Well, it's been several months again since my last post and I'm sure you all understand how busy things can be these days. It seems to be the new norm, despite feeling like things couldn't be any busier prior to Noah's arrival. Trust me (and many of you know), the activities somehow sneak their way into the calendar and things just get busier. Alas, I woke up before 5am today, so I have a few minutes to post a plethora of new photos to gush over today. Enjoy and I'll add a little caption to follow along with the photos.
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| Elijah and Noah sporting the Christmas shirts I made for them. Although it's a little late, Merry Christmas. |
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| Noah starting feeding himself and began by devouring Mum Mums, which was a favorite of Elijah's. He has since taken on just about anything else we place in front of him. He's unstoppable at mealtime. |
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| Happy Valentines Day....late again, but the boys wore the V-day shirts to their school party that day. It was so cute, a polka-dot tie with a red heart in the center and of course, suspenders. |
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| Working or not, I always try to be at school for the parties. Thank goodness I'm only part-time. Those kids party a lot. There's really nothing cuter than 12 two and three year olds having a little party together. |
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| Elijah had asked Santa for a "blue horsey" and Santa brought not only a Blue Horse, but a Red Horse just for baby brother. Elijah is a maniac on the Rody horse and I'm sure Noah will follow suit in no time. |
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Uncle Juju came to visit and after a few hours of Noah crying every time he came near, he finally warmed up and saw what a great Uncle he has. This was actually taken about a week or so before Juju had his accident. I'm so grateful we've been blessed to spend so much time together and thankful beyond words that Juju is well and improving daily.
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After Juju's accident, he was in the ICU at Inova Fairfax Medical Center for less than 48hrs. It's absolutely a miracle. While still there, we all drove up and this was taken in the ICU waiting room. The boys were a nice distraction from the seriousness of those days.
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| Happy baby, Happy Papa |
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| Elijah joined the Upward Soccer Program and it playing on Team Lightning. Although he doesn't really understand the Team of the sport, he does enjoy occasionally getting out on the field to kick the ball and ROAR at the other team. It's an intimidation tactic and I think it works. |
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| With spring upon us, we make an effort to be outside every day it's not raining. It's been wonderful expanding our play area and getting out all our outdoor toys again. Bring on the summer! |
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| Elijah loves his bubble blower. Any toy that looks like something Daddy uses outside is a winner with him. |
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| Just a towel full of love. Noah's growing by the day and chunky chunky. |
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| Noah enjoys sitting in his seat and watching Mommy cook and bake....which she does often. |
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| Elijah has been so sweet with Noah as he become more and more mobile. He enjoys getting on the floor and rolling around with him, demonstrating how to crawl and just dancing around to make him giggle. |
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| "Night at the Museum" is one of Elijah's ALL TIME FAVORITE movies. If you haven't seen it (100 times like us), the night guard at the museum, Larry, carries his keys and flashlight on his belt. Hence, Elijah walks around our house with keys in his pants and a giant Mag flashlight tucked inside his pull-up. |
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| Noah's doing a great job of sitting up on his own and soon enough, crawling. |
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| For now, rolling is his preferred method of mobility. Works for me. |
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| This was Noah's first time in our toddler swing and he LOVED it. I remember when Elijah used to swing at the park on Fort Sill and just giggle the whole time. So much joy with these little guys. |
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| Our big boy is just getting more handsome by the day. Maybe a future USMA grad right here. |
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| Elijah's at it again with the lawn work. Daddy's just not cutting it alone. |
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| Now that it's really warming up, we go out on the patio and play each day. Noah enjoys sitting with me and playing with toys and sometimes even a bowl of water to splash. Snapped this picture mid-play. Look at that face! |
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| After church, we've been going to Starbucks for "special milk" and some treats. It's a nice routine and Elijah really enjoys it. I can't get over how big he's getting. |
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| Just another sweet photo of Noah. He's getting so big and he has such a wonderful personality. You can practically see it in this photo. |
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| And his sweet smile... |
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| Elijah is "silly silly silly" and loves making Noah laugh. |
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| A close up of Elijah ROAAARRRRRing at one of his soccer games. He really gets into it. Hilarious! |
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| Another beautiful South Carolina day on the back patio. Noah was sitting on Elijah's Thomas the Tank Engine "bikeccycle" pushing the buttons and calling out orders on the handheld speaker. |
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| "Yes station 1, this is the Noah Bear requesting track 1 for drop off" |
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| We've made it to Easter. This was taken at All Saint PMO Easter Egg Hunt on the front lawn. Once again, I was at work and made it just in time to see the little cuties running around finding eggs. Elijah had a wonderful time and I really enjoyed seeing him so happy and excited. |
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| "CHEEPS" as I snap a picture for Daddy |
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| As I said before, there's nothing cuter than a bunch of 2-3yr olds having a party. |
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Elijah and Noah back at home in their school party clothes still. Just such handsome and sweet boys. We are so blessed.
Well, that's all the photos for now, but obviously it's the middle of May and a lot has happened since this last photo. I will do my best to collect more photos from our family vacation to Murrells Inlet in SC, which was May 3-10. More to come. God bless.
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