small talk six

6/6 – 6 things about your children that you are proud of

if i'm playing catch-up, i'll try to catch up on my small talk 6s too. i'll save simple pleasures catch up for later since it's been awhile and i'll have to think of a bunch :-)

1. I'm so proud of Noah when he shares and plays with other kids. It's awesome watching him learn all about sharing and to know he's good at it.

2. He's so intelligent. Obviously all parents think their children are brilliant, but when other people confirm it it just makes me so proud.

3. He keeps smiling. even when he's had a bad day or something's just not working the way he wants it to, he still smiles (albeit through tears sometimes). He's a happy baby and it makes me proud to see him endure through things.

4. the way he eats. if you know me at all, you know i'm a picky eater. granted, i'll eat a lot of things and any restaurant we go to i can find SOMETHING on the menu...but i won't eat anything with beans in it or around it, same goes with Mayo. actually, just typing the 'm' word makes me shudder. ugh! so, watching Noah try so many new foods and learning that he loves them makes me proud.

5. how much he likes books. I'm a bookworm. I go everywhere with a book, b/c you just don't know when you might have 5 minutes to sit down and visit with your 'friends'. I've read to Noah everyday since the week my development e-mails told me that he could hear me from inside the womb. and now, we have boxes of books in his playroom, the living room, and his bedroom. He'll crawl over to the boxes and pull out books and flip through and 'read' them. he even reads Moo Baa LaLaLa to me at night (he'll say the animal sounds as I flip to the pages). I'm just so proud and impressed by him.

6. Everything. Maybe it's a cop-out answer, but it's true. everything he does makes me proud. just watching him grow and take in everything this world has to offer makes me proud and makes my heart want to burst.

catch-up (and ketchup)

seems like I haven't been blogging at all lately. I know, I know. I promised. I even put it on my 101! but, life gets in the way of best intentions. So here's a small glimpse of what's been happening in The Hamilton House since my last(real) update.

-Noah turned 1 year old! I made his cake and we had a few friends over along with his g-parents and 2 uncles. I have pictures, they're on my computer at home. I will will will upload them all to my NEW computer and put together some real photo posts. Geesh, i still have pics from Easter and our first baseball game too :-/

-We have a fence in our backyard! I love it. It just makes the house feel complete to me. my lovely cape cod on my quiet little family street with my picket fence. I love to sit out in the backyard with Noah and play now. and I don't feel like I have to hover over him all the time b/c he can't get too far away :-)

-I have a mom van. Yup, and I love it. I got a 2009 Dodge Grand Caravan. Sure, I miss my jeep...but the van is pretty cool(you know, for a mini-van). It has tail-gate bench seats in the back, which we learned are AWESOME for on-the-go diaper changes! sadly, someone did not think I should have nice things, which brings me to the next bullet.

-someone on my quiet little family street decided to squirt my brand new van with ketchup. and some people say, so what, it's just ketchup. but the disrespect and entitlement behind the act make me so angry that I start shaking. This is my private property- first, it's parked in my driveway at my house, that i worked my ass off to get. secondly, it's a brand new vehicle, which again- i worked my ass off to get. thirdly, this is a NICE neighborhood, whoever did this has now made me and all my neighbors question who we're living with. so not only have you vandalized my property, you've made me question my safety. it's not JUST ketchup to me- it's all in the thoughtlessness behind the act. and I'm sure so many people will say i'm over reacting, but you know what? if it didn't happen to you, don't tell me how to act.

-okay, back to good fun things. vacation at the end of July! we're going to see my grandparent's in Myrtle Beach and swinging down to visit my friend Erin and her family in Charleston for a weekend. I love Charleston and the south. If I wasn't so tied to my family up here, I'd try to move down there in a heartbeat.

in Noah news: he now has 9 teeth- one of his molars came in and the other's are working on it. he's finally sleeping through the night. he still loves Curious George. Snakes says 'psssshhhh'. he loves to point at our neighbor's doggy and bark at him. he can point out my nose, hair, glasses, and tongue. he knows a lot of animal sounds...although lately when I ask him what any animal says, he tells me "Noah" or "laa laa laa" (thanks a lot Sandra Boynton). I could go on and on. I'm so proud of my little man. I'm so excited to watch him grow and I love seeing all the new things he discovers everyday.