Happy Six Months, Noah!

These last six months have flown by, but I wouldn't trade them for anything. This past month has been a huge month for milestones!

After lots of encouragement, the lazy butt finally decided he wanted to roll over! We've been trying to get him to do this for quite some time now, but every time we put him on his belly, he decided he would get comfortable and go to sleep.

But one day he was lying on his back like normal and started rolling side to side, trying to roll over.

Then he took his jungle gym down with him.

And every time he would get close to rolling over, we'd start yelling with excitement and the noise would scare him right back to where he started.

But with perseverance.. He did it! 

Now he rolls all the time and he has also learned to sit up on his own! 

With great posture, I might add

He loves sitting in his high chair (thanks again to Amber and Kris!!)

He was in awe the first time he sat in it

"This is mine???"

And he holds his own sippy cup

He enjoys watching us eat.. literally follows every bite we take go into our mouths.

Loves to look at himself in mirrors

Had his first carousel ride

Loves to bang notes on the piano 

Loves to go read books outside

And examine every detail of the book

His hair has grown in a lot on the top, slacking a bit in the back from where he always lays down, but he's got a pretty sweet rat tail going on that I'll try to braid when it gets long enough (HA)

He loved getting to see some of his favorite aunts this past weekend 

Some of my favorite people 

Although he is more rambunctious than ever before, he is still that same sweet and happy baby.

Happy Six Months, Noah!!

Thank you again to all of you for your continuous love and support. We are so grateful to have met people like you. 

Love always, 

Lauren and Noah

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