Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! Mommy made this wonderful hat and rainbow chain!

Then I went on a hunt to find the Leprechaun's Gold Coins! Here's one!
Here's another one!

Then I tried (green) jello for the first time... oh, I am not sure what I think about it!

I guess it's not soo bad.

Mommy and I did some crafts, and she made a traditional Irish bread and some green cookies :)

looking for the leprechaun's gold coins

P1050022 a video by Jenn Carlin on Flickr.

st paddy's day fun

P1050019 a video by Jenn Carlin on Flickr.

put your pants on

Mommy told me to "put my pants on", so I did!

Ford Park to see the ducks

Hello everyone! Look at meeee... off to see the ducks!

Oh, wait, what's that? Cars!

Look!

Mommy, look!

Now to the ducks. Quack quack!

Time to throw rocks in the water!

Now off to the field... he he heee.

I like running around being silly!

That was fun!

almost a year and a half old!

Just in case... I have a wish list on Amazon.com under my mommy's name... just in case. :)

a day with Mommy and Karen

This past Wednesday Mommy and I visited Karen and took her to Coco's. I got to use the BIG fork!

Open wide!
when my fork fell on the floor, I decided I was still hungry so I used my straw to stab the food!

We went to a playground for a little while too!

I got to wear my cool new sun glasses.

These are Mommy's favorite.

It was fun to hang out with you again Karen!

Karen and Seth, and Mommy's note on my behavior, uh oh...

This is Karen, she is so totally awesome! She and Seth babysat me yesterday while Mommy and Daddy went on a "date" (they went out to brunch!). I love my Karen!

Karen and I took these pictures to surprise Mommy and Daddy!


This is Seth, I love my Seth, too!! I was reading to me ...

... and I fell asleep After my nap I played with sidewalk chalk for the first time. It sure is messy but fun! Then I got to use a little spray bottle, which was super hard, but I was able to squirt it on my own a little bit!
Last night I practiced strining beads. I still need help, but I am getting better!

Mommy's note: Noah is sooooo independent now, he almost always refuses to let me help him with anything, be it eating with a spoon or trying to squirt the water bottle! Amazingly he would let me help hims string these beads, but I suspect very soon he will be able to do that himself too! Such a smarty!

Also, sadly, in the last few weeks Noah has started hitting me! Ugh! I have tried acting really mad and yelling at him, and that certainly didn't help, he just laughed, then I tried redirecting it to High 5s, and telling him to "be gentlt", and now I am trying to ignore it or say "No hitting, that hurts Mommy"... but it doesn't seem to be working either. I don't know about Time Outs... I have read some people will do that at this young age, but others say don't bother because they are too young to understand. Perhaps, now that I am writing this all out, one of my problems is that I have not been consistent enough with my strategy! *sigh* I hope this will be a very short phase, because getting slapped in the face by my normally sweet little boy is not any fun! So far, luckily, he has not transferred this to day care! I hope it stays that way!! He also in the last few weeks starting throwing himself to the floor to make the point that he is not happy that I told him he is all done with something! And he doens't save this behavior for just the home. Luckily that doesn't last long and can be fizzled out with some simple redirection... but seems like those "terrible twos" are on their way! Uh oh... please comment if you have any tips!!

a ME poster and a nature collage

Mommy traced my body and then she drew in my face and PJs and then I got to color it. I am 17 months old and 31 inches tall!

That's my nose!

We went on a walk when we got home today and collected different things in nature. Then I made a collage!!

My favorite are the rocks!!If you are ever wondering where my water bottle is... always look here first!

This is me yesterday on the front steps.

This weekend is Mommy and Daddy's 5th anniversary of the day they met! Karen and Seth are coming over to play with me while they go out on a date. I don't understand why they don't me to go with them, whatever... but I am excited I get to see my friends!