only noah

a few days ago i hurt my back. when Noah came home from school i was laying on the floor icing it. he asked me if i was still hurting and when i told him i was, he asked for a blank piece of paper. a few minutes later he was at the table coloring and writing.


this is the note he brought me when he was done...

 

(in case you can't read the paper - it says: feel better mom. the lord is with you)


honestly, we have no idea where this kid came from. all i know is i couldn't be more crazy about him then i already am.

1st grade play

can i just say... i LOVE 1st graders. Today was Noah's program at school, 'BUGZ'. they've been practicing for about a month now. Noah's greatest excitement was not that he got two speaking parts, but because he would get to bow three times at the end. Once with all the kids, once with the kids who had speaking parts, and once with the 2 other kids who got solo "singing" parts. it was by far the cutest thing i've seen him do. i apologize ahead of time for the shakiness of the camera - i was laughing too hard to hold it steady.



this is noah right before the program started-

 

here's grandma and grandpa - the ever supportive grandparents - supporting their favorite grandson. Along with Reagan, who was very tired at this point, so this was the closest we got to a smile.

 

during one song they turned the lights off as the kids sang with their flashlights. Reagan stood frozen like this for a good 30 seconds trying to decide if she was scared and whether or not she should cry.

 

now for the video's. remember, it's shaking partly from my laughing and because it's with our camera, which is hard to hold really still anyway.

this first one is noah's "solo" song. he wouldn't practice it at home for us because he wanted it to be a surprise. as you'll see, he took his part very seriously...




this song was their opening and closing song. i should have panned out and got the rest of the kids, but i was too focused on noah to think of it at the time. really -can you blame me?

3 posts in 1

i had a few pics from different days to post, but instead of putting them on as three seperate entries, i thought it would be better to just make one long post.


ENTRY 1-

When noah plays the Wii, sometimes he'll grab a chair to sit on and without fail reagan pulls her little purple chair over to "play" with him. aaron's not too thrilled that i let reagan hold the remote and play with noah, but she's so happy - and what's the most important thing to any mom? a happy toddler.

ENTRY 2-

so i'm trying to help reagan become more independant. now, this has nothing to do with me wanting more freedom - heavens no. this is all about reagan's happiness. i mean what mom doesn't want to spend all of her waking moments changing diapers, wiping runny noses, picking up toys, pulling 4 marbles out of her daughters mouth and feeding her all day long? i know i certainly love doing all those things every day, seven days a week. no, me having reagan learn to use a spoon is really all about her growing and becoming a happy, indepentant toddler.

i thought best to work with mac and cheese first. couldn't be too hard.

i put the bowl in front of her, helped her take 4 or 5 bites with the spoon - watched her do it by herself a few times and with a laugh and a proud sigh at how brilliant my child was to catch on so fast, i walked away.

first mistake - laughing and sighing. really, that's just asking for trouble.

second mistake - walking away. honestly, you'd think i was a first time parent.

it wasn't long before i hear this tiny voice "ah dun" "ah dun".

i come back in to find her holding her bowl - looking like this...

i figured it served me right. apprently she'd just dumped it all on her head and down her lap. so, like any good mom, i went and got the camera. when i got back she'd thrown the bowl and had her arms open yelling (yes, she's very impatient) "ah done" "ah done"

and like any good mom, i wouldn't let her down until she finished eating. i gathered the mac and cheese from her lap, put it back on her tray (minus the spoon) and told her to "eat". you can see from her look she was not happy about this.

but eventually, she ate most of it, got cleaned up, a change of clothes (i had to wash her hair because at one point she reached up and smashed the noodles all through her hair) and she was happy once again.

ENTRY 3-

to end my post, i thought i'd throw up some of my favorite pictures. my niese, Amber, came and took family pictures and these are some of my favorite ones of the kids.