NOAH&KATIE
  • Welcome
  • About Us
  • Connect With Us
  • Follow Us (blog)
  • Support Us

26

8/13/2012

3 Comments

 
I'm 26 years old
I'm 26 weeks pregnant
I spend most of my days carrying around my beautiful 26 lbs daughter.


Just thought that was worth blogging about.  I feel like I should be saying I'm going to be running a 26.2 mile marathon or something, but no worries. I would never do such a crazy thing!

Instead, I'll share 26 random things I haven't gotten to blog about.... bear with me if you're interested!  I'm breaking it up into list form and keeping them all short...  no order!

1.  This pregnancy is FLYING. With Ellie, the days couldn't go fast enough, now I feel like I can't keep up!
2.  Speaking of time flying- so is summer, YIKES!  Students move in next week.
3.  We *may* have decided on a name for our baby girl.  I'm so hesitant to commit, and not sure if I'll be able to keep it a secret til November, but we shall see.
4.  I got up at 4:40 am this morning to start our trek back to Champaign. It was a LONG day, but such a great trip.  If only we didn't live SO far away from family!
5.  Noah and I celebrate our 5th anniversary on Friday. How did that happen already? It's hard to believe we had only been married 1 1/2 years when we moved to IL.  This has been the most challenging and most rewarding season of my life.  Our life is SO rich!
6.  I haven't talked a lot about this- but it has been a challenging time for my heart.  Ellie is 15 1/2 months and taking her time in her gross motor development.  She just started crawling in the last week or two and is not yet walking.  I've had the same conversation a million times this summer, "How old is she?"  <insert age here, depending on when I got asked> "Is she walking?''  <nope, not yet> "Oh, she's just enjoying crawling" <nope, she's not crawling yet either>  "Oh, I'm sure she's fine"  <silence>  It hurts my heart for me to feel the need to defend her.  I appreciate others interest, but am tired of having to explain!  
7.  At the end of June we decided to get her evaluated as she wasn't really moving around much, and had yet to pull herself to standing.  Of course, as soon as we made that decision, she's progressed steadily ever since!
8.  Long story short, it seems that part of all of this is she is just so content, but part of it is a delay.  She does qualify for Physical Therapy services, and so we start those this week.
9.  We learned she has "weak muscle tone"  she is still in the normal range, but it seems that she needs some help strengthening her muscles.
10.  We also bought her some Stride Rite tennis shoes per the Physical Therapists recommendation.  It breaks my heart that my 1 year old needs arched tennis shoes and can't wear all of her adorable sandals, but it's best for her, and a very MINOR problem in the scope of life.
11. I've just always had major foot issues... so I feel her pain, literally!
12.  Ellie is getting more verbal every day, I can't keep up! She fell in love with Noah's parents puppy this weekend.  When we got home tonight she noticed (for the first time) her puppy stuffed animal. She could not stop saying 'puh, puh, puh,puh'
13. Then she proceeded to wave goodnight to her puppy, and practically everything else in her room. I think she's glad to be home!
14. One of Ellie's favorite things is to get the mail... I took her out with me once to get it and she learned how to open and close the mail box and pull out the mail.  It's so adorable! It's one of the highlights of the day (sometimes we even do it multiple times per day, as she doesn't care what's in the box!)
15.  Noah's sister got married this weekend- it was a beautiful wedding and Ellie got to wear a beautiful dress! Noah and I were both in the wedding, so it made for a wild weekend, but we're so grateful my parents were along to help us out!
16.  Chels & Matt had a bubble receiving line.... Ellie fell in love with bubbles and learned another new word, pretty similar to "puppy" but instead it's "buh, buh, buh, buh" :)
17. Ellie has always been a great eater- not picky at all. Until the last month and a half. She's started refusing just about everything we eat.  She'll always eat cheese, any sort of fruit except canteloupe, tortilla shells, bread, pb& j, yogurt, applesauce or crackers. Other than that, you just never know!
18. I'm realizing that Ellie spends most of her life around adults, and very little time around other kids.  It's like I'm always taking her places and non-verbally saying "be good" :) She is very well behaved, but I'm starting to realize how hard it is on her to be around adults and expecting to just be good all the time...
19.  We are SO excited for this school year.  The students who will be seniors were our first class of freshmen when we moved here. They are very near and dear to our hearts.  It will be a very special year!
20. Two of my good college friends are getting married this month- pretty exciting! Sad I only got to go to one of them, but very happy for them both! 
21. We had 10 weddings this summer- YIKES! I guess that's what you get when you work with college students :)  We didn't make it to all of them, but were honored to be invited!
22.  I go back and forth between feeling very on top of things to feeling so dis-organized.  I guess that's what being a mom is like!
23.  Ellie brings us more joy than we could ever express.  She's been able to say 'mama' for a long time, but is finally choosing to say it.  Unlike a month ago when I said "Ellie, say mama" and Ellie said "dada"   I replied, "HA HA HA" to which Ellie responded "ha ha ha"  What a goof!
24.  Ellie's hair is getting so long and curly- I hope she gets my curls someday!!
25.  There are 25+ things I should be doing instead of blogging-including unpacking everything from the last 2 weeks, but oh well. I just needed some time to sit!
26.  Way to go if you stuck with this! What's something random on your mind? :)

:)  Here's to the number 26!
Picture
Here's my wonderful family.  So blessed!! :)
3 Comments
Luanne
8/16/2012 06:28:33 am

And I was 26 when I had you! Loved reading the list. I knew most of what you wrote but still loved it. Love you! Mom

Reply
Andrea
8/20/2012 01:46:09 am

We LOVED the time with you. We miss you already. Praying the Lord brings you closer???

Reply
Jean S link
8/31/2021 01:49:37 am

Greeat read

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Follow Us

    Stay updated with ministry and family life through our blog.

    Categories

    All
    Baby
    Christmas
    Ellie
    Freshmen
    Friday Updates
    Katie
    Life
    Ministry
    Navs
    Noah
    Pictures
    Prayer
    Pregnancy
    Random
    Site Updates
    Spring Break
    Stp
    Thanksgiving
    Things We Didn't Know...
    Video

    Archives

    December 2016
    December 2015
    June 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    November 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    August 2011
    July 2011
    June 2011
    May 2011
    April 2011
    March 2011
    February 2011
    January 2011
    December 2010
    November 2010
    October 2010
    September 2010
    August 2010
    July 2010
    June 2010
    May 2010
    April 2010
    March 2010
    February 2010
    January 2010
    December 2009
    November 2009
    October 2009
    September 2009
    August 2009
    July 2009
    June 2009
    May 2009
    April 2009
    March 2009
    February 2009
    January 2009
    December 2008
    November 2008
    October 2008
    September 2008
    August 2008
    July 2008
    June 2008
    March 2008

"More potently than by any other means, change the university and you change the world."  --Charles Malik

© 2009-2021 Noah Haas
Picture
Photo used under Creative Commons from Grandpa & Grandma T.