What Noah's Up to These Days

Noah LOVES guitars! He uses everything and anything as a guitar: the mixing attachment for a hand mixer, a metal whisk, small paint brushes, his big plastic golf club...all of these things are or have been guitars. Today I bought him a stuffed animal whale and he pulled out the tail and said it was a guitar...lol!

He also LOVES music... Mozart, DC Talk, anything... but ESPESCIALLY POWER...the theme song (song #1) from the VBS soundtrack two years ago. He will listen to it over and over and over and over and over again...literally... if you try to let the cd play out all of the songs he will say "Power, Mommy". He has all of the Toddler room workers at church wrapped around his finger...haha...they play power for him...over and over and over again..."oh, my!" I have been teasing lately that I want to go on a week long family campout to fast him from electricity. I have always LOVED music too though... as far back as I can remember. I used to sit with the big head phones on in front of the real-to-real player and listen to Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"...

He also loves stairs! I guess the two full flights of stairs we have in our townhome are not enough for him. Ha! His twin bed and box spring are right on the floor and he pushes the mattress out just enough to make the box spring and bed look like two steps and he climbs up and down and says "stairs!". Just today when we were driving to church he saw a couple of houses with big staircases in the front and he was saying "stairs" and when we passed them he said "where'd the stairs go?". He is a climber for sure!!!

Grandma's Visit

Grandma's Here!!!

Grandma woke up her first morning here covered in stuffed animals and surrounded by ecstatic grand kids! They went straight up stairs to see her and did not even stop by to say "good morning" to me...ha!
Liliana sat by grandma and placed her hand in hers.

Grandma spent lots of time outside playing t-ball with the kids...they took advantage and kept her out there for hours! We had 70 degree weather during her visit...wild for CT for this time of year and a great blessing!

Grandma had in her heart for months to come up and surprise Liliana for her birthday and that is just what she did! We told the kids a few days ahead though...we couldn't stand it!

Liliana turns 4!!!

We had a sweet party with many friends at church! Had I known we were to have 70 degrees we would have done the park!

Liliana enjoyed taking naps with grandma! AWE!!!

Off to Cracker Barrel for Sunday dinner!

Grandma snuck out of there with some goodies for the kids!

My belly at 14 weeks 1 day...carrying very different this time...very high...I think my face looks puffy and pregnant already...cute!

Look at Noah looking over...amazed to see Daddy on the swings...way cool!!! Grandma on the swings probably didn't impress him too much cuz dude, she is g-ma and does all cool things!

Liliana smiling from ear to ear...

Grandma was here from Thursday, March 18 - Tuesday, March 23rd...NOT LONG ENOUGH!!! :o) We hit the park the last full day she was here. and then off to my OBGYN appointment...a special treat of an impromptu ultrasound...baby is so cute and busy! It was amazing to see the elbows, feet, hands, etc of someone so tiny. The doctor tried to find the gender but baby was too busy. Liliana got to be doctor's helper....too sweet!

Check out the Dunkin' Donuts, she loves it and does not have it where she lives! We hit the drive through many times. Hop-scotch!

Noah, in a real sweet, loving, bliss-filled soft voice: "Grandma.......Grandma......Hi".

Grandma talkin' to the kids.

Liliana rockin' the outfit Auntie Heather mailed her for her birthday. Auntie Heather is Liliana's Soul-Sista!

Sportin' G-ma's glasses at breakfast before we leave to take G to the airport.

Minutes before we left for the airport.

The day Grandma leaves is always hard and sad...she leaves such a void the day she leaves because she is just so sweet wonderful! By the next day we are in our routine again and okay and looking forward to the next visit!

Thank you for coming Grandma!

We LOVE and MISS you!!!

Liliana's Prayer for Mommy's Belly

Last night as I was putting the kids to bed I asked them to pray for mommy's belly (6 visits to the bathroom in 4 hours...rough!!!)...They both layed hands on my belly and prayed...Here is what Liliana prayed as she led the prayer:

"Dear Jesus, please touch mommy's belly and help it to feel better, heal it, heal it Jesus (then she lowered her hand to where baby is) and help the baby to be strong and give her power! In Jesus' Name. Amen"

WOW!!! :o) Priceless!!!

Grapes

Our mid-morning snack...I had socks on, by the way! LOL

Liliana's Art

This is ALL her and her sweet and amazing creative mind. She signed it too.

Liliana Stories

Today as Liliana was eating chicken pot pie:

Liliana: "Mommy does chicken come from real chickens??"

me: "yes, it does"

Liliana (big eyes and studdering to get out her theory): "Do they poop it out and we clean it off and eat the chicken they poop out??"

Me: "uhm...........no.............uhm..........it is just chicken..........is that okay??

Liliana: "we eat chickens...no that is not okay...I am a chicken" and off into animal pretend mode she went.


A couple of weeks ago Liliana was holding a peice of paper pretending to read a story to Noah. Here is the story:

Once upon a time a big moose came to eat Noah up and a raccoon came to rescue him. The End. (She had been pretending to be a raccoon those few days prior).

She LOVES animals and is very curious about ALL of them..."Mommy, how does a squirrel talk?" "Mommy, how does a mouse walk?" "Mommy, what do hippos say?" whew...I don't know a lot of this stuff...lol! :o) If she sees a cartoon or movie (super rare) that does not have a single animal in it she says "this just has humans in it, it's boring because it does not have any animals."

Our Stylish Chicky

Liliana used the word "stylish" like three times the other day...I was like "what?". :o)

She told me this morning that last night she dreamt about new cute soft doggy pajamas. SHE IS DREAMING ABOUT NEW CLOTHES...and she is only a few days from turning 4!!! Uh-oh! :o) Love it!

Fun Times

Mommy Salon

BEFORE:

Long and bushy...loved how full and wavy it was after bathtime...awe! It was time for a haircut though!
AFTER:

Too handsome! Looks JUST LIKE DONNIE!!!

I curled Liliana's hair for fun!

Look at Noah copying Liliana...

Noah is just too cute and I have no idea what Liliana is looking at! ha!

Liliana's Latest

This morning as I was in the bathroom at the bottom of the stairwell face to face with the unmerciful white throne of no grace, Noah standing there watching, Liliana comes down the stairs saying very calmly "Mommy, when you are done throwing up can you get my crown and that pink thing in my room for me."

I LOVE how their lives are very little affected by my sufferings...MORNING SICKNESS!

Here she is along with her penguin all dolled up...see the crown on her head and the pink thing around penguin's neck...these are what she was requesting...they are princesses.

She LOVES changing clothes!!! She will change clothes at least 3 times a day! She LOVES getting hand-me-downs from her friends...MORE THINGS TO WEAR...for like 10 minutes each...cuz she likes them all SO MUCH! :o)

Last Sunday after we got home from church she said to me: "Mommy, I want a necklace, a bracelet, a headband and some earrings." She is becoming very much into being super girly!!! She loves having her nails painted (always has) and will attempt to run from the dinner table to change her shirt during a meal if she gets food on it...we stop her...of course.

The other day in the van as we were driving home from a friends house I asked her something we ask every day "what was your favorite part of today?" and she had a long list of things and mixed in there was "......wearing short sleeves, wearing shorts...." She is SO READY to say "see ya" to her winter coat for a few months!!! Too cute!!!