Soccer

I meant to post this awhile ago, but alas, the days have gotten away from me.... Two Saturdays ago, Aaron began playing soccer on a team. And he had a great time! He gets to play with a few friends, one of which is his friend, Eli.....

Eli's mom and I were childhood friends and grew up together, so it is especially significant to us to watch our boys play together and be friends.

Some action shots.....

And some video.....

Anyway, all these pictures are from the first day. This past Saturday, the second week, didn't go so well, nor was it near as fun..... To keep it simple, Aaron was recovering from sickness and still tired. Let's just say there were a few record-breaking tantrums of frustration thrown so we called it a day and left early. There is a part of me that wished I had it on video and another part of me that wants to forget it completely. Honestly, parenting is truly a crazy adventure. Anyway, we have bribes in place for a fuss-free game this Saturday - here's to hoping for a fun season!

Copy Cat

Noel is really taking off in the sense of imitating and doing what we are doing....

I don't know where she learned this though because we don't ever use our phones around the kids; usually we are perfectly focused on our family and our Bibles, and not these worldly distractions.

(HA!)

Another example of copying.....

I hope she never feels the need to imitate this behavior....

(Just so you know this went on for about 20 minutes as I had told him I could help him with it AFTER I was done feeding everyone lunch. He chose to cry about it and insist on me helping him with it immediately instead so he was being ignored. It was really a fun time.)

So badly wanting to be out with the boys doing fun stuff.....

I took a very similar picture of Aaron when he was 10 months old also.... Here it is for fun:

More Milestones and Random

It has been an eventful two weeks since I last posted.... First of all, Harvest celebrated its 2 Year Anniversary and we moved out of the theater and into Skyline High School for some extra room. It was fun to celebrate all that God has done and so far, the school has proved to be a great fit.

We also got to have a little get together while my cousins from California were in and of course, had to attempt an all kids photo. Jenna captured the best one....

We also reached the big milestone of Noel being able to ride in the grocery cart car at Fry's with Aaron. BIG DAY. Noel loved driving with her brother and Aaron was ecstatic to have someone in the seat with him. Not to mention just a little more peace during Mommy's shopping trips....

The hair is getting longer.... And therefore, more unruly.....

Aaron also had his first day back at his preschool this week.

He gets to go two days a week now and he is so happy to be there.

This is Aaron with his two cousins, Caleb and Noah, and his friend Adam from church also.

Cousin Caleb is in class with Aaron and they are loving being together!

For some reason, Aaron is always able to make Noel laugh....

We have also noticed that Noel is beginning to able to understand more and more of what we say. Her favorite things to talk about are clapping, celing fans, "cheesy smiles".....