Pictures

Noah and Sean

Sean and Goofy
Lucas and Noah watching a movie

Talley's 4th of July party
Lucas's first 4 wheeler ride and he loved it.

Lucas "chillaxin" after his ride

Too cute, that's all I can say.

Thanks to the Talley's for the 4th of July party, we all had a great time. And thanks to everyone who had a hand in the firework's show. It was great.

Lots to report

We have had quite a busy week as always. Noah went for his 4 month checkup on Wednesday, he is 15lbs 12oz, and 25 inches. The doctor saw his exzema and said that Noah is probably allergic to milk, so we had to switch to soy formula. In just a day we could see a difference in his skin. He also has bad cradle cap and the doctor had a few suggestions to get rid of this which are working well. And while I was at the office I found 2 teeth coming in on the bottom. One has pushed through as of yesterday. He is not doing too bad, just a little fussy at times and has a hard time sometimes. But other than that he is still the little laid back baby that he has always been. Doesn't complain too much. So that brings us to today, Noah rolled over from back to belly this morning for the first time, he was close for a few days and finally acheived his goal this morning. Luckily I was up in time to see it.

Yesterday Lucas and his grandad went to the museum of transportation and the zoo, which was cut short due to the rain. But he did have a great time, that is all he was talking about when he got home. And how he got to touch an airplane which he thought was just awesome.

Good times this morning just chilling with the family. Now we are off on our seperate ways. Me here to clean, Jake in the garage, Lucas with daddy "helping" and Noah is sleeping.

4 MONTHS!

Noah is 4 months old today. Time sure does fly, I know this already since Lucas will be 3 1/2 this month. I don't understand how when we are young our youth seemed like it went on forever. Now that we are older it goes by in the blink of an eye. Anyway... happy 4 month birthday to Noah!!

Here you can see just how much Noah loves his brother, he is always looking around and listening for him. He gets so excited when he hears Lucas in the room.

Summer

Here I am again playing catchup with the blog. I will say that it is going to be difficult to keep up with this over the summer months. We are spending a lot of time at the Fugate's in their new pool. Lucas just loves it, I can hardly get him out of the pool. He is already swimming around the pool by himself (with a life jacket) and jumping off the side, with someone there to "catch him". He still goes under and pops up. Mommy is so proud. Noah went to his PT appt on Thursday and the knot in his neck is gone and he is turning to the left a lot more now. We still have to work with him at home because it is a little tight still in the back, but all looks good and he should not have to go back.

Jake must have taken this picture and I just love it, he is such a good big brother. So what has happened in the last couple weeks? Lucas graduated "pre" preschool. He will be moving on to preschool next year. He will be doing 3 days a week instead of 2 since mommy waited until the last minute to sign him up. Imagine that. :)

Then last saturday we had my sister's graduation party, she graduated college and is now an RN. Congratulations to her. And then Sunday we went to a birthday party for one of Lucas's little friend Gabby. They had horse rides, a donkey that pulled a wagon and a few other animals that they could pet.

This weekend is busy yet again. Today we are going to see Kung Fu Panda and then the boys and I are off to the Fugate's again for swimming. Jake and Jeff are going to see Dave Matthew's at Busch Stadium tonight. And then tomorrow we are going to the Zoo. My work got all the employees who wanted to participate free train rides, children's zoo and lunch for tomorrow. It is going to be crowded and hot. So I am sure after the zoo we will be off to the pool again.

Memorial Day weekend

We spent a couple days with Jeff, Kim and the girls just hanging out over the weekend. We had a small birthday party for Jake since his birthday was on Monday the 19th. The boys and I got him tickets to Dave Matthews at Busch stadium. He and Jeff will be going to the concert on the 7th, I think.

Although Sunday started out rainy and nasty we still got to get wet later in the day. At one point all had a water gun fight which was loads of fun. When we finally got to get in the pool it was so cold that it took your breath away. You got use to it, but the first few minutes were rough.

Here Kim is helping Lucas learn to kick his feet with a swim board. We need to get some swimming lessons for him. I have been talking about that for a while now and have never gotten around to setting it up. Put it on the TO DO list for this week.

All week we have been working with Noah to get his head to turn more to the left. I think it is helping out a lot. I took a few pictures to show the physical therapist on Thursday in case he will not do it for her. Lucas will even talk to him on his left side when we tell him to since Noah loves hearing Lucas talk to him. He follows Lucas around with his eyes already. Brotherly love :o)

Kite Flying

Jake and I took Lucas kite flying Sunday for a while for the first time and he loved it. It was so easy to get the kite going since it was such a windy day. I remember when I was younger running with the kite just to get it to lift up. All we had to do is hold it in the air and the wind took it up. It was actually quite fun for all of us for a family outing.

Today I had to take Noah to meet with a physical therapist for his neck. I had noticed for a while that his head is usually turned to the right side and I have tried to get him to look more to the left but have not succeeded. He has what they call tortic0llis and we are going to see the physical therapist once a week for the next month. She gave us exercises we have to do with him at home to loosen his neck up so he will turn to the left without the pain. We only worked with him for maybe 20 minutes and she wore him out. I just hope the next month goes well and we will be done, but she also said we have to watch him at his growth spurts since it can come back. On top of that I think he has excema, I have to call for an appointment for that also. Could be worse.

He is such a happy baby though, always smiling and "talking"

Arkansas

We all had a fun filled weekend visiting our family in Arkansas. We drove down to attend Allie and Kallie's highschool graduation. We all had such a good time visiting with everyone since we only get to see them about once a year.



Allie with Noah, Kallie with Noah(she didn't want her picture taken) and Haley with Lucas.


Lucas had such a good time hanging out with all of his cousin's. Haley was his buddy for the weekend. Everyone came home with something having to do with the Razorback's. Lucas got a huge Razorback puppet from his cousin Andrew. Thanks Andrew! This thing is bigger than Luke!
This is just a fun picture of Lucas and me on the neighbor's hammock. We only fell out a few times before we got the hang of it. My little boy is getting too big. He is almost 3 1/2. Noah will be 3 months old tomorrow. Time sure does fly when you're having fun.