Mommy's Helper

Happy Thanksgiving!!

My computer is broken but I hope to be able to update the blog soon. We would like to wish everyone a wonderful turkey day!!

Angel

J: Susanna, do you know what today is? It is Grandma Sue's birthday!
Susanna: It is? It is Gigi and Grandma Sue's birthday?
J: Yes it is.
Susanna: Mom, where is Grandma Sue?
Me: She is in heaven.
Susanna: After a pause.... She is my angel. She is our family angel. I love Grandma Sue.
Me: Yes she is Susanna and she loves you too.

Happy Birthday Mom. I love you and miss you soo much everyday.

Happy Halloween

This is the first year Susanna REALLY understood Trick or Treating and she LOVED IT!!! She kept saying, "More Trick or Treat Mommy, Lets do another house!" Noah joined in too and both kids had a great night!



"This is a nice ghost Mommy"


Posing with her candy after we got back home, she was VERY happy and proud of her full pumpkin!


"I wanna eat this one first please"


Even though the lolly was still covered Noah was trying to eat it through the paper!


Check out the candy stash!!!!


Happy Halloween Everyone!!!

Clap Clap Noah

Noah has been practicing clapping for a while now and finally figured out how it really works. And he has been clapping ever since, sooo cute!!!

Whoops, sorry!

I realize it has been a while since my last post and after logging onto the blog I now see it has been over a month, WOW!! Since coming home from our trip to Ohio we have been busy busy busy getting back into our normal routine. Susanna is back to her gymnastics class and playgroups. Noah's crawling VERY fast now and pulling up on anything and everything. He has not started walking along the furniture yet but I know it could be any day now. He had his 9 month appointment and weighed in at 23.1 pounds!!! So far he has been right on track with Susanna's growth but this time he weighed almost a half a pound more. He doesnt have fat rolls like many babies do but he is VERY solid and VERY strong!! He is trying new foods everyday and this week he ate his first spaghetti and loved it!! He looked soo cute all covered in noodles and sauce.




A few weeks ago we visited Hillridge Farms pumpkin patch. This trip has become a tradition for us and this year we went with The Rutkowski Family. We had a wonderful time with wonderful weather.











We now have four pumpkins decorating the front of our house and Susanna likes to point out which pumpkin belongs to each of us!


Two weekends ago Susanna and Noah met their cousin Sophia for the first time. Gabriel and Meagan came to visit and spent three fun days with us. Sophia was born in July and is almost 3 months old now. She is such a great baby with the cutest chubbiest little legs and we all loved having her here. Susanna and Noah love their newest cousin and look forward to growing bigger so they can play with her even more!!

Over the weekend Miguel and Gabriel smoked a pork shoulder, Meagan and I drank wine as we cooked lots of food, the kids played and napped, and we all enjoyed the first fire in our new patio firepit! Fun was had by all and we really enjoyed their visit and cant wait to see them again very soon!!

In other baby news I want to say a big CONGRATS to my friends Cara and Daryl as they are expecting their first baby due May 2011!! Cant wait to find out if I should be buying pink or blue for you!!!
Also, my best friend Vicki found out that her baby due in January is a GIRL! They are very excited to be adding another girl to their family, Congrats big sister Ava!!

We are back!!!

We are finally home from Ohio. The kids and I had a WONDERFUL time visiting with family, adventures to the farm and fair, and simply spending many lazy days with Jane and Grandma. We had our share of craziness with Noah cutting his top four teeth, Susanna FULLY entering the terrible twos, accidentally locking both kids in the car with the keys in the ignition, and a visit to the ER with Susanna for tummy issues. We all survived for Daddy to fly up to help drive us home. We are happy to be back but miss Jane, Grandma Hoelscher, Louie, Mindy, Eric, Morgan, Jada, Grandpa and Grandma Hoying and all the Hoying clan soooo much already.

We took many pics, here are some of my favorites....

Belly Laughs

Noah has the best laugh ever! I bet you cant watch this without smiling...

Noah, 7 months old

6 month Birthday!!

Noah bear is now 6 months old!!! It is hard to believe we have arrived at half a year already. The time has passed VERY quickly!! I am sad and don't want him to grow up so fast but also am loving his age. He can now sit up on his own, is eating all sorts of baby food fruits and veggies (stage 2 foods), is moving around on his belly reaching for toys, babbles alot, and LOVES to watch every move his sister makes!! He really loves to sit next to her and grab at her hair and laugh! They also hold hands and smile at each other. It really is such an an amazing feeling watching them smile at each other as they are forming a bond they will carry through life!

At Noah's 6 month appointment today he weighed in at 19 pounds, 6.5 ounces. He was 80% for weight, 90% for length, and his head is off the charts!!! I had been talking to Susanna about how he would have to get shots today and we needed to help distract him and help him feel better afterwards. When the time came and he was given his shots she quickly jumped up and started dancing saying "Watch me Noah, I'm dancing". This was her distraction technique and it was ADORABLE!!! And it actually worked too, what a thoughtful big sister :)


We have had a hot couple of weeks lately so the kids have been cooling off the best that they can. Popsicles and rides in Daddy's Jeep are Susanna's favorite!



Noah, hasn't had a popsicle yet, but looks like he is ready to borrow the Jeep for bit.

We have all been fighting colds this week and the Dr did notice some fluid in his ears. By the end of today he was refusing his bottle, smacking at his ear, and overall pretty cranky. So we are now treating him with antibiotics and we hope this helps.

Noah and Miguel have been pretty excited to watch the World Cup. Although I don't watch much soccer, its the only sport Miguel really watches and it makes Noah pretty happy, so I can't complain.

Oh, did I mention he's teething too? His front bottom teeth are in and you can tell he wasn't happy when they were pushing through. This last pic is a good "teething" pic.....