Saturday, June 30, 2007

Random Pictures from the past few months...

Cutie Posing in his Buzz and Woody Shirts
Mommy and Noah


Noah and Frankie


Noah and Daddy



The great escape!!!!



I'm cute, right! (after eating pizza)



Look what the Easter Bunny brought me...LOTS OF CARS!!!



Egg Hunt



Eating a cupcake at church on Easter morning.



Getting ready for the Disney trip...in the stroller with multiple Mickeys and Goofy.


Riding in a car at the Houston Children's Museum.



Look I can write my own name!



Cruisin' with Nana!



Learning to milk a cow.


No! That way Dooda!



I LOVE Waterfalls!

Well I've not been very good at keeping up with posting shots of Noah. I cannot promise to be better, but I can promise to try. These pictures are from playing in the backyard, Easter, a Houston trip, and just hanging out at home. Hope you enjoy. I will make every effort to get some from our May Disney Trip up here soon! Hope all is well with everyone!
Love,
Cesar, April, Noah, and Frankie

Friday, April 13, 2007

Noah's new word list...

So Noah is a little chatter box. He will pretty much repeat anything that you ask him to. Here are a few phrases that Noah says regularly along with his pronunciation:

Tee Wah-yer Paul (See waterfall) - There is a water fall on the way to school that he likes looking at.
U petty Bankie (Your so pretty Frankie) - We are trying to encourage talking to Frankie, rather than high pitch screaming at him.
Two mouse (Two Mickey Mouse) - This means get my two Mickey mouse's for me...He still won't say Mickey.
No Mama - This a standard and requires no translation!
A Whoooo - This sounds like it is spelled and took a while to figure out. This means he wants me to hold him and spin around until we are both dizzy. I usually make some kind of sound like "whoooo" while spinning.
Tuptake (Cupcake) - He started asking for these at the most random times. This started after his birthday.
Melmo an Montehr (Elmo and Monster) - He has two figures, Elmo and Cookie Monster, that he carries around to play with.
Dadd-EE - He now says Daddy sometimes instead of Dada.
Ah poop - This is an indication that he has or will....
Whoa-ah (Noah) - This is what he calls himself.
Muhlk (Milk) - No longer Tuck-AH...kind of sad!
Bankie (Blankie or Frankie) - No longer Meow! You must listen to the context of the request to determine the meaning of the word.
Cacker, pees (Crackers, please) - This could also mean cookie please. Cracker and cookie seem to be interchangeable.
Dada Car, Mama Car - He says this and points to the respective car.
Buhh and Weedy (Buzz and Woody) - He really likes the movies Toy Story and Toy Story 2.
Teeck Tock (Tick Tock) - This is a clock on the wall or a wrist watch.
Tee Mouse, Tee WokWok (See Mickey Mouse, See Rocket) - This means I want to watch Mickey Mouse or Little Einstein's - Rocket is a character on that cartoon.
Mama Wock, Dada Wock (Mama Rock, Dada Rock) - He picks who rocks him to sleep some nights.
Mama Beh (Mama's Bed) - Indicating that he would like to come to our bed...sometimes we hear this in the middle of the night over the monitor.

Things that Noah likes: his family (uncles, grandparents, great aunts and uncles, Leah, Moni), veggie pizza, muffins, CUPCAKES, apple juice, chicken fingers, macaroni and cheese, spaghetti, ravioli, tortellini, hummus, crackers, chips, salsa, bread and olive oil, ice cream, bananas, fruit smoothies, WAFFLES, blowing bubbles, sliding down slides, watching select movies, rolling around on the floor with Mommy and Daddy, petting Frankie, an open sun roof in the car, taking a walk, playing with his toys, looking at Disney.com on the computer, being in Mommy's bed....the list could go on forever!

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

School Party (3/19/07)...







Monday, the day after Noah's birthday, Cesar and I took the day off. Noah went to school while Cesar and I watched a movie and went to lunch. We then took cupcakes to school for the afternoon snack in celebration of the big 2. I really thought that Noah would be clingy and not play with his friends while we were there, but to my surprise I was totally wrong. He did look a bit confused when we walked in with their snacks, but he sat in his chair and chowed down with the rest of his classmates. After everyone ate and got cleaned up (quite a process, I must say), we went outside with the new favorite toy, the Bubble Machine! It was quite a hit with the kiddos. It was so funny to watch them all. After the novelty wore off, most of them started playing on the outside toys. Noah and Cole sat on the barrel for a while and then both got on the see-saw. I took tons of pictures and Cesar manned the video camera. We are really trying hard at this documentation thing!

Noah's Birthday Party (3/17/2007)...











Noah was quite the host on Saturday for his birthday party. It was a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse theme. His Nana made him a Mickey Mouse cake that he was very impressed with. It's as if he knew that it was his birthday because all day long he was asking for a "tuptake". When it was time to sing he got a bit embarrassed and covered his eyes, but when it was done he grabbed a cupcake and shoved it in his mouth. The hit of the party was the bubble machine that Uncle Cande, David, and Michael brought. Noah LOVED the masses of bubbles. There are a ton of other picture from my camera and Dooda's camera but the bubble pictures are really the highlight of the party! Although he did get into opening gifts this year...or rather throwing the paper around! His Grammy gave him a little play house he has been constantly playing in. I will have to post pictures of him in it later. All in all a good time was had by everyone. He had a lot of family and friends around to help celebrate, even is GG and Grandpa came (his Great-Grandma Flo and Great-Grandpa Gene).

2 Year Old Pictures (3/16/07)...

Friday, March 16, Cesar and I took the day off and spent it with Noah taking his 2 year old pictures and getting ready for his birthday party. We went to New Braunfels to have Shelby take some shot of him. He liked playing with the toys she had there and running around the studio, but he wasn't too keen on actually getting his picture taken. In most of the pictures he has Mr. Potato head or at least his arm. Needless to say, you can tell that she is a great photographer because she still got some good pictures out of our time there. When we left Noah had a total meltdown...He kept saying "Mine, mine, mine" (referring to the Mr. Potato head we were leaving behind). This truly marks our pilgrimage into the 2's.

Visit to the Zoo (3/4/07)...

The day after Cesar's Birthday we all decided to go to the zoo. First Papo, Grammy, Carlos, Joshua, Cesar, Noah , and I went to eat breakfast at Le Peep. Then we went to the park outside the zoo. Sharron, Christina, Randy, and Victoria met us at the zoo. It was a beautiful day! Noah had a blast at the park...he is fearless on the slides. He and Josh did just about everything there was to do.




Cesar's Birthday (3/3/07)...

Cesar turned 30 this year on March 1st. He's such a young one! Here are a few shots from his birthday at Papasitos. We had planned on doing a happy hour and a big party, but our plans were preempted by Mr. Noah getting sick. Cesar had to be content with a smallish party at Papasitos. It ended up being really nice. In attendance were his parents, Joshua, Carlos, Randy, Christina, Victoria, Sharron, Monica, Danny, Amy, Monica G, Justen, Katherine, Mackenzie, Homer, Lisa, Malory, Rodney, Erin, Kenneth, Evelyn and Noah and me. It was a good time!