Too Cute!

Balloon Festival

Marco, Noah and I went to the balloon festival Friday night. Noah got to go on a train and pony ride. He also jumped on and enjoyed all the inflatables. Of course, we also watched all the hot air balloons and were excited to see the "glow" this year. Last year, only 1 balloon did it because of the high winds. This year, all 17 balloons were up and glowing. Noah enjoyed himself as always. It is so much fun as he gets older and is able to do so many things. I adored him being a baby, but I also love the "big boy" stage. It is so enjoyable to talk with him and hear all the things he is learning.

Noah's very first pony ride

yahoo!

boys will be boys

We ran into Noah's friend Owen from school again. They had a ball jumping around and rolling in the grass together. It's so cute to see them play together. Owen is one of the kids that Noah tells me is "nice." Unfortunately for some of the kids, at this age, Noah is able to tell me exactly which kids are and aren't nice. I always know which kids were put in time out each day and who hit who and who did the crying. I just pray that Noah remains as sweet as he is now and continues to stay out of "time out."

glow baby glow!

Noah's first taste of cotton candy

Check out the sticky blue face and fingers - that's a sign that it was really good!

Granddaddy

Noah loves playing with his Granddaddy. Tonight, after they had played for quite awhile, Noah climbed into his lap and said, "Granddaddy, I wanna watch Dallas Cowboys."

Oh, have mercy! Heads are going to roll! I told Marco and he said, "Tell your dad if he ever wants to see Noah again, he better stop teaching him to say bad words!"

It's all in good fun, but it will certainly be interesting to see who Noah cheers for as he gets older. Will he stay neutral or choose sides?

Hunting Widows

My good friend Reyna coined the term "hunting widow" when her husband Nick started going hunting almost everyday. To his credit, he's cut way back, but of course still goes hunting leaving Reyna home alone with the kiddoes sometimes. Today, Marco went with him, leaving us both "hunting widows." So, my sweet parents decided to have Reyna, Maddie, Wyatt, Noah and me all over to eat dinner and play on the air water slide. Noah and Maddie had a blast, and we had to pry them away after an hour and a half to eat dinner. We have such sweet, good kids that play so well together!

Noah visiting with Baby Wyatt

giving him some lovin'

cutie pies!

Noah and Maddie had been playing a game of Ring Around the Rosies when they thought it would be fun to fall into the pool instead of on the ground. It started with Maddie giving Noah a little push to fall in. They did this for awhile until Noah started pushing Maddie into the water. As you can see from the video, he got pretty into it.

NOTICE: No children were hurt in the production of this video.

Sesame Street Live

Marco, Noah and I all went to see Sesame Street Live today. Noah LOVED the show and thought seeing Elmo, Big Bird & Cookie Monster was really cool. We were there for quite awhile, but it kept his attention the entire time. Afterwards though, he was definately ready for a nap. Apparently, watching all those singing and dancing monsters is pretty exhausting.

This is the best picture we could get of Noah. He really didn't care anything about looking at the camera, he wanted to look around everywhere else.

Noah was SO cooperative in getting this picture. NOT!

Noah Learning How to Ride a Tricycle

Philadelphia Eagles vs. Dallas Cowboys

Marco and his dad went to the Eagles vs. Cowboys football game on Monday night. Of course, Marco was cheering for the Eagles, and Jess was cheering for the Cowboys. They both donned the apparel of their favorite team and luckily, neither of them had rocks thrown at them from the opposing team. It was good fun, and they thoroughly enjoyed the evening. They've now decided to go to the Eagles vs. Cowboys game every year together.
Daddy and his little Eagle with matching McNabb jerseys

This jersey was a BIG hit with the Philadelphia fans. He had numerous people ask to have their picture taken with him wearing the jersey.

For those of you that don't keep up with football, this is the Terrell Owens jersey from when he played with the Philadelphia Eagles. He now plays for the Dallas Cowboys.

Marco, Jess and Noah
Noah is playing this well - an Eagles jersey for Philadelphia and a cowboy hat for Dallas
One day you'll get to go too little buddy!

Texas Stadium

Terrell Owens warming up

Visit from Papa

Marco and Jess are heading to the Dallas Cowboy vs. Philadelphia Eagle football game tomorrow. Jess arrived today and Noah had a wonderful time playing with and loving on him.

Hugs for Papa - It's been a long time!

Noah showed Papa his new big boy bed and room

Noah and Papa share some grapes for a snack

We went to Nelson Park to feed the ducks - Here they come!

Noah loves his Papa!

Noah's Big Boy Room

I'm sorry I'm just now getting pictures of Noah's new room posted. It was finished awhile ago, but I kept forgetting to take the pics.

Marco painted the mural on the wall to match the curtains, lampshape, bedding etc. that I bought from Target. He also painted a road all the way around the room, and we added car decals to it. It looks really good. Marco did a great job. The navy curtains were already in the room, I just sewed 8 valances onto the top to go with the room. I also purchased coordinating receiving blankets and cut them up in order to piece together a new changing pad cover. I was so excited when I found the street signs on Ebay, because they really complete the room. We love the change, and Noah does too. I thought we would have to battle Noah getting out of bed over and over again since he doesn't have bars to keep him in anymore, but we haven't. When he wakes up in the morning, he just hollers "I woke up" at us or "I want my mommy," and he waits for me to come in the room before he gets out of bed. At night, he stays in the bed even if he's still singing, talking, playing with his animals, etc. He doesn't get out of the bed. So, it's been a great transition, and Noah continues to show us what a wonderful little boy he is. We love him so much!

Noah is now 2 1/2 years old. In the past month and a half Noah has . . .

dropped the paci at bedtime

moved to a big boy bed

started using the potty and wearing underwear during the waking hours

He was just a baby yesterday.

Check Out My Undies!

That's right! Noah is wearing underwear now. We've been working on potty training for several weeks now. He's done really well, but of course still wet in his diaper pretty often. His new teacher at St. James, Mrs. Jan, likes for the kids to go ahead and wear underwear in her class (while they're awake) instead of pull-ups. She thinks this really helps with their potty training, and she doesn't mind changing him however many times it takes. So, on Thursday, Noah wore underwear to school for the first time, and I took 3 changes of clothes for him just in case. He stayed dry all day long at school! I was SOOOO proud of him. So, since then, he's been wearing underwear while he's awake and a diaper while he's sleeping. He's only had one small accident each day, which I think is pretty darn good. Of course, this is still in the beginning stages, but I'm so proud of how well he is doing. He doesn't have any fears with using the potty, and he just holds himself up on the regular potty, so he won't have to transition from a little one or a potty seat later. Wow! What a big boy he is becoming!

West Texas Fair and Rodeo

Friday night, we took Noah to the fair. We thought for sure that he would be able to ride the kiddie rides (especially since he's been able to everywhere else we've been to). Unfortunately, he was too short to ride any of them. So, next year should be his big year. Anyway, he did get to feed and pet the farm animals and play with the tractors in the Ag building.

We then headed to the rodeo. We thought he would enjoy seeing all the animals and cowboys. Oh my goodness! He didn't just like the rodeo. He was absolutely enthralled with it! He didn't blink an eye. He got to see the HSU 6 white horses, a rodeo clown, bucking horses and calf roping. I narrated as he watched so he could learn what everything was called. The rodeo was a big hit.

This morning, after he woke up, he found his cowboy hat and immediately began playing cowboy. He kept asking me for a big horse and telling me he wanted to fall in the dirt. Now, Marco and I are certainly not "western wear" type people. There are no wranglers or cowboy boots in this house, but I must say that my child looks mighty cute in a cowboy hat.

Noah saw his friend Owen from school.

Noah feeding the baby goat

Noah loved playing with the tractors

He wanted to watch the "big blue bear" from afar, until they offered him a sucker. It was all hugs then!

HSU Six White Horses


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