Noah's Newborn Photo's

I just realized I never posted Noah's Newborn pictures!! Better late than never and how perfect to post them on his 10 month birthday!! Soo we may as well reminisce! I will let the pictures do the talking:

A Pre-Christmas Weekend

What a super fun weekend we had around these parts!! Noah experienced soo many firsts and M and I loved being there right along with him to watch! It was great!! Oh and another great thing - we didn't cook dinner all weekend!!

Friday morning I took Noah to the doctors since I forgot about his appointment the day before! Oops!! Luckily they were able to get him in because I had feared he was coming down with croup. He had a cough start up over night that I had never heard and he has had a cold before! The doctor said it is likely due to the dry house, as his lungs sounded great and she gave him a clean bill of health. So we put a humidifier in his room and that was it!

Friday night we were supposed to goto a Christmas Party, but M worked later than they planned and therefore it was just too late to go with Noah, so he grabbed dinner on his way home. We had a nice quiet evening, which allowed me get some more work on a Christmas present I am making! 

Saturday morning started off with a hair cut for M!! Then we headed over to the firehall to have breakfast with Santa!! My sister and get kiddos joined us too!! Noah did great with Santa!!

And we decided to do a family photo too!! We loved seeing Noah's reaction to Santa and were happy that it went well!! This may in fact be the only smiling one we get for a while, although he has never made strange with anyone yet. 

We tried to get one of all the cousins together, but we failed. Brandon wanted nothing to do with Santa! 

After breakfast, we went home and Noah had a nap right up until it came time to head to the farm for a Christmas gathering!! Noah did great at opening presents, actually unwrapping one and he loved pulling tissue paper out of the bags! I took my camera and failed to use it! But I did steal these from Mike's cousin: 

Noah enjoyed Turkey for the first time too!!

We headed to the Santa Claus parade in the village after dinner. Noah seemed to enjoy yet another first and luckily it wasn't too cold out!! Daddy was in the parade with the fire department! 

Noah had one busy day and went to bed great! 

Sunday morning we got ready for our family photoshoot!! Noah was in a great mood for it and was super smiley!! I can't wait to get them back this week!! 

Afterwards we went to the farm to pick up a Noahs presents: 

Sunday afternoon was spent tidying up the mudroom, doing and putting away laundry!! I swear this job is never ending!! I managed to get Noah to bed myself!! We are going through a stage right now where he will only let Daddy put him to bed, so we are working on fixing it and actually had success lady night! We will see how it gives tonight when Daddy isn't actually home!! 

After Noah was in bed, M and I watched Brian's House together while I finished up a few projects, including bathroom curtains: 

I'm soo happy with how they turned out!! 

I will fore warn you that this week is super busy again, but I am going to try really hard to blog! My cousin from out west is home and I finally get to meet sweet baby Briar!! I am also going to see The Social this week, which will also include my first train ride!! Stay tuned!! 

Hope everyone had a safe and fun weekend too!! 

Thursday Things

Ok, so clearly I've been slacking on the blog front and I am sorry. I knew December would be busy, but not this busy...Today is our first day home!  Here is what we have been up to:

Monday we had play group. Noah was super clingy all day, but we decided to try something new and sure enough Noah decided to try his hand at walking with the help of a handy toy of course! If I could figure out how to upload the video then we would have a video to watch... But I don't know how, so you can check my Instagram. I was soo nervous for him to fall and wipe out that his head is not even in the video. 

Tuesday we went to visit Daddy at work in the field to see the new machine. Noah sure was in heaven:

I will share some more pics after Christmas on this one!! 

After visiting Daddy we went to see Aunt Amy, had some lunch and while Noah snoozed, I decided to help my sister out and took on an order for her!! She has been super busy with her shop with the Christmas rush! I haven't beaded in years, like 15+ years. But it came right back to me! 

When we got home a certain little miss needed a snuggle!! 

Noah had a great day and couldn't wait to share all his stories!! 

Yesterday we had Grandma come over to babysit while I hit up a book sale with S! We made out pretty well!! I dropped S off and ran to Winners and believe it or not I left empty-handed!! Carters was up next because I realized we had very few 12 month sleepers! They had a BOGO 50% off sale, so I managed to get 6 more sleepers! In the afternoon I hit up a craft sale and made out well there too! 

Noah played with his new walking toy from Aunt Amy and in case you don't believe how much he loves it, here is the proof: 

Huge smiles around these parts!! 

I finished the necklace for my sister last night and started back up crocheting Noah's blanket. You may recall I was just about finished when I ended up having Noah early. So my goal is to have it finished for Christmas. His love for blankets is just like mine and he really likes my knit one from my Grandma, so I'm sure he will love this one! Then I can get started on my making my own!! 

Today is a crazy snow day, so we are staying home!! We have a busy weekend ahead, including family pics!! 

Weekend Rewind

Well I can actually say that this weekend we accomplished quite a bit in the Christmas department!!

Friday in the day Noah and I went shopping! We didn't get as much as we wanted to get, but we were able to cross a few things off the list!! Noah found it to be exhausting, but wouldn't fall asleep in the mall! 

Saturday morning I put on my brave face and finally trimmed Noah's hair! It was crazy long around his ears, yet I was soo nervous to do it! So he had his first hair cut! No tears from either of us!! 

Then Noah and I got ready to goto my cousins baby shower. You can sort of see the new way I mentioned I have been curling my hair that I mentioned last week: 

We headed to Guelph, hit up the new Costco there first and believe it our not I was in and out in 15 minutes - on a Saturday!!! Oh and gas was only $1!! The shower was good! Noah was a ham the whole time, but he was soo good!! Here he is with my cousin and the newest little to-be!! 

Crazy to think there will be another new baby in the family come January!! 

Saturday evening Noah hung out with Daddy - I was chopped liver because I had been with him all day!! 

Sunday morning we packed up and headed out for a day of Christmas shopping!! Noah was a trooper, but I am happy to say we are 90% done with just a few more things and stocking stuffers to go!! When we got home we played with Noah and then got everything ready to wrap! We did a little Pinterest project that worked for the most part, but I forgot to shape it first! So we might try again, but here's how it looks: 

The dogs had a little snuggle: 

After Noah went down we finished wrapping all but one big one and are about 75% finished wrapping!! Needless to say we are waiting for stuff to come in the mail! I will say it was soo crazy to see this tag popping up from last year!! 

We put everything under the tree as far back as we could to help keep Noah from wanting over there! 

Overall it was a very Christmas-y weekend!!! Can't believe it will be Noah's first Christmas soo soon!

Let's Talk Drool

Drool is dripping around these parts non-stop lately with teething going on in full force over here! All Noah wants for Christmas are his two bottom teeth!! They are almost through!! He is such a trooper!

We are constantly swapping bibs, so I thought maybe I would try one of the bandana bibs and I will be honest, it did not disappoint!!

I got in touch with shop owners Mel from Matelele and she sent me the sweetest bandana bib to try out! Of course this is another Canadian shop I am sharing out of Montreal!

Mel is a mother of two and started up Matelele with her friend Lu and together they make absorbent bibs, nursing wear, bags, blankets, burp clothes and scarves.

Let's take a look shall we? These are some of the bibs I am currently drooling over....

Raindrops

Bowties

M of course wants this one:

Starwars

Noah would love this one:

Needless to say there are many to choose from!! So which one did we get? Well I will let this little model show you:

Clearly he takes his job seriously!

But he can't help but to let his real feelings out:

This drool catcher is a huge hit in our house and it really is absorbent!! It really well made and gas two snaps on the back so it can grow with him!! 

Mel was also generous enough to offer my readers 10% off a $20 purchase using the code LIFEASIKNOWIT 

 and if it is your first time shopping on Etsy, you can save $5 by clicking HERE.

Head on over and check out this awesome shop!! 

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Thanks again Mel! It was a pleasure working with you!!