We are outta here

We are off to Perth tomorrow morning. We are going to see Nanna Dee and we are very excited. I told Noah tonight that he could pack his own case. I told him what to grab and I let him throw it in his case. The psychotic, neat freak part of me was saying "I'll repack it later so it doesn't get so creased up" but I left it just as Noah had packed it; all chucked in and messy. I thought Nanna Dee might have a laugh when she sees just how Noah packed his bag!!

Getting a little side tracked

T-shirts

Raiding his wardrobe

Books

Nappies

Trying to get his case shut....... it was just like out of a movie

My friend Michelle

Today Noah and I went to Kellerberrin to have lunch with an old school friend of mine. I have not seen Michelle properly in ages so it was so lovely to see her again and meet her little boy Kaleb. Kaleb is 6 months older than Noah. It was gorgeous watching the two boys together, at least while Noah was being good. Kaleb was so well behaved but Noah was a total delinquent. He was embarrassing. He threw himself on the floor, taught Kaleb how to climb all over the chairs, tried to climb on the table and rubbed sticky fingers everywhere. Noah certainly kept me busy over lunch.

Stratigically placed dinosaurs

Guarding the stereo

and the TV

Noah is terrified of dinosaurs. He got a couple of really awesome dinosaurs for Christmas but he hates them. Rather than put them away in the cupboard, until he is ready to start enjoying them, I have placed them around the house to guard some of our most prized possessions. They work a treat!!!

Needle

Noah had his 18 month check-up today, even though he is actually closer to 20 months (whoopsy), and he also had one immunisation needle for the chicken pox virus. We go for these check-ups with our local child health nurse in Cunderdin. Our child health nurse is Cath and she is so lovely and thorough. Noah even likes her after she has given him his needles. Now we won't have to see Cath again until Noah is around 3 years of age. We were lucky enough to have Cath do home visits for the first 3 months or so when Noah was born. It was really helpful as I found it pretty hard to get out of the house and all the way into town with a newborn. She always made me feel confident in what I was doing and she always had plenty of good advice. We will miss seeing nurse Cath.

confused???

Noah has started to use his potty as a normal chair. Today he also grabbed some "toilet paper" out of the cupboard to use while he was on the potty. He got out around 600 metres of paper towel rather than actual toilet paper. He also got some reading material to peruse while on the potty. I think he might be a bit confused about the whole potty thing!

The family visit

Austin

Jappy

Austin & Noah have the exact same hair colour

Addison

Hair cut time

Yesterday my cousin Rochelle, her husband Leigh and their three kids came for a visit. It was so nice to have them over and they stayed for most of the day which was great. The kids had a swim in the spa, a play in the cubby house and they watched some movies together. It was so lovely to see Noah get along with his cousins. Hopefully he will continue to adore his cousins; just as I adore mine.

1st ice-cream in a cone

Hallelujah

Richard is finally helping me to make the yard a bit more appealing. He is actually quite the handy man! Pigs do fly!!

Thirsty animals

Filling up his little paddle pool and watering the plants. Jumped in with his clothes on. Look closely at the corks he is playing with. Frank was thirsty. Very very thirsty. It was really funny apparently. Then Bonnie was thirsty too.

A couple more pics to make you smile

After sitting in the pool of water with his clothes on I decided to strip Noah down. After 5 or so minutes of playing I noticed something hilarious. You can imagine how much I was laughing when I saw that he had a wine cork wedged in between his little butt cheeks. Too funny!!! I can only presume that he sat on the cork and when he got up the cork got wedged in between his little buns of steel.

Farm stuff

My little farmer

So helpful

Ready to unload the hay

Rooster: free to a good home

Today Noah and I had a really "farmy" morning. We spent the morning cleaning out the chicken pen. We replaced the hay and we made some nests for our hens to start laying their eggs in. Maybe they will get the hint and start to lay us some eggs. Out of the 6 baby chickens that Uncle Eric gave us, only 3 are hens. We are hoping to give away 2 of the roosters. The roosters have started to hassle the hens big time so if anyone wants a rooster please let us know. We will be more than happy to part with them. Noah was so helpful. Even when he was really hot and bothered he kept going.

The Latest

Noah has started to shrug his shoulders when you ask him a question. Even when he knows the answer he shrugs. Pretty cute.