M-I-C-K-E-Y...

M-O-U-S-E! We attended our first Disney on Ice experience this weekend. Disney on Ice featuring The Incredibles. Surprisingly, Noah was pretty well behaved throughout most of the show - Penny slept through 98% of it. He seemed to be mesmerized by all the action for the first half of the show even dancing and clapping during parts of it. Intermission brought some restlessness from him and he wanting to climb on the railings infront of us. We swaped kids between us after that, Travis holding Penny and myself trying to wrangle Noah. Anyways, here are some pictures from it. Not a bad idea, I think we may just do it again. :-)

Well, it's about time!!!

I know, I know - it's been way too long since there has been a post. Life happens and we get backed up doing well, everything, and you just lose track of time.

So, I started back at work today, which made today Penny's first day at Noah's school. She did well. She was very happy to see me and gave me HUGE smiles when she came to me and I started singing the Barney "I love you" song. She is growing like a well-fed weed. She weighs about 12 pounds now and is almost 11 weeks old. Noah is LOVING being a big brother and absolutely loves helping out whenever he can. His vocabulary is huge and he has become way more independent than we would like. Although we don't let him, he always wants to walk along the sidewalk and across the street without holding hands. And he tries to throw the biggest fit if we try and hold his hand.

We also figured out that Penny has acid reflux. The doctor gave us some stuff that we give her every day. The acid reflux was causing colic for a while. She is doing much much better now. I promise, now that I am back at work, I will update this more often. Till then, here's a few pictures of the kids!

Boy it's been a while

It's taken some time to get back into the swing of things around here since the power came back on. We had dryer issues, issues with the Roomba, getting back to a normal schedule - oi! and then 3 out of the 4 of us got sick with a variation of a stomach bug. We think Penny may have it now too. Luckily it only lasts about 24 hours!

Penny went for her 2 month well baby exam on Friday. She is growing and growing! 9 lbs 8 ozs and 20 inches long already. Her pediatrician is happy with her development so far. She has given us a few smiles (not gas ones either!) and she is cooing here and there. She is becoming more alert and definitely knows what she wants and when she wants it! Way more demanding than Noah was at this age. Hehe...

Since this past weekend's weather was nice, we decided to go out and visit a pumpkin patch and get some pumpkins. Noah had alot of fun. He kept wanting to pull the wagon. I can't believe how fast everyone is growing...Seems like just yesterday they were just born.

Yep, we're still standing!

We made it through Ike. We lost power that evening at 11 PM and we are still out of power. My company gave us a generator to use so we have had that going since we got it from them. The kids are doing as well as can be expected. Penny is easy, just eating and sleeping. Noah has been stir crazy but we were able to get him back to school today (kind of). His campus' school is closed until they get power back, there is another campus of his school we managed to get him into and today was his first day there.

Anyways - just wanted to give you a little update. Hopefully when we are back up and running completely I'll be able to post more.

Hurricane Ike - do your best!

This is going to be a short update for now. We are sticking around here for the hurricane. We are set and ready though.

Penny is doing beautifully so far. Wednesday she turned 4 weeks old. I can't believe how fast she is growing. Noah LOVES to shower her with kisses too. He is being such a great big brother to her. AS long as momma spends some time with Noah everyday, then we have a happy household.

I have attached a great picture of Noah giving Penny a kiss. This was about an hour after he just met Penny for the first time.

Welcome baby Penny!

I apologize for being MIA since the last post but soon after that post, things got interesting around here. "Little sister" decided she wanted to come 7 weeks early. She weighed in at 5 lbs 7 ozs and was 17 inches long. She has been in the NICU since her arrival that evening but only for reasons of not being able to maintain her own temperature and eating. She is strong and healthy now, weighing in at 5 lbs 14.8 ozs and 19 inches long. She is taking all of her bottles now and is almost out of her isolete she is in. She should be coming out of it tonight and probably come home tomorrow night or Monday. She is such a great baby. We can't wait to get to learn more about her. We can't wait for her to come home. Just in time for momma's birthday!

Mr Smarty Pants

Well, hurricane number 2 came through here this past week. Tuesday everyone stayed home, work was telling us to stay home and we weren't about to take Noah to school that day. It was a pretty uneventful day that day considering the weather.

Every day I am amazed by what Noah can do. He repeats everything we say now, not perfectly but pretty darm close. He knows Nemo from the Finding Nemo movie. There's this one particular book he likes to read at bed time called The Very Busy Spider. This book has different animals and has their sounds you can do with them. When I was sitting in Noah's room when Travis and he were reading this week, Travis would ask him, "What does the horse say?" "Neigh" is what Noah would answer...and he was able to do that with the cow, the duck, the dog, the cat, the rooster and the owl all with their associated sounds they make. He just amazes me how he picked that up so quickly!

Remember me mentioning before that Travis bought a Roomba to vacuum? Well, that is also one of Noah's favorite things now too. Whenever we get home from school, as soon as we walk in the door, Noah says, "Roomba?". He likes helping dad place the Roomba. I was thinking about it the other day, he probably knows more than 60 words, and a dozen phrases. He knows where the ears, eyes and nose are, and likes to point them out on everyone. :) He knows when the cats have done something wrong and likes to point it out when they do. He points at them, shakes his hand up and down and says, "No no no no no".

As for the rest of us, Travis and I are doing alot of home improvement stuff every weekend. There seems to be so much we want to do before "little sister" gets here. I am 33 weks along. Pretty much all stomach from what almost everyone is saying. Kind of nice to get those compliments. I have had a few people tell me from behind I look normal, but once I turn to the side, it's a whole different story. :-)

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!