Welcome Hayden Flynn

We want to Congratulate Trevor and Sarah on the birth of their second son. Hayden David Flynn who was born today 8lbs 5oz, 21.5 inches!!! Not sure when we'll get to meet this little guy, I have a feeling he will be walking and running around when we do :(.

Our trip

we are back from our trip to Florida and we had a pretty good time. It went by fast but than I am also glad to be back home too. Noah's pretty fussy today and it was expected, he travels well but it seem to also take a toll on him. I am hoping by the weekend that he gets back into his routine.

Here are a few pictures taken at south beach in Miami and at our friends pool. Noah loved the water so much that he actually would start to cry when we would take him out of it. He's going to be a little fish, that is for sure.

I know it's been a while.....

Things have just seem busy lately and I just haven't had much time to write. Not that there is a whole lot going on with us....But around us there seem to be a lot.

Well for us, we had grampie Flynn down for a week over Easter and it was a great visit. Noah and grampie played every morning giving me a bit of a break to catch up on some email and most importantly have a long shower in the morning instead of literal my 4 min shower where I jump in wash and jump out so fast I can't remember if I used shampoo or body wash on my hair. I think grampie got more exercise with us than he's had when tom was little considering I was always told that he drove to the school to see a soccer game ( they lived right across the street from the school literally). We took him on a hike at big sur to see a huge water fall, hahaha I think someone for got to turn on the faucet that day, there was just a trickle. Than an afternoon in china town in San Francisco and more walk to the park or a mall etc. You did great grampie. :)

This week we are heading to Florida to visit one of our friends who use to live in Mountain View too for a week, but moved back to Florida last yr. Not sure what is all planned but it should be a good time. I am just hoping Noah does well on this trip.

Well news around us is we'll have a new nephew soon, and Noah will have his 10th cousin. Sarah and Trevor are eagerly awaiting their second child who is 4 days late now, I am thinking it's going to be an April Fools baby!!!! We are really happy for you guys.

As well as Tom's cousin Jenn and her Husband Keith found out they are pregnant with twins this month which is exciting news but are having complication with the twins. They have been diagnosed with TTTS, which is pretty serious since she is 19 wks I think. So we are praying for them, that their twins girls will pull through this okay and that Emily will have two new sister to play with. We are really think of you guys every day.

I all so have many friends that are pregnant and due soon and others that are getting married. It almost seem so crazy how many ppl are having babies and wedding but I guess that is what happen at our age!!!

Well that is pretty much all that is going on here with us. Hope eveyone else is doing well.

9 months old!!!

Our little man is now 9 months old. Time is going too fast and it's crazy that he's been with us the same amount of time he grew in my belly. We love you little guy.


Here's a video of Noah sliding, it doesn't really show how well he can do it because he was tired and there was a huge puddle of water at the bottom of the slide so we couldn't let him slide down to the end, but he loves to slide.

Giggles

Noah kept laughing b/c the pop links were so long that they would break and fall and hit the floor, and it didn't hit his head hard as you see he laughed so don't worry.

My little helper????

I have been wondering why the place looks like a mess after I tidy it up. It wasn't too bad during the day when the big kid was at work, the place was tidy. However I think my little kid is taking after the big kid. We are only trying to help they say???

A day at the Park

Noah playing the Piano at the park


Noah sliding down the slide

And the signs of spring are here!!!!

videos

Well here are some old videos that I have taken and just haven't had time to get them up. Hope you enjoy them.



Noah's early crawling days.




One of Noah first attempts to pulling himself up with out our help.




Noah got caught standing up in his crib before we dropped the mattress.

Sleep and Awake

These are the faces you see when someone doesn't want to fall asleep and when someone wake up face. He crawls to the end of his crib which is right by the door and yells for us.

So excited

Well it's been a while and not much has change in our lives to really write about. Noah growing of course and is crawling, pulling himself into a standing position, and is never quite for a moment (might need to invest in some ear plugs....especially when I know what he is saying) but it's cute.

Anyhow back to what I am excited about.... I got two new cook books in the mail and I can't wait to start using them(yes, I am a geek, I get excited over cookbooks). Well the two I got....well the title says it all.

1. The Sneaky Chef by Missy Chase Lapine (simple strategies for hiding healthy foods in kids' favorite meals)

2. Deceptively Delicious by Jessica Seinfeld (simple secrets to get your kids eating good food)

There was one for husbands too but well Tom eats everything so I didn't bother. I already do things to make my cooking/baking healthier like instead of using oil or margerine or butter I use applesauce in my backing when I can and cut out at least a half cup of flour out and use wheat germ. So these books are going to be great. My sister already told me about two recipes where you put chick peas in cookies and spinach in another chocolate cookie. I can't wait to get started I think I might start today.

8 Months Today

I turned 8 months today!!

We are in so much trouble!!!

Here's a video from friday when the jolly jumper arrived.

well here's a short clips but we finally got one.

This was hard to get b/c first the viedo camera was dead and than second well it was never near by to tape him or we forgot. But since he was practicing lots last night we got a few clips.

At the beach

We went to San Francisco on the weekend and went to Ocean beach. It was quite cold and the wind was really blowing so we took Noah out of the stroller and put him against tom's chest and zip up his jacket over him, it was really cute. We walked up towards a restaurant called Cliff House which is a historical building and has been rebuilt 4 times http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutro_Baths. I must say the one that stands today is not impressive as the ones that stood there before, also besides the cliff house is the historic ruins of the Sutro Baths http://www.alamedainfo.com/postcards_of_san_francisco_3.htm. I wish I lived back in time when these building were there.

Here are a few of my favorite picture from our weekend.

The ruins of suro Baths

Todays Cliff House

Para-surfing

Noah is now 7 months old

Our 7 months little man has sure grown from the little man we brought home from the hospital, it's so heart breaking at times...where does the time go???? Noah is now sleeping in his new crib that we got last Saturday and seem to be doing fine so far, and he is putting himself down for his naps and at bed time which is great news. He's getting closer and closer "to watch out mom and dad I am mobile", not sure if I am excited about this development when it comes. Noah has eaten peas too (he's not to sure about this eating peas business...Uncle Dan better have not talk to him about vegetables!!!!) and is going to go on to carrots today or tomorrow. Noah almost back to his normal sleeping routine too which I am happy about. We stopped the rice and mixed cereal in the afternoons and night and only do barley whichf has seem to help(better watch out for the sweet potato's and bananas too.)

Well not much else is going on with us. I have all the suit case put away and the Christmas tree is finally down. Now it just tidying up and making more baby food..

It's a new year and a fresh start

Well it's hard to believe that it's 2008, where has the time gone. Well out with old 2007 and in with the new 2008. What will it bring to this Flynn family I surely don't know. But we have many dreams for this year, I just hope I can be patient enough for them to happen.

We had a busy but great time at home. We had lots of good food and probably too much of it(so I won't be baking for a while hahaha)., and lots of great company. Noah was loved by everyone and I wonder if Tom and I would have even been missed if we were there. That's right Noah was the star of the show( the way it should be). It was great fun watching all 9 of Noah's cousins interact with him. Something I will greatly miss watching. We are back home in California and even though we are sad to say good bye to all our family and friends, it sure feels great to be back home. It's something about sleeping in your own bed and room at night, and not living out of a suit case that makes home feel so good. Well it was good to see everyone that we got to see and sorry for the ones we didn't. So many snow days just took it's toll on our plans.

It was great to have snow for the holiday though and get pictures of Noah in the snow. But I don't miss driving in it and we were really happy that it wasn't that cold when we were home. Noah was a great baby on the flight home, the whole crew on the flight said he was the best baby they ever had on the plane, and other passengers that walk by right before landing in San Fran to use the bathroom said they didn't even know there was a baby on the flight. Some of you must think "oh he must have slept the whole way" and well nope, that wasn't the case at all. The little man didn't fall asleep until the wheels touch the ground in San Franc(he had one 40min nap in the airport waiting for our second flight) only to wake up when we put him into the car, little stinker. The whole flight Noah bounced on my lap and flirted with the passengers and the crew on the flight. We are so proud of him.

Well Noah is getting up on his hands and knees more and rocking a little but does a lot of head bobbing, which is funny to watch, I'll try and get it on camera for those who don't know what I mean. Noah is almost back to sleeping well, thank goodness. He went down at 9pm last night and got up at 10 for some food and sleep till 1am and than woke up at 7am. I think he also likes his own room and bed too. Noah loves all his toys that he got from family. He is sleeping with his glow worm, knocks down his building block and plays with his musical dog(well hits it to make sounds). Mom and dad finally went out and bought him a gift too yesterday. It's a big dinosaur that makes some sounds and lights up when you put balls into his back and come out different doorways, and last but not least we order a jolly jumper for him too. With those few toys now we don't have a living room anymore.

Noah's 1st Christmas

Snow Snow Snow

Hard to believe it is 2008!!! Happy New Year Everyone and Noah got to play in the snow!!!

6 months.

Here is Noah at 6 months and his first time having rice cereal. He loved it, but we couldn't feed him fast enough. He didn't like the breaks where we had to put more cereal on the spoon, so he got a little upset with us. He still like the boob the best, because there are no breaks. :).

That time of year again

Hard to believe that Christmas is almost here and that Noah is almost 6months old!!! We went to see Santa yesterday, and got up really early today and went to the Santa Clause Parade in San Jose. Noah wasn't to sure about Santa Clause, he just didn't hold me right he said. He didn't cry like many of the other babies before him and after him, but stared at the photographer like a deer in headlights. This weekend has been pretty cold at our place and it's actually colder inside that apartment than it is outside, especially since we have no heat. I am hoping they come tomorrow to fix our heater, right now it's about 10 C inside. brrrrrrr. We have our Christmas tree up now and a few decoration, as well I have started to make my Christmas truffles(hopefully Noah will give me enough time this week to finish all my Christmas baking,cooking and candy making).

Not long till we are home, still a little stress about the long day of traveling., but we will get through it. Noah gets his needles two days before we leave so hopefully he won't be to cranky, he's normally takes a week after needles to get back to his old self. I have to start searching for all our winter gear, looks like I won't have winter boots again since I went out to buy some cheap ones just for the time home but couldn't find any so I picked up a really nice dressy pair of boots...oops LOL. Hopefully on the way home once we land we won't get suck in a snow storm and three snow banks and end up soaked from the waist down, like the last winter that we were home for. Everything else is pretty much the same here with us, so we'll see everyone home in a few weeks.