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We did a photo shoot in San Antonio yesterday, engagement/family pictures. They look great!

3 months

Noah and Dottie Dots ( Thanks Maureen, he loves that frog!)

I'm counting from Tuesday to Tuesday from when Noah was born. Others count from the 21st to the 21st. Nonetheless, the little guy is 12 weeks old, thus, 3 months. Ah, thank-you high school algebra (good for nothing muckity muck!).

Anyhoo, life's been incredibly crazy per usual. Lots of crazy work stuff, personal stuff, wedding stuff, buying a house stuff, baby stuff, and some other serious stuff that I'm not completely over with, don't know if I ever will be. We had a friend pass away and it was incredibly, incredibly sad and really great loss. Abram has a good explanation of the loss on his blog but I don't know how to link directly to that post.

Tell us how you feel about being 3 months Noah, in your own words now.

Count downs: 6 days till schools out, 9 more days till house closing, 17 more days till the wedding, 18 more days till I can truly kick back. Maybe I should play some of these numbers in the lotto.

2.5 Months

"Tobe, or no tobe, that is the question..."

We took Noah on a road trip to Winedale. Here's a little snippet of road trip behavior. Generally pretty good, unless he's got a poopy diaper or is hungry.

Then there was Baby's First Shakespeare. He's seemed to be enjoying the Shakespeare. Although a couple of those looks towards the end kind of look like he's saying can we please go now.

16 school days till the end of the school year - whoopie! That's all, my mind is exhausted by this point in the day.

More Video Clips

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More Crib Time

and

Cheeky Monkey!!!

And the oscar shall go to....Noah...for baby in a crib. Such a challenging role, them's real tears (okay, not really)!

"Thank-you, thank-you very much! This one's for all those life supporting boobs out there."

You Tube

I have finally set up a You Tube account - so basically for the grandfolks that don't live close enough, you can see small clips of video Noah. Pretty cool if I do say so myself, and it's free. Even cooler.

Check out Noah's cute little coos here.

A Doctor's Appointment

As of today, Noah weighs 14 lbs. 10 oz. (he's heavier than 95% of babies his age) and is 24 inches long (longer than 90% of babies his age). Really incredible, because for the longest time we kept hearing what a small baby you have, I haven't heard that in a while.

While the numbers look big, his is actually pretty proportional weight and length wise. He's a good, healthy kid.

And he slept for a whole 6 hours last night. OMG!!! I woke up at three in the morning, before he did, I was so rejuvenated. I haven't slept six hours uninterrupted since...well...since I can't remember. I'll drink to that!!!! And I did, a nice Bourdeax.

But perhaps we pay the price now for all that sleeping, because we are sitting in the computer room and he is in bed laughing and playing around. I don't forsee 6 hours of sleep tonight. Oh well, once a week is quite amazing.

2 Months Old

Little Noah can - smile, coo like crazy (it's so cute), and is so brave at daycare. He's getting better at holding that head up and really loves looking at ceiling fans. Go big boy!

Going back to work

SUCKS!!!! That about sums it up. There are other cuss words I might use, but I'm trying not to cuss as much.

By the way, we have decided to stay in Austin. Kyle will go to UT. They offered him some money to sweeten up the deal...whoohoo!!! Go Kyle!!!

Here are some cute pictures ...

A passover outfit...An Easter outfit...A monkey...er some bunny earsCute expressions...
Why can't I be a trust fund kid and stay home with my baby???????

7 weeks old

...and living the good life...feed me grapes, fan me...

Busy Weekend

Did you know there is an organic farm right smack in the middle of Austin? It's called the Boggy Creek Farm. They have lots of fresh greens, smoked tomatoes (which apparently have been shown on the Food Network), and flowers, amongst their many items. They have market on Weds. and Sat. from 9-2, so if anyone wants to go, just give a holler and we'll join you. We met the owners at the Barr Mansion food tasting for the wedding.

The Market -Kyle examining the land -CHICKENS! They use their chickens for eggs only. Aren't these pretty flowers?


That's how we started out weekend out, by going to the market. We bought and have tried escarole. Kyle - the cooking genius - whipped the escarole up with a some shallots and goat cheese - it was delicious. This weekend, the weather was gorgeous, and probably the only two days of spring we will have.

We also went to a our friends' wedding shower.

I feel like we were busier than I have stated. We drove around a lot doing typical errands, that can surely eat a chunk out of relaxing time.

The farm was the highlight of the weekend, and Kyle's escarole saute was quite exciting too!

Projectile Poop

Yup, that's what our baby did a couple of days ago. I was the sole witness of flying poop, it was gross and very funny. Later that evening, the baby performed pooling poo for Kyle. Ahh!!! Good times!
Promptly after the long distance poo shot, I was trying to clean it all up, and he decided to become the Little Squirt on his outfit.

No pictures were taken - darn! I could have scrapbooked baby's first projectile poo!!!

"Uhh mommy...that's not funny!"

6 weeks

Well, I'm down to 2 weeks till I have to go back to work, which I'm not looking forward too. Alas we have to eat. Here's Noah this morning, still sleeping. I like how he has his little arms . I'm trying to practice being on a work schedule. I was able to stay awake after the 5:30 am feeding.
I think yesterday was baseball's opening day. If it was then, Noah was appropriately dressed for the big day, if it wasn't, then he's sporting the lastest in spring fashions and looking adorable (need some more synonyms for cute).

And he's smiling for some other papparazzi camera.
Last but not least, baby's first babysitter - Uncle Larry - is he sleeping on the job? (Kyle and I had to go to a food tasting for the wedding - which was awesome and delicious - but ya'll with find this out when you come to our wedding).

All parties involved in the babysitting survived. Note the perpendicular baby in the background - trying to escape Larry or magically trained by Larry? We'll just never know.

Smiles : )

Noah is starting to smile and it's sooo cute!

Not gonna smile, not gonna do it, wouldn't be prudent.

What's that you say about George Bush?
"President Bush announced we're going to Mars, which means he's given up on Earth." —Jon Stewart

"Speaking of President Bush, right now he's in Cancun, Mexico. He's down there looking for tequila of mass destruction." --David Letterman

That's pretty funny!!! Can I be president now?

And an extra smile because it's April Fool's Day - and my parent's anniversary!

5 Weeks Plus

Yeah, I was trying to get pictures up to show the 5th week of Noah's growth and progress, but this week has been pretty busy. And I ate cheesecake and I don't think it agrees with the baby's digestive system as he was crying all day on his 5th week of life, unless he was just reliving his birth all day long. We were out of town yesterday.

Go Horns!This one's just cute.
Noah's first beer...and second beer... (We were at a Keep Austin Blue rally of some sort.)

and passing out. Uncle Abram started taking the pictures of Noah with the beer.

Well Dr. Phil is about to be on, or I could clean up the household, or do some grading..oh choices!

Big 30

Today I turn 30. I don't feel 30. I feel tired, but that's more because I have a one month old. The highlight of my day was a pedicure at a salon called Illiminada, which is an awesome salon. They serve you wine with the pedicure. How awesome is that? The lovely, sweet, wonderful Kyle gave me this gift. Most of the partying happened this weekend, which was a lot of fun - Maudie's, margaritas, red velvet cake from Whole Foods (which is delicious!!! - and fat free, naturally 8 P), hanging out at the Art Outside show on a beautiful day, seeing family, laughing about silly stuff, eating Egg Foo Young at Hao-Hao.

Today was rainey, dreary, and oh so a Monday - not a good day for partying.

Time to tend to crying baby.

4 Weeks Old

Noah's 4 weeks old today or 1 month - saying 1 seems insignificant to the 4 weeks of growing and growing. Noah today--->>>

These were taken yesterday when Noah tried out the Baby Einstein floor gym.

Noah kicked his little leg and made the gym light up and sing, and just look how happy that lizard looks at his accomplishments.

Little Cutie

A gift from Aunt Mare - getting Noah ready for his rock n' roll days. He did manage to pee on the outfit within the hour. No offense to Aunt Mare. I like the steamy dookie image on the bum of the outfit. Thanks for the outfit Auntie Mare! I loved Green Day as high school teenager, and their most recen album American Idiot is might good - "punk rock opera" - I'll have to play that for Noah sometime.

There's that car seat again, I caught a sleep smile this time.
Ahh..squeaky clean, this was after a bath in which there was a lot of screaming and crying. Then a bottle, pinks the new black, and a glance of the eyes towards the camera.
I also managed to finish a book the other day. Book Numero 2 - Shopgirl by Steve Martin. I mostly managed to finish it because if was short and to the point, yet managed to have some universal truths as far as love and relationships are concerned. I enjoyed the book, it was funny and odd, and I couldn't help but think that Steve Martin must be a horny old man. Apparently there is a movie out there about the book with Claire Danes and Steve Martin, I'll probably check that out.

I get frustrated with this blog site, seems to take soooo long to upload an image. I'd update more often if I knew I wasn't going to go crazy waiting for this thing to cooperate. Peace!

It's a flying monkey..

it's a plane...
It super Noah to the rescue for Daddy's Civilization game!!!
A Hero for the next generation.

Happy Saint Paddy's Day! (that other post was from yesterday and my blog decided to be broken)

No Baby Pics

Sorry. I'm not on the right computer. But I did find this interesting note about Katie Holmes's birthing plans for the TomKat (I know it's stupid just like Bennifer, but catchy like calling South Congress - SoCo) babe. You might wonder what I was doing searching the web for Katie Holmes. Well, I was looking for pictures of pregnant Katies because she looked fat on a clip I saw on Entertainment Tonight or some other trashy show. I am intrigued when famous people get fat, and I've been watching way too much TV.

Anyways, while I was seaching I cam across the article below, and had to chuckle because I went through that whole childbirthing thingamabooper - sorta. I wonder if someone will be able to inform the public if Katie screams for an epidural. Can I get a what-what for the paparazzi?

Also what I learned from a trashy celeb show - there is a store called Bling-Bling Baby, which makes glitzy pacifiers with Swavorski crystals. I like that it's called Bling-Bling Baby, I kinda wish I'd come up with the name. Click for more info on the term Bling-Bling.

New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com Quit yellin', it's
only childbirth

Thursday, October 6th, 2005

Katie Holmes' mission impossible will be giving birth without painkillers - or screaming. That's because her fiancé, "Mission Impossible" star Tom Cruise, is a Scientologist. Practitioners of Scientology are against drugs but insist on "silent birth" because they believe it's traumatic for babies to hear their mothers groan or cry. "Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go," church founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote in his best-selling "Dianetics." That's easier to preach than practice. Another famous Scientologist, actress Kelly Preston, told Redbook magazine in 2000 that she screamed for an epidural while giving birth at home to daughter Ella. But her husband, actor John Travolta, who is also a Scientologist, didn't have time to drive Preston to the hospital. "It got hard-core at the end because she was big," Preston said of her 13-hour ordeal. Travolta later described it as a "beautiful, still experience that lovingly brings a child into the world without screaming or talking." Of course, he didn't have the baby. Scientologists also favor seven days of silence for newborns so their first week on Earth is trauma-free. But this has run afoul of state-mandated blood tests, which require at least a pinprick. Corky Siemaszko

Baby Macarena

I'm 3 weeks old today!!! Gotta dance!
Hey Marcarena!
And some funny facial expressions - looks like he's going yo - g - sippin on boob -
and just hanging with the homies - yo!