. yay!
he now pees standing up, which helps greatly in public restrooms. sometimes his aim is off, especially if he has to go really bad, but it is easy to clean up.
he loves to rub my belly and say hi to the baby. he asked for a key to unlock my belly the other day to get the baby out. he has a baby boy doll that he sometimes will feed and hold. he'll get some practice.
we went to six flags with the legers a few weekends ago. noah and emma had a great time on the rides together. it was a hot end of summer day, lots of fun! daddy won noah a basketball.
today we are going to the Big E. Noah is so excited about the animals, rides, food, games and carnival..
Noah really plays independently so well. during a mops meeting, the lead teacher used noah as an example of how the really good kids like noah sometimes get neglected by the teachers b/c they behave so well and they have to focus on the "prickly" kids... I would rather have a well-behaved child.
when he misbehaves though, with his toys such as not picking them up or misusing them, we now put them in a Saturday box, which a pastor at church told us about. instead of getting in trouble or time out, we just put his toys that were misused in a box until the following saturday. this really has helped!!!
when noah sleeps now, when he wakes up he tells us about his stories, which are dreams. one time he woke up crying b/c he could not find me in his story. I felt so bad! and another time he was crying b/c joe took something away from him in his story. I love when he tells me that I was in his story and what fun things we did.
they are usually about boy things.. trucks, trains, motorcycles, robots...
and when he plays now, he makes pretend voices for his little people, or toys. and exploding noises and he rescues them. I absolutely love to stop what I am doing and just sit and observe him. He really is such a great kid!
He also loves to cook, often dragging a chair over to the counter and getting the cook book:
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Irony of parenting life
As I was reading my friend Kate's blog, I chuckled at some of the things she wrote regarding parenting. Her morning started out with a dirty-diapered 16 month old and a cranky almost 4 year old.. she continues to write:
"I ended up feeding him a handful of Nilla wafers, and throwing on the T.V., cause he wouldn't agree to anything else. Thoughts of my B.K. (before kids) ways of thinking came to me this morning as the second kid came downstairs and demanded cookies for breakfast too. I remember so self-righteously thinking that I did NOT understand parents who let their kids eat garbage and junk food, and chicken nuggets. I get it now. Not only to I get it, I do it, a lot. Sometimes I just don't care, and sometimes I don't want a fight and am guilt-filled as I think of the nitrates, preservatives and sugar that I'm pumping my children full of."
I love how our outlook on parenting changes. I was the same way bk, "why do you let your kid run your life?" how can you let your kid eat that?" nice job as a mom...sheesh" some people should not have kids.." and now as noah had chocolate milk, chips, lolly pop and a piece of chocolate for lunch the other day as I dragged him to yet another ultrasound appointment with me and came home to nap my pregnant body on the couch and let him watch 5 episodes of veggie tales on TV.. I wonder these things about myself. "I think I will blog about this" I tell Kate in an email as I am agreeing with how much life changes when the reality of AK (after kids) hits...
"I ended up feeding him a handful of Nilla wafers, and throwing on the T.V., cause he wouldn't agree to anything else. Thoughts of my B.K. (before kids) ways of thinking came to me this morning as the second kid came downstairs and demanded cookies for breakfast too. I remember so self-righteously thinking that I did NOT understand parents who let their kids eat garbage and junk food, and chicken nuggets. I get it now. Not only to I get it, I do it, a lot. Sometimes I just don't care, and sometimes I don't want a fight and am guilt-filled as I think of the nitrates, preservatives and sugar that I'm pumping my children full of."
I love how our outlook on parenting changes. I was the same way bk, "why do you let your kid run your life?" how can you let your kid eat that?" nice job as a mom...sheesh" some people should not have kids.." and now as noah had chocolate milk, chips, lolly pop and a piece of chocolate for lunch the other day as I dragged him to yet another ultrasound appointment with me and came home to nap my pregnant body on the couch and let him watch 5 episodes of veggie tales on TV.. I wonder these things about myself. "I think I will blog about this" I tell Kate in an email as I am agreeing with how much life changes when the reality of AK (after kids) hits...
Monday, August 24, 2009
Big Brother
So Noah is going to be a big brother in April. He has moments of excitment and other times of not so happy feelings... His main concern is not wanting to give up his room. We really need him to move into the other room and have his room be for the baby. But I don't want to cause resentment issues.. fortunately we have a few months to work on it. Noah came with me to a few of the ultrasounds and got to see the baby's heartbeat and hear it as well. He said he wants to have a baby brother.. which he will name, "Baby Brother". Or, he said Paul for a boy and baby Sarah for a girl.. neither of the names we will chose, but very cute he has picked these out.
He likes to rub my belly and talk to the baby. I told him the baby likes to hear him talk, being a big brother is a very important job! We bought him a boy baby doll to practice with later on and a few books about new babies and about being a big brother. We'll take our time with noah, but I know he will be such a good brother to him or her.
Here he is holding the positive pregnancy test for me to take a picture.
He likes to rub my belly and talk to the baby. I told him the baby likes to hear him talk, being a big brother is a very important job! We bought him a boy baby doll to practice with later on and a few books about new babies and about being a big brother. We'll take our time with noah, but I know he will be such a good brother to him or her.
Here he is holding the positive pregnancy test for me to take a picture.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Summer Fun
Yesterday we brought Noah to the Dinosaur state park in Rocky Hill. It is big enough to capture his attention yet small enough not to overwhelm him. He loves dinosaurs now ever since he saw his first theater movie this summer on vacation, "Ice Age, Dawn of the Dinosaurs".
On Wednesday Joe took him to a free library end of summer party. He had a spaceship panted on his face, got a spiderman tatoo on his hand, ate an icecream cone, played games and came home with a balloon.. which he is using to make a parachute for his robot gus... creative that boy is.
We have been spending a lot of time in the pool now that summer is actually here. He was afraid of the pool some what this summer but last week we put paris in the pool and Noah got to see how a dog can naturally do the doggie-paddle.. so now all noah wants to do is swim like Paris.
We had the Adamsons over on Tuesday this week. 5 kids and 3 adults.. pizza, pool and lots of fun.
We are hoping to take one more trip to Six Flags this summer with Becky and the gang if we can find the time between everyones schedule.
On Wednesday Joe took him to a free library end of summer party. He had a spaceship panted on his face, got a spiderman tatoo on his hand, ate an icecream cone, played games and came home with a balloon.. which he is using to make a parachute for his robot gus... creative that boy is.
We have been spending a lot of time in the pool now that summer is actually here. He was afraid of the pool some what this summer but last week we put paris in the pool and Noah got to see how a dog can naturally do the doggie-paddle.. so now all noah wants to do is swim like Paris.
We had the Adamsons over on Tuesday this week. 5 kids and 3 adults.. pizza, pool and lots of fun.
We are hoping to take one more trip to Six Flags this summer with Becky and the gang if we can find the time between everyones schedule.
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