Thanksgiving 2009

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Best Buds

Read to Take the Plunge
Some Light Reading Before Bath Time
Ho, Ho, Ho

My First Turkey

Thanksgiving 2009

Thanksgiving 2009

Reindeer Paws

PaPaw

We were sitting at a stop light today next to a red pick-up truck with one of those big covers over the bed. Noelle kept saying, "Hi...hi...hi...hi..." louder and louder each time. I couldn't figure out why. I was telling her that they couldn't hear her and saying hi back to her so she didn't feel completely ignored. Then it dawned on me when she said, plain as day, "PaPaw". I believe she was saying hi to what she deduced must be PaPaw in his big red truck.

Noelle's favorite thing to do for the past couple of weeks has been to place anything into a container or any sort and take it back out again. She places it in the container, steps back and looks for a couple of seconds, and goes back to retrieve it---over and over again. It has sort of envolved into doing the in and out trick a couple of times and then delivering the object to someone and receiving a 'thank you'. This has already proven very helpful when emptying the dishwasher and she hands you one little fork or spoon at a time.

Our camera is currently not uploading at all thus no new pictures.

Dairy Queen

Noelle takes the headband off my head and has learned how to put it on herself.

-Noelle continues to amaze me. A couple of days ago I ask her if she wanted to go color. I could have sworn she answered, "uh-huh," but I wasn't looking at her so I thought, nah, surely not. Then I asked her again and she walked right to the coloring crayon box and touched it with her hand. She has gone from stabbing at the paper with the crayon to actually making continuos lines back and forth.

-We were reading and I showed her a XYLO-phone. She put her fisted hand to her ear as though talking on the TELE-phone.

-She thinks Poppy land Gram live in the computer with a second home inside my phone and says one of their names everytime I open them.

-She likes to name the men in her life. Dada (over and over again), Poppy and Papaw.

-She walks very well on her own now and I think I forgot to mention her dance moves. The child is going to have some seriously developed leg muscles. She bounces to music but her bounces are full on squats. She also twists and shakes her head back and forth.

-She is the friendliest little thing I have ever seen. We make friends everywhere we go. Anyone who frequents Target knows about the dollar bins in the front of the store they use to squeeze one more buck from your pockets. They currently have toy versions of Dairy Queen's frozen treats. Noelle saw a package of one soft serve cone and another dipped in chocolate. She wanted them and I gave them to play with thru the store. She was licking the package top to bottom so I decided we could spare a buck and opened them for her. I didn't think she knew what they were; I just thought she was licking the package because she mouths everything still. On the evening of her birthday we had goone to McDonalds and each got a plain cone of soft serve and sat on the floor to eat it. She loved it. Anyway, she held one in each hand and proceeded to act like she was eating the ice cream. Everyone who passed our cart was offered a lick of the tasty treat. It was pretty funny and I couldn't believe she knew what to do with the ice cream.

Mad Skilz

Noelle has learned a few tricks by now and I managed to catch a few on video today. She is turning into quite the comedian. She now can say, "mama, daddy, baby, pumpkin, hi, bye, paper, poppy, ya-ya, papaw" and I think she's working on "diaper" but I'm not sure yet. She recently started humming too when she hears someone singing. The bottom video isn't the best example but you get the idea. Enjoy!

Pasta Anyone?

Noelle emptied out a box of mini-pasta shells today. I knew she had the box but I didn't think it was open. You can hear Coach crunching shells in the background.--Above she is playing in a birthday present.

Party Night

We went to dinner after the party (and a nap). While waiting for a table I had been chatting with the restaurant owner who later surprised us all with a mini-sombrero and a birthday sunday.

Party Time

We celebrated Noelle's first birthday this past Saturday November 7th with a few friends and family. It was a small affair big on style. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, especially the kids. Coach about had a nervous breakdown but, most importantly, Noelle had the time of her life!! (me too)

The tunnel turned out the be the hit of the party. Giggles and squeals could be heard for miles I'm sure. Noelle never did crawl through, she listened to her own drum beat and crawled along beside.

Clearly, balloons were the theme of the day.

We had balloon cupcakes, chocolate dipped balloon rice krispie treats, a chocolate hot air balloon cake and Noelle's very own red balloon cake.

Noelle's personal red balloon cake

October 30, 2009
Okay, so I have totally neglected the blog for about a month. In order to get caught up I've posted some pictures. In summary, we've been to Kentucky twice since I last posted, once for an unexpected funeral and once for a baby shower and ballgame. Noelle has changed even since these pictures were taken. We always love being home and have a great time. We also went to a Halloween/birthday party on October 17th. Noelle was a wee witch for the party and will wear the costume once more tomorrow for Halloween. There will be more pictures later, of our trip to Lexington, but my camera is currently in Lexington. Enjoy!

Giggler

I realize these first two videos are redundant but they were so great that I added both. This was last night while cooking supper.

Below is a clip of Noelle operating from inside her toy basket. I think she is going to be a mountain climber.

Playtime

In the box

Why make pie?

Fall Festival

Go Cats!