Happy Birthday Ashley

Feb 11 2011


Happy Birthday to my sweetest friend. One who has been there through all the stuff in life that you want no one to see, but loves me anyway. I love how we share life and always pick up right where we left off last time. I hope you have a great birthday. Can't wait share birthdays with you.

Just some J time

Feb 9 2011

This is one of Noah's favorite things to do now that Jeremy is here. He loves to interrupt and crawl up in his lap, no matter what he is doing. Jeremy has been doing a lot of reading books and just letting Noah be close to him.

David Luke Taylor

Feb 7 2011

Today was a special day in the Taylor household. We found out that we are having another baby BOY!!!!!! I thought it was a girl honestly because the pregnancies have been different. Drew went along with me, since I was right last time with Noah, and Uncle Jeremy knew it was a boy the whole time.

Here we are as a family before we found out.

All the boys walking to the office.

The heartbeat at 147

The profile that looks alot like Noah

The 3D (the face and upper body)

The proof it is a BOY

The brain

Our little Luke upside down feet in the air kicking

Afterwards we went to Crabtree Mall to celebrate. We ate at Cheesecake Factory at my request but before that Noah for a motorized Ice Cream truck.

He had fun trying all the gadgets inside out.

He was in love with the buttons.


I am so excited that our boys will be 25 months apart and hopefully be best friends. Drew was already talking about them playing sports together one day. I do not know what I will do with two boys but be the Referee.

Sunday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY POPS, AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANA

Feb 6 2011

Noah opened some presents in honor of your birthdays. They were from Christmas that Jeremy brought, but you get the idea. He loved the Elmo puzzle and all the books.

Uncle J

Noah first seeing Jeremy come through the door




Feb 5 2011

Jeremy got here after such a long drive from MS. Noah was so excited to have a visitor. And right before bedtime. We hardly got him to go to sleep.

Chocolate Chip Muffins

The baby was hungry so I made muffins:

Ingredients

* 2 cups all-purpose flour
* 1/2 cup white sugar
* 3 teaspoons baking powder
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 3/4 cup milk
* 1/3 cup vegetable oil
* 1 egg
* 3/4 cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
* 3 tablespoons white sugar
* 2 tablespoons brown sugar

Directions

1. Heat oven to 400 degrees F (205 degrees C). Grease bottoms only of 12 muffin cups or line with baking cups.
2. In a medium bowl, combine flour, 1/2 cup sugar, baking powder, chocolate chips, and salt; mix well. In a small bowl, combine milk, oil and egg; blend well. Add dry ingredients all at once; stir just until dry ingredients are moistened (batter will be lumpy.)
3. Fill cups 2/3 full. Sprinkle tops of muffins before baking with a combination of 3 tablespoons sugar and 2 tablespoon brown sugar.
4. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 1 minute before removing from pan. Serve warm.

Whoa-gan and Nina

This is the best Noah can do at saying Logan, and not until today did Logan coin the name Nina for Noah. It was so funny hearing Logan calling "Nina" "Nina" as they chased each other through the house.

Christy and Logan came to play tonight and have dinner with Noah and I. They play pretty well together and I think that Noah has a crush. He wants to hug and chase her.

Too cute

Eyeing each other.

Now the rough boy stuff really begins. I better teach him soon, that girls really don't like this.

The full tackle. Logan has really kept her own though.

Logan playing with the Pop Pop.

This is my serious face Momma.

17 weeks

Jan 31 2011

And THICK around the middle. This is probably the last time I will be wearing these pants for a while. They just were not comfortable, and lets face it, when you have an expanding waist, COMFORT IS KEY!!!!!

I absolutely do not love taking these pics, so I will be skipping weeks quite frequently. But this week, actually TODAY, I felt the baby move (kick) for the first time. And I was like I have never felt anything that neat before, even though I have. Noah first kicked at 15 1/2 weeks and was very active, but if this one is a little more docile, I will be fine with that.

Here is a baby snippet if exactly what is going on in there: (via babycenter.com)
Your baby's skeleton is changing from soft cartilage to bone, and the umbilical cord — her lifeline to the placenta — is growing stronger and thicker. Your baby weighs 5 ounces now (about as much as a turnip), and she's around 5 inches long from head to bottom. She can move her joints, and her sweat glands are starting to develop.

Things that are changing with me:

-lots of dreams
-Noah is getting heavier to pick up
-I am getting clumsy, I drop everything these days
-dry eyes
-starting to look for a double stroller
-starting to look for cute GIRL and boy things
-wanting to get out and exercise (but it is way to cold)
-missing family
-getting use to Drew's school schedule, since the new semester started
-rearranged Noah's (soon to be both their rooms)room

Dryer Baby

Jan 27 2011

After bathtime, while Momma was doing laundry, just for fun, I let Noah get in the dryer. WELL I started something. He didn't want to get out.




When I finally got him out and the wet clothes back in. He immediately started pulling them out again, and was trying to sneak back inside.


This is after he hit his head. He always says, "Bop" "Bop"





Bedtime, and Noah is not happy about being grounded from the dryer.

Double Ear Infections

Jan 24 2011

So over the weekend Noah spiked a 102.something fever followed by a horrible cough. I was a little discouraged because this would the 3rd week in a row we have missed church because of sickness. And because we both just got over colds and I could not believe he had another one.

We headed into see the Dr., relayed the symptoms, and one look in my screaming childs' ears confirmed. Noah had his 1st ear infection and in both ears at that. I thought it was a myth but and Ear infection cough is very distinguishable and if I hear it again in the future I will automatically know the culprit.

Today is actually Thursday and we are on day 4 of antibiotics. I can see and improvement in how Noah feels, but his sleeping is just ridiculous. Up at every hour after 3 till morning. And sometimes a few times before that. So NO SLEEP for Momma. I know his little ears hurts when he lays down so we have been trying to prop him up.






Beba and his blanket have been his favorite things while he is sick.

SEN-TEN-CES

Jan 24 2011

Slowly but surely Noah is starting to realize how to ask for things he wants. We are coaching his words so he understands not to whine (first and foremost), and get frustrated when we don't understand him.

His meanings are sometimes a little off. As you can tell with "I"/"Eyes" but he is getting there. And sometimes, when we tell him a word he gets the syllables mixed up. Saying the last one first and the first one last.

Shower for Carter

Jan 22 2011

I was able to finally catch up with my friend Lindsey. (we constantly miss each other and have made plans to let our boys [Noah and Griffin are only months apart in age] play several times, only for something to come up). I had a Blast at the Baby shower for Carter James. He will arrive in 2 weeks. I met new ladies, ate some good breakfast food, got to talk with other moms, and most important be apart of this day.

Lindsay and Lindsey




All the gals

The cutest cupcakes