Big Boy Bed…sort of

Well, Noah has officially graduated to a “big boy bed”!! Sort of anyway! He doesn’t actually fall asleep in his bed, he tends to look at books or play with the register for awhile until he falls asleep on the floor. After he’s asleep, I’ll go in his room and put him in bed, but I usually need to go in through the bathroom because he’s laying in front of the other door so I can’t open it.

It is a little weird now that he can get out of bed. I’ve found him laying in the hall way a couple of times and one morning I heard him coming up the stairs…not sure how long he was downstairs or what he was doing!!

I took the crib down yesterday being that he doesn’t even want to get in his anymore – he still likes to get into Faith’s crib and check on her in the mornings! As soon as he hears that she’s awake, he looks and me and says “baby check” – so we need to go check on her. He wants up and as soon as I put him in the crib, he’ll either lay down next to her or give her a kiss. Oh, if they could any get along like this forever!!!

Happy Father’s Day

Happy Father’s Day!!! I’m not sure how much of a holiday it was for Rick – but it was a productive one!!!

It started out by trying to find the leak in our big kitchen window. With all the rain we’ve had lately, we noticed that it leaks when the rain is hitting it from a certain direction. We didn’t have any luck on finding the leak, but being that he was messing with the window, he decided to clean them all on the outside!!! Then while he was doing that, he thought he might as well take down the satellite dish being that we’re not using it anymore. When he was on it way to putting the ladder back in the garage, he thought he might as well clean the front window and the entry way. Being that the entry way was cleaned, he thought it would seal it, so he got a fan to really dry it out before sealing, which lead him to notice that the outlet by the front door isn’t working, so he we went downstairs and switched out the breaker outlet that was causing the problem. And being that he was doing that, he thought he’d change the outlet in the garage that wasn’t working either. By this time, the front entryway was dry, so he sealed the slate. Which then lead him to clean the patio and seal that also.

I think that is everything he did!!! I felt bad being that he was doing this all on Father’s Day, but it was all his idea…and I figured I shouldn’t stop him if that is what he wanted to do!!

Buckles??

Who needs buckles??? Oh, wait, I guess Faith does!! Seems like all at once she is starting to really kick and arch her back…which makes for an interesting position after a little while in her bouncy chair! I had her sitting next to my desk and the next thing I knew, she was almost out of her chair! I lifted her back up and a few seconds later, she was like this again!! I guess I will definitely have to buckle her in if I’m not going to be by her the whole time!

She also seems to like her tummy time so she can look around. You can tell that she’s getting stronger by how far she hold her head up and how long she’ll hold it up. She’s also now rolling onto her side…doesn’t seem like it will be long before she gets all the way around!

I told Rick that she was growing up way to fast and that we should be thinking about another one….all I got was a “WHAT”. Okay, so I have to admit, I just said it to see his reaction…and it was pretty much exactly what I thought it would be!!

Thomas the Train

Noah had a BIG day yesterday!!! We went to “A Day Out With Thomas” in Baldwin City – just a little south of us. He got up and we started getting ready and then we made the mistake of asking him if he wanted to go see Thomas the Train. Well, being that we said it, he wanted to leave…NOW! He had like two bites of breakfast and a sip of milk and he wanted to get going. Our neighbor was going to watch Faith and she wasn’t even to our house yet and Noah wanted to get in the car, so him and Rick sat in the car for about 15-20 minutes before we actually left. Rick said he just kept asking to go bye-bye and where’s Thomas.

We got going down the interstate and there was a train next to the road, so Noah was excited about that. Then we parked at the high school where there was some construction vehicles and then got on a bus to head to the railroad. So Noah is already excited and then we pulled up to the train station and Noah (and the other kids on the bus) started pointing and saying “Thomas, Thomas”. I thought he was going to pop! And to top it off, there was even a fire truck there too!!

Our train ride was at 9:45 and we were there about an hour ahead of time, so we got to go around to the tents they had set up. One tent had tattoos that they were putting on and Noah has been pretty proud of his. I think he’s shown about everyone his tattoo already – I’m not sure what he’s going to do when it rubs off!! There was another tent that had tables with trains that you could play with. Another tent had storytelling and videos. There was a magician that put on a show, a bubble station and a little petting zoo. They also had a sand box area and a little maze made out of straw bales.

We weren’t sure how Noah would do on the train ride, but while we were standing in line, he kept pointing to the train, so we thought it might be good. THEN we got on the train and he didn’t like it. He kept wanting to get down. I’m not sure what was really wrong, but as soon as the train started moving, he was fine.

He seemed to have a great time and didn’t want to leave. It did help that we got to ride the bus back to our vehicle!! I forgot how load buses are!!

There are some more pictures here.