I can’t believe he’s six weeks old!  Here’s a few pictures from the last few days.  He’s definitely starting to show some more personality and I love seeing him interact with us more and more.  On my end of things, I’m starting to figure life out a little more.  This first time mom thing means that I haven’t had much of a clue about how to take care of him, do things like get groceries, do laundry and actually have a shower by the time Mike gets home.  Today I  got groceries at Kroger and took a little walk with Noah, as well as taking care of some things around the house, and I consider the day a smashing success.  At Kroger, I used my Moby wrap- a sling-like wrap that allows me to wrap Noah and ’strap’ him to my chest while I shop.  It’s fantastic.  Noah loves it and falls asleep almost instantly.  It’s a TON easier to manage than a car seat on the cart.  Our car seat doesn’t go on top of the cart (it’s a safety thing) and so the only place to put it is in the grocery part of the cart.  I’m totally sold on the Moby Wrap.  Anyone else have one and love it as much as I do?

So these are the nutrition facts for the burrito I always order at Chipotle, courtesy of Chipotle Nutrition Facts Calculator 2.0

My Chipotle Burrito:

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This weekend we are up in Orrville with Noah’s grandparents. This picture pretty much sums up the weekend’s activities:

In other news, here’s a blog post from Sean at Encounter, a new church plant and one of our supporting churches, regarding their philosophy of supporting missionaries. Cool stuff.

So, I took this video in the bedroom, where we don’t have the greatest lighting… but you can see Noah and you can see his big huge smiles that he’s starting giving!  They make us melt…

This speaks for itself:

Those of you who know me and know handball will appreciate this one. This is one of the coolest handball goals I’ve ever seen and one that I’ve thought of trying from time to time. Thanks to Grandpa Gary for this gem.

It’s hard to believe, but Noah is a month old now. At his checkup on Friday he weighed 8lbs and measured 20.5 in.  For those of you scoring at home that’s 1.5 lbs and 2 inches since he was born.

Noah’s been a bit of a slacker lately with his blog, so here are some recent pictures and a video.

Here’s the next installment in “Noah’s Visitors” … Tia Jenny!

Can you believe I’ve gone 5 days without an update here? On Tuesday I went back to work and found my first week back to be pretty rough. At least it was a short week. Those are always nice, especially with a newborn in the house. We had a few special visits this week and I’ll work on getting those pictures up here. First up are Uncle Greg and Aunt Lauren. For those of you who don’t know, Greg was my roommate in college for 2 years and we lived on the same hall all 4 years. I don’t think you could have put two different guys together their freshman year, but when it was all said and done we were like brothers. In 2006 we were in each other’s weddings. Over the past few years we’ve managed to see each other a couple times a year. It always rocks. This visit was really awesome and I can’t wait until Noah can actually interact with Uncle Greg. I think I’m going to hear a lot of “but Uncle Greg said…”

Anyway, here are the pictures