Brother love

My sweet boys are the joy of my life. I am really enjoying watching their relationship blossom. At the beginning Luke was not a fan of Noah. He actually had a really rough time with the transition. I was sad and discouraged hoping that this is not how it would always be. As Noah is getting older, and beginning to play and crawl around chasing Luke I have seen slowly a bond start to develop between the boys. Luke some days crawls into Noah's crib to lay and play with him. And constantly is asking where he is when he is sleeping. Today he saw his empty carseat by the door and said "Oh no! Mommy, Noah got out of his carseat! Where did he go?" He was so concerned about him, but he was in his room napping. It drives me a little crazy sometimes because he kept trying to get into his room when he is sleeping. BUT, I love how much he loves his brother. Today after lunch we all laid in Luke's bed to read a nap time story. Luke kept asking me if Noah could nap with him. Yea right. Like there would be any "napping" going on! Within the next year, we want to put the boys together in Luke's room. That will be interesting to say the least. :)

This picture melts my heart. I literally had tears in my eyes. Jared was reading the boys a story and Luke put his arm around Noah and was rubbing his back. Oh Lord, let these boys always love each other like that. I  pray they have a close bond where they can always trust each other and know that the other one will have his back. I love these boys with all my heart. Sometimes I wonder to myself how on earth I lived and loved before I had these boys. They are my heart. I feel sad for children who grow up and never know the true love of a sibling.

The boys love wrestling with their daddy. They adore their daddy. I love that even if Jared is gone 48+ hours at the firehouse, that we can visit him so the boys can get a little wrestle time with him!

Noah 8 months old!!

Noah is 8 months old. How is this possible!! Well, actually he is more like 8 1/2 months. I am late on this post. He sure keeps me busy chasing him around, he is such a curious little boy. Into EVERYTHING! He is still my sweet little happy boy, except when he is teething. Oh my, this boy gets crabby! He has a very intense personality, he is either REALLY happy, or when he is mad, he is REALLY mad! He has been crawling everywhere! Pulls himself up on everything and walks along anything he can hold onto. He loves to eat, well actually he loves to feed himself. He gives me a rough time trying to feed him baby food. He would much rather pick it up and feed it to himself. So we have started giving him pieces of veggies and fruit and he feeds himself. He just recently switched over to formula, I was having trouble since he was 6 months with my milk supply, so we finally just switched over to formula a couple weeks ago. I love watching this boy grow, he adores his brother and it is fun to watch them actally play together now! So thankful they have each other!

My sweet boy!!

Brothers playing :)

Getting SO big!!

Those eyes and cheeks...man I love this boy!!

Noah-7 months old!

How has 7 months gone so quickly?! I can't say enough how much of a joy this little man is in our lives! I can't imagine what our family would be with out him! He is my sweet, sweet, happy boy! Always smiling and laughing, especially at his big brother! He babbles and screams and squeals all day long, he says dada all the time, but I'm pretty sure he is just babbling, I'm sure Jared would say differently, and I guess we will let him think that! :) Noah is now sitting up on his own, and can almost get himself into the sitting position on his own. He is army crawling/scooching all over the place, and gets up on all 4's rocking back and forth, but hasn't quite figured out how to get himself forward, other than just lunging forward. He now eats cereal and veggies/fruits 3 times a day. So far he has tried rice and oatmeal cereal, butternut squash, sweet potatoes, apples, carrots and I made pears, but he will probably get those tomorrow. I just can't believe how fast he is growing!

We had to take Noah for his first ER visit about a month ago. He scared the crap out of us. One morning I went into his room to check on him when we woke up because Luke wanted to, and when I walked into the room I found Noah in his crib white as a ghost, with blue lips, with shallow breathing, and when I picked him up he had no muscle tone and was like a limp noodle. Jared took him immediately to the ER and as soon as they got there his color came back and he was back to his normal happy self. They admitted him and ran a bunch of tests because they thought maybe it was a seizure, they ruled that and pretty much everything else out. The really only explanation they could come up with, was their best guess, that maybe because of his acid re-flux he had been choking on his spit up. So basically we didn't really get any answers other than to keep him on his acid re-flux medication and just monitor him. He has been completely fine since, but of course mommy has been paranoid about everything. But it made me realize even more than I already knew, that this little boys life is so precious, and my life would not be complete with out him in it.

BIG HAPPY BOY!!

This is me trying to get a picture of them together, Luke wrestled him to the ground, and Noah loves every minute of the attention from Luke! Crazy boys!

Trying to crawl to Toby, he loves his doggies!

You can barely see his tiny little tooth on the bottom

Date night with my LUKE!!

I got a chance to take Luke out on a special date to Chil-fil-a! I love that place! They had a special night for mothers and sons. It had a Mid-evil Knights theme. It was such a blast! There was tablecloths and centerpieces on the tables that were set aside for our reservations. The cow was dressed as a Knight and was walking around the store, Luke LOVED the cow! He kept running up and dancing for him and making silly faces at him! They had a photo booth set up where Luke and I got our picture taken together, they also had someone there drawing characatures of the boys. One of Luke's favorite parts was the jester and the fool walking around having sword fights. I really had a great time with Luke, I love watching his face light up when he is happy. My favorite part was when he kept turning to me and putting his arms around my neck and giving me a giant hug and a kiss for no reason. My heart melts.<3 I adore that sweet boy!

Eating his chicken nuggets. Such a special little boy there, that one day is going to do great things!! 

Luke and the cow.

Making silly faces at the cow! Haha! He cracks me up!

Silly pictures with mommy. I seriously can't wait for our next date. This boy is so precious to me!

Noah-6 months old!

Where has this last 6 months gone? Did I not just have this baby boy yesterday? How is he already 6 months old?

Noah is still my little bundle of joy. He is my laid back, sweet lovey boy. I hope he stays that way, BUT, as he is a boy, I am not holding my breath.

Noah is starting to be able to sit on his own, not for long, but stays longer every day! He is getting stronger, and cuter every day!

At his appt yesterday, Noah weighed 15 lbs 10 oz and was 27 inches long.

Sweet 6 month old boy :)

Such a happy little Mr. 

LOVES hanging out with his big brother, Luke. 

Even when Luke is trying to wrestle with him. Boys....

Reading a book together. 

And...Luke tries to wrestle with him again. Little nuts.

VeggieTales LIVE!

We took the boys to Veggie Tales LIVE last night at a church in Elmhurst and Luke had a blast! He loved that he got to get up and dance. He was jumping and dancing around and trying to catch the bubbles from the bubble machine. So glad we were able to take them. Even Noah enjoyed watching all the lights and characters dancing around on the stage!

Waiting patiently for the show to start!

Luke didn't want Noah sitting near him...what a stinker.

Silly little baby!

Dancing in the aisle! :)

We are the Pirates, who don't do anything! We just stay home and lay around!

Bubbles!!

Halloween 2012

This year for Halloween we went to a friends church for their trunk or treat, since we were unable to go to our own. Luke was Batman and Noah was Robin, although, it was SO cold out that Noah was all bundled up in the stroller anyway, so you couldn't even see his costume. But, that's ok. I saw it and took some pictures, and that's all that matters! 

Luke, Noah and daddy. My 3 favorite guys!

Luke and his girly friend, Trinity. They are 3 days apart! It's so fun watching them grow together! (she has a major obsession with Luke, she calls him on FaceTime and sends him videos, it's so sweet)

Luke said this was his bat signal, I guess he really is listening when daddy talks about Batman and reads him batman books! :)

CANDY!! 

He was in love with this car that decorated their trunk as Veggie Tales!

Then on the actual day of Halloween, we went trick or treating in our neighborhood with another one of Luke's girly friends, Gianna! Such a lucky little boy to have so many cute little girls to play with!

Luke and Gianna

Daddy and Luke getting the pumpkins ready to carve!

Our pumpkins! Daddys (captain hook), mommy's (tinker bell), Luke's (Batman) and Noah's (mickey mouse) I carved the 3 on the right. Jared gave up on his and didn't finish, he had to go to work, so his never got finished. But still looked pretty good for not being done.



A few days earlier, Luke painted a pumpkin and had so much fun doing it! He is my little artist!