October 2010

Here comes Woody!



Bloomin






First Hair Cut

Terryall

In August we went the Terryall with the Drapers. It was a little chilly but a lot of fun.

For My Favorite Sister in Law

4th of July 2010

Easter 2010

MMMMM......nothing like trying to shove the entire Peep in your mouth
Noah made sure they both wore their ears
Lydia clearly annoyed with the ears on her head
looking for his basket which was right in the corner behind him

Lydia is 7 months

Where has the time gone!? Its hard to believe that Lydia is almost on the go. She and Noah have an amazing relationship and bond developing that is very awesome and sweet to watch. She giggles like crazy when he plays with her and he is always trying to help her out.

What is Lydia doing?

• Push ups and rocking on her hands and knees
• Scooting Backwards
• Eating her feet
• Digging the Solids
• Hating Bananas
• Fussy to get to Sleep
• Rarely napping (queen of cat naps)
  
• Dancing

STATS
to be added later

North Carolina

Brian, Lydia and I all had a chance to fly out to North Carolina to surprise Kari early for her big 3-0 Birthday. Some friends of the Shaks were gracious enough to allow us to use their mountain cabin for the weekend for some much needed R and R and fellowship. Although we were certainly not the romantic getaway or puppy Kari was hoping for I think she enjoyed the surprise. It was awesome to spend time with some great friends and see a boy from LA try to drive a minivan up a snow packed road.

1st Homemade Haircut

I've always been too nervous to cut Noah's hair because we keep it long. That means he rarely gets it cut, until its totally out of control. He hasn't had it cut in months and I am tired of spending over ten bucks for them to cut his hair for less than 5 minutes and call it good. So I went to Walgrens and bought some scissors. I thought I would download a Utube video for some lessons but thought what the heck lets just see what we get. It's not too bad but I definately need some practice.

Sitting Up

Lydia is sitting up for 30 seconds by her self. She continues to get stronger and can almost pull herself from laying to sitting on her own. She is growing way too fast.

Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar.....

Noah stole the cookie from the cookie jar.

Lesson to parents: NEVER EVER turn your back on a two year old when there are cookies on the counter.

5 Months

Its hard to believe that Lydia is 5 months already. I'm not sure how I feel about it, but it has gone by so fast. Maybe its because Im working or because Im chasing two around now. It just seems that it took Noah forever to get here

Lydia's Stats

• 14 pounds even
• 27.5 inches long
• strawberry blonde hair, blue eyes

What Lyd's is doing

• LAZY! Does not like to roll over (she can but does not like to)
• Sit by herself for short periods
• Put her toes in her mouth
• Kicking her feet like crazy
• Putting her butt in the air
• Plays in her exersaucer
• Scratches her nails on different textures to soothe herself
• Paci baby
• Fights sleep
• Laughs at everything
• Talks to Noah
• Smiles all the time
• Most patient and non-fussy baby eve

Noah LOVES his sister

In the Spirit of the month....LOVE! Noah LOVES Lydia. At first I was a little concerned, as he would want to hold her for about 10 seconds and then dash away. Now he LOVES to lay on the ground next to her and play or get her to laugh. She totally digs her big brother too and grins ear to ear when he gives her attention, even if its a smooshed face hug. This past week B has caught Lyds with a veggie snack in her mouth (Noah was sharing) and I caught them with hats on their head Noah style. Im not sure how long this will last but for now it is the most awesome LOVE to see.

Im a Big Boy Now

Noah has woken up five mornings in a row without peeing in his diaper. He also has not had any accidents in his "big boy" pants for a week. We have gone grocery shopping, out with friends, taken a nap and he has even been to a babysitters house all with big boy pants on. We are officially calling this one POTTY TRAINED! Believe it or not the best part of this whole thing is not that I no longer have to wash diapers for two, but the awesome look he gets on his face when he has done the job on the pot and we tell him how proud we are of him, and then watch him sprint off to get his "potty candy". To celebrate we went out for Ice Cream. Noah's pick....Bright Blue Cotton Candy Ice Cream from Maggie Moos.

Where Does the Time Go!?

So I am a little behind. January has flown by and February is here. But Im putting up old posts anyhow. Here are some from January


WinterWildland
The Zoo which we are members of (Thank you Mom and Dad for renewing our membership!) lights up the zoo from November to January with thousands of lights. Anyone who has had the pleasure of seeing our house in winter knows how much we love lights! So we went on January 1 with the Salida Hellands and Grandparents and had a blast. It was also Lyd's first official trip to the zoo and feeding the giraffes.



























Kids
I have decided that I have two pretty cute kids, in their Sunday best.













The Hellands Have A Social Life
Now with the Holidays long over we are trying to reconnect with friends that we don't nearly get to spend enough time with. Last Saturday we had the McCallister's over for some homemade pizza. Kate and Noah enjoyed doing Yoga with Carolyn (being gorillas), Lyds hung out in her exersaucer, and the question of the night was "do you need to go potty, do you want to try?" because both Kate and Noah were rocking big kid undies.

Lydia turns 4 months

Lydia turned 4 months last weekend. We celebrated by going to WinterWildland at the zoo and cleaning house. She had her 4 month baby well and her stats are

Weight - 13 pounds (30-33%)
Length - 26.75 (99%)
Blue eyes, strawberry blonde hair, long and skinny

The things that Lydia is doing and liking:

• Laughing at Noah
• Playing with her feet
• Holding her paci and taking it out of her mouth only to put it back in
• Playing with rattles and other toys
• Rolling over
• Smiling, Laughing and Cooing
• Loving to be held and hearing Mom's voice
• Being naked
• Tummy time
  
  Another blue eyed babe......
  
  
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Xmas In MN

Once again we got to travel to MN for Christmas. We got stuck an extra day because the roads were bad and we could not head out on Saturday for home. So we took advantage of it and played in the snow. Noah got his first snowmobile ride and ate a ton of cookies. Lydia enjoyed spending time with people and showing off her smiles and giggles. We had the chance to spend some time with the Shaks and Louies, and managed to sneak a lunch in at Za with Cindy and one of Nathan's hockey games. Noah and Eli had many sword and gun fights, Noah and Orion had many disagreements and shoving matches, Ty was wowed by Lydia, and Anika and Aubrey got to be big sisters and cousins to everyone and help out with Lydia and Noah a lot. Harley and Kayla spent a lot of time playing with Noah and running from him because he would try to ride them like horses and cuddle with them, however, by the end Kayla knew she could always con Noah into giving her treats, so they were much better friends. All in all it was an exhausting but very fun time. It is always great to see the cousins together. The adults had fun as well. We had Raab Cousins bowling which may become a tradition. The Rangitsch's had a gift exchange which headed in the usual Rangitsch direction of deer heads and perversion. I think we permanently damaged our Grandparents opinion of us all.