2 year old...ugh!

Here's a video I took with my new camera. Shows the LOVELINESS of 2 year old!

New Camera!!!

This weekend Noah and I went up to Michigan for a quiet weekend at the lakehouse. We celebrated my birthday on Friday night. It was awesome, my parents got me a new camera! It's a nice point and shoot with some cool features. It has this smile mode where the camera detects if a person is smiling and automatically takes the picture (the last picture with Josh, that's what we were messing with). My dad calls it the "terminator camera" as he is afraid that it's going to start selecting targets to do more than just take pictures. I'm still learning how to use it, but I love it already. My brother got me a salon gift card to get a much needed pedicure! A side note to explain the random outfits in this post. Josh got Noah some spiderman swimtrunks which he had to try on over his cars pjs. Josh had "rodeo" themed buy back week at the book store he runs. Hence the hillbilly shirt. The beard was not for rodeo week, it's a permanent feature of late. So, hopefully as I master this camera we'll have nice new pics to post!

Welcome Baby Cal!!!

My dear friend Jessica (better known as Philie) had a beautiful baby boy yesterday! His name is Calvin Edward and he is perfect. He's a BIG boy, 9lbs 4oz, 22 inches, and a head that was 15 cm in circumference. Good thing he was a c-section kiddo! Philie said that during the operation, as Cal emerged all the medical staff said "look at that big head!!!" He is precious, and Erin (another high school friend) and I got to visit him today. Big Brother Fred came for a visit too and got a new train from Cal. Philie looks amazing (the last picture was taken by Fred with my camera). Welcome Baby Cal! We are well on our way to our own basketball team!

This saturday, Saturday, SATURDAY!!!

This morning we were so excited to be invited to join the Worst Family for Big Truck day in Palatine! This was our last play date with Fred sans little sibling as they are going in to have the baby on Tuesday, woohoo! Stan was a trooper, although I think he secretly enjoyed looking the part of master of a harem with 2 toddlers and 2 pregnant women in tow. He helped the boys in and out of all the trucks. It was pretty cool, there was a bus, a UPS truck, snow plows, tow trucks, garbage trucks, back hoes, and many more! The boys enjoyed looking and sometimes climbing on them and honking the horns. I absolutely LOVE the 2nd picture with Noah looking like "are you sure I'm supposed to be driving here?" But he eventually warmed up to the whole thing and was pressing buttons left and right. Neither boy was feeling particularly photogenic today, but we managed to get some shots. And Florida girls, that first shot and 2nd to last shot is to show off Philie's belly just for you before she goes in to have the baby, enjoy!

Random Thursday Zoo Trip

In an attempt to do as much fun stuff before baby #2 arrives, use my zoo membership to the fullest, and fill an empty Thursday with something cool Noah and I went to the zoo this morning. It was a bit of an impromptu trip, decided just yesterday based on the weather report. On our way in, it started sprinkling a bit so I figured we'd be pretty much alone at the zoo on a random windy/cloudy Thursday. I could not have been more wrong! We pulled up and saw literally about 50 school busses parked and had a 20 minute wait just to get in the parking lot! Once we got it, though, it was fine and we had a grand time. We actually made it all the way around the zoo, the first time we've managed that. The highlight of today's trip was the petting zoo. Noah LOVED the goats, I mean we were in there petting/brushing the goats for a good 20 minutes (which is like 5 years in toddlerspeak). Then we fed the goats from outside the fence and he loved that as well. The last picture cracks me up, he was trying to explain to the goats that the food was "all gone!" As we got in the car I knew it was a hit when I heard him say, "Mama... NoNo LOVE goats!" So cute :)

First trip to Shedd

Since Mike has started working Saturdays, Noah and I have been getting out and about with different friends and family members to make the day more fun. This weekend we were treated to a trip to the Shedd Aquarium with Bampa and Bamma. It was awesome! Noah really enjoyed the different turtles and frogs and was a big fan of the penguins. We got to see the new baby beluga (bugugu, as Noah calls it). And of course sitting and watching all the different fish in the main circular tank was a big hit. We had a wonderful time and then got to go over and see the other grandparents for dinner. What a day!

Big Boy Bunk Beds!

Noah's big boy furniture was delivered yesterday. We ended up purchasing bunk beds with the idea that eventually the boys will share the room. The stuff came yesterday during Noah's nap, and he slept thru the whole installation process, which was noisy! He was very excited to try out the bed in the afternoon, but we didn't know what nighttime would bring. Sure enough he asked to sleep in the bed, hopped right in there, and went right to sleep, no problems. We put the baby monitor in there just because I was paranoid he was going to fall out during the night. But he slept the usual 11 hours without a peep! He woke up this morning and declared "Noah awake Mommy!" He can't quite get up/down by himself, so we're enjoying the honeymoon phase where he doesn't realize he could actually get up whenever he wanted to. Much more successful than we anticipated, although I'm sure we're not out of the woods yet! It's been an expensive week what with buying his furniture and last night we bought a new dishwasher (woot, rebates 'r' us)! Such excitement, I know!