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Growing Fast

It seems like time is passing faster with Noa than it did with Ian. I was looking at him this weekend - really looking at him and it just amazes me. He smiled at me for the first time this weekend! And he has just started holding his head up. He gets right up on his elbows and looks around - still a little wobbly but that head is up. Won't be too long before both of them are dating and wanted to borrow the car!

The Boys at Play

The Boys at Play, originally uploaded by Elizabeth Stek.

Ian loves his little brother... when Noa is willing to act as a road!

Things are good in the Stek house. We survived my first week back at work! I was pretty sure I would make it but I was a little concerned for Aaron. Contrary to the opinion of many, I am fully aware that as the stay at home parent, he has the harder job.

We are all adjusting to a life as four and getting back to a routine (??). I realized as I wrote that, that probably for the next year, nothing will be routine in our lives :-)

Ian continues to amaze me with his verbal skills and the charming mistakes. Lately he is calling his bicycle helmet, his "Melman". I think helmet just sounds a lot like the giraffe character in his favorite movie, "Madagascar". I think it's hilarious. Yesterday he was painting with Daddy-O and wrote a recognizable letters A, O and P all while saying out loud what he was drawing. Is this part of the normal two year old development milestones or am I right in saying my child is brilliant!

Noa continues to grow at an amazing rate. He has now outgrown at 6 weeks what I have pictures of Ian wearing at 2 months. But I have to say the reason he outgrew a couple sleepers was because his feet didn't fit the booties anymore! Unlike Ian, who's feet are so long, Noa's don't fit because they are too wide. That he gets from me!

The little guy is suffering from a bit of a cold and is having a hard time eating because of a stuffy nose which makes him pretty cranky. So today we are taking it easy, because none of us slept well last night, Ian included. It's hard when one wakes up the other. Luckily there are two kids and two parents. I can't imagine what it would be like to be married to a chauvinist or to have 3 children. The other day we saw a couple who had a toddler and triplet infants!! I felt for them. Yikes!

Ian is helping me make peanut butter cookies today and him and Aaron are at the grocery. Noa was sleeping up to now. Gotta go!

Noa's Stats

Hi all. Thanks for a lovely party on the 4th. We had a relatively uneventful ride home after running around GR in search of strawberries. The jam is now made, the shortcake and pie consumed in delight and the rest of the berries frozen for the winter months. We even got to take home some of the first cherries of the year and Ian loves those. He is looking forward to learning how to spit pits like mom and dad. I told him dad would teach him next year.

We took Noa to the doctor on Tuesday for his one month check up and he tipped the scales at a hardy 11lbs! He also put an inch on his length - making it 22 inches total. All this growth is in the last two weeks!! The doctor is a little concerned that he is putting on weight a little fast but oh well, it's not like I'm force feeding him. He just doesn't know the growth potential of our children. Ian was 13.5lbs at 2 months and he started out smaller! So overall Noa is in the 98th percentile for weight, the 75th for length and 50th for head circumference.

Thanks again for a great visit and I will get all the pics posted soon. I can't believe I have to go back to work again on Monday. Argh...