Jumping boy...

I can't believe that he is already 7 1/2 months old. People said that it would fly by...well it is true now...

Noah loves is jumper. He is starting to scoot. He'll move across the living room rug for a paci. He also is developing a sense of humor while boosting mom and dad's ego. We have become the funnest people on earth. Noah is also very ticklish.
After the colicky season he has proven to be quite happy, just make sure he gets 3 naps. He still goes to bed at 5:30 and wakes at 6:30. I wish I could say he always sleeps straight through, but he wakes, cries, finds his paci and puts himself back to sleep.

7 Months

Noah slept 12 hours in a row last night. No midnight feeding!! Many people said that I would wake up panicked, rather I woke up so very rested after a 9 hours of sleep. This is the happy boy this morning. You can't really see it but Noah's hair is spiked, thanks to daddy. For the first time we can understand why people have more than one child.

Here's Noah's first swim in the pool. He figured out if he can lay back he can go to sleep... back to the womb he thinks. Our gym has a pool and it has been such a blessing to me because I can leave Noah for up to 2 hours every day. It is a creative way to get a consistent break when there is no family in town. Also it is helping me get Hawaii ready for our big trip in May. Also there are 4 other families from the church at the pool so we get some friendship time as well.


If you look closely you can see Noah's 2 teeth. First the left came in. You got to watch your fingers he wants to bite everything. He is such a big boy now. He is 20 lbs and wearing 12 month clothing, we also bought him a big boy car seat since he is 2 lbs away from out growing it.

Headshots

Noah had his first headshots last week. We have had calls from MGM and Dreamworks, but they're slow to ante up the dough. He peed on the photographers stuff, very Noah-like.

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.