All Smiles

I am so excited it's March! I have been waiting for this month for a while. It represents a few changes in our lives:

1. Hopefully by the end of this month (or very early April) we will finally get to bless Noelle and take her to church. We haven't been to church together since before Noelle was born.
2. I will get to take her places other than just my parents house (RSV season will be over, yipee!).
3. It will soon be warm outside and I will finally get to be out of the house and go on walks!!
4. Noelle will hopefully be off her oxygen.

I have never been so excited for Spring and I'm so looking forward to the warm weather. Anyway. We've just had a very fun and interesting week. We spent the whole last week house sitting at my parents house while they went on a cruise. I'm so glad they got to go and they so deserve it! Taylor is 13 and old enough to take care of herself but my parents wanted us there to keep an eye on things and keep the dogs (they have 3) alive and fed. I'll have to say that it was nice to watch tv on their nice HD-TV and to have cable. I sure got my fill of "Jon and Kate plus 8" and "What Not to Wear." And 24 and American Idol were sure nice in HD. But it did make me grateful that we don't have cable yet or I might just spend way too much time in front of the tv. Noelle sure did get off of her sleeping schedule. Not that she was sleeping the whole night anyway, but she would not sleep in her bed at all. So she ended up sleeping a lot in her little bouncer. Thank goodness for that. We had fun there but we're very glad to be home.

Noelle has been smiling a lot lately. Every day it gets easier to get her to smile. She is so much fun and is still growing, growing, growing. She responds so well to us and is so alert. She loves playing on her back and making her baby noises. We are so grateful for her in our lives! Here are a few darling pictures of her :).






























(If anyone knows how to rotate pictures, let me know)