Kindermusik! First official class!

Today was Noah's first official class of Kindermusik! Kinda a mommy and me type thing! :) We have been to a preview class with another group of children last week but that class was full so this was our first time at the class we will be in! Samuel, the little one I keep will be coming as well. The instructor was great with him during parts where it would be hard for me to do both boys! :) Anyway here are some pictures and at the bottom is a video! And YES I AM GALLOPING and I am not believing it myself but I am posting it! My friend Jackie's posts about mom's bein in pictures and such with their children as really spoken to me! Even though I dont like the way I look, I want Noah to know Mama loved him and acted like a nut for him! :) heehee Hope yall enjoy! Dont laugh too hard! :) heehee



He loved it when they would say Yay and clap! :) So cute!


He has fallen in love with the teacher! :) so much fun!


Both boys are still havin a bit of a hard time with rollin the ball! LOL Noah wants to either hold it or throw it! Samuel just wants to keep it! heehee

My wonderful photographer JeiJei/Celeste got this sweet shot of Noah lookin over my shoulder at her! Look at the face, a cross between fear, excitement and I am not sure what! heehee He was a bit overwhelmed but is really getting into it the more we do :)

this is hard to see but he has a sweet grin on his face :)

Enjoy this video of our day! I can't wait till the end of May when this semester of classes ends. I want Celeste to come with us again and take pics and video so we can see the difference in how they do and how much they have learned and all! :)

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Please keep my friend Shonette and her little girl Faith in your prayers! Click the button on the sidebar to learn more and help bring Faith home! :)

WE send you blessings and Kisses in the wind!

PLEASE HELP MY FRIEND HELP an Angel!

Hi all,

I am coming to you today and I am asking you to PLEASE pray about and consider helping my friend Shonette to help bring home an angel girl that she is trying to adopt! This little baby girl has Down Syndrome and she needs the love of her Mother's and Father's Arms asap! :) Please even if you can only give $1 it can help. If you will email me childofmyheart@aol.com I can give you more information on how to help! We are trying to raise $2000.00 by Monday to get the ball rolling! PLEASE please reach deep down in your heart and find room to reach out to someone and help them! If you have children, think how blessed you are by them and give! If you have a husband or wife think how blessed you are to have their love and give. Think about this little baby girl in a foreign world with no mother's arms. Think about a country where she will be put in an institution to die if she is not adopted, where she will never know the love of family, where she will never have the opportunity to reach her full potential and GIVE! Yes, I am layin it on thick, BUT it is all true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE PLEASE help. If you do nothing else PLEASE pray for my friend, her family , and her baby girl across the ocean! I thought I would leave you with some pictures of Noah, my panda boy that God bridged the ocean to bring home! Without help from people like YOU Noah would still be without a family and I would not have a baby boy to love!


smile on baby boy :) this one is blurry cuz he is in constant motion! :)



hard to get a good shot, pick up camera, put bottle in mouth :)


playing with Tante Cassie :)

Camera comes out, show mama your ear! :)

I know this is not a smile, but I just thought he looked so serious and adorable. My sick baby eating cake and not feelin good. poor guy

WE send you blessings and KISSES in the wind!

IN THE RED, WHAT a doctor's visit!

Hi all,

Thanks for those who have been praying and checking in on Mr. Noah! :) We went to the doctor this morning and yes he has pink eye and they say in BOTH eyes! Not sure why they call it pink eye because his eyes are red and the lower lid are BRIGHT BRIGHT RED and goopy! One eye is worse than the other but both are not good. Prescriptions to take care of that. So Noah awakes this morning feverish and fussier than ever. They exam him and he has another sinus infection and also bad bronchitis with wheezing again. They decided to give him a breathing treatment there! I told them that he hates it but dont think they quite expected what happened! heehee So the nurse hooks it up, puts mask on him and he at first is in a kinda of shock state I guess cuz we have never done it somewhere else ya know. So he at first is cryin tears and just a little cry and then starts SCREAMING big time. She leaves! LOL I was like THANKS! SO I begin the exhausting battle of trying to get him to let me do it and him squirming and kicking and pulling it off and lookin at me with those eyes to HELP HIM and dont do this to him :( tears me up when I have to do something he doesn't like for his own health :( So then another office lady comes in and she is tryin so hard to help, she brings a dum dum lolipop NOPE not working, she takes the mask off and just try blowin in his face, he gets worse tryin to get away from it. I think I ended up breathing more medicine than he did! finally I had to hold him and she would help hold and wave it by his mouth and nose. So then they tell me he is back to every 4 hours at this point! So I am in for some major work outs to come. They are saying they think it may have been allergy induced with all the pollen and yuck here in Louisiana and he is just not use to it yet. He has never been here before in the spring. They said it may be a good year home before his body and immune system get use to all that is here. They are still not saying for positive he has asthma for life and I so pray he doesnt. Anyway, they are a wonderful office of wonderful folks and they really seem to love Noah! :) It is amazing. He had to get a shot, which he did NOT like and then we came on home. He is actually napping so this is good. Please keep him in prayer that he gets over all this quickly. Still have NO CLUE where he could have got pink eye but they said nothing to worry about. My eyes are kinda itchy but I wonder if it is my mind!

no pics right now but I will try to get some later today if little man is feeling better.

we send yall love and blessings and KISSES IN THE WIND

Noah Cuteness and PINK??????

I wanted to share some shots of Noah in all his cuteness! He is SOOO hard to actually get a picture of with him smiling and such. It is like he KNOWS what the camera is and he just won't cooperate :) I have TONS AND TONS of pictures of his ear and the top of his head! heehee


this was hard to get and it is not good but I had it in my lap while playin with him

my curious boy :)

so cute :)

Just love that boy! :) He is so fun :) and has the sweetest disposition most of the time and tries so hard to help. He definitly prefers to be at home as to anywhere else and when he is not home durin nap time things get difficult! It is so overwhelming to me to think he has been home 6 months and at the same time that has it only been 6 months! In some ways he acts like he has always been here and in others I see that he still does not trust that I am not going to go away. I want so badly to give this little panda boy all the love and security I can. I hate the panic mode cry he goes into when he thinks I am leaving. Which mind you I have never done. I do NOT leave him. The closest is to go in another room while he is in room with Daddy or Jei Jei for a brief time. He got some upset the other day when Celeste tried to dress him while I was in another room that he was almost hyperventilating. I just loved on him and pointed out see mama came back, I was just in the other room. I think is some ways he has regressed a bit as of late and I wonder if he might be testing us a bit. I pray we pass! anyway he is the most beautiful thing and I am amazed at how helpful he tries to be to be so young!

We love to climb on mama so I just kind turned him upside down! HE LOVED IT! :)

And I THINK we have a case of pink eye. My friend Leesa was here tonight and she says its pink eye so tomorow we go to doctor. I could not get a good shot of it but you might can tell in this one. I have NO CLUE HOW ON EARTH he could get pink eye! Poor guy is extra fussy this evening since this started and is runnin some fever. I am worrieda bout him and am anxious for to see doc tomorow.

I wanted to share Noah's Birthday party Invitations! I can't believe I am at the point of planning his birthday party and that he is gonna be TWO! WOW! And that I will be blessed enough to actually be WITH him ON his birthday! :) We settled on a party at a kindermusik place with an Elmo Theme! :) They made the invitations for him and I LOVE THEM! All my St. Lucy's mama's out there of all Noah's buddies! Anybody wanna go on a trip for a birthday party?? :) heehee Anyway wanted to share some of the invitation with yall :)


This is the front of the invitation! Noah had a FIT over it! :) He LOVES Elmo!

This is a cute poem she wrote. I hope you can read it but just in case you can't It says It's Noah's Emo Birthday!!! And he is turning Two! Elmo's here! We're here to Cheer! Let's come adn play and do! You're invited to his party, so come and have some fun! We'll sing and play and have a ball, Till all is said and done!

This is the inside with some fo the information whited out for security and such.

Well, I am going to try and sleep since Noah is asleep. Praying he rests much better tonight than he has the past few nights and he had no nap today so he needs rest.

WE send you blessings and kisses in the wind!

Jumpin Jupiter!!! Playdate Fiasco...

Today Noah and I went to a preview class at a place in a neighboring town for Kindermusik! :) Noah was quite overwhelmed and overstimulated I fear! We actually previewed 2 different classes in a row as he is right on the cusp of being in either one. Oldest in one group or youngest in the other. By the end of the 2nd class he was kinda gettin into it as they do similar things just the 2nd one is a bit more involved. I think Noah is going to love it :) I do NOT have pictures of us in class because I was busy with a clinging vine most of the class. I will try eventually to get some pics if I can figure out how while I am doing it with him. Maybe I can work it out to have someone go with me at some point. I do want some of us both doing it so we will see. Here are some cute shots of us waiting in the car for the door to open! :) I do have some news :) I am ALMOST POSITIVE Noah said Yay today! :) In class when we cheered! He also appears to be saying Ears! :) He will practically pull your ears off! heehee but it really sounds like he is sayin Ears when he does. It is not clear but it sounds like he is saying it!


He just smiles so much with those gorgeous eyes! :)

Big grin! :) That's my boy!


I just thought this was adorable! it is hard to get good pics with him in my lap in the driver's seat while we were parked in parking lot but they may be close but still are adorable :)

After Kindermusik, Noah and I met Bobby and picked up Samuel who Bobby had acquired after we left and I took the boys on a playdate with my friend Cassie and her 13 month old Caleb. It is rare she has time to do something but had a break today! We went to a new local play place today called Jumpin Jupiter! It is a room with colorful rubbery floors and like bouncy houses with slides and obstacle courses and things like that. It has a play house and some riding toys. The thing is there is a certain amount of noise in the room to make these 6 or so blow up bouncy play things blow up and we walk in the door and Noah starts SCREAMIN! It TOTALLY freaked him out! I think the noise scared him. We only stayed 45 minutes and the lady was SHOCKED when we left so soon because it is a set price no matter how long you stay so she probably thought we did not get money worth. We had to really work with Noah to get him to even try and have fun. I am not sure I can say he ever really had fun because it just really seemed to make him nervous though he did calm down on and off and try a couple things. I had contemplated having his birthday party there next month. Boy and I glad I had decided against it already cuz I would have been out deposit money. Here are a few pictures of our first trip to jumpin jupiter. We are suppose to have a play date with a young girl and her toddler next week there but I am gonna have to see if we can do something else cuz I just dont think Noah is ready for this place yet.


We spent alot of time doing this. I would put him down to try to get him to do something and he wanted no part of it!


Here is the door he kept goin too. A couple times folks came in and he tried to leave! I probably should have just left immediatly but I kept thinking once I got in the bouncy's with him and showed him he would love them but nope.



arms up again! but you can see here he is watchin what Caleb and Sam are doing! CALEB LOVED IT! crawled ALLLL over the place with a smile plastered on his face! :)

Here they are in the little house they had! I am determined to find a good deal on one of these! Even nervous and all Noah loved this house! :) I want one for him at home! :) Samuel is in the house with him and Caleb is crawling in and that is cassie talkin to them :)

The BRIEF stay on one of the riding toys!

on a bouncy with Cassie but not happy bout it!

Mama and Noah bouncin :) you can tell we are in motion. lol LOOK at my glasses! heehee and my hair! NOT a becoming picture of me but the CLOSEST Noah got to smiling the whole time! :)

It saddens me that he did not enjoy it because there is just so few play places here to begin with and nothing really toddler oriented so I was so hoping he would like this one. There were other toddlers there during the tiem we went when big kids are in school but apparently it is not for Noah at this point! The search for an amazing play place HE will love continues :)

I got a call from Early Steps and Noah will begin Speech April 14th. For 3 months it will be once a week. At that point if the therapist can show why he would need it he can go up to 2 days a week. He will begin occupational therapy once a week in a week or so. and he will continue with Maria his Special Therapist who works on all areas on Monday afternoons! :) They are really workin to help us with Noah! They are also trying to get us some more copies of Signing time! :) He has done very well with the one we have :) I am excited! Well, I best get off here and finish what I must so I can sleep while the sleepin is good!

WE send you blessings and Kisses in the Wind!

Eczema!

Noah has been diagnosed with Eczema! Poor guy! At least we finally have a reason for his constant itchy skin and rashes and such and the specialist seems to know what she is doing! AND I GET TO BATHE him daily again! The old pediatrician told me I was bathing him too much and making his skin dry. so she said every other night, that didn't work, so she said less baths and on and on. Poor Noah. I know how much a nice bath makes me feel better! So anyway he now is to have a warm (not hot , not cold) bath daily and have cream rubbed on him from top to bottom! :) Baby massage :) He loves it as we already have done one rub down :) Anyway I am so happy to be able to bathe him more regular and feel lke a better mom and to help his itching would make me feel so much better :) He has to have special soap, special cream, etc but it is all worth it to give him the sweet soft non itchy baby skin he deserves! :) I fixed the video in the St. Patrick's Day post so yall can scroll down and see it now. Sorry bout that. Computer went nutty. No pics right now but I will have some more soon! We are off after nap to check out a bakery for Noah's birthday cake! His birthday is coming april 19th! :) HE WILL BE 2!!!! Can you believe it? Seems like he wont be a baby anymore then but he is still MY BABY!

We send you blessings and KISSES IN THE WIND!

McCutie

Happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone! :) Being a family with a large amount of Irish in us we are big on St. Patrick's Day! :) We joked today that now that Noah was part of our family he was Irasian! :) heehee One thing for sure that he is, is a McCutie :) I love the little outfit I got him for today! :) We have all had our fill or our Irish meal today :) I made Corn Beef with potatoes, carrots and celery and our peanut butter sauce that goes with it and we had potatoe rolls! :) AFter supper some friends came by after Bobby had to go to work and we had chocolate cake adn strawberrry pie for dessert :) It was a yummy day though not good at all for the waist line. Here are some pictures and a video to share. Noah is hard hard to get pics of now! He will turn and you get an ear, the back of his head, or he just stares, but smile for camera NOPE. Noah has had a fussy day on and off as you can tell from the video, he laughs and he fusses. I have been told to try and get him to tell me in some way what he wants rather than just pick him up so you will see some of that in the video. He is such a funny little guy, I wish I could get that more on video but it is like he knows I am taping and does not want me to at times! Pray for Noah as he is having a rough night and was up about an hour after he went down and cried and cried and did not want to be rocked or anything and he pushed me away when I tried to rub his cheek which he usually likes. I am not sure if it is teeth or what. He has his first molars all comeing in but 2 are halfway through and the others have just broken through so maybe they are still hurting as they come more and more in. Poor guy. Also he was very burpy which is unusual for him. I did finally get him back down but I am worried about him :( Praying he feels better in the morning. We go to the skin doctor tomorow about his dry dry skin and rashes. anyway without further ado, pics and video below :)

Mr. McCutie aka Panda Boy! :) MY BABY BOY! What a face :)

Happy St. Patrick's Day! :) The banner hangin between dining area and living room! :)

lol, we are so into our tongue now! He will pull me to him to kiss me and kiss me ane then stick that tongue out! lol he is a character! :)


Here is our front glass door with shamrocks aplenty! :)

Naptime! :) Rocked to sleep with mama! :) I LOVE this time of day :)

This is Noah with his friend Samuel! Now this was a comedy me tryin to get a good picture of the 2 of them! THIS is the best and Noah's eyes look wonky! :) Half the time he was getting up during the shot! He did not want to sit and pose! lol

Jei Jei, Daddy and Noah! :) All in there green! :)

this is me trying to get a shot of the onsie shirt! :) The only way I could get him to be still and see what is said! :) He is layin on my legs in my lap in the recliner :) He was smiling so big RIGHT BEFORE and RIGHT AFTER the picture! ugggh!

Supper Table set! as you can see my 20 year old is dyslexic in alot of things! Look at the silver ware! No matter how many times I tell her how to do it she almost always does it backwards and then is like huh! lol

By the time we got the camera durin supper Noah was throwing an Irish/Asian FIT! Not sure exactly what set him off but he is furious with us because we won't let him throw the plate! He has tried just as Celeste ran to get the camera so she came back to this face! :( Tears my heart out to hear him cry but I just dont think I can approve of THROWING plates! It is his new thing! You never know when, sometimes its 2 seconds into a meal, sometimes midway, sometimes at the end but he is into throwing the plate and the bottle! Lotsa training ahead of me I think!


This is Noah with my friend Tina! It was so funny, He went up to her and reached for her which is not the norm for him, especially with someone he does not know well. He has not seen her in a good while so I was shocked! So she starts doing itsy bitsy spider with him and he gets this look like what have I done! heehee He wanted up there and then was not sure why! :) go figure!

Ok, so I tried all day to get him to wear this little hat I got him and before I could get a picture every time it was off, but then tonight after he was in jammas he starts hammin it up with the hat! :) it was really cute with the hat and his st. paddy's day outfit :)

So cute :)

Where's Noah! :) Its a bit big! :) heehee

Top of the mornin to ya! :)


Tipping head back to try and hold it on! :) heehee

This video is long and probably boring in parts! Noah signs a little in it which is great to get that on video :)

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