Dia de las Madres

Mi Padre Celestial me ha bendecido con este llamamiento divino. Hay veces puede ser dificil: como reaccionar cuando tu pequeno te golpea, o los pequenos tiran su berrinche en la tienda o simplemente lloran de todo todo el dia. En esos dias dificiles, me pongo a pensar en que no podria tener otro hijo(a) mas. El evangelio me da consuelo y fuerzas para seguir adelante. Al ver como tus pequenos crecen cada dia y del amor puro que tienen por ti aunque les jales las orejas o los pelos o les des un tas tas en la colita, ellos aun te aman y te quieren abrazar para sentirse mejor. Cuando veo esto, si vale la pena pasar por estas pequenas pruebitas. Amo a mi familia y quiero estar con ella por las eternidades.
Ahora, mi mama tambien tuvo que pasar por esto y me doy cuenta todo el sacrificio que hizo por mi familia. Gracias mamita por ensenarnos las cosas mas importantes en esta vida como el evangelio. Ella nos alistaba y llevaba sola a la capilla todos los domingos. Mi mama es una mujer de fe! Esto nunca lo voy a olvidar. Gracias por tu gran ejemplo mamita!

It's a picnic

This is the 3rd year, we attended Joe's work picnic party after tax season. It was fun, our whole family participated in all the relay games, yes even Noah and Emma. The kids got their first tan. It wa so hot! Oh well, at least they had a water balloon fight. I got Joe, hehe. Someone hit Noah accidentally so he cried for the rest of the afternoon.

Noah's first camping experience

Joe was invited to go camping with the Boy Scouts last Saturday. They needed another adult to come along with the Scout leader. All the young men who signed up to go cancelled and so Joe was a little sad. The Scout leader still had to go to teach a class and he would also bring his 5 year old son with him. He told Joe he could come along  if he really wanted too and that he could bring Noah with him. So, Joe packed himself and I helped him with Noah. I was a little nervous about Joe going alone with Noah. Many thoughts came to my mind such as: Noah will get lost, Noah will cry at night, Noah will be sad and cold and then I figured that I needed to trust Joe. They left Friday at 4 p.m. and came back Saturday at 2:30 p.m. both in good shape "whole". According to Joe, Noah said at night time home and mama. He loves me! I knew it!

   

Nico and Noah were really cold in the morning

Most likely throwing a rock.

Isn't that the cutest camping chair...not ours!

Eating his frozen granola bar.

ABCs and 123s

I meant to post this a while back. Noah has known his ABC's for about 3 months. He would watch this Leapfrog movie called the Letter Factory everyday. He finally learned it and likes spelling everything he sees that has letter. At the beginning he had a few of the letters wrong but it was so cute to hear him.
C- si
K- he would say cake - this one was my favorite one!
L- he would call it i
R- he would call it i too
S- he would just make the sound ssss
W- he would call it dabe
Z- he would call it zi zi zi 

After he knew his ABC's, I borrowed fromt he library another Leapfrog movie call the Match Circus. He loves this show and within a couple of weeks he knew how to count to 10.
6- He calls this one sick =)

Yeah Noah! He is accomplishing more things now that he can express himself a little bit more than before. At least he is talking to me, daddy, Emma and a few friends who come by the house every once in a while.