Yet another reason why we love Target....

We love Target - it's no secret at all. And Ben is even more crazy for Target than I am {if that is possible}. We love to get good deals {remember the playhouse?} and Target is full of them. Ben has had his eyes on this Transformer for some time now.

We went last night and guess what they had at 75% off? Yep, the Transformer he's been wanting to buy. Now, he says that it is for Noah once he is older, but let's be honest... it's already open and Daddy is the one playing with it.

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Look what Noah likes to do now! Of course, we had to help him stand {he will cry and whine until you stand him up}, but he literally stood there, holding onto the ledge of the pack and play for almost five minutes one time. He probably wouldn't have fallen if he hadn't been side-stepping to try to get to the corner {he loves to touch the plastic corner pieces}.

Such a big boy!

Even happy after falling over... and still trying to reach the shiny plastic corner piece. I already find him sitting up when he wakes up - I've no doubt we'll find him standing when we go to get him out of the crib soon!

I <3 FedEx

But only when my Uncle Mickey is the delivery guy {otherwise, I'm not a fan}. This morning, he brought by the closing paperwork for our house! Yippee! So, Noah and I are driving down to Wichita Falls to get Ben's signatures and send the stack of papers back where they came from. We'll be homeowners by Monday!

The Day in {Quick} Review

9:00 AM - Grami stops by to spend some time with her Granddaughter and Great-Grandson. {Noah loves his Grami!}

12:00PM - Playing with his fishbowl and fishes on the floor.
12:01PM - Rolled away from Mommy when he saw a toy he wanted on Papa's chair. 6:45PM - Bathtime!
7:00PM - Playing on the floor again just before bedtime.

Life is good.

Walking

There is this great store around the corner from my parent's house called Once Upon a Child. It's WONDERFUL. It's a consignment shop for kids that carries everything! And while there are some things that I wouldn't buy there for safety reasons {like a car seat or a stroller}, there are many things that I would. Including this:

We're pretty convinced around here that Noah is going to pretty much skip over crawling. He just doesn't seem interested in it. He'd much rather roll around or walk around holding on to someones hands.


So, with his {new} walker, he's quite the happy baby. And, the funniest thing is, he doesn't walk forward it in, he only moves backwards and starts crying as soon as he can't move anymore!

While we watch the Olympics...

....Noah likes to play. Tonight, while we were watching the Olympics, Noah was playing with Mom and Daddy-Man's {old} rotary phone. He thought it was so funny to make the dial turn. And, once he was done with that, he decided that he would help Nana crochet a blanket.... though he really just wanted to eat it.

A New Bookshelf for the Bookworms

Remember the bookshelf that Daddy-Man and I were working on last weekend?

It's finished! {Well, I still need to put another coat on it and perhaps some extra decorative details, but really, it's pretty much finished.} I put some of the books that Noah and I brought with us on it and I think it looks really great - even Daddy-Man was impressed with our handy-work!

I love the way it turned out.

And I think Noah does too.

Thank you Daddy-Man!!!

Eight Months Old.

Happy Eight Months Today Dear Noah!

{And Happy One Year Dear Megan!}

Things You Enjoy at Eight Months Old:

• Rolling {instead of crawling} to your desired destination
• Eating Gerber "puffs" {you'd probably eat your weight in them if I'd let you}
• Saying "mamamamamama", "dadadadadadadada", and "bababababababa"
• Pulling yourself up to a sitting position
• Walking around the room holding onto someones' hands

We love you Dear One and are so glad we can call you ours!

Mae-Mae's Birthday Party

Our little Mae-Mae {Megan} is turning ONE tomorrow! {Which means that Noah will be EIGHT months tomorrow!! I can barely believe it!} Connie and Mickey threw Mae-Mae a family birthday party this afternoon.

Happy First Birthday Megan!

She loved her cake.... and needed a bath right afterwards!

They are seriously the same size! And, don't you just love this picture? They were so excited to sit next to each other and it was almost as if they barely believed that the other was real. :)

And, of course, Noah had to get in some extra time with his Grami.

An Evening with my Grandparents

Tonight, Noah and I spent the evening with my Grami and Papa Snow. We went out to eat dinner with them and then went back to their house to enjoy some quality time. We had a great time, even though Noah was cranky by the time we left {it was time for a bath and bed!}!

He was SO curious once we got to Grami and Papa Snow's house - it took him a while to look at everything and then he was back to his usual laughing and kicking self.

Our Cousin Erin is staying with Grami and Papa and we got to see her right before we left. I LOVE the look on Noah's face! And doesn't Erin look great?!

The tired and cranky Noah with his Grami and Great Papa Snow.

Another New Trick

Noah is coming up with new tricks almost every day it seems like! Here's his latest:

We used to make my cousin Andy do this too.... we're kinda mean, I guess.

Visiting Daddy

BB {Bridget}, Noah, and I went down to Wichita Falls today to visit Ben. While he was here this past weekend, I completely forgot to have him sign some very important paperwork {with so much going on, it's no wonder!}. So, instead of waiting until this weekend, we just went down to visit him. I made some Rice Krispie/Fruity Pebble treats for his class, created another screen so they could screen print more bombs and "IYAAYAS" on their ABU shirts, and the three of us loaded up in the Jeep for a day trip. It was actually pretty nice - Noah slept most of the way there and back! And of course, it gave BB and I some quality time that we hadn't had in a while.

Ben and Noah - Noah was SO excited when he saw Ben!

BB taking a break to {re}read The Host while we had some down time in Ben's room.

Noah laughs so hard when Ben puts him in the air. :)

Vampire Eyes

Noah has been fighting sleep all evening long. I swear his first tooth didn't cause us this much trouble {or maybe I didn't notice it}, but it seems that the second one is going to be a bear. And of course, since he has been fighting sleep, he's been crying. Crying so much that everyone in the house {and street and probably the entire city of Moore} felt sorry for him. So sorry for him in fact, that he kept getting picked up and carried around the house, just trying anything to comfort and soothe him. It was during one of those moments that Bridget and Jessie proclaimed that he has "Vampire Eyes" {as in Twilight vampires: red eyes}. The picture doesn't quite do them justice though:

He's finally asleep, though somehow he's asleep in my bed AND laying sideways....

which means as soon as I get finished here... he's going into HIS bed! :)

Seriously.

I wish I could be at this. We moved too early!!! Ugh.

While Mommy Reads....

....Noah plays. {Breaking Dawn is SO good! Are you finished yet Katy??}

And I again {without any luck} tried to get a picture of Noah's pearly white.

Oh and, for those of you who are curious.... the high today was 107. I miss my nice California weather.

A Few of My Favorite Things

Another example of my new found {and quickly becoming a favorite} craft:

In Ben's "new" career field {honestly, upon finding out some things about the Ammo career field, I'm THRILLED that he'll only be in it for four years... I already miss Acquisitions. And, like Ben said in class: "IAAYAS... the second "A" stands for Acquisitions"! :) }, the Ammo guys often times "hide" a Piss Pot on their uniform. {A "Piss Pot" is the bomb symbol.} Once Ben found out that I was trying my hand at screen printing, he wanted me to try to make a bomb {I like that word better.} on his ABU undershirts. I only did two and once I perfect the craft a little more, I might do a couple more for him.

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And, since Ben had to go back to training tonight, I snapped a few pictures of my favorite boys together.

They just get so happy to spend time together!

And, one of my favorite things to watch is the two of them playing together. Noah gets SO excited when he knows that Ben is about to sing and stomp with him:

Woodworking, a Messy Baby and a Movie

Today while Ben and Noah were taking naps, Daddy-Man and I started working on our project. You see, I don't just get my craftiness from my Mom! I've had my eye on this bookshelf for while, but, like many "non-essentials", I just can't quite bear to pay as much as OneStep Ahead was asking for. And besides, when I have a very talented woodworking Daddy-Man to teach me {I by that I mean do most of woodworking parts of it!} why not at least try it?! So, here's the "before" picture of the wood:

And here's the "after-two-hours" picture:
Pretty good so far, if I do say so myself! And, I even used the table saw twice during that time! :) We've still got to get the dowel rods in place and then I'm going to sew up the sling portion and maybe the baskets {if the ones from Target are too big}. We're planning on painting it to match the boy's room and getting fun fabric to match!

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I tried and tried to get Noah to open his mouth big enough while he was eating so that I could get a picture of his tooth, but all I ended up with were a few really cute {non-tooth-showing} pictures and a very messy baby:

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Ben and I went on a date tonight {for like the first time since March!} and we went to the new Warren movie theatre to see The Mummy near my parent's house. The best part about the theatre is of course the balcony! You have to pay a little bit more for the seats, but you choose your seats when you buy your tickets, so there is no need to wait in line {which will be ESPECIALLY fabulous for when Harry Potter and the HPB comes out!} and they even serve, um, special drinks! ;) And, another feature that I am so excited about, though we didn't try out since we left Noah with Mom and Daddy-Man is the "Cry Room": a special place where you can take your small children if they are being fussy! {Sigh.} Finally, someone was smart enough to figure out what it would take to get more people into the movie theatres.

All New

All new things are happening around here! We bought a new double stroller at BRU {for WAY cheap... $82 including TAX! It's still in the box in the car or I'd take a picture of the real thing}, the boys got new matching outfits to wear once Baby #2 arrives, the girls wore their new shirts to the release of the new Twilight book {Breaking Dawn} release party, and Noah got to wear his new shirt that I screenprinted!!! I'm so excited to learn this new craft!! It puts me one step closer to feeling competent enough to create an entire wardrobe... or at least a good majority of it. ;) I want to use one of the pictures that I took tonight as the new blog picture, but I'm not sure that I'm ready to give up the current one {not to mention that my parent's new computer doesn't have PhotoShop}.