So here are some things Noah has said lately that I keep forgetting to write down. I hope I remember them all:

Driving in the car.
Me: Noah, I love you so much. I mean, I could just kiss you all day. Orrrrr....I could hug you all day!
Noah: Or not.
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Noah and I were driving in the car. He uses this opportunity since he knows I can't go anywhere to ask me a million random questions. It is usually aggrivating but atleast once a day he'll say something that just cracks me up. I usually duck my head and laugh so he won't see me in the rear view mirror.

Noah: Mama, are chips good for us?
Me: Nope, they aren't. They are fried, honey, and anything fried is bad for us.
Noah: Ya.
Me: Things that are fried have a lot of grease and so it hurts our heart.
Noah: Yep, chips are bad for us. (sigh) But I stiiiiiiillllll love em'!
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Noah: Oh man, Mama, I passed my soccer game. It was at 35 minutes!
Me: What? What do you mean it was at 35 minutes? What soccer game?
Noah: My soccer game. I past it. I don't even have my hair wet!
Me: Huh? What are you talking about?
Noah: I need to look handsome and nice. I need to wet my hair for the soccer game. (Comes out of the bathroom with hair sopping wet dripping down his face.)
Me: Why does your hair have to be wet?
Noah: Because that's what THEY DO. That's what KIDS DO!!
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I put Noah down for his "quiet time" and about 45 minutes later I decided to go check on him.
He had six puzzles laid out on his floor, 2 of them were not finished.
Me: Honey, you have done so well being quiet in here. What have you been doing?
Noah: We have been playing puzzles.
Me: Who is we?
Noah: Gavin, Carter, little buddy Jake and cousin Jake. See, look at what a great job little buddy Jake did. And Carter did this one........Gavin did this one....etc. I just have to finish mine.

Noah has really gotten into pretending his friends are there. The best was when we were out in the back yard and he told me he was playing a soccer game with Gavin. He kicked the ball and it rolled to a stop. Then he just sat there. I asked him why he didn't go get it and he told me it was Gavin's turn. He just sat on a step and stared at the stationary ball.

Noah is just growing so big. He is so smart and blows me away everyday. Right now he loves letters and numbers. He wants to practice addition and wants to know how to spell everything. At the dinner table tonight he asked how to spell pool. Then he told me B-O-O-K spells book, mama! It makes him so happy to learn. He melts my heart.

Some of you know that grocery shopping is one of my favorite things to do---pretty much the opposite of most moms. Well, my friend Kristen has become quite the coupon queen recently and started to post her deals on her blog. While I have always clipped coupons and save tons each week at Kroger, I have kept my deals to myself. However, after finding some super deals online, in the paper, and in the store today, I feel very satisfied with posting my findings. Below is a sample but in total today I saved $77 with coupons and Kroger discounts ($37 in solid coupons). Aside from that, I bought 3 packages of Pampers Cruisers for $5.99 each. Hooray for April! It's ok, I don't mind being called a grocery geek.

In this picture, all the products cost me a total of $5. Now mind you, the shampoo and conditioner cost $3 of that. So I got the rest for $2. It was quite exciting. I have never bought seven out of the nine products shown here so we'll see what kind of bargain I really got. :)

Good morning friends. I feel like I haven't blogged about much lately and I would like to fix that. Times are busy and the unfortunate thing about BLOGS is that if you start to slip, it's very difficult to dig out and get back on top. So as much as I would love to say I have one profound topic for today, instead I've decided to just throw out some tidbits.

I love the backspace button. I can write a couple sentences of complete stupidity and then whooooop! I can just take it all away. Nice. Okay, well, let me start with the Psalm I just read to get my creative juices flowing.

Psalm 96
Sing a new song to the Lord! Let the whole earth sing to the Lord! Each day proclaim the good news that he saves. Publish his glorious deeds among the nations. Tell everyone about the amazing things he does. Great is the Lord! He is most worthy of praise! He is to be feared above all gods. The gods of other nations are mere idols, but the Lord made the heavens! (Hello????) Honor and majesty surround him; strength and beauty fill his sanctuary. O nations of the world, recognize the Lord; recognize that the Lord is glorious and strong. Give to the Lord the glory he deserves! Bring your offering and come into his courts. Worship the Lord in all his holy splendor. Let all the earth tremble before him. Tell all the nations, "The Lord reigns!" The world stands firm and cannot be shaken. He will judge all peoples fairly. (now my favorite part) Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice! Let the sea and everything in it shout his praise! Let the fields and their crops burst out with joy! Let the trees of the forest rustle with praise before the Lord, for he is coming! He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with justice, and the nations with his truth.

Wow. What a tremendous psalm. I LOVE this picture of creation. I always love the thought of all creation---plant, animal, rock knowing the Lord and worshiping him! Isn't that powerful? So the next time you walk through a forest, or even down the street and you hear the trees rustle, think of them praising the Lord. And as this psalm encourages, PUBLISH his glorious deeds. We need to do that more often don't we? Instead we have weirdo books that Oprah pushes all over us. That's one thing I love about a blog I became attached to over a year ago. Adrienne does indeed publish the Lord's deeds.

A few weeks ago I joined LA Fitness. May not seem like the smartest investment since I am moving, right? Well, I'm sick of using the term, "I'm moving" to delay any sort of productive action I can take. So I felt the Lord nudge me and tell me to go ahead and do it. Needless to say, I am so glad I did. While I don't go nearly as often as I'd like, I already believe it's been worth the money. Monday nights at 8pm they have a yoga class that I've been going to. Mind you, it was only my 2nd class last night, but wow, I love it. Now if you have a picture in your mind of the "yoga type", I am not it. However, I think that is the beauty of it. It really works! And you don't have to be some leotard wearing vegan to get it. It's the ultimate paradox----wearing every muscle in your body out in the midst of achieving ultimate relaxation. I slept like a baby last night from 10:45pm to 6am. Yessssssssssssss. I told Brian that I could easily become addicted. We shall see. :)

We made some crazy plans yesterday and all 4 of us will be spending some time in California around Easter. This is weird to blog about because the original reason for Wesley and me going is to attend my cousin's memorial service. And that fact remains. My cousin, Shelley Schuhmann died a tragic and untimely death on February 28th. I only have 2 first cousins and she is one of them. She was 44 and a wife and mother. My little cousin Missy is only 10 and can really use your prayers. As well as her dad, Eddie. While there are some questions regarding what exactly happened and how it all went downhill so fast, her body was having lung complications and dealing with a deadly fungus. It's all still hard to believe and I ask the Lord right now to comfort everyone in the Gordon/Schuhmann family as they continue to heal from this loss.
Wesley and I were going out alone (I'm still nursing him) and that was going to be fine. My sisters and parents will be there too. But we changed things around and now Brian and Noah will be joining us for part of the trip and we'll get to spend Easter with family as well as visit our dear friends, Paul and Brooke Begin up in Malibu. I feel a deep satisfaction with these plans and feel myself counting the days, almost.

This post has shaped up to be a tad bit longer than I had planned. :) Sorry bout that. I'll give you some more tidbits later. Ciao.