A cherished moment

Sometimes a simple 30-second interaction or conversation with your child can really make your whole week. My conversation with Noah last night while I was rocking him and reading his bedtime stories:

Me: "You know, Noah, you make Mommy soooooo happy."

Noah: "Yeah, I do. I make you happy"......(long pause) then he said "Mommy, you make Noah really happy too....I love you!" and then he looked up and gave me the biggest, sweetest kiss I've ever gotten.


Seriously...is there ANYTHING in life better than a moment like that?

Out of a toddler's mouth...

It seems like nearly everyday, like most toddlers, Noah says something to us that strikes us as so funny or entertaining. I realize that while these are fresh in my mind now I am bound to eventually forget all of his cute phrases and expressions. So while I was thinking about it I wanted to create a short post with as many of them in here as I can remember at the moment so they are documented for us later. I'm sure he'll get a kick out of reading it some day!

These are what I can remember...in no particular order:

“It’s dark outside, Daddy....It’s time for you to tickle me!”

Me: “Noah do you want Daddy to bring you anything from Chick-Fil-A?”
Noah” “Ummmmm, no thank you mommy. It’s dark outside. Time for me to go night- night. Maybe tomorrow though…”

“My knees just don’t work anymore…I can’t make it up the stairs”

“Oh no! That’s too bad!!!!”

“Oh, sorry! ‘cuse me…I made a stinky burp”

“Mommy, I put my ‘lot of need-that’s’ in your purse…..”
******(background explanation: He has 3 dozen cloth burp cloths that my mom hand painted for him as a baby and they are his security blankies...he always has a few with him and when he was barely 2 years old he started calling them his "need thats" and we always tell him "you sure do have a lot of need thats")


“Mommy, wake up, open your eyes....you need to drink some coffee!!!!”

Noah: “Knock knock”
Me: “Who’s there?”
Noah: “Me, Noah Nelson, Noah James!”
(no matter what we do we can't convince him to say his name in the right order!)


“Mommy, is your tummy getting bigger? My tummy getting bigger too!”

After getting his flu-mist nasal spray (in lieu of a flu shot) he said “Ok I’m ready for my band-aid now!”

And...my all time favorite:
“Baby Ryan! Go to time-out!!!” (he yelled this to my belly after I exclaimed that the baby had kicked me one night!)

Noah's new "Big Boy" Room

Since we were needing to evict Noah from his nursery to make room for Baby Ryan we wanted to make sure Noah would have a room he would love. Since he would be getting the biggest secondary bedroom upstairs we went for twin over full bunkbeds and we chose a sports theme. We had so much fun coming up with the ideas for this room and David worked sooooooo hard to make the room perfect. He did an awesome job. Here are the before and after pictures. Noah loves his room and shows everyone who comes over to visit.

Happy 3rd Birthday, Noah!

Where does the time go? It seems like I just had a 3 week old, now I have a great, big 3 year old boy! He was so excited about his birthday party, especially since in the previous 4 weeks he had been to about 7-8 additional birthday parties for his little friends (seriously!) We had his party at "The Coffee Park" which is a cute cafe with a play area for kids and they specialize in children's parties. It was a construction theme (check out the awesome construction cake!)and there were about 22 kids there! It was a ton of fun and less work for me than having it at our house. Always a good thing when 7 months pregnant!