9 weeks :)

This look is one that you've been giving us pretty often
it is so cute! haha.

Dear Noel,
Today you are 9 weeks old. :D You are getting SO big! I estimate you to be about 14 lbs but that's just a guess :) We will see at your appointment next week. You talk much more now and sometime you even have little giggles. It is the CUTEST thing lol ! I absolutely love it. Your smiles are just one of the best things in my entire life. Right now you're actually 'yelling' (cooing) at me - to get my attention and when I talk to you you smile so BIG ! It is just the most precious thing.










You've been sleeping really well this week! Enough where I get plenty of sleep too. :) We bedshare and it makes everything so much easier, plus I get a ton of cuddles. :) You still love your swing too so sometimes you sleep in there. Gives mommy and daddy an hour or two of a break to ourselves in a way we can still watch you. <3


You are so aware and strong! You hold your head up really well and you love to stand and look around! You've been so curious since day one. :) Although, when I lay you on my belly to do some tummy time with you then you protest haha and you 'yell' (coo) at me ! You tend to only coo when you're not liking something, but not enough for you to cry. Or when you want my attention. :) You've also been attempting to jump haha! You bounce and literally try to jump while we hold you standing.


I feel like our mommy/son bond is only getting stronger. :) You light up my life everyday. Even when I'm down you help me to function - but I guess that's my job as mommy. :) I know you really well and I wouldn't have it any other way. You are still nursing like a champ ! The way you look up at me sometimes just melts my heart. I can't imagine this any other way.



You love your daddy. :) You love when he plays with you and talks to you. He loves to do 'airplane' with you -- where he holds you up above him as he's laying down and he zooms you around then at the end he plops you down on your little baby bum. It's adorable to watch. You coo at him and giggle at him with these enormous smiles. You also happen to be just like
him in more than just looks - you're super ticklish as well! You will stay with daddy for about a half hour before you wonder where I am, then you want mommy cuddles. <3



I still wear you. Some people feel that I shouldn't but I don't really care. I love to have you up close to me where you feel safe and secure and calm. Especially when we go anywhere. Sometimes when you notice a lot of people I think you get overstimulated and nervous because you usually want to comfort nurse for a few minutes to calm down. Recently though you sometime want to hang your right arm out so you have more mobility to look around with that curious spirit of yours, while we are at home. :p I like allowing you to make these little choices for yourself even if you don't understand that you are yet. You certainly know what you like and what you don't. :p




The last couple weeks before sleep you would get so fussy and cry and I always thought something had to be wrong and I didn't know what to do. So for the past couple weeks I just brought you in the shower until you fell asleep and then daddy would take you to oil you down and dress you. Then it was much easier for me to get your asleep and to stay asleep. But recently you just want me to lay you against my chest, holding you, rocking you, and patting your back. You then drift right off to sleep knowing that you are safe right in mommys arms. :) <3 I love you so much my little Noel.

Oh and I cut all my hair off! I felt bad cuz it kept getting tangled in your little baby flubb :) But here is a picture of you, your sister, and myself. :)