Other funny things that have happened over the last little bit:

 

In addition to his love of the "Lolax" Noah has taken quite a liking to  "Fight Song" by Rachel Platten. It used to be that he was obsessed with "Hooked on a Feeling" by Blue Swede and "Come and Get Your Love" by Redbone off the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack but one day Tom brought home "Fight Song" from work and that has taken over. We listen to it multiple times a day now.

 

Another member couple named Brad and Alysha Gravatt moved in to our building about two months ago. Their parking spot is right outside our front door. As luck would have it the license plate on their car is dented and every time we pass it Noah says: "Someone broke that car! I will tell Brad and Lysha fix it!"

 

One day at lunch Noah was getting ready for his nap and he started saying "good night fruit snacks, good night, carrots, good night sandwich."

 

Last week Tom was changing Noah's diaper and Noah started crying out for Jesus to come help him because he didn't want to get his diaper changed. My heart melted!

 

We pulled out the Halloween decorations on Wednesday. We pulled out some fake cobwebs and some paper bats that we've used to decorate the walls. Noah got to put the bats on the wall and he was so proud. He kept saying: "The bats so pretty!" I had Tom put the cobwebs up after Noah went to bed and when he woke up the next morning Noah walked out into the living room and at first noted the cobwebs by calling them trash until Tom said "No, they're cobwebs." Now, to Noah, they are "scobwebs."

 

We've had an ant problem in our apartment all summer. Just this last week Noah has taken to saying "What are you doing in our house ant!" Whenever he sees one.

 

Noah also loves blowing raspberries whenever he sees a piece of exposed skin. This was no big deal until a few weeks ago when I was wearing a V-neck shirt and Noah unintentionally ended up motor boating me. It has now moved on to him shoving things down the back of my pants whenever I sit down. We're trying to nip this in the bud.

 

While Noah may look nothing like me he got a few of my personality traits one being that he really has a hard time when things don't always come easily to him. We've started to telling him that sometimes things take practice and that he just needs to be patient and keep trying and then he will learn to do them. Over the last little while we've heard a lot of "Keep Trying!!" and "No be patient!" when he is frustrated.

 

Tonight Noah was playing around by throwing my pajama pants on Tom's head. At one point he walked over to Tom (with the pants still on his head) and said "give me a hug!" and then grabbed Tom's head. We also went to help clean the church tonight and Noah loved helping me look for the trash and using the carpet sweeper.

 

On the Georgia front she is still growing and becoming more alert than ever which is at once a good thing and a not so good thing since she is now requiring a lot more work. We're hearing more and more laughs every day but still not giggles or anything more just like the occasional "heh!". There is a woman in Relief Society by the name of Julie though who adores G and always asks to hold her. Sunday she was holding her and I said "Just let me know when you want me to take her back." and Julie said "I'm going to need your phone number then." haha She really is a sweet lady.

 

As far as Tom goes, he got notification that his application for licensure was approved and that he is officially an independently licensed social worker! Woot! And it is coming with a pretty comfy raise from his work so we're not complaining. Now if we could just get rid of those pesky student loans...

 

Tom has also been digging "The Munsters" lately. Have you heard the song "Uma Thurman" by Fall Out Boy? They use this bridge repeatedly throughout the song. A little while ago I told him that it sounded familiar but I couldn't figure out where I had heard it. A while later he was listening to some "Halloween music" on iTunes and I heard the bridge so I said to Tom "That's Uma Thurman!" Turns out it was actually the theme music to "The Munsters" and Fall Out Boy just ripped it off for their song. It must have piqued Tom's interest though because he has been watching the old series and is enjoying it pretty well.

 

Sorry for the two long posts... This is why I need to do this more frequently rather than every two or three weeks!



So as I was going through pictures from the last few weeks I was kicking myself because I remember the big things but I'm sure there were a bunch of cute little things that Noah or Georgia or even Tom did over the last few weeks that I don't remember clearly. I really need to try and update this thing daily or at least weekly... This might be another picture overload.

 A few weeks ago we were at the park and as Noah was on his way over to the play structure he spotted a bunny rabbit. He stopped turned around and said to me: "I see a bunny! I will chase him!" He then began running after the rabbit going "Come here bunny!"

 

Noah's new thing is sharing his toys with Georgia. "I will share toys with Miss G!" This was him sharing his stacking rings with her.

 

Noah has been on a Dr. Seuss kick lately. This is Tom reading "The Grinch" to the kiddos. Noah's favorite is "The Lorax" or the "Lolax" as he calls it. There were a few days last week where he woke up and that was the first thing he requested. We're debating having him be the Lorax for Halloween.

 

I was making Samoa Bars last week (delicious by the way!) and Noah requested another "sample".



On this particular day Tom pulled out his guitar and Noah decided that he wanted to play too. However, this quickly devolved into Noah crying because he wanted to play the guitar (translation: he didn't want Tom touching the guitar at all.)

More of Noah sharing his toys with G. My favorite part of this picture is that for some reason a shoe was included.

We have been super excited for Fall in our house. One day last week Noah woke up from his nap and the first thing he said was "I want go store, buy pumpkin?" I had to go to the store and the mini pumpkins were only $.89.

One day last week I set Noah up with some carrots and dip (ranch) for a snack. I turned around to find him licking his plate clean with an end result that looked something like...

 

this.

Noah found a sticker from a pair of pants we had recently bought him. He came running up to me saying "I'm wearing a moustache!"

Sunday morning Tom was feeding Noah breakfast and according to Tom Noah was taking his hammer to his high chair tray saying "Grandpa, are you in there?"

We were walking through the mall Monday afternoon to find that they have installed a new play area. If you knew our mall, you'd be surprised. Noah loved the slide.

I was cutting up a hot dog for Noah's dinner one night when he just picked up the hot dog and started eating it like this.

Georgia with an old man wig. Really, the fake cobwebs we use for our Halloween decorations.

Car Seat Row.

A group of ladies in my ward invited us over for a crafting day this week. Two of them have babies around Georgia's age. The one on the far left is actually only a week older than G.

We had mummy pigs in a blanket for a festive Halloween dinner. Noah wanted to help Tom. He performed his trick with the hot dog that he did earlier this week.