Easter Fun

Happy Easter Everyone! We had such a wonderful time celebrating Easter with our family and friends. Below are some pics from the fun weekend!

The weekend before Easter we went out to see the Easter Bunny fly in on a helicopter and spent the day with Noah's best pal Bodi! It was Bodi's 2nd Birthday!

 

Noah got to pet a tiny lab puppy that was for sale there! 



Daddy took Logun and Noah for a ride in some tupperware. Tupperware = fun sled.

Painting is so much fun

Trying on Daddy's cap

Easter weekend, Grandma and Grandpa Oistad came over to dye eggs with Noah.  Our lil artist loved dunking the eggs in all the colors!

Daddy's T-shirt became a makeshift smock for Noah!

I love coloring the eggs THIS MUCH!

YAY!! I wish every day was Easter!

Whoo hoo!

The finished product!  Note the "piston cup" egg from Noah's favorite movie, "Cars".

Birthday roses - so pretty!

Coloring with Daddy

Daddy sported this adorable suit for Easter when he was 2 years old

Noah looked just as handsome in it 30 years later!

Run Run Run

 



Easter Egg Hunt!

Emma came over to help find the eggs!

Right before this pic was taken, Noah and Emma had a darling little conversation while looking for eggs. They looked so grown up!

Noah's godparents Kalei and Phil got him this awesome Ice Breaker game, which he LOVES!

I love this picture of Noah and his Pao Pao

20 weeks (Laudin - this is for you!)

21 weeks (with my cuddle bug)

22 weeks

  

Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice

We were so thrilled (and surprised) to find out last week that we are expecting a baby girl in September!  I had been so convinced from the beginnning that we were having another boy it was a complete shock when the ultrasound technician said the baby was a little girl! We are over the moon excited for our little darling to arrive and join our family!  Our O/B said everything in the ultrasound looks great with our little one and that her growth and development is right on track for 20 weeks.  While finding out the gender was exciting, hearing that our baby girl is healthy was the best news of all.

My 32nd birthday was last Thursday and to celebrate, Wes took me to the mall to buy my first "pink" and to take me to lunch.  It was so much fun shopping for those itsy bitsy onsies again. We happened to pull out some of Noah's preemie/newborn clothes the other night and we couldn't believe he was ever that small!

A funny note about our "lil miss":  There have been three times when I have been holding Noah in my arms while he was crying and our little baby girl kicked so hard it nearly doubled me over!  I have been saying for a while that we were hoping that our 2nd child would be the mellow one, but I think we have a lil fighter on our hands.  haha. At least we know she will be able to hold her own around her big brother. 

Noah is 2 1/2!

Our lil man is 2 1/2 years old and so much fun!  We have been having a blast playing with him and getting out to enjoy the Alaska spring weather!  We have spent many weekends playing at the elementary school playground near our house with his lil friends. 

Below are a few of our favorite "Noah moments" from this month:

When we turn the car blinker on to make a turn, Noah pipes in from the backseat with “dinko, dinko, dinko” and his little head bops back and forth in rhythm with the signal sound.  Hilarious and catching.  Sometimes I catch myself doing it too even when he isn't in the car with me!

Each time we pull the car into the garage, he sings “Ho—ooome”!

BODI BODI BODI!!!”  Noah gets very excited if we tell him he is going to see or play with his best pal Bodi (Bodi is 7 months younger than him so they are close in age).  Once, he didn’t want to leave PaPa’s house and was telling us "NO", but then we said we were going to see Bodi and he RAN to get his coat and shoes and said “Bodi? Go see Bodi?” all the way home.  That same night Bodi stayed late with us and we put both boys to bed.  In the morning, Noah ran into “Bodi’s room” to see Bodi.

When he does something funny and we laugh, he asks “Noah be funny?”  Or if Wes says something to make us laugh, he says "Dad be funny?"

“Peeeeease”  -  Noah has always been good at saying Thank you even at a really young age.  He is not so good at remembering to say "Please".  So now when he asks for something like “more grapes!” we always remind him it is nice to say, “Please” so then he will repeat his request, “More grapes peeeeeease” in the sweetest voice ever.

"Wiper nose! Wiper Eyes!”  -- Our boy is a tad bit OCD in that he does not like to have his face or hands dirty.  We tease my mom a bit for cultivating this habit as she constantly cleans him as he eats and has done so ever since he was a baby.  But mostly, I think he likes the attention of having someone run a soft tissue/cloth across his face and hands at his demand.

Noah has an OBSESSION with all things from the Disney CARS movie.  Books, bath toys, Coloring books, toy cars, movie, paints… Grandma and Grandpa practically bought out the Disney CARS section while at the Disney Store Vegas.  My mom said they had to bring their clothes back in the cooler because their suitcase was packed full of cars clothes, jammies, cars, toys, swim gear etc. 

He is also starting to get into Thomas and Friends, but mostly just likes us to play the opening theme song over and over. 

Unfortunately, with Springtime, also comes the spring crud. Noah was super sick this month. Poor lil guy had nasty cough, fever and flu bug this month.  We lots watched of Cars and Thomas with him on the couch and he got LOTS of TLC and snuggles.

Walking with dad to the playground! Love our Alaska mountains!

Ball! Nevermind that it is a pink Barbie ball that we found in our yard when we moved into our house. Noah loves it just as much!

Slides are so much fun!

Kendra came out to play with us! She has the BEST smile ever!

Bodi came to play too!  Sunday Funday indeed!

Watching the birds outside with daddy

Playing at the park with my best pal Bodi!

My hair is as wild as I am in this pic!

Hi mom

Pics from Pa Pa (Grandma) Reimer's Camera

My mom watches Noah for us three days a week, so he gets lots of special time with his "Pa Pa" (Chinese for Grandma).  Below are a few pics from her camera!

 My parents got Noah this little satin outfit from Hong Kong.  My mom had to put him in his chair to keep him still long enough to take a photo.  The other photos were blurry from him running around in his cool new Chinese outfit!



Reading books with Pa Pa and Gong Gong in my new duds.  This is when mom realized Noah really needed a hair cut ASAP.  Look at that wild mane! ha ha.

Noah's 3rd Chinese New Year complete with Lucky Red Pocket Money from his family and relatives.

 My parents raided the Disney Outlet while they were in Vegas for all the "Cars" stuff.  Noah fell asleep in his Cars nap sack, with Ramone in his arms and McQueen and Mater looking over him.  Apparently our boy cannot have too much Cars stuff.  He loves it all!

Happy Times in March

March is turning out to be a great month!  Our little Noah has really shown us his artistic side with his love of coloring, painting and making cars out of play-doh.  The sun has been shining and the temps came up so we have been having fun playing outside with friends. 



I love painting in my Cars coloring book!



Mommy's budding artist



Look how the paint colors hit the paper mommy!


Sledding over to Lawsons' to play with Aiden and Nathen!

Lawson Park is fun!





Bubbles are so amazing! 

Happy Aiden

Bathtime with Bodi is so much fun!

Splash Splash Splash!!

Jumping for joy because I am gonna be a BIG Brother!

YAY!  It is going to be so much fun having a little brother or sister!

Couch jumping is fun, can we do it again?!

and baby makes four!

14 weeks today! So happy to be in the 2nd Trimester!

tiny fingers, tiny toes

We can't wait to meet our little one in September!





February - Playtime Fun

Another busy month with our sweet, happy pre-schooler!   Every day, Noah surprises us with how much he knows and can communicate.  His vocabulary has grown tremendously and he can clearly tell us what he wants which is a mixed blessing.  We love being able to have conversations with him and talk to him, but Noah doesn't like it when he does a good job of clearly asking us for something and we tell him no (i.e. cookies for breakfast or juice at bedtime). 

Noah also knows quite a few songs: "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", "Thomas and Friends Theme Song", "Itsy Bitsy Spider", "Ring around the Rosie" and "This Old Man".  One Saturday morning, Noah got out of bed and came into our room and started to serenade us with the Thomas theme song.  He probably only sung about 1/25 of the words and hummed the rest, but the words he does sing, he sings with enthusiasm!

Noah's Favs this month:

• Favorite book: "Roadwork" from the Cars movie where he proudly points out all the characters by name
• Favorite song to sing: "Spider" - Itsy Bitsy Spider, complete with hand motions
• Favorite food: Ham and cheese
• Favorite way to stall bedtime:  after reading books, he wants to "Rock-Rock-Rocky" and cuddle in his rocker with Dank. Tonight, when he asked to rock for the third time, I told him it was time for bed, he looked up at me and said, "hug?"  and he gave me a huge bear hug. I'm such a sucker, but it was so cute.
• Favorite shows: Sid the Science Kid and Thomas and Friends
• Favorite toy: His "white car" which is a mini Anchorage Police Car that Papa Keith gave him.
• Favorite online video clips - Thomas and Friends theme song and Crazy Frog-Axel F
• Favorite bath toys: At bathtime, Noah will go into his room and grab as many toy cars as he can carry (often dropping some and stopping to pick them back up) to play with during his bath.  He also gets us a washcloth too, which can be quite the handful when you have arms full of cars.  It is fun to watch him try to manage it all.  We are in trouble once he realizes that he can bring more toys to the bath if he makes two trips.

Here are a few random moments of playtime fun that we shared with Noah this month.  Most of these are indoors because we hit a cold snap in late January with negative temps.  Thankfully over the past week, it is has warmed up to 25-30 degrees which feels like a heat wave in comparison!




My pal Bodi put lots of cars and trucks on my tray so I could play with them during dinner. 
Thanks Bodi!




I love bathtime!  It is so much fun to play in the water with my cars!




Trying out my new potty! (I'm just sitting on it, but it's a start!)




Rock-Rocky with Dad and Dank




Making play-doh cars and trucks




I like to put the head lights and tail lights on the cars




Ta-da! Another car for me to play with. vroom vroom!




I also love coloring in my Cars coloring book





Coloring is fun!

 


I love to read my "dog" story on my V-Reader (baby kindle)





I love to play and hide under Dank

 


After the other playgroup kids kept trying to play with my fire engine, 
I begged Pa Pa to let me sleep with it during nap. 

 


Snacktime at H2Oasis Water Park




These cups don't stand a chance.  TIMBER!