All Because a Boy Met a Girl

Noah started to crawl yesterday!!! He was so awesome and showed it off at Oasis last night and wowed the onlookers. He went from a little movement to full on crawling in a matter of hours once he learned what was happening.

So here is what I have found out:

1. Crawling babies are fast. Not speedy fast, but fast like a magician. Poof he's gone.........into something he isn't supposed to touch. I turn around, still speaking to him, and I find I am talking to myself and He is off eating every last cheerio I missed on the carpet.

2. I say "NO" a lot.

3. He stops when I say "no" so at least he is obedient....or the smack on the hand works for anything I say "no" to. It's amazing that he understands me when I say, "Noah, no touch or I am gonna have to smack your hand." When I say that he smiles and simply turns and does something else as if to say, "Okay mommy." Such a blessing.

4. Everything is now "dadadadadadadadada"

5. When he does test boundaries it's a long test. He'll touch the blinds, "noah no touch". Then he'll look at me and sllloooowwwlllyy place his hand on the window sill and wait for me to do something. He's gonnna be our tester.

6. He has found just about every power outlet in our home and likes freak me out. I have them covered but still... no mother likes to see her child infatuated with electrical outlets.

7. He loves his father more than me cause his name really is "Ddadadadadada" and "Dada" is the fun and rough parent. Or it's cause he's a guy. But I swear when Jordan comes home Noah always has the biggest grin to give him!

8. He stands up on his own.......and then falls on his own too. Then blames it on me and tells on me to "Dadada"

9. I am now his favorite jungle gym. I have the bruises to prove it.

10. God could not be any better to us. Even though these things are happening I love every second of it. I know that it's only a matter of time before "dada" turns into, "Yo, can I borrow the car?" so I am trying as hard as I can to enjoy every second of this time I have with my baby while he's still a baby.

The more he grows the more I sit back and wonder in amazement that God made him from little peices of me and Jordan. We created life togheter and he is a funtioning work of art. It's so hard to explain this weird feeling but the words, "Bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh" now mean so much more to me than ever before. Adam's wonderment at Eve must have been catastrophic.

On another note, I am going to start a discipleship group with some young girls at our youth, so please pray for wisdom as I begin this journey. I just hope I do a good job of leading thier minds and hearts to Christ. And it's time away from my family but I hope it works out.

Here's our little man doing his crawl....

So the sentimental Crystal has come back with a start. I have been packing, slowly, but packing non the less and have found it oddly strange to say goodbye to this house. Even though the bills are laughable and huge and the neighbors are kinda...special. I still find myself a little sad to be leaving the place that Noah has started his life in. But then I am so happy to move on the other hand that I feel slightly like I am cheating on my old house with our new one....such is life.

But I sti;; need to give you all the new address (I need it myself too). Anyway, we have some fun pictures/videos for you guys to browse through until I get that. Noah "feeding himself", Noah eating ice cream (and lovin it) and fun other things.

Here you are: