Noah's birthday week report

Besides his 1st birthday, this is the first time we did a party for Noah. He really wanted a race car cake like one we saw at Bashas... but the one on Crystal's blog was much cuter (and way cheaper to make too). So my mom made this cake (among many other things she did to help me with the party) and Noah LOVED it! It turned out perfect. We invited all of Noah's aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents and had a little get together at the park on the night before Noah's birthday. Noah knew this was HIS party and was in heaven all night.

Riggs, Cole, Jake, and Max

Grandma & Grandpa Hunt, Becky, Bettina, Laura, and the babies

Lance, Jax, SteveNoah opened his presents in about 4 minutes flat. I was stressing out because he opened them so fast that I didn't see who all the presents came from. Thank you to everyone! Noah loves everything and our house looks like Santa has been there!Cake & Ice cream - thanks again to my mom & Steve's mom who each made some really good homemade ice cream!

Noah could not get that last candle blown out. I think his cousin Cole helped him out! Steve, Bryan (Gibbons), Suzanne & Lance (the love birds)

Brian (Standage), my dad, Grandma Riggs, my mom

Kenny & Burkley
John & Pete

Noah & most of his cousins

Macy

Andy

John & Natalie's kids - they biked about 5 miles each way to & from the party... AND brought all the drinks for us. Thanks again guys!

Auburn & Jaxen

Noah with Grandma & Grandpa Hunt

Noah with Poppy & Grandma Vicki
Noah & EllieNoah and me (OK fine, I admit that we matched on purpose) We love making ugly faces!

(So does Suzanne & Ellie) The next day on Noah's actual birthday, he got to spend the day with his daddy. Steve made it a special day for him which I was so glad about since I had to be at work. Noah's hair didn't get combed though.After work I picked Noah up and took him out to dinner at Nielsen's Frozen Custard. Yummy! Then we went home and he opened up the presents I got him.

After opening his presents from me, we took most of his new toys out of the boxes and put batteries in everything that needed them. My house was a bomb to say the least! Noah is a line-er-up-er.

The morning after Noah's birthday, he had his 4-year old well-check up with the doctor. He is 90% in height & 50% in weight. His vision was perfect, he saw better with one eye than I did with 2 eyes, and I've had lasik surgery. I had the doctor check out a wart on his nose (that everyone thought was a booger) - and the doctor cut it off with medical scissors. That wasn't too fun, it took 3 people to hold him down. Then - he had to get 4 shots, two in each arm. He was balling, and telling me how bad it hurt. But later that night Noah told my dad that his wart got cut off and my dad asked "did it hurt?" Noah said "no". My dad asked "did you cry?" Again Noah said "nope!" LOL!

After the doctor I dropped Noah off at preschool with some birthday treats to give his classmates. I loved being able to drop him off at preschool and wish I could do it all the time. I have the best mom & sister in the world though and I have to tell Suzanne thanks for taking care of Noah for me all the time - more than she really has time for! Suz also helped get things ready for his party when I was at work that day. I seriously have the best family in the world. This week was kind of sad for me to not be home on the day of Noah's party and then again on his birthday - but I knew that no matter who he was with, they would make him feel special. Auburn normally would have had Noah on his birthday and I know she was planning on making it special for him so thanks to you too Auburn for helping me with Noah every week and making sure that he feels loved!

He IS so special, even though he is naughty a lot of the time! (Good thing he's cute.)
I can't say thank you enough to everyone that helped me out this week - and to everyone who came to Noah's party. He loved having everyone there and it was fun to finally give him a party that he will remember!

the zoo with Noah

Last weekend I took Noah to the zoo. We met up with Vanessa for the ZOO WALK (Autism Awareness) and then walked around the zoo again after that, spending time looking at the animals. Noah requested to see: monkeys, zebras, rhinos, giraffes, elephants, and tigers.
We spent about 45 minutes at the orangutans. Noah missed his family since the last time we were there.We could both seriously watch them all day long. At one point I asked Noah if he was ready to move on (even though I wasn't - I just didn't want him to be bored) - and he said "not yet". The orangutans do the funniest things and I was afraid to miss something when we left.

Right here, the mom "Bess" was playing peek-a-boo with the baby "Kasih" (she's holding a blue towell).

Noah was begging me to ride the carousel before we left - so I “forgot” for a few minutes that I am pretty much too poor to even let him to do that, let alone buy a $3.75 ice cream bar. We splurged for about 5 minutes though! The funny thing is that we bought the ice cream bar to eat while waiting for the next carousel ride to open up, but it ended sooner than we thought it would. So I “held” Noah’s ice cream bar for him and (OOPSIE) - tried to sneak a few bites while he was on the carousel. He saw me taking a bite when it came around to the side I was waiting on, and he shouted “Mom, I said only one bite!”
After leaving the zoo, we got on a bus for a ride back to our car (we had to park ½ mile away for the zoo walk). Noah ran to the very back seat of the bus and him and I were “the cool kids”.

I’m so glad that we had a good reason to go to the zoo last weekend! It was a lot of fun for me to spend some quality time with Noah and to see him be so excited to see all the animals.

The LOVE of my life

It's Noah's birthday week!

10/21/04 ... Noah was born! He was such a handsome baby with lots of dark hair.

He got his first haircut from Aunt Auburn at about 3 months old (he obviously didn't like it - he learned how to work 'the lip' pretty early).
... and his hair grew back blonde:This picture really makes me want to go back in time and snuggle up with him as a baby:This is the stage when Noah learned how to hold his own bottle... and started to get pretty chunky!This is a clip from my video camera of when he was learning how to crawl.When he was learning how to walk:Noah's first birthday: (look at his cankles!)
Noah found his old car seat about a year after being grown out of it... and loved for me to swing him in it - or take naps in it. Noah LOVES noodles! First day of playschool 2006 - perfect t-shirt for the occasion.2 years oldHe gets it from his mama: 3 years old
This was just about 4 months ago. Is he so handsome or what? I am so lucky to be Noah's mom. He makes me so happy! Sometimes he needs a major attitude adjustment - but I still wouldn't trade him in for anything or anyone else! I love my Noah boy and can't believe it's already been 4 years since he was born. Time has gone by way too fast, but at the same time - I can't remember what life was like without him in it.

Sunday Clothes - Fall Edition

Noah completely dressed himself when he changed out of his church clothes this past Sunday. He's still wearing "basketball clothes" but adjusting for the cooler weather (which I am LOVING).

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Another funny thing he did... Last night Noah told me "your stomach looks fat mommy". I really didn't care (since I knew it did) - but I pretended to have my feelings hurt and told Noah that he shouldn't say that to girls. He replied "I don't mean you're fat, I just mean you're gonna have a baby."

What does a missionary look like?

I thought this was too funny not to share…

We just figured out in the past couple of weeks that Noah can get our mail from the mailbox all by himself. (I love that I can just be lazy and sit in my car now!)

Last night on the way home from my parents’ house, I pulled up to the mailbox and gave Noah the key. He knows exactly which box is ours. I rolled down the window and he handed me the mail as he pulled it out. Here’s the funny part…

Yesterday this came in the mail:

As Noah handed it to me, he said “Oh mom, this one’s all about missionaries”. I was cracking up! I think he just had missionaries on the brain since he had just been playing in the backyard with some before we left my parents’ house. He LOVES them!