for jemima

i made this yesterday for jemima...

i used mandy steward's faithful collection and a sketch by christiane mueller found over at pencil lines!!



i have just found and fallen in love with this new product by elsie flannigan. her blog a beautiful mess, shows her new line out by Ki Memories and it is GORGEOUS!! now i have to see if i can get her stuff over here!! wow!

i forgot

i forgot to post the other day that noah now has his 2nd bottom tooth! only with the first tooth was there a bit of biting while i was feeding him, but only the first week. since then we've been fine, thankfully! because i was thinking to stop nursing and well, i still might within the next month. i nursed micah up until he was 9 months...(he didn't teeth until 10+ months). noah is 8 months on the 5 february, so i may just start the process then! we'll see =)

photos

micah tries to put this poor bike on everything and anything!

i don't know what we'll do if this bike breaks (which it could be close to)! it was only £4.50 at the grocery store last summer....maybe they'll have them again this summer. though i think it'll be time to get micah a bike with pedals...hmmm

book party

so i was all on my own yesterday as andy was speaking down in malvern. when he does that, he doesn't come home after school, he just heads straight down.

i cleaned and cleaned the whole day, well atleast while i wasn't taking care of the boys...feeding, changing, keeping them occupied?! i didn't think i'd be able to get the boys into bed before 8 when my book party was suppose to start. but thankfully, micah didn't take a nap in the day (not for lack of trying on my part)! so micah fell asleep at 7:15 =) heavenly! i took noah downstairs with me as he had only been awake for 2 hours so it wasn't quite time for a bed. micah woke up at quarter to 8 and i decided to put noah down then as well, so i went back and forth between each room and by 8:05 they were both asleep!! it was awesome!

but by this point i thought that i was the biggest loser as it was just past 8 and no one had showed up for my book party...sadness =( here i was with this very clean downstairs (notice that i didn't say house!!) books all around my front room, and not a soul in sight. i was ready to have a pity party! but alas, i heard voices outside and 2 of my neighbors were walking up the walk with 2 boys in tow!! i was so excited!

then andy got home just before they left so we were able to make the introductions and all is well! now i just need to figure out how to make my neighbors into friends...

frost

we woke up to frost this morning. the first in awhile! so there is hope of snow!! the high today is 1 degrees celcius! and there is snow forecasted for thursday and friday! so we (i) am very excited! i'd love to have snow and to get micah and noah all bundled up for it.

as well as our friend kim who is here studying in birmingham from malaysia...i don't think she has ever seen snow either! so that would be fun for her!!

i'm having a book party tonight and i know some people can't come, so i am really hoping that i get atleast a few people here!!

a night with friends

last night we were invited over to our friends jon and anthea's house down in worcestor. it was a great night as we were able to catch up and enjoy a nice chinese meal! it was very very yummy!
we took with us micah's little dvd player as we didn't want to even attempt to get him to sleep at different place, so we had racing stripes and 101 dalmations (or 15 puppies as micah calls it). well micah has gotten into racing, majorly! anything and anyone that is running or going fast its 'race, race'...and he likes for daddy or mommy to be 'horsey' and he climbs on!


so as we were watching racing stripes, micah wanted to ride daddy horsey. daddy didn't want to so instead he said lets make these pillow/cushions be the horse. come on micah, get on your horse!

a very VERY windy day!

i don't think i can remember it being so incredibly windy before! the wind has just been whipping around the house all day long! i was going to go run out to the shop and post office which is barely a 10 minute walk, but with the wind and a double stroller, i would have been blown away, it was literally that bad.
there have even been 8 deaths so far! sorry, take that back there are 14 deaths! its been a crazy day, thats for sure.

more photos

my mom made this outfit for micah 2 years ago. i wasn't sure it was going to fit noah as i can't remember what size it was, but it did fit!

the hat always makes me think of a old american football helmet!!


micah couldn't be left out, so he tried it on too.

micah fell asleep leaning against me as i fed noah. when i tried to get up to put noah in his cot, this where micah ended up! i couldn't resist taking a photo!!

our week so far in photos

micah at rest

ready, steady....

GO!!!!

funny bedtime moment!

just as andy and i got into bed, lights turned off, all settled in and comfortable....i heard a little thump. hmm, could that have been micah? so up i got and went into his room, to find him laying on his floor, tummy down and sound asleep! he hadn't even woken up!! just rolled right out of bed and probably would have continued sleeping there until morning or until he got cold!!! so i picked him up and deposited him back into bed, and he barely stirred! and i? i climbed back into bed laughing away! and couldn't fall asleep =)

news update..

did you know that noah is now 7 months old? have you realized how fast those 7 months have gone?? i can't believe it! on friday (his 7month day) we went to visit our good friends gary and hannah at the hospital. hannah had just become a first time mommy the day before to samuel andrew! holding samuel who weighed 6bls 11oz, and just seemed teeny! noah weighed in a few ounces heavier at his birth but micah was 5+ounces smaller and it was very hard to imagine that!! samuel was a cutie though!!

it was so hard to believe that noah was almost that small only 7 months earlier! now here he is in his 18lb splendor!! that's right, he is over 18lbs, he is sitting up with only a few falls now and again AND is finally cutting his first tooth!! he is doing more than micah was at that age! well, maybe just in the tooth department oh, and the weight department!!! noah is still a happy jolly soul and we love having him a part of our family..except maybe at night times!! but we are working on that one too!!!
*** edited to read: i looked up micahs' records to compare with noah and while noah weighed 18lbs at 28 weeks, micah weighed the same at 42 weeks!! yikes! what a difference!!!***

not too much else is going on. micah is talking more and more, repeating most everything we say which is cute as he doesn't get it right most the time!

sunday we had the fun of getting not one but 2 flat tires on the way to church! so nobody got to go, although andy and micah got to sunday school!

here's a photo of hannah and baby samuel!

Happy New Year!

Wow! we finally are back on the internet in our own home, and we are back from our christmas break in blefast! we had a fantastic time making the rounds to see family and friends. going caroling, shopping and cooking!
loads of fun, the boys were spoiled as were andy and i! we were able to get out for a date on boxing day! we had dinner at the indian ocean (great indian food) and then on to a movie to see the new james bond! well the only showing was at a theatre with VIP seating, which was double the price but included complimentary tea or coffee before hand and refillable popcorn and drinks during the movie! it also was leather reclining chairs and no one under that age of 16!! it was great!

this photo is from our family get2gether the saturday after christmas

noah looking at mimi (my mom)my mom and i being silly in the kitchen! andy and karen singing for us all while phil's girlfriend deborah plays piano