hooray for me!!

i've actually got some cleaning done today!! hip hip hooray!! the upstairs bathroom just needs the tub washed and the floor hoovered (aka vacuumed!!). i hoovered the stairs and the upstairs hallway, so for once there is nothing on the stairs or on the hallway floor!!! thats to make room for suitcases and camping gear so we can start our packing!! oh what fun =)

going camping...

well, we are slowly getting ourselves ready to go camping next week! i am excited to get away but a bit anxious as to camping with micah and noah! noah shouldn't be too much of a problem as he just sleeps wherever you put him down! but micah..well that is a whole other story!!
we've gone camping every summer since i was pregnant with micah. we put our tent up along side our friends' caravan! the stocks are fantastic with that and its so fun to be on holiday with other people i think!!
this year we have moved up to a 8-man tent from our 2 man tent! it has one big area with 3 smaller tents attached as little bedrooms! so andy and micah will have one and me and noah will have another! and maybe jemima will be brave and sleep in one too!!!
we will be in cornwall i think in truro(sp?) and we go to the beach called st. agnes... its where we were last summer, though we only stayed for 3 nights. we are hoping to stay monday through thursday and leave early friday, i think!! andys sister jo is flying home from romania on the friday and staying with us for the weekend!!
we will also be celebrating our 5 year anniversary while we are down there (on the 3rd)!! so hard to believe that its been 5 years already and that i have been living in england for 5 years too!!! its been so amazing and as you can see from the pictures below, we have been SO incredibly blessed!!!

weighing in

here is noah getting weighed this morning at the baby clinic!! we hadn't been for 3 weeks. then he was 10lb 5oz, now he is 11 lb 14oz!!! what a cutie!!!

another hot day in b'ham

micah has recently, well okay, like for the past 6 months or so, has NOT liked to take a bath! he just cries most of the time... and try and wash his hair! whoa, take screaming to another level! we don't know why this has started or what to do about it!
but yesterday and today we have been in our paddling pool and a public paddling pool! with no problems, micah wanted to get in and fell once, getting pretty much all the way wet, with no tears or anything!! so...tonight? we put him in the bath with minimal crying and even got his hair washed!!! pshew! what a relief!!
here are some pics from todays paddling pool in our garden!

2 in a bed

micah loves getting into noah's moses baskets. the proper one is up in our bedroom and the other is a pop up version that you can take outside. micah is still loving his wee brother and making sure he is ok!

attempting to blow up the pool!!

blowing bubbles

hot days

we are having a pretty hot summer here in england! very unusual for us!! beautiful weather, but when you don't have air conditioning in the house, its not very nice!!

gaining weight...

wow!! Noah weighed in yesterday at 10lbs 5oz age 4 weeks and 2 days!! when he was 18 days he weighed 8lbs 13oz...he's really gaining weight! and he's grown 5 cm in length (from 51cm to 55cm!!) he's so different from micah its amazing!! i had micah weighed as well since he hasn't been weighed since january. he weighs 24lbs 10oz which is up about 2lbs i think! so that was fine for him!! but i think that means that cousin luke is definitely bigger that micah!! though i think that noah will be catching up soon!! though i do hope that he slows down soon =)

here are 2 layouts that i did to send home but also for the scrapgirls july patriotic contest.. the background paper on the first one and the freedom tag were freebies from their website and on the second one i used some papers from papermaven (on scrapgirls) and a freebie brush from them too....

happy 4th!!

hope everyone had a great 4th of july!! we still celebrated even though we live in england!! i do miss the big celebrations...bbq's, watermelon seed spitting contests, the fireworks, outdoor swimming pools, volleyball and baseball games!!!! ahhh, maybe one summer we'll get over...well, i guess not with andy working in school! they go until the mid to end of july - yuck!

getting along

micah loves noah! every time noah cries micah wants to go and see if he's okay!! he calls him no-e or sometimes it sounds more like noys (rhyming with boys!!) its so cute though! he gives noah lots of kisses on the forehead and like to hold him or lay down next to him!
have noah has been good for diaper changing time! i change noah on the changing mat, then later on, micah will lay down it and want to have his diaper changed too!!! which means, no chasing him down or having to pin his kicking legs down!! its fantastic!!
i am definitely missing my mom and dad!! as of last wednesday i had to do my own cleaning, washing and everything else!! but we got on with it and for the first 2 days, micah didn't require to much attention (i.e. he played happily on his own) and noah was good too. friday was a bit of a trying day but i had 2 people pop in for a visit that was unexpected! one in the morning and one in the afternoon so that cleared up some time for me to get on with stuff while they played with micah and/or held noah!! what a blessing our friends are from church!