Noah has been talking in broken sentences for weeks now, it feels like it happened overnight! His version of words cracks us up. He has his own vocabulary: WA-WA= Noah, Thocklick= choclate, pockle= Popsicle, Cacky= candy, or cathy his preshcool teacher, GO-GO= yogurt, Pooging= Pudding, DAR= Guitar, etc... so cute.... a few things he's OBSESSED with: MUM-MUM's= vitamins, AL-LURCH= Ashlyn, LO-LURCH= Lotion, LOCA= Yoga! He's so cute cause he always wants my yoga mat out and will get in the downward facing dog position and say "mommy LOCA!!!" until i do it with him.
Our neighbor Jeff is selling his house, so he doesn't live there anymore, we use his yard to play and he always has pine cones in the front yard from the giant tree there. Noah loves to throw them into the street and help Jeff clean the yard up. so we've been doing that ALOT lately. He can also reach the pedals on his little trike now! so he is a riding machine. He just doesn't have the whole steering thing down, so he runs into the fence every few feet and I have to redirect him, the problem is that he is so fiercely independent that he doesn't want my help... so he just sits there frustrated that the bike wont go anywhere!
We got new carpet installed in the back room and the stairs and upstairs... so necessary. Upstairs is going to be Noah's room soon, and the old carpet was probably the original... FROM THE 1940's!!! so gross... He is so excited, he points up there and says WA-WA's room... BIG BED MOMMY! he cant wait to get a big kid bed and have the whole upstairs to himself. we're moving him up there as soon as my brother Evan and I finish building the banister around the cut out in the floor that you enter through (it used to be an attic) we're making it out of Red oak, it's really pretty, probably another week before we have time to finish it. We've completely repainted it too it's very peaceful and sweet up there. Once we finish up there and he is moved, we can finally start redoing the baby girls room. lots of prep work before I can even paint. Then I just need to finish making her quilt/roman shades for the windows/ and get registered for her baby shower. after that i think i will be able to relax and just enjoy the last few weeks of this pregnancy.
Noah is still having success at the potty training thing. it's basically when he initiates it at this point. I tried to do it full blown a month ago, but he sort of shut down. So i think it's still in the phase where it needs to be his decision, after all he is only 26 months. Pretty young for a boy. He gets stickers and calls to his grandparents when there is success, as a reward. Noah is still in Preschool on Monday's and Thursdays, which are the days that i'm working now. He loves going to Cacky's house! He is learning shapes, a new number every week, and differences between things like big and small, tall and short, more and less... that sort of thing. He is so cute, now that he knows those differences, he uses them in his vocab regularly. "mommy look, BIG orn-orange ball!" etc...
Last Weekend Noah spent the night at my parents house, and they live in the woods where there are tons of frogs right now. So he and my dad had to go outside and yell at the froggy's to be quiet over 20 times throughout the evening. He has become OBSESSED with froggy's now. We call Papa (my dad) ever day to ask about the froggy's and listen to them on the phone, and he asks my dad to go out and tell them to be quiet. It's so cute because my dad obliges him and yells at the frogs after putting it on speaker phone so Noah can hear/talk to the froggy's... It's so funny!!
Ryan is almost done with his internship and administration certificate, this spring will be his last quarter. He got a student teacher, which couldn't have come at a better time, it makes getting his internship hours so much easier during school days.
I had an appointment with my midwife yesterday (down to every two weeks now) and everything looks great. I'm measuring 32 weeks, the baby is active and I have gained almost 12 pounds total FINALLY... I've been eating ice cream every night and candy bars and basically anything i want... (with my midwifes blessing to do so). My blood pressure is always low, and freaks the nurse out every time I go in for an appointment. It was 89/42 yesterday which was up from 86/40 last time... she always has to take it twice to make sure i'm alive~ I guess that's why i'm so mellow most of the time, it takes alot to stress me out, which is good especially when you're pregnant! Can't wait to meet our active little girl!
