Happy Five Months!

This month has been wonderful because we have had the pleasure of seeing lots of family this month! Thanks to moms surgery, Dad came home for several weeks and Granny came back in town, as well as a visit from Aunt Lana!

Noah's First Valentines Day!

A lot of people made the comment about how I probably enjoyed giving him all these sweet kisses, yes I did. 

But I did not enjoy attempting to wash off the 12 layers of lipstick afterwards.

Presents from Me

(Notice the outfit- "Single and Loving It")

And then a Valentines present from Paw Paw and Gammy.... Might I say I felt a little upstaged...

And of course he loves it

Some sweet kicks from Jake

And then a Valentines present from Uncle Kaleb and Aunt Alicia

Noah was in the 97% of length, 86% of weight so the doctor said that we could start spoon feeding him solid foods. 

 We did rice for the first week, once a day. Now we have started Veggies. They said start with the nasty ones, so we started with Peas, and here is his reaction.

I don't like them either!

Although Peas weren't a hit, he LOVES Squash. He wanted to eat the whole jar the first time he tried it. He also likes sweet potatoes and green beans. We started him on fruit, too. So far he's only had apples and bananas, but he loves them! 

How bout that Tornado Warning? We moved to the Washroom because it's the only inner room in our house. Noah slept right through it. Good to know he's relaxed under pressure.

Aunt Shel Shel also had a chance to visit! 

He loves to pull my hair out and grab my face.....

He loves to swing! 

He REALLY loves it. 

He loves to laugh 

Happy Five Months! 

Taking these pictures aren't as easy as it may seem.. 

Love always,

Lauren and Noah

Happy 4 Months, Noah!

Or as I like to say, Happy 1/3 year birthday!

This month has definitely been an exciting month to say the least. He has started to giggle and it is the most joyful noise I've ever heard. He had a few chuckles every now and then but one night I decided to just playfully scare him and he burst into laughter. In some ways I wish I had a video to share of my reaction to his laughter, but then I think of how atrocious my face probably looked as I couldn't control my mix of sobbing and hysterically laughing along with trying to breathe. If you missed the video of Noah's first giggle fest, here it is. It made my month, so hopefully it will make your day.

Noah is about 17 pounds now and steadily growing. He is teething, which obviously is painful for him, but he really enjoys the cherry flavored Orajel soothing ointment so I think he actually enjoys teething sometimes.

He has found his feet! It won't be too long until they end up in his mouth.

He still enjoys bath time, and he is officially too big for the little net and we have upgraded to the big tub.

 ROLLS

Just a little throwback for you, here's me on the left and Noah on the right.

As most of you know the snow storm came through the south, which means that Noah saw his first snow! (ice...)

He didn't know what to think about the cold weather.

It took a lot longer than we expected to make that Ice man, but we were determined to make Noah a snow man. Thank you Paw Paw for helping me.

Cold.

It's been an exciting and quick 4 months, but I wouldn't trade it for anything!! 

Happy four months, Noah! 

Love, 

Lauren and Noah

Three months old!

Noah had his first Christmas this month and it's safe to say he was a good boy this year. 

We made cookies for Santa

 And he fell asleep under the tree on Christmas Eve

 Christmas morning came and I showed him his presents

 And Paw Paw showed him his presents

He was stunned that all of these presents were for him

 A handmade train from Paw Paw

 Noah and all of his toys from his first Christmas

 Our Santa Baby

 Our sweet nugget is three months old. I have enjoyed this month a lot because he has developed such a personality and definitely added some rolls!! He's my sweet little chub and I couldn't be happier in life. This month he has finally started laughing and it is the most delightful noise I've ever heard.

 He has also learned how to make the perfect pouty face.

We are looking forward to the next month ahead and hoping that time will slow down!! 

Love,

Lauren and Noah

Happy Two Months!

It seriously feels like I just took his one month old pictures last week. But this little nugget is two months old today! He is 11 lbs and 7 oz and 23 5/8 inches long. I am completely blessed with this little angel. 

I'm lucky to say that he only cries whenever he's:

1. Hungry

2. Wet

3. Whenever he's done eating. 

(Piggy would eat forever if I let him!) 

This month he has definitely developed his signature smile and has found out how to pull my hair (which I hear only gets worse!). 

So handsome

 Noah finally got to meet his Uncle Kaleb for the first time on Thanksgiving break! Here is Kalebs first look at baby Noah.

"Hey little buddy"

 Thanksgiving day

 Thankful for my family.

Paw Paw loves his Noah

 TWO MONTHS OLD

 Pulling hair, always.

 We hope everyone had as good of a Thanksgiving as we did! 

Happy Holidays, 

Lauren and Noah

Happy One Month Birthday!

It feels just like yesterday that I was headed to the hospital to have him. I can't believe it's already been a month since he was born. 

 So much love for this little man.

Happy Fall, Y'all! 

Noah's first holiday was this Halloween. Through the past four weeks, I've been brainstorming on what to dress him up as for his first Halloween. I wanted it to be good. We went to the stores to look at all of their costumes, but they all were too big for a brand new baby and they just didn't seem good enough. Gammy bought a skeleton onesie that was cute and we decided he would just be a skeleton for this Halloween. October 31st came around and I still wasn't satisfied with just a skeleton, so that day I came across this idea.

Dr. Evil and Mini Me

His puckered lips make the picture, I think. I had just taken out the pacifier in this picture.

For those of you who don't know who Dr. Evil and Mini Me are, they are from the Austin Powers movies and this is what they really look like. 

I could have used a balding cap as the finishing touch, but for a last minute costume, I was pleased with this. We did get accepted for a costume contest and if you want to vote for us, all you have to do is give us five stars by clicking on the fifth star above our picture at this website http://www.costume-works.com/dr_evil_and_mini_me.html 

We made a ton of goodie bags for trick or treaters, but the weather was so bad that we only had about six kids come to our door. Noah was exhausted from the eventful holiday that he slept the whole evening... imagine that. 

This week, his great grandmother is here to visit!! A whole week with this sweet lady and I couldn't be more thrilled. Already so much love and she just got here. 

Everything has been going great and he is such a well behaved baby. He loves to cuddle, kick, and pull my hair... and it's only been a month. I look forward to every day that I have with him and I already can't imagine life without him. 

Peace and blessings, 

Lauren and Noah