GO BEARS GO!!!

Thursday night was Noah's first experience with Baylor football. He was decked out in his green bear onesie and cargo shorts. Note the hopeful look on Noah's face as he prepares to cheer for the Bears against Wake Forest.

Since he is a true Baylor fan in the making, Noah didn't make it through the whole game. He got fussy when the Baylor kicker was terrible and fell asleep before the end of the game.

He did say that he's still holding out hope that the Bears can win at least one game this season.

NO exceptions...

So Noah has been at daycare for almost 2 full weeks. I say almost because the preschool was closed last Thursday and Friday for teacher inservice. Noah got to enjoy Thursday at home with his Daddy and spent Friday with his Aunt Ya-ya and cousin Ava.

Overall I like his daycare. They aren't perfect but if he can't stay home with me then I know this is the best place for him to be. I do have some issues with the main teacher in his class though. Here's the story:

Each day Noah is sent home with a little form telling about his day. It details when he ate, slept and was changed. It's great. When I went to pick him up last Monday (8/18) across the top of the form his teacher had written a note and highlighted it with pink highlighter. It said:

Family & Me pictures due Wednesday AM

or NO poster for crib

NO excpetions!

And yes, the NOs were in all caps.

You see at Noah's school each baby has a poster in their crib with pictures of their families. They are really cute and it makes me happy to think that Noah could look at our faces during the day. When I dropped Noah's supplies off at the school the week before he started the director had mentioned bringing in the pictures. Honestly though with starting a new job and still getting settled in the house it wasn't really a priority. No one had mentioned anything since then.

So I read the note and as I'm driving home I start trying to think of how we are going to get family pictures together by Wednesday AM. I had left my camera at my sister's house the previous weekend. I was trying to run through my mind of what pictures were saved on the computers.

Then I started to get upset. Because I was SO stressed out about this silly poster. Part of me wanted to say:

"NO exceptions"?? Seriously. Noah has been at school a week. We'll be in that class for the next 11 months or so. Why do the pictures have to be in this week?

"NO exceptions?" Fine then! I'll make my own freaking poster.

"NO exceptions?" Wait a second. Don't I pay for Noah to go to this school??

Things were busy so I waited until Tuesday to try to get the pictures together. I saved a bunch of photos to my pen drive and tried to go print them out at CVS. The CVS near us is a 24 hour CVS. We arrived at 10:05pm....and the photo lab closed at 10pm!! ARGGHH!! So instead we bought some photo paper and came home to print out some pictures. We printed 3 and then ran out of ink.

So here we are at 11pm opening box after box in the guest room trying to find the photo albums and then leafing through the photo albums to find good pictures of all the grandparents, aunt and uncles and of course the parents.

I kept getting so mad at the daycare center because it is ridiculous that we were so stressed out about this silly poster. But of course I can't let my baby be the only baby in the class without pictures of his family.

In the end Josh and I had to laugh because we knew that someday we'd be more stressed about a school project than Noah was....we just didn't know it would happen at 11 weeks.

Ava is 1...

Ava turned 1 on August 16th. Of course my sister threw an awesome luau bash for the big day.

Noah had the perfect luau outfit complete with Hawaiian shirt and sunglasses.

He spent most of the party being passed from friend to friend but of course his Aunt Ya-ya got him first.

And here's the beautiful birthday girl!!! She had a blast running around the yard with tons of little friends.

The giant tubs of drinks were tempting to little hands that love water. Ava kept playing with the ice. Or maybe she's just trying to decide if she'd like a Diet Dr Pepper or a beer.

It wouldn't have been a first birthday without a little cake just for Ava. She wasn't sure what to do with it at first but eventually decided to pull out little pieces and feed them to anyone who got close to her....which lead to Noah having cake rubbed all over his little face.

I can't believe our little Ava is already 1 year old. The time since she joined our family has flown by. We've fallen more and more in love with her each day. I'm so glad that Noah will grow up with a cousin close to his age. I can only imagine the trouble they will stir up together.

We love you, Ava D!!!

In One Word...

**Left my camera at Chris's over the weekend. I'm back at work so I haven't had time to drive over there and pick it back up....but when I do I'll post cute pictures of Noah and Ava at Ava's 1st birthday party!!

I was tagged by Kelli. (I linked her public blog. She also has a cooking blog and a really cute blog about her daughter but it's private so I won't link it here.) She must know that I'm a total sucker for these types of things....

The Rules: Answer the questions using only one word. Then tag three others.
1. Where is your cell phone? pink
2. Your significant other? perfect
3. Your hair? frizzy (it's been raining too much)
4. Your mother? amazing
5. Your father? daddy
6. Your favorite thing? sleeping
7. Your dream last night? didn't
8 Your favorite drink? dr pepper
9. Your dream/goal?
10. The room you’re in? paint
11. Your hobby? eating
12. Your fear? spiders
13. What do you want to be in 6 years? administrator
14. What you’re not? serious
15. Muffins? no thanks
16. One of your wish list items? kitchen (as in a total remodel of the one we have)
17. Where you grew up? texas
18. The last thing you did? email
19. What are you wearing? jeans
20. Favorite gadget? phone
21. Your pets? Monty
22. Your computer? necessity
23. Your mood? sleepy
24. Missing someone? yes
25. Your car? gray
26. Something you’re not wearing? jeans
27. Favorite store? Target
28. Like someone? sometimes
29. Your favorite color? green
30. When is the last time you laughed? lunch
31. Last time you cried? Daycare drop off

Hmm....If you actually read this whole thing consider yourself tagged!!!

Going to School Tomorrow...

I've been at work now for the last 3 days. So far I like it. Right now we're going to meetings and orientations which can be boring but I've met lots of nice people and I think I'm really going to enjoy my new job.


My mom took care of Noah on Friday, Monday and Tuesday so tomorrow is Noah's first day of daycare. I really like the little school that we've found but obviously it is going to be difficult to drop my little man off with people who are strangers to me right now.
I'll let you know how it goes...

Chicks Dig Me...

2 months

Noah was 2 months old on August 6th. I can't believe our little man has already been here for 2 months. Time is flying. He's so much bigger and really alert. This month he really started responding to voices, smiling and laughing. He has a great laugh. He also found his hands and will play with them. I found this great monkey for our little Monkey. You can tell from the pictures that Noah obviously has mixed feelings about the monkey.




2 month stats:
Weight: 12 lbs 4 oz -- 50th percentile
Length: 24 inches -- 90th percentile (yeah, right!)
Head: 16 1/2 cm -- 90th percentile (full of brains?)

Noah did really well with all his shots and got 3 cool Snoopy bandaids. Of course the next day he ran a fever which broke my heart because I was at work. Nannie (my mom) took great care of Noah though.

End of summer...

Tonight is the end of summer. I have to go to work tomorrow. It won't be too bad because the training is specifically for my new job and not just the general first of the school year meetings--those start next week. My mom is watching Noah tomorrow too so I know he'll be in good hands.

And hopefully tomorrow or this weekend I'll have time to post his cute 2 month pics and give the details of his 2 month doctor's appointment. Let's just say I think those percentile measurements are a straight up joke.

If you have time on Friday please say a little prayer for me as I'm away from my little man for 8 hours.