It's good to be the runt

I have to laugh when I look around Noah's classroom. He is the oldest baby in the room, but you would never guess it. He is kind of a runt. Being the runt has it's benefits though! Baby P passed on his PJ's to Noah! They are so cute! Thanks Baby P's Mommy!

How great are Hand Me Downs? I was always the runt. Always. I don't know if Stephanie Bond still reads this blog or not, but I always got her hand me downs. Speaking of Stephanie, why is it that I have an awesome memory when it comes to things that happened in my childhood, but college through now, is all kind of foggy? And no partying in college jokes, you've got the wrong girl. Seriously, I can remember crazy things, like most of my friends birthdays. Stephanie was May 11, Lynley is June 25 (so is Gina's) Harriette is March 7, I could seriously name about 12 more. But, I can't remember where I put my keys 2 hours ago. And I can't remember one of my roomates name in college. Seriously. Or my cheerleading partner's name at the U of A. I think it was Josh, but his last name, nope. Is there something wrong with me?!

Rambling, sorry, imagine that.

Here is another Hope get up. She put on pjs, then decided she wanted to wear a gown, but thought it was too cold for a gown so she put it on over it. She added the accessories to dance to Taylor $wift on the CMA's. Yes, that's a tutu on her head. She said it would mess up her gown if she put it on her belly, so what's a girl to do? Put it on your head.

Have you ever seen a miracle?

Here's a glimpse at a little tiny miracle. Her name is Baby O. Her mommy is a friend of ours that works at Hope and Noah's fabulous school. Baby O weighed in at a whopping 1 pound 15 ounces. Please join me in praying for this tiny miracle baby.

Reveal Yourself, you McCain fan, you!

Ok, so someone thinks it is really funny to put a McCain Palin sticker on my car. And they think it is funny to write "Nobama '08" on my dirty car. Funny joke people. I am thinking the person(s) responsible probably read my blog to know that I am in fact an Obama supporter. Not that it matters now, we should all be Obama supporters. Someone also wrote Nobama as a comment on the blog, and you might think it is the same person, but I don't think so. The comment on the computer appears to have come from California (and I deleted it. Happy thoughts folks) , and I doubt anyone would come from California to write Nobama on my car and stick a McCain sticker on the back of my car. I have it pretty narrowed down. And I am pretty sure you are related to me, you McCain fan you. I am even pretty sure you are my brother. Which brother, I have yet to determine. Kind of like the whole "Who cut up the recliner" argument from when we were little. We know it is either Vince or Ross, but who, well, we may never know.

And this, really is a typical Hope get up. Praise the Lord shirt, pink scarf, yellow pj pants. She chose to complete the ensemble with what else? A Santa hat and Easter Bunny ears of course!

Just when you thought I was done posting Halloween photos

My friend Deni sent me some pictures from the Halloween Carnival! Maybe this will be the last of the cheesiness....but no promises!

Like Father Like Son

Not only do they look alike, have similar personalities, have similar napping schedules, both like to eat, both like to be outside....now they dress alike too! Can you stand it? At least we are't all 4 matching, right Heather?!

And speaking of Heather, thank you for coming over and folding my mountain of laundry today! You're the best!

Randomness...update on Noah, a little controversy, and a few Hopisms.

First of all, I am sorry to those of you who have been checking here for an update on Noah. Noah is great! The upper GI went super smoothly. He does not have any type of blockage or stenosis. He has been diagnosed with severe reflux. This was the best possible outcome for what we are dealing with! He is starting new medication that hopefully will help him out. The whole thing took an hour. The Radiologist and the 4 techs that were there were all taken with Noah. They took turns holding him and he flirted with all the tech girls. The Radiologist reminded me of one of the Mcdreamy/Mcsteamy doctors on Gray's, but he was so good with Noah. I got to be right there beside Noah the whole time.

Today I am proud of my country. I am hopeful for the future of our nation. I am thankful that my children will grow up in this new America. I know that some of my friends who were big supporters of McCain are upset today, but my prayer is that in a year from now we will all be thankful for President Obama. So I ask them to not focus on the defeat, but to focus on our future. Focus your energy and your prayers on our president, our nation, our future. We have all been divided during this campaign. Time to come together.

At the same time, I am so upset about Act 1 passing. It really actually disgusts me that it passed. I see it as wrong for 2 big reasons. 1st of all, it is discrimination. Plain and simple. No way around it. That's what it is. Secondly, we just limited the amount of good caring foster homes in Arkansas. Limited them. Really? For what? Because you don't think they should be in the care of a gay person or couple? Seriously. I stand by my first statement that if you voted for Act 1 you should have to immediately become foster parents to help with the shortage of foster homes. But wait, I don't think the children should be placed in homes of people who discriminate. Anyway, I am hoping that some legal action is taken against this in the very near future before too many children are affected by the ridiculousness. (I am thinking this is the end of my ranting. I am hoping this returns to a cheesy happy family blog soon...)

Back to happy thoughts....

Here are some Hopisms:

• This morning the first thing Hope asked was "Did Barako win?"
• Also this morning, Hope was doing some File Folder games while I took a shower. When I got out she wanted to show me what all she had done. I told her what a great job she did. She said, "Well, it was my pleasure."
• And while I was getting Noah dressed, Hope asked if Noah was strong. I said that he wasn't very strong yet. She said, "Noah, if you want to be strong like me you've got to eat your vegetables. Even though they're yucky. And your beans. I don't eat beans, but you have to."
• She learned to button her pajamas by herself tonight. She was sooo proud of herself. She grinned and then ran and gave me the biggest hug and said "I love you mommy!"

Halloween Photos

Six Months Old...And so so sweet

So, my precious boy is 6 months old. How is that possible? He absolutely oozes sweetness. I absolutely take back everything I ever said about only wanting girls. Noah is good stuff. I'm tellin ya.

Here are our obligatory pictures of Noah with the Bear and the Baby (named pretend Noah.) If you are new here, I take a picture of Noah every month with these two items to see how much he's grown. I also post a monthly picture of Noah and the Bear along the right hand side of our blog so you can get a quick glance of how he's grown. It's pretty fun. But, if you think I thought of this all by myself, you'd be wrong. I borrowed the idea from (here.)

I have to tell you though, these pictures are getting harder and harder to get. He kicks the blanket all out of whack (not to mention he is getting too long!) and he doesn't like to lay straight. He was really interested in his feet today. I got a lot of pictures like these:
Oh, I could seriously eat him up. At six months, he has obviously found his feet. He is close to sitting up. He still enjoys time in his swing, exersaucer, and bouncy seat. He especially likes to hang out in his seat in the bathroom while I get ready in the mornings. Not sure why, but it buys me about 20 minutes to grab a shower and dry my hair. He has started to get upset when I walk away from him. This is pretty new. I am afraid his teachers at school are going to start not liking my midday visits with him if he gets upset when I leave. I have been known to take him to Mimi's office and let her do the dirty work when he gets upset when I leave. Ahhh, have I mentioned how nice it is to know that Mimi can check on him during the day and call and tell me if he needs his mommy. It's very nice.

He will have an upper GI Tuesday morning at 7:45. Please say a prayer for my sweet boy. He will be "lightly sedated." Yikes. We are hoping to put an end to the Mommy vs. Noah battle for good. Hopefully this will lead us to answers regarding the across the room projectile vomit. I also saw a specialist for my reoccurring mastitis on Friday which went really well. I am on strong antibiotics right now, and go back in 3 weeks for an ultrasound. I was sick again this week (actually the sickest I have been since I was in the hospital...I'm still not 100%), and my sister went all Mama Bear on my OB doctor and somehow managed to get me in to see an overbooked specialist the next day. I do have a very good big sister. Anyway, we are hoping to resolve both mine and Noah's issues soon so we can go back to normal chaos. Sick chaos hasn't been fun for any of us.

So, back to the boy.

Because he would NOT leave his feet alone, and because it is his newest trick, I took a ton of pictures of his new skill. I know this is a lot of pictures, but again people, it's my blog.