Day out with Thomas, AND Poppy's birthday!!

September 23, 2011 was a very special day for Noah!  I took him to see Thomas the tank engine!  His Grammy and Poppy also came along, it was his Poppy's birthday this day also!  We stopped at McDonald's for breakfast, then were off to Strasbourg Railroad!  It's awful that the rain didn't hold off, cause it made it kinda dreary, but we still had a blast! I, Mommy had a absolute blast! lol

• Pop getting him to eat his breakfast!

We had to park farther away and get shuttled over by the big yellow school bus, which for whatever reason Noah just loves buses!

WOW Mommy REALLY needs a diet badly.....

This is why I love this boy!

On the bus!!

I was super happy about going here, NOT so happy that it was raining.  Now I am kinda even more upset that today was a nice day, and I could have gotten the tickets for today.  Oh well, maybe he will want to go there again when he's a little older and it will be nicer!

WELCOME!!!

Standing in line waiting for the tank engine himself, Thomas!

Of course Noah like whatever right now, but he enjoyed it!

got to open the windows, so Noah was hanging his head out!

He was tapping his little hand on the window sill, while listening to Thomas!

The ticket

He was starting to get sleepy, but hung in there until we left!

The ticket collector is on his way!!

He was kind enough to pose for us!

Reading his ticket, he's so advanced lol

Thomas' black smoke!

Pop and Noah looking at all the black smoke from Thomas!

So sweet

HA the cute conductor, while we waited in line for Thomas pictures!

Bye Bye Thomas!

Grammy, Poppy, Noah and Mommy on the train

Noah and Mommy with Thomas, just a little wet!!

We had fun, regardless of the weather!  Noah got some goodies, overalls, t-shirt, cup, blanket and a bag!  Spoiled much?  He was knocked out after we got right down the road, before the Rockvale outlets! 

It was also his Poppy's birthday, so we took him out for his favorite meal, Chinese! Then over to my wonderful sister's house to have the cake my Mom baked him!

His nice layer cake Mom made him, fresh it was only hours old here!

Happy 59th Birthday Herm/Dad/Poppy!

Christina, Sabrina, and our wonderful Father!

Now add Noah ;)

Happy Birthday to you, Happy birthday to you,

Happy birthday dear Herm/Dad/Poppy Happy birthday to you!!

I had a fabulous day with my family!  Then to top it all off, Noah and I spent the night with my sister AKA Aunt Chrissy!  We had a awesome time then today we went out shopping ALL day with Grammy!  We had fun!  Noah got a lot of clothes and it will definitely tide him over until at least Christmas if not his Birthday in February!  Which by the way I can't believe my baby will be 2!

He had his 18 month check up yesterday, ironically a day before he turned 19 months old!  Today is Noah's happy birthday to! He is weighing in at a whopping 31 pounds, 34 inches tall!!  He's in the 90% for everything!  He is such a tall kid!  He seriously looks like he's 3 or 4!  It drives me crazy!  But he's healthy and growing perfectly so I can't complain!  His Dr is pleased with his development and that he's saying so many words!  We started a word list and didn't even get everything he says and it's over 40!  The Dr says they are only looking for about 20 words by his age!  He's doing perfect!

I guess that's all the updating for now!

Camp for a night!

Saturday morning we had decided to leave and head up to camp.  Due to the flooding everyone had to rush up there to move all the campers, thankfully it ended up not being as bad as originally thought!  So Saturday was the "move back in" day!  We headed up and got everything cleaned up in the camper and organized, while Noah was running his little butt off!  It would be interesting to know how many steps he goes in a day because up there he is CONSTANTLY running around!  He LOVES it!!

Noah decided since he slept for like 45 minutes in the truck that he didn't need to take a nap!  So after we went out for lunch and got back I figured a walk would put him to sleep!  So once my sister and Danielle said they were going to head out to get something to eat, I brought him down and strapped him in and walked down camp road and back. 

I took this picture when we were almost back to our camp.....

by the time we got there, he was sleeping so I keep walking for a little to ensure he stayed asleep.  This is right after we got back.  It took 1/2 a minute for him to fall asleep once he let himself!







So then he got a little recharge and then he was running around like a animal that is caged 20 hours of the day or something! lol  He gives meaning to the word miracle, and happiness!  I may have never known how wonderful it was to be a parent if it weren't for God blessing me with this little guy!  He sometimes tests my patients but what can you expect from a 18 month old?

I absolutely LOVE this picture!  It's my new favorite!

It was a small short getaway, but it was much needed!  And I found out that it is official, Noah likes The Wiggles!  My sister and Danielle had a Wiggles movie and he watched almost the whole thing while dancing before he went to bed last night!  So besides Chica the bird from Sprout, The Wiggles is his other favorite!! 





Just some rambles, and updates!!

 My little guy is turning into a little boy right in front of my eyes and I can't hardly believe it!  He is talking so much just even in the past week!!  He's so cute!  There are things he trys to say but can't quite get it out yet!  He makes the BEST face when you ask him to say Zinn!  lol He can't get that one yet!! He has been saying his name for about a month though, it sounds like No-ahhh! He will gladly point out his picture to!!  He's so handsome!  I love him with all my heart!  He still has a temper, he gets mad easily, as well as throws temper tantrums.  ignoring is VERY hard to do.   He goes to the pediatrician on the 23rd for his 18 month check up, ironically a day before he turns 19 months old!  I am going to have to have a talk with her about this temper.  I'm sure some of it is maybe a phase, but I'm sure that me running and grabbing him up the minute he started crying when he was a baby has something to do with it also!  I just don't want to have that bratty kid that nobody ever wants to be around, although I don't understand how anyone could not want to be around this handsome guy! ;)

Him and his Pop were eating watermelon one night, and Pop got him to say sticky! it's so cute and he even makes a face when he says it! He also says stinky cause of the diesel tractors Pop has, and imitates the clicking of the lights! He's cute, and oh so smart! He has a first words picture book. I think there is like 100 pictures in it, and he can pick out just about everything in that book! He is simply amazing, and totally perfect in my eyes! I could even imagine my life without him! He's such a HUGE part of my life! I still miss him every single day when I go to work! I look at his pictures all day and can't stop thinking about him and just wait for that clock to strike 4 to leave to go get him!!

Things haven't change with his Paternal Grandparents. They still haven't contacted me at all. It's so frustrating because I just honestly don't understand how people can be like that! I'm sorry but if rolls were reversed and I were them, I'd want to know both of my Grandchildren from my son who is no longer on this earth. But to each their own. Like I said a million times, they have to live with the guilt, if they have a heart not me!

Noah got to see his half sister and play at the playground with her on Tuesday this week! That was nice! I would love for them to grow up knowing each other, and then of course once they are older if they don't want to get together and talk and stuff that's ok. But while they are almost 2 and almost 3 myself and Bridget have control over them! I hope for them to be able to get together more and play!

Jayana talks so well, it kinda amazes me to think that next year at this time Noah will be talking that clear and well! I wish them the very best! They are all each other have of their Daddy and I hope they embrace that.

Well I think I have caught up on everything! We are leaving for camp in the morning so I will have another update Sunday or Monday when we get home!!!

Grandparents Day 2011

This year for Grandparents Day my Mom and Dad were home and not at camp.  So Noah got to spend the day with them!  I went out on Saturday to get a white T-Shirt to write on with fabric markers, just like I did with his onsie last year!  This is my parents 2nd Grandparent's Day, and hopefully by next year they will either have another Grand baby or else my sister will be pregnant!  No not me!  I would love to have another one, but first of all I am not in the position to, and second of all I don't think I could handle it right now if I was!!

Anyway here's how our Grandparents Day went:

His shirt had a arrow up, and said Is the luckiest toddler in the world...WHY?? Because I have the best Grammy and Pop Pop ever, go ahead be jealous....you should be. LOL

Giving Grammy a kiss :) My Mom always says that from reading this, you wouldn't know he had a Grandma.  but let me tell everyone that Noah just started saying Grandma!  He used to just say Ga so she should feel special!! :)  love ya mom!

Riding on the Tractor with his Pop Pop

We had a good day, despite fact it was the 10th anniversary of 9/11. I'm sorry but I don't know if you can, or how to flip the pictures that are sideways. I can't stand that myself! I'm behind on my blogging!!!

The making of the Cars room.....

So I'm not exactly sure when my little baby turned into a big boy, but it happened!  It all s is tarted with him waking up A LOT through the night, until I finally put him in bed with me.  I thought at first it was some strange thing going on, and I knew I didn't want to keep that habit up!  I have heard stories of people not being able to get their kids out of their bed, so I didn't want that issue!  So I decided that maybe that was his way of telling me, hey Mom I don't want to sleep in the crib, I want a big boy bed!  So one weekend a while ago now (I posted about it) I took his crib down.  And I have to say he's been sleeping in his bed ever since that day!  I lay with him at night until he falls asleep, and I have to admit that sometimes Mommy falls asleep to!  But other then that he's sleeping through the night and he's just wonderful!! 

We decided that we were going to use the Cars theme for his bedroom.  It was simple, and there was plenty of stuff to find of it!  I thought for a minute about maybe toy story, but the only thing he has of Toy Story is PJ's!  Cars he has PJ's clothes, toys, not to mention his Poppy is turning him into a motor head! lol So we went out and bought the awesome stickers for the wall, 3 different packs, 2 small packs and 1 giant sticker.  Got him the bed set and curtains and set his room all up!  There is still one small wall of his animals, because my friend Krista bought him a animals shelf for Christmas last year so I didn't want to get rid of that, so I just put all his animals on one little part of his room.  It's a little bit of baby left! 

He loves his new room!!!

I can't believe in February he is going to be 2 already. That makes me sad. Time really does fly when you have kids. I know one thing, he's a handful, some days are worse then others. It's hard to break behavior when he's in daycare, learning (I'm sure) lots of fun stuff there. Oh well, it's these years that one day I will look back on and miss. I'll take whatever the little guy has to give me!! He's my world!

3 day Labor Day weekend!

This was a wonderful 3 day weekend!  Normally we go to our camp for every summer holiday so we aren't home, but this time we didn't.  The weather man had us thinking the weekend was going to be a washout so we figured it was best to be stuck inside at home, then in a camper!  Especially with my little monster who would be outside 24/7 if he could!

We managed to get some shopping done on Saturday, at first Mom and I thought that while Noah was sleeping if Poppy would watch him we would go.  Well that was fine and dandy, until we were walking out the door and Noah came walking out the hall!  But Dad told us to go anyway, so we did!  Thank God we did, because I seen Noah's other Granfather there, who I know seen me, but of course didn't say a word to me.  Thank goodness.  I really don't have anything to say to him, he lied to me, and betryed me.  That's the last thing I need in my life!  But I'm glad Noah was at home and not the center of attention there because I'm sure he would have came up to me then!  Poppy got a new tractor Saturday, so he had fun seeing that for the first time!  It's a big one!  Noah loves Tractors now!  I don't know why!  He's going to be a motorhead like his Poppy I'm afraid! lol 

Saturday evening Noah's cousin Antonio came over for a play date!  They are too cute! 

Antonio Ray Barbush 12/5/09



 I was so glad that Antonio's Mommy could bring him down to play with Noah for a while!  She also brought by Aunt Joann with who I don't get to see to much so that was really nice!

Wo went to visit Noah's Daddy Sunday evening.  He got him something when we were out earlier that day.  Hopefully that also doesn't go missing.  Sometimes when Noah leaves things at his Daddy's grave things magically disappear.  I don't like it, I think that people should only take things away that they brought up.  I mean unless you let something up there from Christmas and it's June then I'd understand someone taking it away.  But I make sure to take Noah there often, so it's not as if something we put up there has looked that worn.  IDK.  Maybe I'm overreacting, but I don't think it's right!


Noah visiing his Daddy, with the DAD sign he brought him.

My Mom and I decided that we wanted to recreate Noah being a baby and being swaddled.....yeah he didn't like that too much!


I miss him being a baby :(

All in all it was a great weekend!  Sometimes I wish I could just stay home with Noah full time, and other times I'm glad to go to work!  He's in a phase with throwing fits, and it makes me crazy!  He mostly does it when he can't go outside and wants to, for whatever reason.  But it drives me nuts!  He's still pretty good in public though, so I guess I can't complain much.  But some nights when you just want to come home after a long busy day at work to a nice fun evening with your son, and instead you have a whiny crying fit throwing little boy, it makes me wonder where my baby is?!  But like I said I guess it's just a phase to get though, and just like the colic phase, I'll get through it!  He's talking so much!  He's so amazing!  I love that little guys more then words can express!!