Monday, November 22, 2010

Baby Steps

Noel took her first steps this last saturday. We were so excited! She even threw in a few screams of excitement. Just after we recorded her, she took 5 steps at most all by herself. She is still not too interested in walking but she tries it every once in a while! She is growing so fast and each day is so different. She's already added a few words to her vocabulary in the last few days. She'll say "uh oh" now whenever she drops something, "head" while grabbing her head, "back" as in "get back Shasta (my parents dog)", and "picture" while pointing to pictures throughout the house. I love it!

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

1 YEAR OLD STATS AND OTHER FUN INFO

Noel had her 1 year well baby exam this last week. Here are her measurements:

Weight: 21.3 lbs (50%ile)
Height: 29.75in. (I believe the nurse said the 75%ile)

THE KINDS OF THINGS NOEL IS DOING AT 1
-We'll ask, "Noel, can you sing?" And Noel sings, "Ya ya ya ya ya." (We've taught her that singing is, "La la la la la."
-When we ask Noel where her eyes, ears, teeth, nose, tongue, and mouth are she will point to them or to ours.
-She blows kisses, sometimes to perfect strangers.
-She says "Amen" along with everyone else after prayers (and sometimes during prayers).
-Gives hugs.
-Gives kisses.
-At church sometimes she thinks the chorister in Sacrament Meeting is waving to her so she'll wave and wave and wave back.
-Waves "hi" and "bye". Cute story with that one. The other day Noel stood up, held onto her walker, turned to me, waved and said, "bye" and she walked out of the room. It was the cutest thing!!
-She loves to dance! Whenever there is music, she is right there dancing.
-We'll ask her what monkeys, cows, kittys, doggies, and tigers say and for monkey's its "oooh oooh ah ah", cows of course, "moo", kittys, "me me" doggies, "fff fff" and tigers "raaarr!".
-Plays peek a boo.
-Says "weeeee" a lot especially if her mom or dad are taking her jogging in her stroller.
-Holds her brush and brushes her hair.
-Puts a necklace around her neck and says "pretty".
-She says "oh no" or "oh my" when she is "doing her business". That's only because she'll hear me say those things when she is "doing her business" so when she wakes up from her naps or in the morning, I'll hear her grunting and such and saying "oh no" and "oh my". It's too funny!

THINGS NOEL IS SAYING
Amen, balloon, more, papa, dada, mama, light, what's that?, all done, Shasta (name of my parent's dog), pretty, socks, shoes, cheese, please, puppy, bonk, thank you, oh no, oh my, teeth, brush, bye, hot, baby, up, down, nite nite, hello, hi, peek-a-boo, soft, weeeee, hug, banana, book, and juice.

She is quite the smarty pants and we are so grateful she is healthy and happy. She is such a blessing in our lives.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO NOEL!

Noel turned 1 year old on the 4th of November. We celebrated her birthday on the evening of the 6th at Morgan's parents home. We had a wonderful dinner, visited, opened gifts and then ate cake.

Here's some pictures of the cake making process. We made a Caterpillar cake because the stuffed animal she sleeps with is actually a bug. It's a caterpillar. We call it her "lovebug", "bedbug", etc. So I found the idea on the Betty Crocker website to make an inchworm out of a bundt cake. It was so fun to make and it ended up looking pretty much like her caterpillar. My sister Leslie was in town and helped me with it and helped to get us out of the door on time for Noel's party. Thanks Les! Her kids were helpful too in making sure I put the colors on in the right order. I got a little mixed up with the order of the colors a couple times and my 5 year old niece Brianna said, "Terie, you're all mixed up like [my teacher] Mrs. Skinner!" Then Mya piped in and said, "You need to go back to high school." It was hilarious. Leslie and I just laughed.

Before...
During...

And after...

THE PARTY

THE GIFT OPENING

Noel was more interested in the cards. It was so cute. She got a lot of clothes and toys in which we are very grateful for! Thank you! She looks dashing in her clothes and loves her toys!


THE CAKE EATING



HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEETHEART! THANKS FOR JOINING OUR FAMILY AND BEING OUR LIL' LOVEBUG! WE LOVE YOU!

Here are a few pictures as of late. Noel saying "hi".

After her sunday morning bath. Look at the big perty blues!
Of course, the Noel grin.
A few days after Halloween we found this cute giraffe costume at Babies R us for $2 and I couldn't resist.
We couldn't stop laughing when we put it on her. She was too adorable!

Monday, November 1, 2010

Oh, we love the Fall!

A couple weekends ago my mom, Noel and I went to go watch one of our really good friend's daughter in a horse riding competition. It was cold, wet and rainy but we had a good time. Noel did so well there. Here are a few pictures of her.



Her first experience with beaters and cookie dough.
Last week we went up to Apple Hill to spend some time together and we had a blast. We window shopped and walked around and enjoyed the scenery. Check out the pumpkin we are sitting on.





This picture is a little blurry but I love the look on Noel's face.
Um...Enough said.

There was a mini petting zoo minus the petting.




Lastnight we went to the Reynold's home and their place was decked out for halloween. This werewolf in the cage would start yelling and making noise whenever someone would make a loud noise. Poor Noel was a little scared when she got too close.