Angleton

We spent TX-OU weekend with my family in Angleton. All members of the Tilton family were together for the first time since Noah was born! We took the opportunity to take some family pictures together, all dressed up in our school colors (Texas, A&M, and Texas State were all represented...note I think there's appropriately more burnt orange than other colors!). Mike's Dad, Loyd, and sister, Vanesssa, came down from Houston to visit and watch the game with us on Saturday. We were proud to get Noah a win for his first OU weekend. Poor little guy kept getting scared and crying when we'd all cheer loudly for something during the game. We'll have to work on that. We also went out to the Brazoria County Fair for a couple hours on Saturday. Showed Noah some animals and had some good fair junk food...corn dogs, funnel cakes, and even fried oreos this year.


Here are our family photos:

The Tilton side of the Family

Mike, Liz, Noah, Kristi, Thomas

Tom (Dad), Alice (Grandmother), Merri (Mom)

The White side of the family

Loyd(Dad)
Vanessa, Mike, Noah, Liz

The White men

Noah on Daddy's shoulders getting ready for the big game

Hey family: If any of you have other pictures from the weekend to share, please post online or send them to me so I can add them...seems I didn't take many pictures with my camera this weekend!

August and September Updates

The last two months have been busy. Hence the late posting of these updates.

August is always the busiest month of the year for me at work. August=back to school preparations=hundreds of children descending upon our clinic needing shots. So I worked more than my typical two days a week. But it was good and now it's over which is even better. In August, Mike and I celebrated our 5th anniversary! Unfortunately it fell on the one Saturday of the year that I had to work (again with the shots) so we waited and did our big celebrating at the end of the month once work slowed down. We took a long weekend trip over Labor Day to San Antonio. We stayed two nights on the Riverwalk and then went out to Medina Lake and spent one night with my Aunt Georgie. While in San Antonio we ate and walked on the Riverwalk, went to the Zoo, went to a brewery for lunch, took Noah swimming and just relaxed. It was great fun. Of course it was quite different celebrating our anniversary with Noah in tow this year, but it was good to be together all as a family.

Noah didn't find the Riverwalk very exciting

Mexican food and Margaritas on the Riverwalk. Can life get better?

Noah has become interested in what we are eating and drinking and

is convinced he should share our drinks with us

Big comfy bed and pillows

Trip to the Zoo

Sitting with Mommy on the Lions

Noah was more interested in chewing on his stroller straps than doing much else.

Good thing his entry to the zoo was free
Zebras

Rhinos

Hippo
We could walk down into a building and see under the water of the pool
where the hippos live. This guy had his face pressed up against the
glass and seemed to be staring at everyone. It was pretty funny.

Lunch at the brewery on Saturday.
Noah couldn't figure out why I wouldn't share this drink with him.

Lunch Sunday on the Riverwalk was at Paesano's

It's Tilton family tradition to eat at Paesano's (an Italian restaurant) anytime we're in San Antonio.

It's now become a White family tradition as well.

Visiting Aunt Georgie

We spent a lot of time growing up with my Great Aunt Georgie and Uncle Nuck. Thanksgiving has always been a tradition there and once they moved to the lake we'd go and hang out during the summer and swim and just have a good time. This was Noah's first trip to Aunt Georgie's, so it was really special to me for him to get to go. I don't know how many more opportunities we'll have to do this so these memories are really precious!

So, what's new with Noah? At the end of August we introduced him to rice cereal. A few weeks later he moved on to sweet potatoes and will continue to try new things. He can now roll in both directions and sit up by himself. Now that he can get himself on his tummy, he doesn't mind being on his tummy and actually seems to prefer to sleep on his tummy now. He got his first tooth on Sept 5th just days before he was 6 months old and got the second one (both are bottom front teeth) just days later. He had his 6 month check up in mid September and is doing great. He weighed in at 21 lbs 1.5 oz and was 28.75 inches long. Still 90-95th percentile for both. He loves being outside and wants to be a part of whatever is going on. When put on the floor he reaches and grabs for whatever toy is in front of him. He works really hard at reaching, but can't project himself forward yet. We are definitely seeing signs of major determination in him though.

Other things with us: Mike finished up his internship for the DCE program in August and Point of Grace voted to extend him a call to a permanent position as the Director of Youth and College Ministries/Business Manager in September. We're still waiting for the official documents to be processed but those should come soon and then Mike will accept the call. The church building has had some set backs but we're hoping it will be complete in November/December. We're excited also about the return of football season. We got UT season tickets again this year so Mike and I have been going to games. We have seats in the new North Endzone. They're upperdeck-the view is still great, the only thing that stinks is the amount of time it takes to walk up to the seats. Oh well...we're just pleased to be at the games!

Well, I think that's a pretty good wrap up of our lives over the past couple months. Here are some more picture of Noah.

Eating cereal

Eating sweet potatoes

Sitting up


Reaching

New big boy car seat

Trying to show off the new teeth

Laughing

Lately Noah has been laughing more and more...sometimes at the strangest things. Last weekend, he loved watching his cousins throw a ball and jump around in our living room. He laughed for like 5 minutes straight. Earlier this week he cracked up at Mike's toes. Here's a short video of him laughing at Mike's toes.

5 months

It seems like we say this with each passing month, but really...5 months already??!? Everyone tells you it will go by quickly and I had no doubt that they were right but still it amazes me how quickly time seems to go. Or maybe it's just that babies grow and change so quickly. I'm surprised that my little baby is already big enough to be doing some of the things that he is.

We borrowed an excersaucer from a friend at the beginning of August and that is now Noah's new hang out. He entertains himself by moving around to each different toy trying to get it in his mouth.



As good as the toys are, I think the feet are almost his favorite thing to grab and try to shove in his mouth.

Our big boy is on the verge of sitting up on his own. As you can see, he's able to pull it off for very short periods of time (long enough for Mommy to snap a few pictures). He does really well just sitting in front of one of us. But definitely still needs help balancing. But he can put his hands down in front of him and stay put for a little bit. He'll have it down in no time.

Wrestling with a teddy bear...


He's also finally mastered the art of rolling over. Last week on the 7th (his 5 month birthday), I put him down on his tummy and he immediately flipped to his back. Tummy time is now a concept of the past...now that he's really gotten the hang of rolling over, as soon as you put him on his stomach he flips over. In fact sometimes it's almost as if he's trying to start turning himself before you even get him all the way down. It's pretty funny. We've gotten some video I just need to figure out how to get it online now.

He's also showing huge interest in eating and drinking lately. Last weekend we were at a shrimp boil with our small group and I had him on my lap while I was trying to eat. Everytime I brought something to my mouth he tried to grab it out of my hand. Finally I let him try my cup of water. With my help he put it up to his mouth and then stuck his tongue in a few times. I think the cold surprised him. Now he just plays with empty plastic cups at home until we are ready to give him some of his own food. He's definitely showing signs of being ready to start solids now so I think we'll start that adventure sometime very soon. It seems like just yesterday I felt like I would be nursing him forever so it's hard to believe he's ready for something new already. I'm excited to see how he'll do...stay tuned!

Just playing around...

Noah always seems to be happiest right after he waskes up.

Chewing on one of his favorite toys. He loves to get the ball part in his mouth and chomp down. We think he's teething...still...we've thought that for weeks now and can feel the bumps on his gums but still nothing poking through.

I decided we needed some cute naked baby pictures. Playing around in his crib after a nap. We were trying to get him to roll over. He'd done it twice earlier in the day, but Mike had missed it again. We weren't successful that afternoon, but he finally did it for Daddy the next day!

Mommy uses this all the time. Must mean it tastes good. Here, let me see...

Tired out from lots of playing.

Noah likes his feet

A couple weeks ago Noah discovered his feet. He'd grab them when lying on his back and roll side to side. It's pretty cute. Now, even cuter, he tries to put them in his mouth. His favorite time to do this is when he's getting his diaper changed. I think as we are lifting his legs up to do the changing part he realized maybe he could get his feet all the way up to his mouth...after a few tries he is now mostly successful!