Noah & Jonah visit Santa Claus!

The boys went to see Santa this past Saturday! As you might expect, this was the year that Noah decided to be a little scared of Santa. He was apprehensive about sitting on his lap from the beginning, but when we started to back away so they could take the picture, he started screaming and crying. I tried to encourage him to sit there with Jonah and hold his hand. It helped well enough to get him to stop crying, but he doesn't look all that happy in the picture. Oh well. Jonah on the other hand, loved Santa. He was totally interested in his beard. You can kind of see him playing with it here. Aren't they adorable??

Finally new pictures!

I am sometimes shocked by my lack of free time to do this. I wish I had more. I know everyone is anxiously awaiting new pictures. Here are a few cute ones. :)-

Noah covered in stickers for using the potty for the first time!!

Jonah is getting so big! Since this picture was taken a few weeks ago, he is sitting on his own for long periods of time now! I wonder if he will ever get hair!

Do you think he gets enough to eat? :)

Noah is the best big brother! He watches out for Jonah and reports everything he does to me. My favorite thing he does is when Jonah is having a screaming fit while I am taking too long to get a bottle ready. Noah will come up and bang on my leg and say, "Jonah crying. Jonah crying. Jonah crying...." until I am done. Just to make sure that I know. Not that it isn't hard enough to pour and measure with a baby shreaking. :)

Halloween 2008

Pumpkin Patch

It has been a very busy month! We actually went to the pumpkin patch on the 12th, but we have been busy moving my Granny down here from Michigan! Steve did a lot of work on my Dad's house to get it ready for her and I cleaned it top to bottom. I've also been getting things ready for Noah's birthday party. He will be 2 on November 1st, but we are going to have his party on Sunday so more people can come. It is going to be a Spider-man themed party because Noah loves him, and it honors his favorite pastime ~ climbing! We are having it at the park because there are climbing walls, real spiders, and it doesn't matter where you drop cake or spill juice!

Back at the pumpkin patch ~ It was 82 degrees the day we went to pick pumpkins!! I had to dress my kids in shorts! I guess that is fall in Arkansas. I did torture Jonah a little by making him wear his Halloween costume for a while because he is a scarecrow! You have to have a scarecrow at a pumpkin patch, right? He'll love me for it!

Picking a pumpkin together (not at all staged - haha)

Noah loved to try to pick them all up - no matter how big!

This was on the hay ride. I call it "Daddy secrets." Can't see faces, but I think it is so sweet!

OK, so a lot of people at the pumpkin patch alluded to the fact that my son might not appreciate this when he is older, but I think even he will be unable to deny this cuteness!

Finally another update!

Well as often happens, I get this blog thing going and hit a roadblock... My modem died on Monday. Worked fine on Sunday and I get up Monday and no lights - not even a power light! So, I call up AT&T. They promised to over night a replacement after I begged them to since I work from home. Well, it didn't show up. Called again and they said they did 2 day air instead. Still a no show. Called again and they said that someone in the warehouse cancelled the order because of an address issue! So, they resubmitted the order and 5 DAYS later, I have Internet again. Nice little vacation from work, but I am paying for it now!

So, the potty training hasn't been that successful yet. He doesn't seem afraid of the potty at all, but he just won't go on it. Several times I have waited with him a really long time and just when I give up and take him off, he goes - sometimes before I even have his pants back on yet! I'm not totally giving up, but it is a little early and I will have to just see how it goes in the next few weeks.

Jonah is still growing like crazy! He just turned 3 months and he is wearing pajamas that are 6-9 months and a few other things that are 9-12 months!! He is SO long! I guess he is going to be tall like his Daddy ~ not getting that from me! ;) His personality has changed so much too. He is so happy now! And he smiles and talkes all the time. I am so relieved. I thought he was going to be a difficult baby, but he just took a little while to get warmed up.

Here is a video of Noah from about a month ago. He was helping to "fill up the pond." And a new video of Jonah :)

My monkey boy!

Wish us luck!

Well, many would think we are nuts, but I have decided to start potty training Noah ~ starting today! He is very interested in the potty and already tells me right after he has gone in his diaper, so it seems like a good idea to me. It can't be completely impossible. Plus, although I should be working, I am at home.

So far, we are 4 accidents for 0 successes. Oh well. He isn't even 2 yet! I think my expectation might be high. But, he definitely hates being wet, so it is a matter of time before he will be able to tell me ahead of time. It is kinda funny though. We have spent half the day on the potty and the other half cleaning up the accidents! I think it is possible my timing is off. ;)

Jonah is growing like a weed! He just turned 12 weeks on the 19th and he is already almost 14 lbs. And he is so long that he is already wearing 6 month clothing! I just went to a huge consignment sale and bought a whole bunch of winter clothes for him. Since Noah and Jonah were born in different seasons, the winter clothes I had saved from Noah, are too small already!

Here are a couple of recent pictures of my big boys: