Sorry. Well not really - we've been busy in the best way possible!
I've been in a great work groove and volunteer groove...gotten some "Mama" time in at the gym, some fun date nights with Josh, and had lots of fun playtime with Noelle. And Josh had a big old birthday this week...he's old now :)
The fun part about this stage is finding fun stuff to do with Noelle. Whether it is the park or a bike ride, or just finding a silly game to play at home together.
The other thing that is terribly fun is that Noelle literally learns something new almost every day.
For example, this week she learned:
How to climb up onto her bookshelf. Ahem. Trouble. Oh and she now plays the game of turning her lamp on and off. And I didn't teach her that. As far as I know, she just watched me and figured it out.
How to go down her own little slide all by herself...
How to successfully finish a juicebox all by herself! (sorry - no pic)
And then today, what felt like out of the blue, she learned the complete words for eyes, nose and mouth. She had been practicing for weeks, but it was more like "eeehhh, noooo, maaaaa" when she would practice on me, Josh, her dolls...heck she even practiced on her fork that had some dots on it.
But Josh was dropping her off with her sitter for Saturday afternoon while we were at church, and on the way in the car he heard from the backseat "Eye...noooose....moowf" !! It was like she just woke up today and could say the words completely. I'll try to get video sometime soon.
She also went ahead and showed everyone her knowledge of facial parts in Kidsquest because when I went to go pick her up tonight the volunteers were telling me how she walked around with a doll and kept telling them where the doll's eyes, nose and ears are.
I know it's corny, but I really treasure these little steps of growing up. All too soon she will probably talk my ear off and it will be old news (although I look forward to some interesting and amazing conversations). I look at her and I can't remember not having such a sweet little toddler in my life...it's like you can't even remember when she was just a little baby who couldn't do much other than eat and look super cute. I almost only remember what she is like right now...though I do try and remember having that sweet little baby in my arms sometimes :)
