Noelle wore this shirt last year – it’s so cool she’s getting to wear clothes more than one season now!  Yippee!

This is a pic I just couldn’t resist taking after school today.  You can tell sweet girl still isn’t back to 100%, but she couldn’t be a better trooper! 

Showing off her tights!  She thought they were so cool when she first saw them this morning.  I bought them after Valentine’s last year (you know me) but kept them a surprise!

We’re having our Mops small group over for a cupcake decorating Valentine play date tomorrow.  We are so excited to have friends come over to our "treehouse!"

Noelle watching her favorite show "Clifford" while I decorate.  She loves to go up the stairs like a puppy.  She’ll even make puppy noises and get all into it!

I spilled my drink while eating lunch with Mike and Noelle yesterday, and Noelle looked at me so confused and said, "What in the world?"  She is saying the funniest things these days!  She went on to tell us how "delicious" her food was.

Her school teacher asked if she could take Noelle home with her and said they wouldn’t have just a "good" time but a "pleasant" time because Noelle always likes to use fancy words.  I thought it was so cute her teacher picked up on that!

Gotten the stomach bug at 33 weeks pregnant along with your 2 1/2 year old?  That was our lot for the latter part of the weekend.  I didn’t know if I was having contractions or about to throw up.  It was grueling!  Mike was our hero, held our hair back, gave Noelle lots of midnight baths, did laundry till I thought our washer was going to break, cleaned like a champ, and nursed us back to health.  Thank God for Michael Pond!  It is Wednesday and although we are still weak, we are so much better now!

My mom popped in for 24 hours this weekend, and boy was she a blessing!  She helped me finish up some projects that have been twirling around in my head for a while now.  These are all Noelle’s onesies that we added ribbon and fabric to for Anna Kate.  We also made some bows, pillowcases, and burp cloths.  I think the total cost was around $15.00 for all of the above – I used all my scraps and bought remnants online.

Mike and Noelle wanted in on the action.  Mike made this iron-on Hello Kitty onsie (he did so great), and Noelle helped us put together fabrics and trims (scraps that she and Rara were calling her "mediums").  The pic on the right is one she created for the Prince family to thank them for some treats they gave her last weekend.

This would be Noelle’s 11th outfit for the day!  She’s really learning how to dress herself with all this dress-up!

Noelle’s favorite toy is her fruit and knife set (along with velcro ice cream and cake)!

Cutting her teddy bear an orange (after he got a time-out for screaming)!

"Not today, but maybe tomorrow." (Sample questions: Do you want me to peel you an orange?  Do you want to color?)

"Not at all!" (Sample question: Do you need to go potty?)

"How cool is that!?!" or "That’s amazing!" (She always says that when we look at our friends’ blogs!)

We had a great lunch at Chili’s with Devon today, then naturally, headed over to Hobby Lobby.  It’s not everyday you see ice all over the place in Texas!

Sweet Lucky was so patient with Noelle as they were making friends.  Devon got him 2 months ago, and we have been wanting to meet him ever since.  He was going to be named Lucy, but then Devon found out he was a boy.  Since she had already ordered his collar, he became Lucky!

Devon is always finding special little surprises for Noelle.  Today she gave her Tinkerbell stickers – such a perfect surprise for our little fairy!

Noelle loves animals in such a special way – I love watching her connect with all her furry little friends.

We had such a wonderful afternoon with Devon and Lucky!  Thanks for having us over!

My friend Heather tagged me… Here’s what you do:
1. Go to your 4th folder where you store your photos.
2. Select the 4th photo (no exceptions).
3. Post the picture with an explanation and link it back to your tagger.
4. Tag 4 people do do the same.

I didn’t know if it meant the 4th folder from the top or the bottom, so I did both.  This is a pic of Matt, Kevin, and Mike when they graduated from Baylor, December of ’02.

This was at the mall last week in the play land.

I tag Michele, Brook, Amber, and Megan.

This was one of Noelle’s Halloween pictures.  I finally got a scanner (I told you I would eventually) and couldn’t wait to show you how cute this picture is.  I just love it!

Since I was in the 5th grade, I’ve had a penpal from Japan named Tomomi.  That’s when penpal was literal because there was no such thing as email. 

We’ve shared life together through correspondence all these years (reuniting once in college when she got to meet Mike) and now we both have children close to the same age as well.  Noelle loves talking about Japan and Yuuki, and now that the Eberts are there, it makes it all the more exciting!