Noah at 11 months

Noah is 11 months and 8 days today. He is full of energy and squealing. He has the best smile and loves life. He is my joyful boy and I can't believe it's been almost a year! I thought I might share how he's grown.


Enjoying the Tooth puzzle at the children's museum.

Almost ALWAYS happy like this

eating grass

LOVES the water at the pool and bath time

He's a big boy. 75 percentile for height and 50th percentile for weight. He's on course to be 6'2"!

He skipped crawling on his knees. He went straight from army crawl to bear crawl.

Cruisin'

Getting into trouble in the pantry

climbing the stairs

caught!

last time in the baby car seat

big boy car seat

my sweet boys

One of the few times he has used his knees to crawl

In his Batman jammies

pulling up and trying to escape the crib

Happy Anniversary

Josh and I celebrated 8 years together on May 11th. We watched our wedding ceremony, still on VHS, and remembered that wonderful day that "we" began. Josh, you are my favorite. You are my best friend. You are my support. You are an incredible husband and father. You have a calling on your life that blows me away and keeps you up some nights. God is alive in you. I am blessed to call you mine. I love you.

Truitt's 3rd Birthday

These pictures are FAR overdue, but here they are. Truitt's party was a blast and we enjoyed a sports themed party while a large storm/tornado warning was sounding outside. : ) We still had Bev and Rick there from TX and a large crowd show for his party.

Everyone wore there favorite team shirts and in lieu of presents brought donations to Touch-a-life, a foundation that rescues children from slavery in Ghana, Africa. http://www.touchalifekids.org/ We started out playing several sports (baseball, golf, basketball, etc), all of which were supposed to be played outside, but due to the torrential down-pour were played inside. Then we had every child receive a medal and run through a victory line as we cheered their personal name. That was my favorite part!! We enjoyed hot dogs and chips, and then proceeded to beat the unbreakable baseball pinata. Truitt felt very special and enjoyed being the center of attention. Happy birthday sweet boy.

The pictures are all out of order. I did let the kids try to break the pinata before I wore my arm out trying to break it. Josh had to finally rip it open. : )

The unbreakable pinata!













CANDY!!!










Truitt and some buddies decided to take a break from eating and throw all his clothes on the top bunk!! Oh boy!






The victory line





Notice the weather channel on the TV.


Party favor bag. Note: Kids love whistles for favors... Moms don't.

Sweet Truitt Moment

taken last weekend before horse-back riding


Truitt raises his tiny blue Bible in one hand, then points to it with the other. He then, with bright eyes and a sincere tone says "That's a good story in there!"


Yes Lord Jesus, that's a mother's paycheck right there!