NOAH IS 4!

I am now a mother of a 4-year-old boy.  How did that happen?  I mean, I remember finding out I was pregnant with him (talk about a SHOCKER after being told we'd never get pregnant on our own...take THAT Western medicine!), giving birth to him (doubt I'll forget the acupuncture that preceded his birth either), and that's about it.  The last 4 years have been a blur.  A {mostly} good blur, but a blur nonetheless.

His birthday fell on a Sunday this year so we had a small get together with the grandparents and a few aunts/uncles.  Both Joel and my parents came, as well as 2 of Joel's sisters and their kids.  Not a large party by any means, but very relaxed and fun.  Noah's wish for his birthday was dinosaurs, so he got lots of them!  I even had a friend decorate a cake with Rudy, the spinosaurus from the Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaur movie.  (one of Noah's all time favorite movies.  It's even downloaded on the kids' Kindle)

I will eventually upload picture of the party here but our computer recently crashed.  We were barely able to move all the pics to DVD's before it died altogether.  Joel put in another operating system on the computer, which works but for some reason the camera can't upload pictures.  I didn't even know there was another operating system besides Windows.  Shows just how computer illiterate I really am :)

For now just picture an adorable blond-hair-blue-eyed little boy who is happy {most}of the time and you'll be picturing Noah.

Here's a few of his favs::

Movie: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaur, Kung Fu Panda
TV Show: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood
Animal: Dinosaur (is that actually an animal?)
Person: Mommy and Hannah (sorry Joel)

We have his preschool parent/teacher conference tomorrow night so let's hope he's actually paying attention is school and not just goofing off.  He's a stinker that way.