Another Mentionable Note

I forgot to mention on the post yesterday that Noah now officially has 8 teeth!!! Yup, you read that right...EIGHT!! He has his front 4 top and bottom now. And yeah, he still has a bit of a space in between the front top two, but that's ok...it's cute! :)

Last night he crawled a little more to show his Daddy. He also stood himself up as he held onto my legs many, many times. :) And he had a ball trying to catch Slippers (as he always does)!! He held onto my hands and was trying to run toward her...he's that excited about seeing her!! He looks at her, laughs, smiles, and talks to her. Unfortunately, Slippers doesn't return the affection quite yet...she usually runs away. hehehe Hopefully one day they'll be best friends. :)

He did it!!

Last night as we were about to sit down and watch a movie, I sat Noah down in the middle of the living room floor. I turned toward Paul to talk to him, and he just said "Is he crawling on his knees??". And sure enough, instead of his usual scooting motion, he was really crawling toward the VCR and DVD player!! He crawled the whole way over there, but then the next time he was ready to move, he went back to his standard scoot. That's fine...we were just happy to see him do it on his own. :)

Standing Alone

As you could see from the photo in the last post, Noah is able to stand up on his own holding on to something like a table, someone else's body, or chair... He's also been very excited about holding your hands and walking all over the place... Now, the newest revelation: he can hold on to the handle of a toy with wheels (at another one of his girlfriend's house) and walk by himself!! He fell down a couple of times, but he was having fun. We just sat there with big goofy smiles on our faces - we were so proud!

Also, Monday night, Noah went "swimming" in a pool for the very first time!! A friend of ours was holding him in the water, and at first, he didn't know what to think, but then he slowly started splashing with one hand, more and more, and then got going with both hands. He was having a blast!! He splashed our friend in the face many times and even splashed himself! He was just laughing and laughing about it. It was a lot of fun!!! :)

10 months old!!

It's so hard to believe....my baby boy is already 10 months old! I don't really have any breaking news to tell today, but I do have a few cute pictures! (don't I always?) ;)

Oh...notice in the vertical photo that Noah is standing up ON HIS OWN as he is just holding on to the table!

New photos...as promised

I'm just gonna post 2 of the new photos today. They are of Noah and Emma on the day of my birthday cookout last month.

I'll post more later...

Finally!!!

My baby boy finally says mama!! The world doesn't only revolve around dada or papa. ;) I believe it was just this past Thursday or Friday when I picked him up after work that I noticed he didn't just go "mmmmm, dada", he said "mama"!!!! He still says dada 90% of the time (and over and over again!), but I'm glad that all of the "ma-ma-ma-mommy"s that I've worked with him have worked!

I have some new photos from the past month and weeks that are super-duper cute! Hopefully here soon I'll have them scanned in and post them for everyone to see. :)

Moving ahead

Noah is moving more and more these days. He's still doing more of a scooting motion rather than a "real" crawl...he pulls himself like a little Marine. :) But he's moving faster and farther now, which means he's getting into everything. His favorite things to do as he's moving about are: try to chase Slippers, crinkle up pieces of paper, open and close doors, play with the vcr, dvd, xbox, & cable box, and try to get into Slippers's food and water. He keeps me on my toes!!

He's all good

Noah had his checkup with the doctor, and thankfully, his ear infection is gone! I'm hoping that this is the last one...at least for a while.

He's been trying to move more and more; as a matter of fact, Wednesday night after church, he was scooting himself all over the church! He just started going and was determined to get himself across the room (which is pretty large, especially for a little guy!). He got about halfway... He would pause every once in a while and put his head down and just lay there, then he'd get going again...he's so funny! He'll really be crawling soon... He has the positioning right, but he just hasn't figured it out quite yet on how to get moving on his hands and knees.

I've noticed that he "dances" to music now too! He has a toy that plays music when you press a button, and he'll sit there and bounce to it! It's the cutest thing! He also bounces when he hears my cell phone ring when Paul calls me and for a few other things too. He's so much fun!!! :)