Memorial Weekend Fun!

What a beautiful, fun weekend with the family! Friday began my official start to 1/2 day Fridays at work. I was able to leave Noah at daycare while I ran some errands. We got home around 4:30 where we waited for daddy to get home. Noah has quite the foot fetish going - any time he gets the chance to bite our toes, he will do it. Here it his giving it a good try. Since he has most of his teeth now, he can bite down pretty hard! I'm trying to wriggle my toes away from him and he doesn't like it very much. This is how we kept ourselves entertained until Mike got home!



Here's Noah in one of his famous poses, with his hands behind his back!

Friday evening we enjoyed dinner at the mall and then got some fresh air. The rain held off even though it was expected all weekend. Saturday was a busy one. That morning we all went to the Arboretum to enjoy lunch and wandering around. Noah loves to walk these days and especially hates to hold our hands. We felt like this was the perfect place for him to "run free" although he never wanted to go the direction we wanted him to! He really loved the water. Once we introduced him to it, it was hard to drag him away.

Looking at the water

Splashing in it

Pretty flowers!

Illegally splashing in the water

The flower "play house". Noah was terrified to go in!

Our favorite fountain! Noah was nervous at first, then had a blast playing in it as you can see by the following pictures!

Our soaked baby!

You'd think that would be enough to wear out Noah, but nope - we went to my friend, Cathy's house for dinner that night. She has a son who's 7 weeks younger than Noah and they have a heated pool! We got home from the arboretum in enough time for him to take a nap and went over around 5. The weather held up pretty nicely (was supposed to rain all weekend). We did get rained on but not until after Noah played in the pool with daddy. He loved the little boat he road in! He didn't pay too much attention to Jacob, but I guess they are at the age where they don't pay much attention to the other kids. Of course, he only wanted the toys that other kids had, not any that were lying around.

I almost forgot to mention, the past week, we watched my "niece" Sophie (my sister's maltipoo) while Dana went on vacation. She loved hiding under our side table from Noah. Too bad he figured out rather quickly what a fun place it was. Before long, Noah was going under there and playing. Sophie had to find another lounging area because she sure wasn't going to hang out with him!

Sunday was a "day of rest." After church, Noah, Sophie and I hung out at home while Mike and Matt played golf. We all got in a good nap - isn't that was Sundays are for? Monday we took Sophie back to her Mommy's house, and caught up on Dana's amazing trip to St. John. We were so jealous! We also got some last minute errands done before Mike and I head to LA this next weekend. Noah got in an afternoon nap and then we all tried out, for the first time, our neighborhood pool! It reiterated to me that I really need to get Noah into swim lessons. He liked the water but he did NOT like putting his head under. I think it took us longer to prepare for the pool than we were actually there! That's ok. I figure with summer Fridays here we'll get to swim more often. I have two friends with pools and they invited us over anytime. A private pool - perfect!

To close the day, we had Uncle Matt and Emily over for dinner and to play a little Wii. It was entertaining watching the boys battle it out! Noah of course loves having visitors, he was quite the show-off before and at dinner. He didn't want to go to bed for fear of missing the fun but his little eyes couldn't stay awake any longer.

What a perfect weekend we had! If only we had 3-day weekends every weekend! Time to think about work again. BOO!

I hope everyone enjoyed their time off as much as we did!

Love to all,

Corri, Mike and Noah

Rainy Days

What a nice and peaceful weekend we had! It's been rainy all week and Saturday was no exception. After spending some family time at the mall on Friday night, we stayed in all day Saturday and watched the rain come down. We did absolutely nothing - it was awesome! Noah has gotten so much better with his sleep habits now! We started letting him cry it out this past week. The hour of crying slowly whittled it's way to 10 minutes and by Thursday night, he was sleeping through the night again! He slept so well Saturday night, we kind of wondered if he was still breathing when we woke up today. We put him to bed around 7:45 and he didn't wake up until 9am! We woke up several times of course, just to check on him to make sure nothing was wrong. He must be going through a growth spurt. Of course, we had a hard time putting him down tonight since he slept so much. He was at least in good spirits.

This afternoon I got to take advantage of my Mother's Day gift and spent some time at the Ritz spa. It was heaven! Although, I had so many knots in my shoulders that it got rather painful when she tried getting them all out. I guess the phrase "hurt so good" came to mind. While I was away, Noah and Mike got to spend some good father/son time together at the park. Noah just loves being outside. I wonder if he'll still love it when it's 100 degrees. Probably - I don't think heat phases kids like it does us. I'm curious to see how he'll fair in the pool. He loves the water so: outside + pool = heaven? We'll see!

Dana is on vacation having fun in the sun this week so my little "niece" Sophie (her dog) is staying with us. She's a pretty good dog - she mostly lays around and sleeps so not too much trouble. I just have to remember to walk her twice a day and then we're good! We don't want any accidents on the floor in the house!

This Friday begins my Summer Hours at work. I get off every Friday at 1p. I'm so ready and looking forward to it! I will have a wonderful 3 1/2 days off this next weekend. YIPPEE!! If I can just survive the week...

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!
Love to all,
Corri, Mike and Noah

Grandpa Blick's Visit

Mike and I continued to have another week of Noah waking several times throughout the night. Fortunately we have his 15 month Dr. appointment on Friday so we'll talk to the doctor to find out if there is anything else we can do to get him to sleep again!

Thursday night Mike and I had the pleasure of dining with several of my co-workers (including my VP and our CMO) at the house of Tre Wilcox, Top Chef contestant, courtesy of our vendor, GOOGLE. It was quite the 5 course meal and Mike and I had to roll ourselves home! We spent a lot of time at our table with my VP and CMO. Hopefully I got some good brownie points with them!

My dad came to visit on Friday and I had the day off so was able to greet him that afternoon at the house. We went to Noah's daycare around 3 to join him for snack time. When we arrived, he was not his normally cheerful self. He took one look at Grandpa and he couldn't stop staring. He had just woken up from his nap and I think he was so startled to see him. He knew something wasn't right (Grandpa never comes to see him at school!). After a few minutes of shock, he immediately wanted Grandpa to hold him. It was so great to see how comfortable he was with him! We got home and they were able to spend some time together before heading to dinner that evening.

Dad went to put on his hat so they could go outside to play. Noah loves hats! We thought we'd try it on him to see how it fit. He's just too cute!

Saturday Mike Noah and I ran around while dad and Dana spent some time together. Mike and I would like to tile our bathroom so we thought we should start looking around. We found some and now are just waiting on a quote from a contractor!! Hopefully we can get that project done within the next month!

Sunday was a beautiful Mother's Day! Noah and Mike got me a massage that I will be enjoying next weekend (a much needed one, I might add!) I received beautiful cards from my family and Noah showered me with love and hugs!

We enjoyed a lovely breakfast out together although Noah wasn't too interested in eating at first. He lounged on Grandpa taking a little cat nap before the food came.

Me and my honey!

When Noah did finally wake, he couldn't get enough of the flowers on the table.


When we got home from breakfast, Noah was in such a great mood, we decided it was time to dance! Noah is so cute when he's groovin' to the music. He brings such joy to us and I couldn't be prouder to be his mother! And it's thanks to my mother, and to Mike's that we're able to raise such a healthy, beautiful boy!

We love you!! Happy Mother's Day!

xoxo,

Corri, Mike and Noah

Can We Get One Full Night's Sleep?

This week was like any other, except for one thing. Noah will not sleep through the night. Many have asked if its teething but I don't think so. I was reading that sometimes at 15 months of age, kids will wake up during the night and before where it was common to let them cry themselves back to sleep; in this case, you should go to them right away. They are looking for reassurance that you are there and want to be comforted. It's now been 10 days where Noah will wake up 1-2x per night. The past two nights he wouldn't go back to sleep which means that Mike and/or I do not get back to sleep. Its been tough. We keep telling ourselves its a phase and we just need to hang in there until he gets back into a rhythm. He has his 15 month check up next week so I'll have to talk to the doctor about it too.

Otherwise, Noah has been a very happy little boy. He is talking up a storm! Here he is talking about his ball. He loves the word and any chance he can get he's going to say it! He's all over the place and has become quite a little clown. He loves to make Mike and I laugh and gets encouragement from us when we do.

The weekend was a very rainy one so we spent most of it inside. Noah really enjoys being outdoors now so it was hard for him to stay cooped up. I hear we are going to get to the 90s by the end of this week so hopefully we can make it to the park sometime. Grandpa Blick is coming to town for a visit so that will be nice.

Our leadership team is out of the office at a conference this week so the office should be relatively quiet and low-key. Yay!

One last note, we heard WONDERFUL news from friends of ours this past weekend that they were finally chosen to become parents! They will be adopting a little boy come August and we couldn't be happier for them! Congrats Pam and Tim!

Love to all,

Corri, Mike and Noah