Not much exciting is going on here…pretty much the same old stuff. So being that I haven’t posted for awhile, I thought I’d give you a day in Noah’s life…okay, so only 1/2 a day. Here it goes…

• 8:10 – got him out of bed…he was looking at a book and talking to himself
• Came downstairs and he wanted to play with his Matchbox cars while I got breakfast ready
• Ate breakfast of blueberry pancakes, fruit and milk – he’s a dipper…he dips his strawberries in the pancake syrup
• Cleaned up messy face and hands and cleaned up his nose…again (he has a cold, so there is snot everywhere!)
• Played with bowls and plastic spoons that he got out of the drawer while I cleaned up after breakfast
• He noticed the basement door was open, so he headed downstairs and started playing on Daddy’s drumset.
• Done playing drums, found the paint and wanted to drag that out. I thought it was time to go upstairs now.
• Went up two flights of stairs (I’m tired now, but not Noah!)
• Noah ran to his room and started playing on his drumset
• Got some books and started looking thru books while sitting by the bed.
• This is when I thought I should run downstairs and get the camera…

• I got out his clothes and sat down on the floor, now he knows I want to change him, so he doesn’t come anywhere close to me. Sit there for about 5 minutes while he plays drums, looks at books and finally gets close enough that I can reach him.
• Change clothes…put on a dinosaur tshirt and he keeps saying “roar” now. Clean nose again.
• 9:15 – go downstairs
• Plays with his cars and a old toy that used to be Rick’s – a hotel. Noah uses it for his cars.
• Noah brings me a car at my desk and then looks out window. Sees a big crane outside that is working on a new house that is going up.
• Goes and gets some cars and tractors and brings them to the window so he can keep playing, but keep an eye on the crane.
• Back to living room to play with the hotel and cars
• 10:30 – snack time – give him some fruit snacks and yogurt bits. He’s very thoughtful…must have thought his dinosaur was hungry, so he fed his dinosaur. Which reminds me, I need to get those out before I forget!
• Head back to window to watch the crane
• Play with the “Chunk Trucks” on the lamp table
• Bring the bag of bowling pins to me so I can open them. Tries to set them up and gets frustrated. Show him how to do it and he’s good to go again.
• Seen my licorice stash and keeps signing “please” – how can I say no to that?
• Back to playing with cars and hotel
• Play with farm set
• Look at some books. Brings me the big truck book and keeps saying “up” – he wants me to pick him up.
• Play with tractors and combine
• Finds basketball and starts playing basketball. He can just dunk it – he tries to throw it to the hoop, but he lets go when it is behind his head, so he runs to get it and dunks it instead.
• Ball rolls down the stairs so he leaves it and starts coming back in the living room.
• Hears that Dad is home and runs to the garage door. As soon as Dad walks in, Noah runs in the living room and tries to hide. Dad finds him and tickles him.
• Sees his markers up on the mantel and wants to color. Tries to eat the marker, so I take it away. Gets mad, so I tell him no more eating the marker and give it back for one last try. He colors for awhile.

• He hears a truck and runs to the window. The crane is leaving. He waves and says “bye bye”.
• 12:00 – Time for lunch. He has some chicken nuggets, green beans, grapes and some ranch dressing. He dips his grapes in the ranch and finishes those off first. Wants more grapes…tell him he needs to eat his chicken. He almost finishes everything and then throws his cup on the floor. Take everything away and tell him that we don’t throw things. Then Dad gives him a cookie. (Dad is such a push-over!)
• Dad wants to play Nintendo Wii – Noah gets excited and gets his rocking chair. Sits backwards in it…not sure what that is about, but whatever!
• Plays with farm and tractors.
• 12:50 – NAP TIME!!! Go upstairs and put him in his crib. He starts looking at a book and I leave. Now I can get some stuff done around here!!!

Well, Noah is officially a year and a half old already (okay so tomorrow is the official day – the 27th). Where did the time go??? It seems like we just brought him home from the hospital. But now we are preparing to bring home his baby sister in just a few short weeks!! Wow, how time flies!!!!

Over this past weekend, we got Noah moved to his new room and his new crib. Our neighbors are so kind that they are letting us use their crib while Noah needs it. That was a relief knowing that we didn’t have to get a new crib for him. I do want to keep him in the crib as long as we can, but I don’t think it will be too long before he’s trying to get out. Let’s just hope that he doesn’t figure out how to get out any time soon!!! We don’t have the dresser re-done yet, but otherwise I think his room is as done as it’s going to get!

Now I need to get the little girls room ready. I’m not going to do much…she gets the same farm theme Noah had, so I mainly just need to clean the room, move the mattress up in the crib, wash the clothes that we do have for her, get some of the “baby” stuff back out and I think that’s about it!

In the picture above, you can see all the matchbox cars are lined up in the window. He would bring a couple over, get up on the ottoman, sit them in the window, get down and start the process all over again until he had all these cars. There was a lot going on outside, a backhoe was working on one side, the neighbors dog was on the other side and the moon was up in the sky.

Well, maybe I should get baking. I think Noah needs some cupcakes for his 1 1/2 birthday…right?!?!?! Hey, they sound good to me!!! And you don’t want to deny a pregnant woman chocolate, do you??

Well, last night Rick had a meeting so he was gone. My back was hurting, so I was sitting on the couch watching Noah play. He started jumping into the chair and I thought I would record it for Rick to watch later on. I’m not sure if Noah wanted to show off or what, but this is not what I thought he was going to do!!! I thought he was going to jump into the chair, not dive onto the floor!!!! Doesn’t seem to bother him one bit!

And just to think, one year ago this is what Noah was doing!!!! Oh the days where you could put him in one spot and he’d be there 5 minutes later!!! These days, I can loose him in about 5 seconds!!

Last Sunday we went to the mall to let Noah run around the play area. I think he needed to burn off some energy and he ran around here like a crazy man! He was climbing on everything and going thru the tunnel and having a good time! It wasn’t very busy at all so he pretty much had the place to himself!

Here’s some pictures…

Of course, Rick had to get in on the fun too!!! I was perfectly content sitting on the bench not having to do a thing!!!

I thought I’d update everyone on the pregnancy. It seems like time is going so fast for this one – I’m at 30 weeks already. That’s 3/4 of the way done!! There are WAY too many things on the “Before Baby Comes To Do List”. We are getting some things done, but it just seems like there is never enough time to work on everything! When we break it down into, “there are only 9 more weekends to do this or that”, it doesn’t seem possible. But we’re not too worried, whatever we get done is good and whatever is left will get done…sometime!

I start going to the doctor every two weeks now for a checkup. It’s always nice to hear that little heartbeat!!! I’m still having those lovely round ligament pains, mainly when I’m laying down or trying to roll over in bed. So bedtime is usually a painful process.

Rick must have gotten tired of listening to me complain about my back ache, so he got me a prenatal massage at the gym he goes to!!! Yeah, it was GREAT!!!!! I told him that he needs to start giving me daily massages now…so far, that hasn’t happened!!!

I’m pretty sure, Noah doesn’t have any idea what is going on. He is way more interested in his cars, trucks and farm than what I have in my belly! Every once in a while, we’ll ask him where his baby sister is and he’ll lift up my shirt and point at my belly button, but then he jumps off my lap and gets a toy. I guess she’ll be here soon enough and then we’ll be trying to keep him away from her!