Silly Noa and recent projects

 Noa loves to help me with EVERYTHING! He gets super jealous when I clean the kitchen and wear my yellow gloves, the other day I walk in the family room and there he was with my gloves trying to figure out how to get them on.

He got them on and then didn't like it as much as he thought he would, then he had a little cry. When he forces or fakes crying he dramatically puts his hand in front of his face...he is just so sad. Am I a mean mom because I think his crying face is adorable? I think not.

It's just so sad.

So we were in SG last weekend and while at Alli's soccer game Noa wanted to wear my sun hat, I think he was channeling his Mexican heritage....I especially like the fact that his paci is sideways.

Here are some of the projects I've done in the last week:

Cookie sheet menu board 

Flower bottom onesie for our niece Summer Sovereign

 I love making baskets, it's so fun to wrap gifts.

It's been 8 months since my last post....wow, not as good at posting as I thought I was.

So it has been FOREVER since my last post, I had no idea how exhausting motherhood can be and how little time it leaves for writing about my life. So much has happened in the last 8 + months. Noa is one, we celebrated his first birthday on January 30, he can walk and loves it. He thinks he is so big :) he thinks he can talk, ask him...he'll tell you ;) he walks around saying, "ssssgauw ssssgaauw sssgauw" or "duhga, duhga, duhga" and my favorite "meeeeeeee, meeeee....." the cutest is when he walks up to little kids and just starts talking, they just look at him like what is this baby saying...but he doesn't care, he knows he's a big deal.

I don't mean to brag, but Noa is quite the ladies man. I mean baby girls just take one look at those big brown eyes and they melt. It is hilarious, he is like the only boy that is around his age....so he is surrounded by baby girls. But it is so cute, especially two little girls in particular they are both a couple months younger than him but when he comes around they just crawl or walk over and gives him kisses or hugs. It is so cute :)

Oh Happy Day!

I am happy to report that Noa is doing a lot better. After all the wonderful advice I decided I needed to bit the bullet and undo the bad habit I had created with Noa and his napping. For those of you that don't know, Noa usually only naps in my arms. Let me start by explaining that this was not the kind of parent I planned on being, it just happened. Chris and I figured out it all started when I was nursing exclusively, Noa was so fussy, so we assumed he had colic and I cut things out of my diet and I started rocking him to sleep and pretty much doing anything to get him to fall asleep. After his one month doctors appointment, we learned that Noa wasn't getting enough to eat, at all. He had gained only a single once in almost 4 weeks! He was supposed to gain that in a day. Stressed and feeling like a horrible mom I started pumping to ensure he got enough milk as well as continuing to let him nap in my arms. Well as you can imagine this has gotten really old, after five months of almost being glued to the house I decided that's it somethings got to give. So over the weekend I started working on his sleep problems one at a time, first the napping I started laying him in his crib after I rocked him and you wont believe that he has been sleeping in his crib for an hour now and he's still asleep. I orignally tried letting him cry himself to sleep but he didn't fall asleep and I couldn't do it. I remembered a book that Meesa swears by "Secrets of the Baby Whisperer" I had read it when I was pregnant and tried it when Noa was a few weeks old but that's when he wasn't eating enough so it didn't work and I forgot about it. I picked up the book yesterday and it actually had a whole chapter on Noa's problems it was like a God send. Thanks Meesa! So the plan is to get him to feel comfortable in his room and his crib so eventually he will drift off to dreamland on his own. I just can't believe it's working, I would recommend this book to anyone. I just wanted to say thanks for all of the great advice, it really gave me the motivation to do something different. Hopefully in a week or so Noa will be sleeping like a pro.

7am

So after I wake up my lovely sleep with Noa, you know, the kind where he just lies next to you without a stir and then just smiles at you when he wakes up..at 7am. Carree is asleep on the couch and is desperately tired. Not only that but she plans on going back to sleep for at least another 30 minutes before I have to get ready to go to work. Sounds like a solid plan, right? Well, our apartment complex found it a wise idea to do some renovations to our pool, generally not a bad idea. However, when they decided they needed to do the renovation at 7am with the use of a jackhammer then they ensue the wrath of a sleepless mother. And this leaves Carree awake again.

Ramblings of a Sleepless Mother

It's 2:30 in the morning and I am up yet again, I can't fall asleep after feeding Noa and putting him back down. He's 5 months old and at 4 months he slept from 7:30 to anywhere between 4 and 5 in the morning with a midnight dream feed, which was pretty good if you ask me and he had been sleeping like that from about 2 and 1/2 to 3 months, but I have no clue what his deal is now. For the last two weeks he's been getting up every two hours and eating anywhere from 4- 6 ounces each time and I am so utterly exhausted. I tank him up before bed and it's no help, he's even started to eat rice cereal but the boy still gets up every 2 hours for more. I am so tired right now that I can't sleep, I know it sounds crazy but I just lay in bed getting more and more frustrated at the fact that I can't drift back into sleep. So here I am writing to get my frustrations off my chest in the hope that I will be able to sleep for at least an hour before I am awaken again by Noa at 4 ....most likely. I have not had more than two hours of consecutive sleep for way too long and I have never been the best sleeper and the more tired I get the harder it is for me to sleep. I am surprised I am even functioning, will this ever end? I am sure you all are thinking well he needs to nap more, but honestly his napping is alright... besides the fact that he refuses to sleep longer than an hour in the daytime out of my arms. So as long as I hold him he takes some pretty good naps. I just wish I could figure out the magic way to get him to sleep better, so that I can sleep better. I get mad that Chris can drift into sleep so effortlessly and I can't. Noa even sleeps well, he just gets up to feed and then goes right back down....but not me. I can't wait until he this growth spurt from hell ends and I get my Noa back. I just hope that ends really soon, because I am just so exhausted. I think the lack of sleep is starting to really get to me.

Life

Life has been very busy lately, Noa is growing so fast, he is sitting up with support, he laughs a lot and his smile melts my heart. We are just loving our little Noa, once I figure out how to get the sound to work on my videos I make on my phone I will post a video so you all can hear his infectious laugh. We really do love every minute with him...sigh :)

Well here's what's new with us:

Chris has been training for races he plans to do at the end of the summer and into the fall and the one I am most excited for is AZurbanAtholon it's going to be way fun. I can't wait to see him scale walls and jump over cars, he'll be like an action hero :) When I asked him, how he was going to train for all of the obstacles in this race he said he would train at park and on play grounds... I can't wait to see that when it starts to get cool enough for him to train outside. hahaha. As for me I have never been so committed to going to the gym daily, I guess being a mom helps with the desire for a little break every day. I have been going to Zumba as well as weightlifting and although I am not a dancer by any stretch of the imagination I do have fun. I feel like the less I care about what I look like and just dance my heart out the more calories I burn. I just pray that one day I will be better at it because I really do love to dance. Other than that nothing new is really going on, being parents is fun and we are still adjusting to our new lives with Noa. Sorry I don't really have any funny stories, I will try and post next time something good happens, if I can remember.

Pictures of Noa

This is a picture of Noa with a bunny that Tia Maggie sent for Easter, he loves it :) it's the perfect size for him to snuggle.

I get bored most days so other day I decided to dress Noa up in one of his adorable outfits that is too hot for Arizona and did a little photo shoot. He looks so cute in his little airplane outfit :)