Yesterday I had the privilege of singing with two great friends. The Holy Spirit filled the room with His presence and it was just an awesome experience. And luckily, I had a friend that videoed it for me! (The video comes in a little late to the song.) I hope it blesses you today!
I started going through the videos on my phone and decided I better upload them to YouTube before something happened to them! Some of them are pretty old!
My sweet boy is growing up too fast!
I’m turning into such a bad blogger! Over a month and not one single post! I know, I know!
The Saturday before Easter, we had an egg hunt with our Sunday school class. Noah loves to hunt eggs! His new favorite color right now is pink, so he always runs straight for the pink eggs!
I love the picture below. He just looks so little bitty! :)
The bigger kids there let Noah find most of the eggs since he was the youngest. Sweetness! Noah is loving hiding all those eggs all over our living room now!
After the egg hunt, it was snack time! Cupcakes are his favorite (well the icing is, he doesn’t really like cake). Pink, of course!
Easter morning, Noah got to see what the Easter bunny left him. His favorite things from his basket are his new Action Chugger (from Chuggington) and his Lightning McQueen sunglasses.
And our family picture before church…
We had a great weekend, spending time with family and celebrating our Risen Lord!
Noah wanted to start his birthday RIGHT, so for breakfast we went to Waffle House and had a chocolate chip waffle and some ‘coffee’. Right now, he loves to pretend that whatever he is drinking is coffee. I guess I’m starting to wear off on him! :)
Then we went to Noah’s cousin’s bowling birthday party. He was interested in bowling when it was his turn, but there were a lot of kids there so he had to wait a while in between turns. So he ended up just running around the place most of the time.
Then after nap, it was time for Noah’s party! I knew he would have fun getting to run around in the gym.
But he was most excited about playing in the big foam pit! He would have just stayed there all day if we would let him. He loved walking on the balance beam and jumping off into the pit.
It took him a long time to decide what kind of party he wanted. We debated between Shrek, Alvin and the Chipmunks and Big Al. He finally said he wanted a football party!
He doesn’t really like cake (what is wrong with the kid??) so I made sure there would be a Big Al made of icing on the cake just for him! He LOVED it!
He got so many presents and had so many friends come to celebrate his big day!
When we got home, he got to see his present from Mommy and Daddy! A blue PowerWheel truck!
His favorite thing to do when he gets home from school every day is to ride up and down the street in our neighborhood!
Saturday my little fellow turned 3 years old! He is getting so big and so smart! I just love him to pieces!
I mean, for real. So stinkin’ cute! Friday, my sister and I took cupcakes to school to celebrate Noah’s birthday with his classmates. Just say the word cupcake in a room full of 2 and 3 year olds and you are instantly awesome!
See?? :)
I have several party pictures to show you this week, but for today I am going to post Noah’s annual birthday questions! I started this tradition last year and am SO glad that I did. I loved looking back at his answer’s this year!
1. What is your favorite color? blue
2. What is your favorite toy? a tractor
3. What is your favorite fruit? strawberries
4. What is your favorite tv show? Barney (This is a new thing at our house. He watches Barney at school, so I bought him a cheap dvd of Barney and now that’s ALL he wants to watch.)
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? a sandwich (I send him an Uncrustable pb&j every day to school. He loves them!)
6. What is your favorite outfit? a Big Al one
7. What is your favorite game? Rudolph (I have no idea on this one!)
8. What is your favorite snack? nuffin’ (I get this answer a lot when I ask him what he wants to eat.)
9. What is your favorite animal? a lion
10. What is your favorite song? Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
11. What is your favorite book? Mickey Mouse
12. Who is your best friend? Noland
13. What is your favorite cereal? Cheerio’s
14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Ride in the powerwheel (We got him a powerwheel truck for his birthday!)
15. What is your favorite drink? chocolate milk
16. What is your favorite holiday? decorating (I asked him about Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day…he said, no…decorating!)
17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? my blankey
18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? suckers (I promise I don’t feed him suckers for breakfast!)
19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? 38 (At this point, I think he was just tired of answering my questions! 
20. What do you want to be when you grow up? baby Jesus
So there you have it! Hopefully I can post some party pictures this week!
So Noah got to experience his first snow! He was at school when the snow first started coming down and his teacher sent me this picture. I was a little sad that I wasn’t with him when he first saw it, but school got cancelled later on in the day so we were able to experience it together! He didn’t really want to play in it. He just liked looking at the snow and asking “What’s that snow doing on the ______?” (insert grass, house, road, car…)
This was BIG TIME snow in Alabama! :)
Here is my little helper at work!
The hubs got a new job (yay!) and started this week. He loves it!
We took Noah to the mall to get Brad some new work clothes. He was fascinated with the Crock-Pots and toaster ovens. He kept ‘cooking muffins’ while we were there!
My middle nephew celebrated his 9th birthday at Super Skate. Noah had a BLAST and by the end of the party, he didn’t even need us to hold his hand as he was ‘skating’.
Unfortunately for Noah, the only skates they had in his size were PINK. But since he had on a pink shirt, he just rocked it! He actually likes the color pink pretty well so he didn’t mind at all.
We finally got Noah’s twin sized bed put together and he’s sleeping in it now. His comforter has dump trucks, police cars, helicopters, fire trucks, etc. on it and he LOVES it. It wasn’t my first choice but hey, it’s not my room!
Hubs and I had a date recently. We went geocaching as usual!
As far as the potty training situation goes, I now have an official plan. My sister referred me to this website so next Friday, I’m taking off work and we are throwing out the pull-ups and having potty training boot camp at our house! Woo hoo!!
We also have a little boy that is turning THREE this Saturday! I will not cry, I will not cry, I will not cry.
We introduced the potty a while back. We talked about the potty, read books about going, sat Noah on the potty, etc. It took a long while, but one day (several months ago) he finally pooped and peed in the potty! We gave candy as a reward for every time he went. He would go when we sat him on the potty most times because he knew he would get candy afterwards. So in order to NOT rot his teeth out, we switched from candy to a potty chart. Every time Noah went, he got a sticker to put on the chart and when he filled up a row, we went and bought a special toy. A few weeks into the potty chart and Noah lost interest in that. We tried putting him in underwear and letting him feel when he got wet. The boy could care less! We waited a few months and tried again to press the potty issue and Noah pressed back.
A few weeks ago, I told him that we were only going to wear undies now and that he would have to go in the potty. 30 minutes into it, he had had 3 accidents and he had been on the potty 3 times!
We have even tried threatening and spanking him when he poops in his pull-up. And when I say spanking…he makes faces and strains/grunts when he is pooping so it’s very obvious what he’s doing. When we see him do this, we ask him to sit on the potty. He says no. We say, “If you poop in your pull-up, you will get a spanking!” He says, “I not have to poop.” and then poops anyway. And if we try to place him on the potty, he freaks his freak and won’t go.
So I’m really at a loss with what to do now. He will sometimes pee if we ask him to sit on the potty, but nothing consistent. I am feeling the pressure because he has to be potty trained in order to promote to the 3 year old room at preschool in August. So give me some feedback Mommy’s!
