Ear Infections...

Yep, Noah has an ear infection.  So no flu shot for him yet.  But at least he gets to take that awesome bubble gum flavored medicine!  Oh how I miss the days of taking that instead of pills...  He is in good spirits so at least we caught it before it got really bad.  Hopefully by the end of the weekend he'll be feeling much better.  :)  One can hope right?

HI!!!!!!!!!!

Noah said his first word yesterday!!! And it was "Hi!" He was waving at himself and just said it. LOL! It was at daycare, but then when we picked him up last night he said it in front of us too!

Of course I kept on trying to get him to say it again and get video of it on my cell phone, but no dice. Figures. With all of the other "talking" he does, I'm sure more words will start to appear. He already says something like "mama", but it's not quite there yet.

My little boy is getting to be so big!

Coffee Table 1 - Noah 0

We have our first shiner! LOL! The coffee table came up and bit Noah in the face last night. He's bonked his head and other parts of himself on loads of things already and barely shed a tear. But this time, it was full blown, trying to catch my breath sobs. And an instanteous black & blue mark too. Thankfully he needed a bath last night and that always cheers him up, so the sobs were short lived.



I tried to take a picture of him this morning with his "shiner", but the flash was a bit too bright. You can kind of see it. It's underneath his left eye.

Main Street U.S.A.!!!

We've been back for about a week now, but I came down with the cold bug so it's been a miserable week.  So hence my delay in our trip recap!

Noah and I had a WONDERFUL time!!!  Thank you to Stephen & Marilyn for a lovely dinner on Friday night.  It was so nice to see you guys and have you be able to meet Noah!  Thank you to Shira, Chris, Gemma, & Rich for taking such good care of us that weekend!  We had so much fun and I can not WAIT until next time!!!

Noah was such a trooper!  He did really well and I must say so did I for being a single parent that weekend.  Gold stars for both of us!  LOL!  Not only was it Noah's first time to WDW, but it was my first time down there for the EPCOT Food & Wine Festival.  And man, did we eat our selves silly on Saturday night!  Despite the not so normal heat/humidity (it was 94 on Sunday and about 200% humidity) it was a very nice weekend for FL weather.  A little bit o rain, but nothing to spoil the entire day!  

Noah's very first ride was The Seas with Nemo & Friends.  He LOVED it!  Shira, Gemma, and I all squeezed into the clamshell with Noah on my lap.  It gets a little dark on this ride, but Noah did not mind it at all.  After we spent the rest of our time at EPCOT wandering the World Showcase stuffing our faces with food, and dancing around to the music.  [the boys did roll their eyes at us on some occasions]  Shira got Noah to sleep and we ended the night with a quick pitstop into a gift shop and a picture in front of Spaceship Earth with all of us.

Sunday the girls & I took Noah to Magic Kingdom.  Our first stop was to get Noah his very first pair of Mickey Ears and have them embroidered with his name.  After that we were able to get him to keep them on for about oh... 10 minutes.  LOL!  That boy does NOT like to wear hats.  We got to watch the Main Street performers and they all kept on coming up to Noah and say "oh you're so cute!"  well he did fine until the last group.  That time it freaked him out.  It was pretty funny, but I think you had to be there.  We took him on Cinderella's Carousel and he absolutely loved it!  We also took him on It's a Small World.  After that he got sleepy so I got him changed into something cooler and then he completely passed out while I was holding him as we were in line for Haunted Mansion.  Minus 2 times he woke up, hollered for 5 seconds each time (I would too if the lap bar squished my tush).  He slept through the entire ride and then some.  We had lunch at the Plaza restaurant and then decided to try to get to see Mickey in ToonTown before we had to leave.  Well, it was a 90 minute wait to see the mouse, so we said NO WAY!  On our way out, Shira called the WDW dining line and was able to get me a reservation at Cape May Cafe the next morning (the day we left) so Noah could at least meet some characters.  We headed over to Downtown Disney for a bit of shopping & to meet up with some others.  After that we spent the rest of the evening at Chris' mom's house for taco night!  It was a very nice way to end our trip.  Just relaxing with friends.

Noah and I had a really good time at breakfast the next morning.  He did pretty well with the characters.  He wasn't too sure about Goofy, but he liked Minnie & Donald!  The characters were so nice, they sat down at our table with us to get down to Noah's level and interacted with him.  It was wonderful!  We also made a quick pitstop at Ariels so I could get a picture of Noah under the sign as that is where Shawn & I had our reception.  :)  Ahhhh....  Memories!

It was a great trip and I am so thankful to Shawn for sending us there.  I wish he would've been there with us, but we are going next year for thanksgiving.  So we have that to look forward too.  And it'll be a longer trip so we'll get to see everything we want to (most likely).  Especially the holiday stuff!!

Check out our pictures from the trip!  Click on the Our Pictures link on the right and then head on over to the WDW Trip album.  

TTFN!!!

T-Minus 2 Days!!!!!

The excitement is building!!!  Only 2 more days and Noah & I will be off to the house of Mouse!  :D  For a fun filled weekend with some pretty great friends!  I am so excited to take him there!  But I'm sad Shawn won't be with.  That will just make next years trip even more incredible!

Woot woot!!

No pictures to show right now.  Noah has unfortunately been battling a cold since this weekend.  It's been snot central at our house (EW!).  But he seems to be on the mend which I am so happy about!  That should make the flight a little better...  On Sunday just so I could make sure I took him to urgent care to have his ears checked.  Thankfully he was free and clear!  Phew!  That was such a load off.  And he's gotten better since then, so I'm not worried about that anymore.

I promise to have loads of pictures to show and hopefully some video when we return.  Daddy will be taking Friday and Monday off as well so I expect there will be a lot of football watching and PS3 playing while we are gone.  I must say that even though he too is bummed about not coming, he is looking forward for some alone time.

See Ya Real Soon!

Would you like to...

Swing on a star?
Carry moonbeams home in a jar?
And be better off than you are?

So here's our little man swingin on a star!

Now how can anyone resist the fun of swinging when it brings this much joy to such a darling little boy? If everyday had this much joy in it, I would be complete.

Fall Family Fun!

It wouldn't be a fall season without a trip to either an apple orchard or a farm for some family fun!

We headed out to the Nelson Family Farm (www.nelsonfarm.com) this weekend with the Turners and Hebners.  It was great to see everyone and we had a blast!  We didn't get to the corn maze, but we did pretty much everything else there.  The kids all had a good time.  Hallie & Ashley showed their cousin Noah how to ride in a wagon, go down a slide, pan for gems, and get your hand nibbled on by a goat!  

It's so much fun to watch Noah experience all of these new things.  He's so curious and will just sit and watch the world around him.  That is for 5 minutes until he decides that "hmmm that acorn sure looks tasty!  maybe I'll try it!"  Thank goodness Daddy & Grandma were there to stop him!  This is now going to be a fall tradition for us.  I can't wait until next year when our little dude will be not so little anymore and his cousins might need to try and keep up with him!

I've loaded some of the pictures up, but have many more to go.  Check out the September album for them!!!