I can't believe it's been 9 years since Noah was born, seriously where has the time gone. I love all three of my boys so much, but there's something special about your first born. It's all so new and exciting and you have no idea what to expect and you don't realize how much your life changes the moment they come into the world. I'm so thankful that Heavenly Father trusted me and Tommy with Noah. He has such a special spirit.
When I was pregnant with Noah I got preeclampsia so they had to induce me early and he was very stubborn and didn't want to come early. But at 11:17pm on June 27th the entire labor and delivery floor knew that Noah Thomas had made his arrival. We still laugh about how loud he cried... our family could hear him all the way down the hall in the waiting area. And for the next 10 months he decided to exercise his right to cry when ever and however he wanted... a.k.a. very loud and all the time. There were nights I would be rocking him back to sleep wondering if I would ever sleep through a night again. I'm happy to say 9 years later I have gotten plenty of sleep. There was something magical that happened to Noah at 10 months when he moved to TX for the summer, he turned into a totally different baby. We arrived in TX and he slept through the night and stopped crying. Since then he has been such a joy in our lives (not that he wasn't a joy the first 10 months...).
Noah takes after his Dad in the brains department. He is so smart and needs to be challenged or he get bored very easily. And he takes after me when it comes to being cautious and thinking through ALL options before making a decision (sorry Noah, it's genetic I swear). But it makes for one great kid! We told Noah last year that we'd decided to only do friend birthday parties every other year (on the even numbers) so this year he wouldn't be getting a party.... lucky for him I'm a sucker and I love parties. I just couldn't say no when he asked if he could have a Nerf Gun party. Tommy set a budget for us and we started planning. It was fun to watch Noah have to pick and chose what he wanted to stay within the budget he had, I think it was a great lesson and I had a lot of fun working with him on it. His Birthday started out with breakfast and presents...
Yes the mother of all mother Nerf Guns. This is one serious Nerf Gun!
At 11:30 we had his birthday party. Everyone was asked to bring their own Nerf guns if they had one. Roma was nice enough to help me make pouches to hold the bullets we had for them. I don't have any pictures of them handy, but they turned out so good. The boys had to do a scavenger hunt to find the pouches with their bullets then we played some games. Then it of course turned into all out war. A little bit of pizza and I'd say it was a great party!
It was hot enough we decided to through some water balloons out on the tramp too.
Noah with all his birthday loot. And Cooper being a goof ball. Noah got a ton of cool stuff that's for sure.
Then at 5:30 we had the family come over for dinner. Noah chose Fried Rice for dinner, took me by surprise a little bit, but it was really good and he was happy about it. Emily and her kids were in town too, so that was fun to have them there. I love watching how excited all the other kids get about opening presents.
Noah with his money from Grandma and Grandpa Great. He used some of it to buy a really cool gun that has bullets that light up when you shoot them!
It was a long day, but so much fun to watch Noah get excited about everything. I love that kid so much and am so grateful that I get to call him mine. Happy Birthday Noah!
The boys with Darth Vader
The boys with Darth Vader
The Imperial Guard
The Clone Troopers were there to make sure no one touched the balloon, they would just pace back and forth. They were very nice to stop and take pictures. Tyson loved this one, he kept going back and giving him high 5.
Hangin' out watching the balloons go up
Pretty awesome balloon if you ask me
I just thought this was a cool picture.
