Obama Wins!!! Broncos Win!!! And Our Little Stair Climber!

Needless to say everyone here is very excited about Obama's win on Tuesday! Here's Noah that morning sporting his Obama shirt.

The next two pictures are from that night at the Shoe's (Noah ate Cheetos, thus his shirt turned orange, so he had a "wardrobe change").

The two pictures below are also from that night. The first is with Uncle Seth and Uncle Adam. In the second he is wearing Grandma Kathy's patriotic hat.

The Broncos had a game Thursday night and won by the skin of their teeth! Uncle Aaron & Aunt Janis bought Noah a Jay Cutler jersey for Christmas last year, thankfully it was an 18 month so he can still wear it!

Noah's climbing stairs now like a champ. He can climb the flight of stairs in our house, which have 14 steps, in about a minute!!!

And our little man is cruising around everywhere! If he could just figure out he doesn't need to hold onto anyone or anything he'd be walking and running around here!

Cause And Effect

Noah is learning cause and effect. He is especially practicing this with the t.v., v.c.r., DVD player and tuner. Here he is this morning pushing the "on" button on the v.c.r., which resulted in a snow storm on the t.v.! (picture below). He does this also with the C.D. player in his room. He's gotten quite good at switching from the cd to the radio and switching back and forth from am to fm. He scares himself every now and then when he turns the volume up too high!

All the while he's learning while pushes these buttons I think sometimes he's starting to push his daddy's buttons, especially in the middle of a football game! : )

He's cruising everywhere now days. We keep thinking he'll soon figure out that he can do it on his own without the wall or chair or our hands. Then we'll truly have our hands full!!!

Here he is getting ready for the Bronco game. We're all hoping that the Broncos and not the Donkeys show up to play today!!!

Come on Denver, we need a win today! : )

Happy Halloween!

It's hard to believe that this was Noah's 2nd Halloween! I was tempted to put a picture from his first Halloween on here since I didn't have the blog at this time last year, but I think you'll find that I posted more than enough pictures today!

Here's my little pumpkin before we left this morning for Grandma and Grandpa's house.
Here he is showing Daddy where his nose is. He will now point to your nose, ears and mouth. We're working on the eyes, but he can find eye glasses quicker than anyone's business!

5 Little pumpkins sitting in a row, aren't they cute?!

Oh, found the pumpkin's eye!

And a leaf!

Here's our little Yoda with his two favorite girls. I wish we had gotten a better picture of the girls; they were on their way to go trick-or-treating and we got to Granny's house late so we didn't get a chance to snap to omany pictures. (Maybe Aunt Janis got a better picture of the three of them?)

Mary went as Princess Leia and Ellie was Strawberry Shortcake.
Here's Mary and Noah trick-or-treating at the Rangel's house (Granny's next door neighbors).

Little Yoda was SO excited to walk down the street with his cousins. His feet couldn't move fast enough. It was so cute to hear him squeel with delight at trying to catch up with the girlies.

Here we are walking back to Granny's house.

And visiting Grandma & Grandpa Shoe. . .

And back at home. What a little trooper. He was so cute in his costume and was so excited everytime we were walking outside. Which, by the way, the weather was fabulous!! I don't remember every having better weather for Halloween, it was perfect outside. (I remember having to wear our coats over our costumes- no fun!)

I hope you all had a great Halloween!!!

(Hey, Uncle Aaron, enough pictures for you?)

The Pumpkin Patch!

We took our little pumpkin to the pumpkin patch today!!
I think that he will have a lot more fun next year when he can walk around on his own. This year he seemed more interested in the cars that were driving by rather than the pumpkins! But it was fun, none the less, to take him. We went to the Rock Creek Pumpkin Patch, which Justin drives by everyday on his way to school. They were VERY busy. Aaron and Janis took the girls to the same patch last weekend and from the sounds of it they were just as busy, if not busier last weekend!

We are all starting to get back into the swing of things. I only taught a day and a half last week! I got hit with a stomach bug in the middle of my 5th grade class last Tuesday. About an hour after I had then I could barely stand, had the chills and was so sick. Then Tom got it, Justin and Kathy. Then my dad and then my mom! I did go in to teach choir on Thursday & Friday morning (Thursday I called in sick and Friday I had to go pick up the ROCKE clinician at the airport in the middle of the day) Come to find out the pe teacher I work with was also hit with it on Wednesday. It's nasty and I'm glad we're on the tail end of it, we've got trick-or-treating to do on Friday!!!

Happy Birthday, Uncle Eldon!!!

We heard you had a great time celebrating your birthday on Sunday.

We hope your actual birthday is great!!!

We love you (and miss you!!!)

Happy Birthday Uncle Sethie!!!

We're headed over to Uncle Seth and Aunt Julie's house for cake to celebrate Seth's birthday, which is today.

We hope you have a great day, Uncle Seth, and we look forward to seeing you soon!!! :)

We love you!

Happy Birthday Daddy!!

Poor Justin has parent/teacher conferences on his birthday. He has a pretty easy day otherwise. It's late start and his first class is taking their Pre-SATs (I think) for part of their class period so he only has two and a half classes. But, it's still a long day to be at school.
Noah and I hope it goes quickly and that you have a good day, we love you!!!

Jackie called last night to wish Justin a happy Birthday and as you can see from the first picture, Noah wanted to be part of the action!
Here's the little pumpkin, it's not his Halloween costume (you all have to wait a couple weeks to see that) but a fun, cozy outfit we put him in after his bath since it wasn't bedtime yet. It's been cool here and finally feeling like fall. All three of us were cozied up in our sweats!
This weather makes me think about how the holiday season is upon us and how Christmas will be here before we know it. In fact, we bought Noah's Christmas outfit this past weekend and even bought him a Christmas gift!!!

Here's my little helper helping me unload the dishwasher on Monday morning. (He's pulling himself up to standing when the door is open.) He was even trying to help me take the dishes out, I thought for a minute one of the bowls was a goner!

He's venturing out and eating lots of new foods. He really liked the lasagna my mom made a couple weeks ago so tonight we had spaghetti. Of course it was very messy, good thing it was bath night! And we learned from the lasagna to strip him down first! :)
I hope everyone has a great day, please send some Happy Birthday vibes to J! Happy Birthday, honey!!! Noah and I love you very much!