pictures

I brought the old Boppy out to take pictures of and sell on Craig's List - I guess Noah had other plans for it!

Nathan playing at a friend's pool.

Cow-appreciation day at Chik-fil-A. Nathan and I made some cow costumes for the whole family and we all got free meals for it!! What a deal and what fun!!!

Noah drinking lemonade - he had this reaction w/ each drink, but kept coming back for more! lol

observations on eating vegetables

Wow - does that sound like great reading or what?!?
So really - we had mixed vegetables at dinner tonight and I noticed that Nathan, Noah, and I each had a pattern to how we ate them.

I'll start with Noah. I can only tell you what he did, but I cannot tell you why . . . he didn't tell me. (I do have a guess though!) First he picked out all the carrots, then all the corn, then the lima beans, then peas, then lastly ate the green beans. Wow - he is one! He was very determined to do it just so. If he accidentally got one in the wrong order, he would spit it out and put it back on his tray for eating in its appropriate order. (sorry Dad W - yes, he comes back to it to eat it after spitting it out, don't worry, it wasn't chewed yet!) Here is my guess - the carrots are the sweetest, followed by the corn - he was picking the two he likes most. Next were the lima beans, they are easy for him to pick up. Next the peas - slippery, rolly little things, but easy to eat once he gets them. The green beans take some extra chewing and work to eat - so he had those last.

Now Nathan - a very different approach. He likes to have one of each on each spoonful. Maybe two of some (ie. corn) but not much more. Now here we know (b/c he tells us) that he really likes corn. We also know that he really dislikes the lima beans and green beans. My thought is that instead of having some really 'good' spoonfuls and then some really 'bad' spoonfuls - he decided to average it out for a whole bowlful of 'just ok' bites.

And yes, sadly - I found myself eating them in a certain way as well. I ate the lima beans first - b/c I like them a lot and don't have them often. Next were the green beans b/c they stick out more from the others. After that I just tried to get mostly corn or carrots or peas on the fork. I don't know that I prefer any over the others - but I think I just like them seperate more than together.

well . . . there you have it - a family (minus Dad - who was at work and missed all the fun) of meticulus vegetable eaters.

Sorry to say - that is three minutes of your life that you spent reading this and will never get back.

July 4th and a day at the lake

We went to a local festival at a park for the 4th of July. The boys are both pretty terrified of fireworks . . . and they don't start until over two hours after they are in bed - (so Richard and I just watched them from the backyard). Anyhow - we did our family celebrating during the day.

I read somewhere something like - 'our freedom in this country is great, but our freedom in Christ from our sins is divinely magnificent' . I thank God for both freedoms!!!

Today we went to a nearby lake. It is just a small, 3 mile around, man made lake that opened a few years ago. We had never been to it - just drove past it yesterday and decided it really seemed like a great place to go - so we did. We were not disappointed! We had a great time! There are no gas-powered boats allowed (b/c of size) so we just went swimming and playing.

Nathan go to ride his little jet-ski for the first time. It was SO COOL! It has a small fan that runs on D batteries and just putts around.

After a little safety and training talk from Dada - he was ready to go!Nathan also found his first shell that was "not all borten" (literal translation = "no all broken", thought for thought translation = "both pieces still connected").

We had a beautiful time!!!!

NOAH WALKED TODAY!!!

What more do I need to say????
He was picking up the big throw pillows (from the couch) off of the floor. He would hold it, then fall forward onto it laughing. I thought "he would be ok if that pillow wasn't so darn big and heavy." So I gave him one of the small red pillows - these are very light and very small. He took it in both hands and took three steps!
He just needed something in his hands!
He did it twice - then I got up and got the video camera - like any Mom would do. Don't you know that as soon as he saw that camera - he sat on his bottom and would not even stand up again!
stink-pot

:-)

What Nathan has been up to

I have to share this with you . . .

Nathan, Noah and I were driving around trying to find a particular item to buy. After the first store didn't have it, Nathan grew impatient and asked "Can we go home now?" I told him that we had to keep looking and we went to a second store - they also did not have the item. Nathan persisted asking "Can we go home now?" and stating "I want go home now, Mama." It was getting near dinner time, so we did head home. Nathan didn't realize that is where we were going, I guess, here is how it played out.
NATHAN: (in a very soft, pitiful sounding voice) Mama, I having a hard time.
ME: I am very sorry to hear that. What are you having a hard time with honney?
NATHAN: (very innocently) I having hard time getting Mama to go home.

I kept the laughter inside, and gently explained that we go home when Mama says it is time to go home, and he doesn't "get" Mama to go home. To which he replied, "I nunderstand dat - Mama want go home?"
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Here is a video of tonight's dinner. I was gettting something together quickly for Noah to start eating while I finished cooking the rest of dinner. Nathan said, "Mama, I please help feed dat Noah."

one mad baby

Before you watch the video below - here is the story - Noah was down for a nap. The phone rang and the volume on the reciever was up VERY loud (which it is normally not) and woke him up (which it does normally not). First I left him to see if he would fall back asleep -nope. So I tried everything to calm him down - snuggle, hold him, bounce him, rock him, play with him, let him get down and crawl around. . . nothing helped. SO I decided the only thing left to do was . . . video tape it
This is ONE MAD BABY!!! **warning - footage may be disturbing to the faint of heart (especially you Gran!)**

So blessed!!

Here are some pictures of what I like to call "School in the pool". I floated his foam letters in the water and let Nathan pick out and give me the ones I would ask for by name. :-) Much more fun that at the kitchen table!!

Nathan was pouring water, as seen below, and said - "I water Noah, make him grow more!"

Here is Noah's very last "Friday picture". He was born on a Friday, and we started that day - taking a picture of him every Friday until he turned a year old. This was the last one year old: