Noah!

Noah is now two years old. He has reached many milestones. He is definitely a talker. First thing in the morning, you can hear him running down the hallway and when he sees you, he happily says good mornin'. Then a second later, he says he wants to eat. He even has special requests...usually he wants eggs, then a banana, then cereal...and he never really finishes. The boy loves to eat so feeding him is never an issue.

Noah loves music. He loves to sing and dance. Most mornings he walks around with his ukelele singing away. If it's not his ukelele, he is banging on his drums. He definitely can entertain you.

He took a parent tot class with my mom. He totally loved it. It was too cute to drop him off. As I pull out, I see him in my rear view mirror, waving at me, carrying his backpack. His teacher is amazed by how much he can say. I guess that's the advantage of having a big brother.

Noah totally looks up to Nathan. They are inseparable although they also love to fight. And now Nate can't bully Noah because Noah fights right back. Sometimes he even makes Nate cry.

Even though Noah is a toddler, I still think of him as a baby. He is so cuddly, always wants to hug or kiss me. And my heart melts when he says, I dub (love) you mommy!

Nathan!

Nathan will be four in August. It seems like it was just yesterday that we were rocking him to bed. Now he's an active and energetic little person. He finished a year of preschool already. He just loved it. His favorite part of the day was art work. Sometimes he would come home with a blob of paint of his shirt. One day he even painted his shoes!

He is obsessed with horses. I don't even know how many he has...way too much. He never seems to get tired with playing with them. It's so cute because he puts them on time out too. What an imagination!

When he's outside he loves to collect roly poly's. He also likes snails and spiders. Sometimes it's embarrassing because he knows to look for spiders at corners so when we go to someone's house, he goes over to the corner and gets excited when he sees spider webs! Of course, whoever's house it is, they get all embarassed that Nate has pointed out spider webs!

He will go to St. Cyprian starting next month. We just bought his school uniforms. Wow he's all grown up. See for yourself.

A lot has gone on...

I totally forgot that I even had this blogger. So much has gone on. Life has been a whirlwind. Here's where we are now....

Nathan will be 4 next month.
Noah is an energetic two year old.
And I'm pregnant with our 3rd son.

Yup you read that right. 3rd boy!!! Baby #3 has come to us by a total surprise. I must admit, I was devastated at first. We were at a point in our lives where we were deciding if our family was complete. Little did we know that was being answered for us. 2008 was suppose to be about me...i had it all planned...lose weight, work out more, have more me time...that's what i get for trying to plan. So baby #3 will arrive in 3 weeks or maybe less. He keeps wanting to make his grand entrance already and since I was never in control in the first place, I have given up trying. He'll come when he pleases...

I am very excited to meet him. I have been trying to enjoy every moment of my pregnancy, knowing this is my last. He has been pretty easy to carry although I have gestational diabetes. So I have had to control my cravings...watermelon and ice cream is all i think about. And my latest craving is krispy kreme donuts. Oh I can't wait to have one!

I will try to post more often now that I'm on maternity leave. It's been so nice to hang out with the two kids and not be in a rush all the time. So this is what it feels like to be a stay at home mom. I'm really liking it (I think because I know it's temporary).

Diabetic scare...

I promised the boys that I'd take them to Chuck E Cheese. So on Tuesday night, we went there for an hour. On the way home, Nate threw up. I thought that maybe he just gagged...nothing big. An hour later, he threw up again and he was burning up. He ended up staying home from school the next day. The two boys stayed home with my mom (lucky her!). In the middle of the day, my mom called me at work and told me that Nate was crying for me. She said that everytime he used the bathroom, he would start crying and saying "I want my mommy." It even made my mom cry because he was so sad. I rushed home and took him to the dr. He had a 103 fever. The dr. said that it was probably a virus but she would check his urine just in case. It turns out that the dr found glucose in his urine. So we're rushed to get his blood drawn and we had to wait for results. Nate did an amazing job getting his blood drawn. He watched the entire thing and he didn't even twitch or cry. The staff was amazed...he came out of the lab with 4 thomas stickers, a bandaid, 3 disney stickers and 2 suckers. I had to stop them from giving him everything. The dr met me in the waiting room and said that she is pretty sure that he has diabetes. I go in panic mode...he's only 3. He can't be diabetic. She informed me that they'll probably have to send us to Stanford that night. We wait and wait and wait. Meanwhile, I'm paceing. My heart is beating a mile a minute. I don't know what to do with myself. That's the worst feeling...that feeling of helplessness. The feeling that you can't make your child feel better. All sorts of things are going through my head...i'm imagining the worst case scenario. Finally, I see both his drs walking toward me. I'm ready to hear the bad news...at this point, I can't feel my legs. Then she says the magic words, "he's ok." It took me awhile to comprehend it. I asked to hear it again. I was in shock. His blood test all came out negative! They tried to explain to me what happened. I didn't care...all I needed to hear was that he was ok.

That night Nate was back to normal...he was eating and playing and singing....whatever it was...was gone. thank goodness. hope it doesn't come back!

What's in a name???

As in my previous blogs, Nathan refuses to be called Nathan. When asked, his name is Nay Nay. When you ask Noah was his name is, he says that it's Nathan. Ask him how old he is, he says three! My boys are so silly. Nobody gets their name right. Maybe I should change my name. I've always wanted to be Zoe.

Obsessed with Balls...

Anything round to Noah is a ball. He goes in our backyard and picks an apple and uses it as a golf ball. He sees an orange from our fruit basket, it's a ball. He opens the refrigerator and sees eggs and he is excited to see a ball. Grant it, we try to keep the eggs at arms length from him! I have eaten many bruised fruits thanks to Noah!

Nate started preschool!

I don't know who was more emotional...me or him. I thought we would have an easy start to preschool. A few weeks before school started, Nate was so excited to go. In fact, he cried when we just dropped off some paper work and didn't stay. So the first day was totally different. Nate was crying hysterically. I heard him crying as I was leaving the parking lot. I also started to tear knowing that my baby was really a big boy. His teacher said he did fine after 10 minutes. It is now the third week of preschool and he is finally getting use to it. Now I can drop him off and he'll whine as we walk in but completely fine afterwards. He is currently going 3x a week, half days. We are putting him into 3 full days and hopefully he'll adjust quickly. Erdy and I went to our first of many back to school nights. I'm still in shock he's in school--time sure flies!