I realized that I hadn't gotten many pictures of him crawling and before I know it he won't be crawling anymore. I think it is the cutest thing when a baby crawls around. He tries to move so quick, and for the most part he does, except when he gets too excited and doesn't move his hands fast enough and falls on his belly. I love watching his hands smack on the floor and his little hips moving back and forth. Oh man, how fun.
I was so excited for the day that Noah would greet me in the morning or after a nap standing up in his crib waiting for me. The day has come. Sometimes he just sits there waiting but it is too fun when I come in and he is standing there with a huge grin, and starts to jump in excitment of getting up and seeing mom. Oh man, these are the times when I get the over whelming love for him that just takes over my whole body and I just want to squeeze him and kiss him.
Noah took a ride in the laundry basket the other day with grandma. She always lets him do super fun things. He had so much fun going around the family room in his little car. What a cute smile that is. It is amazing how much the kid drools. Hopefully he has some more teeth coming in.
Noah is getting closer and closer to walking everyday. Ever since he started crawling, I feel like his mobility has sky rocketed. He can pull himself up to standing position and actually lets go now and balances all by himself for a couple seconds. He is growing so fast. I can't believe he isn't a little baby anymore.
Ben used to do gingerbread houses every year, and I thought it would be fun to incorporate it into our family. This year we tried it. It was pretty fun. Lots of laughing and eating!
After a month or so of working from home I'm back to working an office. This week I secured about 100 sqfeet of office space all to myself. It's small and at the moment doesn't even have a desk, but it's got some nice windows and most importantly it's quiet and my own space. I spent half a day working here yesterday and it was amazingly productive. Not having a desk has put some strain on my neck and back, but my work is getting done. It's really nice.
It was awesome spending all day with my family and squeezing work between conversations with Amber and play time with Noah, but it's nice to have some separation again. After just one day of having the office I already feel an emotional relief. Having a space I can go outside of the house and have a good chunk of time to just work has made coming home a lot more enjoyable. I'm able to get home and just enjoy being home with out having to find some time to work. I just put in my time at the office and head home to enjoy the family.
Everytime I think I got the best picture of him he surprises me. He is so much fun. The joys of life are good.
Alright, long story....I decided to make some yummy peanut butter chocolate swirl brownies. I heard of this recipe off of the food network, Barefoot Contessa to be exact. I watched her make the brownies and then got the recipe off her website. I thought it wouldn't be a problem. How could I go wrong right? Well, the recipe called to put this HUGE batch of brownies into a sheet pan. I thought that was interesting but I wanted to follow directions. Not until later did I find out that it needed to be 1 1/2 in. deep. So I was originally going to put it into a broiler pan because it was deepest sheet pan we had. My lovely brother and husband we very much apart of it as well, when they said that brownies DONT rise and that putting them in a simple cookie sheet pan would be fine, even though it was filled to the rim with batter. So stupidly I listened to them. After about 20 minutes the oven was smokeing heavily and batter was falling out into the oven. My mom and I tried to solve the problem without ruining the brownies, but that was impossible. Finally the batter started on fire, and the entire oven was flaming. I was so scared. I was yelling "Fire Fire" and luckily my mom just got a fire extinguisher. She gave it to Ben and he saved the day. We had to take Noah outside and open up every window in the house. What a mess it was. Everything smelled like smoke. How horrible! I am thankful no one was hurt and that the damage wasn't worse. But I can say I am a little nervous to bake again.
I love these Father/Son pictures. How cute. You can kind of see Noah's Thanksgiving outfit. He had blue cords with a long sleeve white shirt and a sweater vest. He was adorable. Just a couple days ago Noah began talking like crazy. He started whining and incorporating mamamama in it. The next day he started saying adadadada and babababa. I love it. We are so excited.
