to buzz or not to buzz

so for some random reason, though he's never seen "Toy Story," noah wants to be buzz lightyear for halloween. his friend Jack at school has a buzz jibitz and it has sent him flying through the air saying funny things ever since! some dear friends luckily loaned us their 4 year old's costume (a little big!) so we didn't have to shell out our savings to party city. Jeff and i nearly fell over laughing (we tried to be discreet!) when noah got all this gear on! we'll see if he actually wants to put it all back on for halloween. isn't he cute, though? so funny!

you should also know joshua is nearly walking!!! he's up to about ten steps per go! yeah! surely i can get a video on here with that great news!

have a great wednesday! noah is 'star of the day!' at preschool so that makes it extra fun.

pumpkin patch!

best friends!

a nice hug after a morning of working hard at lowes. the kids brought home firetrucks they made themselves!!!

first steps

so jeff rarely--if ever--comes home for lunch. but he called yesterday and said, 'how about a spontaneous lunch date with the family?!' so he came home, we ate our leftovers, and went to play on the back porch with the kids. and for the first time, joshua takes 2 whole steps all by himself! so fun! i couldn't believe the beauty in that perfect timing! (this past week God has used such timely events to encourage me...it's the little things!) so he's still taking 1-2 steps at a time, so we'll let you know when he's up and walking for real!

he's also able to sit on things now and ride on toys. kind of scary but he's oh so proud of himself!

have a great thursday! today we're gonna have lunch at our babysitter's house. noah is excited to see where karen lives!

see ya later!

go diego go!

this is my cool new bike. it has a bell and everything! gotto go! love, noah

putting together the new bike...

so yah-yah got noah this cool new 'go-diego-go' bike, so goodbye pinky! it's so cool! it has a bell that noah dings so much that neighbors have asked about it! this shot is of them putting the bike together; noah of course has his tools to help! tomorrow i'll try to get one of noah on the bike itself!

love the look!

look at that noah-boy! we went to the children's museum on saturday and jefftook this photo! they've made some renovations and it's even nicer than its been! we had lots of fun playing with the balls (joshua seriously likes balls!) and noah loved 'nonni's house.' we also had lunch at chipotle, a new tex-mex place that we like! it's nice to have those weekends where you have time and space to say, hmm...what should we do today? it definitely makes monday a little harder...

octoberfest at our house

we've bought the pumpkin flavored blue moon and the first bag of halloween candy, and we're enjoying the darker evenings and cool mornings. we thought we'd post some photos of noah (as promised) and of some other cute things going on in our lives this month. we love this season of the year! joshua is almost walking and has started to babble alot. it's getting more and more fun each day. peace & joy to you all.

mom had a girl's night out

noah loves his new pink bike

noah's first halloween candy this year

daddy is home!!