T-Minus 30 minutes till “Heros” is on. Soooooo….I’ll summarize. The Highlight this weekend was Hiram’s (my brother) 22nd birthday party. Kurt and I, kind of went all out for it. We got it together, got the cake, decorated the cake, ordered pizza, etc. It also happened to be during the OSU game, so we watch that as well. I think Hiram liked what we did, we also got him some new tires for his four wheeler that he has been wanting for awhile.

Noah has been non-stop this weekend. He is hitting milestones left and right. He is taking two steps at a time by himself. He can now stack his rings, and even but the star on the top so that he gets the reward of the music :D He is starting to laugh at our silliness and jabbering to no end. We also got him some magnets for the fridge because he plays with the regular ones, he loves the different colors. He is also starting to eat the same food as us for dinner, just cut up, which is mucho easier. But the most important thing is the cognitive aspect of it, you can see him thinking about things as he is doing them. It is so neat to see him grow.

Forgivness and Mohawks

I was super busy yesterday otherwise I would have posted. I had to work then we had our small group bible study. Our topic for last night was forgiving from the heart. Forgiveness is hard to do especially when it is deep seeded offense. But the basic idea was that the person who does not forgive is worse off than the offender because they have to live with the emotional anger and bitterness, whereas the offender may not even know that they offended you. When you let go and forgive you are then set free from this person’s impact that they had on you. Now this in no way replaces justice, if someone has wronged you in a way, you should not let it happen again just because you have forgiven them. You must, “Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.” Proverbs 4:23. Forgiveness is a healing process for the forgiver and maybe even the forgiven, if your lucky:D
The thing I took away from the study was that not only do I need to forgive people for the big and most notable offences in life, but also for the small little irritations throughout the day, and respond in love and kindness.
“Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.” Ephesians 4:31-32.

I gave Noah a bath tonight and spiked his hair; he has a natural Mohawk like thing going on. He has now learned to climb up on the rocking chair that we have. I think that we may have miss-named our son…Samson may have been a better choice. He is always lifting things up and pushing on things. The other day he pulled his tray off of his highchair, and picked up his leapfrog table. Maybe this is just a little boy thing. Kurt says, “Noah is going to have a hernia by the time he is one”. Haha

A 3 Hour Nap, and Toilet Paper

Noah just took a three hour nap for the first time in his history! Oh it was great. See we have been doing two 1 & 1/2 hour naps. Our stategy was to decrease the amount of time for his morning nap and increasing the time he slept for his afternoon nap, while simultaneously making the afternoon nap earlier in the day(I know it sounds like economics class). So now he will take one three hour nap at around 1pm or so. It truly is like a science.

Did i mention that my son loves toilet paper?He got into the toilet paper today. It was so funny, he didn’t quite understand why I was laughing but he laughed along.

Also! The other night we were at Kurt’s sister’s apartment and Noah decided he would give the stairs a try and of course Dad encouraged him, Oi! He was a pro at the stairs. I then tried to teach him how to come down feet first. He did ok; he knows how to do this with the couch and the bed. We don’t really have stairs in our house so he has some time to learn.

I go back to work tomorrow, after pretty much like a three day weekend. But at least my days will be slightly shortened because of a drug presentation that I am giving Thurs. night, it is over our drug curriculum to the community schools.

This week I am at one of our local schools doing abstienence education for 6th,7th,&8th. Well it is almost time for Heros. The one and only show I watch.

Just another Sunday...but not just any Sunday!

This Sunday I start to blog! I have a few friends who have encouraged me to blog and I have looked at their blogs and have been inspired. This will be a place to put the running commentary I have in my head all day long. For example, "Nice one, you let your son gag on a broccoli floret", or " where does all the time go when you are thinking of what to call your blogspot". Which by the way took me almost a half hour. Do you know what I could do in a half hour? To iliminate debate, alot. So let me say that I will start off slow and see where this goes. Because as we all know mommies are busy and I can really only blog when my baby goes to sleepy land. Also another concern is that there is a title to the topic of your blog. There may not be any relatable title to each random rambling. But we will see. This is enough for tonight I think. Really I just wanna see what it looks like on the page.