6 months

At Noah's last check up he weighed 17lbs 12oz.

6 Month activities include:

-sitting up

-drooling

-rolling over

-splashing in the tub

Noah loves his bath he giggles and laughs. While splashing almost all the water out. This is my favorite part of the day soon to see how much joy he gets out to bath time.

Noah and I in our Easter clothes. Noah is chewing on his Easter Bunny from Angela.

Tyler's Mom came to visit the day I got back from Long Beach.

Playing with Grandpa before we make the trek back to Sonora.

Visit to Grandma and Grandpa's

On my visit boy did I have fun!! I ate and I love to eat...
I played with Hayden and he showed me how to take apart Grandma's yarn.

I smiled at the camera a lot.

I tried to learn how to stand from Hayden. Boy does he have a fun life I can't wait to run.

I met my great grandma...and boy does she love kissing...

And best of all Grandpa and Grandma love to play with me.

San Francisco and Sleep

Noah likes his pacis so much that he holds on to as many as he can.

We went to San Francisco last weekend. Overall a great weekend...lots of work and increased stress with Noah, but worth the trip. We stayed at our friends Elise and Josh's apartment in the city while they were in NY. I'm sure the neighbors were glad we are gone. We went to golden gate park, Ocean beach, North Beach, walked across the Golden Bridge, ate at House of Nan King, saw friends, and shopped.

Great News Noah is sleeping better. On average he wakes up 2 times a night. Miracle yes. Tyler and I are looking a little bit more rested.

February updates

Boy is Noah growing. Each day there seems to be something new he does. He rolls back to front and front to back. I walk away for a minute now and come back to the living room and he is under the coffee table. I guess its time to baby proof the house and steam clean the floors.

He loves eating...diet includes rice cereal, carrots, squash, peaches, pears, and his favorite prunes. He also will have nothing to do with formula.

One thing that we thought was changing was his sleep habits....but no he fooled us for 5 days and is now back to waking 10-12 times a night. We believe he must sleep better at least by his teens.

Grandma and Grandpa Ficht came for a visit and also enjoyed playing the Wii. Noah can easily become a zombie to the TV. Which we have him avoid watching. We also went to Albuquerque and Noah had his first flight, which he did really well. Sorry no great pictures I was so tired I only took a few that were posted last time (they are so blurry...showing my exhaustion).

Last but not least we got a ton of snow leaving the Maxson ladies with a power outage. They joined us for dinner and hot chocolate. Noah loved the entertainment. There mom also rescued me with a much needed nap earlier this month.

at least some pictures

A week of firsts

We got 6-8 inches of snow!! Fun if you get to stay home not so fun for Tyler driving to work.
First food (Rice Ceral)

First play-date with Kelsey.

First Ear infection

First funny face on camera.

First bite of food.

God must have known what he was doing...

God Must Have Known What He Was Doing...

God makes babies so cute. Right about when parents feel like there must have been a huge mistake that someone must have switched their baby with the lady in labor next door back in September- he smiles, laughs, lighting up when you enter the room. Despite efforts of three different books and endless effort; Noah manages to sleep less now than he did a month ago. We thought about writing a book about 'Sleepless in Sonora.' It kind of has a jingle to it. It stars a mom with dark circles under her eyes, with her first gray hairs. Co-starring a dad that believes that the baby is causing him to go bald (it actually started the first year of marriage- thats a whole other story), and he gets just enough sleep to do surgery and diagnosis patients. Don't worry the story is a dramatic comedy not a horror.

Moms like to tell other moms how their baby slept threw the night months ago...and you must be doing something wrong. That's when the story goes to the mom's thoughts and she mentally dives across the MOPS table and strangles her. (Note all characters are fictional) Thankfully there is that one mom that has been there and has wonderful children now and brings you dinner even though its been months since the baby was born.

The next chapter is a huge wave of nausea hits and then the vomiting follows. All you can think is I hope that you aren't pregnant and hopefully you are just sick. Only a sleep deprived mom can think this way. But just to be safe you find one unused pregnancy test from the Costco pack, the one that you used every month hoping and praying that you would be pregnant. Yes you are thinking is this how the story began? Well no we aren't pregnant... Must have been something I ate.

And I got to go Noah just woke from his 5th twenty eight minute nap.