Sunday Shiner!

Baby Noah,

Today at church, Daddy and I decided to keep you in the service with us (we're sick of getting paged to come rescue you from the nursery). Well, you decided to dive in my arms while I was trying to get your bottle out of the diaper bag and low and behold, you hit your head on the wooden arm rest! You let out the loudest wail right in the middle of the sermon. I think the whole congregation got silent and the pastor lost his train of thought! Oops! Needless to say, we left immediately.

Take a look at your shiner:

These look like mug shots...you poor thing!

Love,

Mommy

6 months and counting!

Mr. Noah,

Your 6 month doctor appointment was last week (or maybe longer now....who can keep track of the days anymore) and you are 18.8 lbs (50-75th percentile), 27 3/4 inches (90th percentile), and growing up too fast for me somedays and not fast enough other days!

You got your shots again, cried briefly, but were fine again when daddy let you rip up the paper on the patient table. Such a boy! The most interesting development of the appointment was learning that you're working on getting in all four of you top teeth at once....No wonder you're waking up again in the night and seem to be a touch fussier (oh, who am I kidding...WAY FUSSIER) than your usual smiley self. I've had to be paged at the YMCA nursery and at the church nursery the past few weeks...and believe me, it's not so amusing! You used to love going to both those places, but lately you've just not been yourself....or is this the true you...oh please say it isn't so!

You still take two naps a day, 9-11 and 1-3. But, I wonder how much longer you'll do that. Some days it's nice because I can get a lot done during those times, but it sure does make it hard to plan things out of the house. We go to My Gym class on Mondays and Kindermusik on Tuesdays. You LOVE Kindermusik.....something about singing and dancing with Mommy seems right up your alley.....maybe you're secretly making fun of me in your head and it's funny to see me make a fool out of myself.....whatever keeps you happy! You're favorite song is "Once I saw a little bird come hop, hop hop"...you stop whatever you're doing and listen with your big, buggy eyes! Too cute!

You're sitting up all by yourself now and have been consistently for about a week now. When you fall, you fall onto your stomach and it looks like you might want to crawl soon. Or, you're already putting one foot in front of the other when you're standing up, holding my hands, so who knows, maybe you'll skip crawling and go straight to walking.....Yikes!

Love you my little grouch,
Mommy

I can do it myself!

Dearest Baby Noah,



You can now hold your bottle all by yourself! Sometimes you just want to bite on it, but look at how big and independent you're getting! You'll be 6 months tomorrow and I'm trying to get you to sleep in your crib for your naps. You still take your 2 naps in your swing. Yesterday you took a one hour nap in your crib, but that's not long enough for you....you woke up very crabby! So, we'll keep working on it! One day I put Daisy in there with you just to get you to see it was a fun place to be...not sure that was such a good idea, but you seemed to get a kick out of it!

Love you,
Mommy

My Gym Rat

Dear Noah,

Daddy and I took you to your class at My Gym on Monday (Labor Day). It was fun for Daddy to see you explore all the new toys and try all the activities they have set up for you. You're the youngest kiddo there, so sometimes I feel kind of bad for you....or me (I have to carry you around everywhere and the other kids can walk or crawl)! You seemed to have a good time for the first 30 minutes, but then I think it was all too much for you to handle. Well, we also woke you up from your nap to get you there on time...oops! We also think you're working on getting some more teeth....you're crabby, not sleeping the best, and have a rash on your chin. What a mess you are! Poor Daddy was sweating to death when it was all over...I'm not sure if it was from the activities or from your crying!

It'll just be you and me next week....maybe you'll be more yourself and ready to try the BIG SWING!

Love you,

Mommy

Jesus Loves You!

Dear Baby Noah,

You were dedicated to God last Sunday, September 2nd, at church! Pastor Erik prayed for you (and us.....God knows we need it) and you got your first Bible! I'd like to say you were an angel baby up there, but that would be a lie. You were so fussy and on the verge of a meltdown the whole time we were up there....good thing we were first! Daddy held you and had to whisper in your ear through the entire into and prayer over you...I don't think he heard any of it. But I did, and it was sweet. Once it was over and we left the stage you let it rip.....luckily I made it outside with you before you disturbed the other babies getting dedicated. I guess you just wanted all the attention on you....you're so your daddy's child : )

Gramma Mary and Grampa Ken got you your own personalized stamps with your cute, chubby face on them! And Aunt becky, Uncle Jon, and Cousin Carter got you a book about God and some bible song CD's! Aunt Jessie, Uncle Pat, and G-ma came a day early to spend time with you! What a lucky guy you are!

Oh, by the way, at this same church the week before, we won a trip to Disney World!!!!! We got to put our names in a drawing, and my name was picked! We decided to take Auntie Lindsey and Cousin Caden because you'll still be too little to enjoy it. Don't worry, we'll take you someday too!

Love you,

Mommy