another LO

i used an inked edge and a frame from designer digitals, katie pertiet.










i been finding this week that noah isn't really wanting to eat any savory foods, but will scarf down any fruits and yogurts. and that was store bought and home cooked that we was refusing after4-5 bites.
so today i made some more food that i know he enjoyed before and at first i thought it was working till 5 bites later he wasn't opening his mouth! so we pulled micah's steering wheel over and voila! he wasn't paying attention to me and would automatically open his mouth!! yippee!! he finished his first savory meal this week!!

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

been MIA

sorry that there have been no posts from us here at #23! we are without internet for the time being, switched provider and won't be set up until the new year. so i am here at my friends house and taking advantage of the time!!
so we are away to belfast on the 21st and there until the 2nd! i know that i have forgotten to mention that my mom is flying over on boxing day into belfast international and then flying home again on new year's day!! we can't wait to have her with us! yippee =)
well i am going to go and enjoy the company here. will maybe try to write over the holidays while at the in-laws, but they are on dial-up and its so slow!!

so MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR! GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!!!

oh christmas tree, oh christmas tree

these were from our youth group last night (well these are different ones as i forgot to take a photo last night!
we also had pumpkin chessecake! well, let me just tell you! it was almost ruined!! i put it, uncovered from the fridge to a bag to transfer to the stocks house. micah or andy (i'm not sure yet as no one has confessed yet) put micah's shoes into this bag. yeah...on top of the cheesecake! it was only when we were almost there that micah was trying to get into the bag that i took it away to hold in my lap when i looked in! i could not believe my eyes!!!! my wonderful looking pumplin cheesecake had a pair of dirty smelly trainers on top of it! i almost cried! and was in a foul mood for about 15 minutes! but then got over it, scraped off the top bit and smoothed out what was left it was okay!! but boy, i never want to do that again!

and here we all are, in front of avril's christmas tree!!
WMF (west midlands fellowship)

all is quiet

i sit here with a quiet noah on my lap, andys in the shower and micah is either upstairs with daddy or playin quietly elsewhere....wait! playing quietly? micah? oh dear! better go find him:




ok, so i did lots of baking yesterday and left the powdered sugar on the kitchen counter! never though midget would even think of getting into it!!! he's covered, our floor was covered, the table, the door and the wall! what was he doing? he mimicked throwing it at the wall for us, so we'll just assume thats what he was doing!! oh dear! what fun =) just happy its only sugar and not anything worse!! *note to self* do not leave ANYTHING on the kitchen counter!!!!

quiet time

so now that i have the place to myself, i have been able to do some scrapping! i haven't done any in awhile...atleast digitally =) so here is what i did today.
this is from a sketch over at pencil lines by jennie leon. the papers and everything i used is by thao cosgrove over at scrapgirls.



also earlier i was able to make cupcakes!! i haven't made them in ages...but found this cool cupcake blog and have been inspired!
i made chocolate cupcakes and i was going to make a mint buttercream icing, but didn't have enough powdered sugar, so for the mean time i made a delicious peanutbutter filling!! oh my, it is soooo good!!! so i need to make another batch of the cupcakes as they were like soooo easy to make, and use the rest of the filling for them, while my original batch, well 15 of them i'll make the mint frosting for them! i am arranging them in the shape of a christmas tree as the final display, so the icing will be green and i bought the little candied hershey kisses that i'll decorate with to look like coloured lights!!! well, i hope so anyway!
i'll post the finished photos on saturday!!!

good night!

what a day!

andy's cousin dan drove up last night from london, to spend the night here before the 2 of them flew out this morning from the bham airport... poor guys were up at 5 (i think -- i was alseep for atleast a wee bit longer!!). thankfully, all went well this morning and they arrived safely in dublin and simon (my BIL) picked them up and then back up to belfast.
andy said that the funeral went well with a good message! will have to ask again as i didn't listen to andy's explanation very well!

the boys have been mostly good for me today!! micah is feeling a little bit better, but still not eating lots like normal! and he woke up from his nap miserable! he would not stop crying, so i just said ok! we are going for a walk! so once out the door, he was fine! so annoying though as nothing is noticably wrong, and he couldn't/wouldn't tell me anything!

we got back close to 5, had dinner, than a small nap (*i* had a small nap!!) while watching 'cars' and then off for a 'big splash' (aka. a bath) and then bed time! that's when things got out of hand!! i hate it! both boys at once and neither wanted to sleep for me!! micah was ok, stayed in bed with lights off but keep calling for me, especially whenever noah cried. i put noah down 2x when asleep and he woke up like 5-10 minutes later, and i put him down 2x when awake. the first time he layed there with out crying, the other crying. tried the 'controlled crying' thing, and on the 3rd time that i went in a picked him up, he fell asleep in my arms anyway! so i put him down i guess for the 3x asleep and he finally stayed asleep. then when i finally got to go back and check on micah he was sleeping!! hurray =)

just a small update from the weekend

i wanted to share some photos from saturday! it was a blustery day, but we braved it and went down to stow-on-the-wold, down in the cotswolds! its a beautiful little village and fun to visit! we took our new friend kim with us. she is from malaysia and studying here in birmingham and coming to our gospel hall! she hasn't been around much so we took her to see a bit of the countryside!

so the day we were there, santa was coming! they were having their christmas fayre and santa grotto! they were serving mulled wine everywhere...it was funny! micah wasn't very impressed with santa (nor was i), but we paid the £2 to see him and receive a gift anyway as it went to a charity i think! but micah wouldn't even walk in, i had to carry him and then he wouldn't take the gift! oh well! i have a good photo from last year of him with santa!


we were so tired that night and it was already 6 by the time we got home that we decided to get a take away. so we went to an indian place and i got a chicken malaya (i think it was called..mild spice wiht pinapples) and andy got something a bit spicier with onions and peppers. he got a peshwari nan bread and i had a plain one. the peshwari one has honey and maybe almonds and is very nice!

and heres a pic on micah and noah side by side as micah watches bob the builder!!

feverish

not long after i posted yesterday, micah woke up from his nap and unusual for him, wasn't fussy, but very cuddly AND he didn't want the cookie i had bought for him!! strange! we put in cars and sat watching that for a bit while i fed noah, and he sat right next to me and started to lay down at one point. i reached for a blanket and laid it over him, when yikes! he started throwing up!! yuck!

so i had to quickly get up, put noah down somewhere other than the couch and keep micah's hands away from the yuck! poor boy! its so awful to watch a child throw up when they don't understand whats going on!!!

so we changed into jammies and cleaned up the couch, threw his clothes and the blankets into the wash and layed back down on the couch and finished watching cars. he was really good and laid there for about an hour, then decided he felt slightly better and played on his bike in the kitchen and what not.

he was a bit feverish and thankfully fell asleep around 6:15 in his daddy's arms! and he slept till almost 7:30 this morning! i woke him once to change his diaper and give him a big of calpol and a drink. i hate sick children!! yuck...just praying noah doesn't come down with the same!!

this morning he's still a tiny bit feverish, but he's had a cracker and a cookie and lots of juice (watered down). don't think we'll be going out today!