Nora Crawling...

Nora's a full fledged crawler! Time to keep our floors spotless.

Isn't her snort so cute? She does it when she gets excited. We love our little piglet!

Andrew's Birthday Party

Andrew's 4th birthday fell on a Saturday this year... it also happened to be the same day that our hometown was having their Touch a Truck activity. It's super low key, and was a perfect addition to Andrew's party. Andrew loves big trucks, so we made that the party's theme.

We kept it small, just family. Andrew loves his cousins and was so excited to have them come to his birthday party.

Mikalya, Andrew, & Gavin

I made him a #4 birthday shirt. He loves his numbers and loved his shirt!

We had a transportation cake, spare tires (chocolate covered donuts), and dipsticks (chocolate dipped pretzel rods).

Andrew loved his cake!

Andrew's presents this year were all boy. Pretty much what every 4 year old loves...

Matchbox cars...

Flashlights... 

Legos...

Dinosaurs...

A bike!

and some bells/horn to go on the bike.

 What a great day we had! It was fun to have my family come to help us celebrate. We only wish we could have had some Stinson family with us!

Happy Birthday, Little Andrew!

How is it earthly possible that my little Andrew is FOUR?! I wish he'd stay little forever, but I am so excited to see all the growth and development that he has gone through lately, and will continue to make.

Andrew is such a sweet tenderhearted little boy. His amazingly sweet spirit is absolutely impossible to deny. He loves his mom and dad, especially his little sister fiercely. He loves to give 'squeezers' (hugs) and big kisses. He is my little love bug.

He loves to go to preschool and to speech. He also LOVES going to "Andrew's Park." We go for lunch at least two or three times a week. He loves trains, big trucks, dogs, and pumpkins. (yes, pumpkins!) He always has a posse of his 'friends' (all his stuffed animals). They move all over the house with him. It's pretty much impossible to put him to bed with just one stuffed friend. He is still crazy attached to his bear, Bananas. Cannot and will not go to sleep with out him. He loves going to grandma and papa's house. He LOVES homemade cookies and muffins... and asks for them pretty much daily.

I cannot believe that I'm a mom of a four year old. But boy, am I glad that I am this four year old's mom! He is such an amazing blessing in my life. I feel it was just yesterday we were taking that extremely slow and intimidating drive home from the hospital with our new baby. Man, I love this little boy so much.

Happy Birthday, Little Andrew! Your mom and dad love to so much! (Nora loves you tons too!)

7 months

Seriously?! How did my Nora Jean get so old?? Here's what she'd been up to lately...

- She is getting mighty close to crawling. She has mastered movement, of the seal variety (seriously, she looks like a seal). That consists of... push up, plank, thrust the body forward. Repeat. She has some killer core muscles!

- Perfect posture. It's always fun to see how quickly babies go from being all hunched over to sitting perfect erect. 

- She loves to eat her socks. Andrew did the same thing at this age. It is too funny to see her do it too. She loves to put any toy in her mouth, bite down on it and continue what ever she was doing with the toy hanging there. 

- She's babbling pretty well now. Her babbles of choice: baba, dada, lala. (I'll try not to consider the translations as anything against me.... baba- bottle, dada- Morgan, lala - her Aunt Lollie)

- Loves standing (with assistance) and "walking."

- LOVES being held and snuggled. 

- Giggles all the time.

She is such a joy in our lives. My grandpa always makes a comment that 'the sun is coming out' when she comes into a room. It's true. She has such a joyful and sweet spirit that is impossible to deny. 

We sure are crazy over her!