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!