Crawling Progress

I caught Noah on camera making progress towards crawling. He's almost got his back legs under him. We've still got a way to go, but this is leaps and bounds beyond what he was doing before - just lying on his belly and crying.

8 Things Post

8 movies I love to watch:

1- Hercules

2- Kung Fu Panda

3-Much Ado About Nothing
4-Emperor's New Grove

5- Oscar

6- Blue Planet
6- My Fair Lady

7- Sound of Music

8- The Patriot (edited)

8 favorite restaurants:

1- McGrath's Fish House

2- Tucano's
3-Macaroni Grill
4- India Palace
5- Cafe Rio
6- Noodles and Company
7- Tokyo Joes

8 Things that happened yesterday:

1- Went to work

2- Played with Noah

3- Watched Kung Fu Panda with Aaron

4- Did some family history research

5- Went to a visiting teaching activity

6- Perused the BYU Bookstore

7- Did a smattering of laundry and dishes

8- Brought Aaron home lunch meat from the visiting teaching activity

8 Things I am looking forward to:

1- My family coming to town for Thanksgiving

2- Justin coming to town on Friday

3- Noah being able to entertain himself

4- 8 solid hours of sleep (someday...)

5- CHRISTMAS!!!!!

6- A full income with benefits (someday...)

7- Getting to work on some cool calligraphy projects
8- Getting my exercise regimen in place

8 Things on my wish list:

1- Clothes, clothes, and clothes

2- A super nice camera

3- A photo printer

4- 8 solid hours of sleep

5- Noah's two front teeth
6- A new set of scriptures

7- A cure for acne

8- Whirled peas

Firsts and DanceSport

Aaron and I went to DanceSport for our date this week. We took Noah with us, but he was really good, so I think it still counted as a date. It brought back fond memories of when Aaron and I were only friends and dance partners (or so he thought). We totally botched DanceSport, but we had a great time dancing. We're planning on taking a dance class together next semester. The jury is still out on whether that will be standard or latin. I'm voting for latin.

Noah seemed to really enjoy himself. He was fascinated by the bright colors and sparkles on the dancers' dresses. He watched intently for two hours before drifting off to sleep on my lap.

The last little while has been full of firsts: the first black president, the first time Noah woke up only once during the night, the first time I found an ancestor's name and got it ready for the temple, and the first time I tried corned beef and cabbage (a new favorite). Kind of cool...

Meet Joseph

Noah has a new best friend - a cute, colorful caterpillar named Joseph. He was a gift from Nona a few months ago, but Noah now finally has the eye/hand/foot coordination required for playing with him. Joseph can do all sorts of tricks. He sings "If You're Happy and You Know It", squeaks, jingles, and makes crackly noises.

Joseph is about the same size as Noah, so Noah's figured out that he can hold the caterpillar with his feet and use his hands to try and get the front end of him into his mouth, as seen here.


I don't know why I ever bought a teething ring. Joseph's face, antennae, and legs are perfect for gnawing.