I Pee-Pee'd in the Potty!

After many, many months of practicing going pee-pee in the potty, I finally did it!!! By practicing, I mean sitting on my potty numerous times a day, sometimes fully clothed, sometimes with a diaper on, and sometimes without a diaper on but I never once put any pee-pee in the potty. My cousin, Addie, had spent the previous two days with me and I witnessed her going pee-pee in the potty multiple times. I also witnessed her receive a "special treat" after going in the potty and since Addie is such a good sharer she wanted me to have one of her "special treats" too! Friday morning, New Year's Day, Addie had to leave and after she had been gone for a little while, mommy needed to change my diaper. Typically, when mommy takes off my diaper, before she puts a dry one on, I will go and sit on my potty for a few minutes (and again, just sit there without putting anything in the potty)! This time was different, both mommy and daddy were in the bathroom with me while I was sitting on my potty. Mommy thought she'd see what happened if she offered me a "special treat" if I went pee-pee in the potty. Within, a few seconds, I did IT!!!!! I pee-pee'd in the potty. After mommy and daddy picked up there jaws off the floor, we all ran out into the kitchen to get me a "special treat"!!!!

I know I am no-where close to being potty trained but I am still sooooo proud of myself and mommy and daddy are so proud of me too!!!

My Harmonica

I received an instrument set from Aunt Kristi, Uncle Dustin, Cousin Addie, and Wrigley. It included maracas, a tambourine, a clapper, and a harmonica (to name a few). I am surprising quite good at the harmonica!!!

Christmas in Dayton!

Christmas morning, after we opened presents at our house and went to Christmas mass, we loaded up the car and headed down to Gammy and Poppy's in Dayton! There we celebrated with all of mommy's family and when I say "all" I mean "all"! As you are aware, mommy has a rather large extended family. After we opened gifts as Gammy and Poppy's we headed over to my great-grandma's to celebrate with the whole family!

I made good use of the bows by wearing them on my head after taking them off the presents!

I received alot of wonderful gifts in Dayton too!

And so did Addie!!!

Addie and I had a great time playing with Gammy's Nativity Set!

Addie is going to be a very good big sister when her baby brother arrives. Look how gentle she is being with baby Jesus!

Addie and I always have THE BEST time together!! We just giggle...

and smile...

and smile!!!

Christmas Morning!

Before I went to sleep on Christmas Eve, mommy and daddy told me that Santa was coming that night to bring me a few gifts since I have been such a good boy! I dreamed of Santa and his reindeer's landing on our roof late at night. I dreamed of Santa coming down the Chimney with his big, red bag hanging over his shoulder and leaving me a couple wonderful surprises! I even think I heard Santa's bells and a hearty "Ho, Ho, Ho" as he was leaving in his sleigh! But I never dreamed that I would wake to the sight of this......

My jaw practically dropped to the floor and I was in complete awe when I saw my presents!

Santa even left me a special message that said, Merry Christmas Noah! Love, Santa

Santa sure was good to me this year, he brought me a kitchen with a grill, an easel, a table with animal chairs, puppets, kitchen accessories, and lots of clothes (to name a few)!!! I think I will always make sure I am a good boy so when Santa is checking his list, he knows I was good!!!! Thank you Santa!

Christmas Eve 2009!

We spent Christmas Eve with my daddy's family. We had a delicious dinner, opened up lots of wonderful gifts, and I spent most of the evening playing with my cousin, Taylor!

Here we are in our Christmas Eve outfits from our Nana!

Where to begin....

this one looks like a good one to start with!

Ohhhh, my first leather jacket!!! :)

Baking Cookies!

One of my many favorite things to do is to help ma-ma cook. Specifically, to help her stir!!! I want to stir everything. I stir my eggs in the morning, soup, pasta, etc on the stove, and I did alot of cookie stirring in preparation for the holidays! Mommy went a little overboard on the pictures of me stirring and she thought they were all so darn cute that we decided to just include them all! Enjoy!

I started to get a little giddy....

maybe it was from all the sugar (I was stirring, not eating...you know my mommy)!!! :)

Santa!!!

So, as much as I talked about Santa this year, you would have thought me and the big jolly ole guy were best friends! I carried our many Santa's all around the house, I asked multiple times to see Santa on TV. Because of this mommy and daddy thought I would just love to sit on his lap! We made the hike out to the mall, got in line, admired/couldn't take my eyes off Santa while waiting my turn, and then.....when we were next in line, I wanted nothing to do with Mr. HoHoHo! Maybe next year! :)

The only pictures we got were of me looking at Santa (from a distance).

I did my fair share of "checking him out!"

And there he is!!!

Decking The Halls!

We decked the halls (aka our house) and tried to get in "the spirit!"

I love our Garland!

Our BEAUTIFUL tree!!!

Our stockings!

And our mistletoe!

Trying on Da-da's Coat!

How do you think it fits?!!?!?! :)

Cousin Addie's Visit!

Cousin Addie came to visit a few weeks ago. My Aunt Kristi and Dustin had a few things they needed to do up here in Cleveland so mommy watched Addie and me. Boy, did we wear her out but boy, did we have fun!!! :)

Addie pushed me around on the vacuum,

then I pulled her on the vacuum.
We worked on the trampoline with my hammers,

and jumped on the trampoline.

We pretended to drink coffee!

We played with play-dough.

We colored.

And overall we....

shared very nicely throughout the day!

Mommy wasn't the only one worn out. Wrigley was too...

and so was Bailey!

Happy Hannukah!!!

We celebrated Hannukah with my daddy's family at Aunt Stacey's. I received a trampoline and a toy fire truck from my Gramps!!!

I love my new trampoline!
And my fire truck too!

I gave Gramps a big hug and kiss to thank him!

I enjoyed some of my mommy's tuna dip! Finger licking good!

Awwww.....my mommy!!!

She loves me SOOOO MUCH!!! Gosh, I'm one lucky little guy!

Taylor and I had a dance PARTY!!!

I ended the evening by giving my cousin, Kayla, some lovin'!

Our Hannukah candles!

My 1st Home Depot Workshop!

The first Saturday of every month, Home Depot hosts a free kids workshop for a few hours in the morning. Mommy and I were in Home Depot Friday picking up a few things and it popped in her mind that someone had told her about this awhile back. She thought about what the date was and the next day, Saturday, just so happened to be the first Saturday of December. We were in luck!!!! After Gym Class on Saturday, we headed to my first workshop! When you arrive, you receive a little orange apron and a kit of whatever you are making that day! Then you head over to your table which is already stocked with all of the tools needed and sit on a big orange bucket! In this particular workshop, we built a toy wagon! I was the youngest little guy there but with da-da's help, I created a very neat (and sturdy) wagon!

I even got a pin (with a wagon on it) to put on my apron after I completed my wagon!

Getting to work!

After a few pieces of wood,
ALOT of glue,

A little "bang, bang,"

MORE glue,

I did say ALOT of glue, right?!?!

A walk around the table to see if anyone else needed some glue, of course),

I had my own hand-made toy wagon!

Ooooohhhh, Aaaahhhh!

Proud daddy!

But I wasn't done yet. I had to decorate it with a few festive stickers!

Addison's 2nd Birthday Party!

After our stay at Gammy and Poppy's we all headed over to Columbus on Saturday for Addison's 2nd birthday party! The party didn't start until later in the afternoon but I waited very patiently.

I waited on the stairs for the party-goers to arrive. Still waiting.....

And then....they came! Elmo too!!! (Since it was an Elmo themed party).

Elmo looked as nice as can be, but.....

I was still a little scared of the little, I mean, big red guy!

Aunt Kristi made a fantastic Elmo cake and we all sang to Addie!

Then we pulled the strings from the Elmo pinata until....

he opened up and spilled out a ton of goodies!

I gathered a few things and put them into my bag,

checked out my goodies,

and gathered a few more!

Then I thanked Elmo and gave him a pat on his nose!

Before the party ended, a winning name was pulled from a bag and....guess who won...ME!!!!!

I won a very cool Button Book!

Addison's party was a blast! Happy Birthday, cuz! I love you!!!

Thanksgiving 2009!

We spent Thanksgiving this year with mommy's family in Dayton. We arrived at Gammy and Poppy's on Wednesday and Addie and I spent the evening well....running around the house, while holding on to a dog's leash, of course!!!

After we tired ourselves out and hit the sack, the grown-ups spent the evening relaxing and making smore's over the fire pit.

The next day, Thanksgiving Day, while Gammy and Poppy worked hard to prepare the Turkey, Grandpa Sacksteder came over to visit with me and Addie (oh, and our mommies and daddies).


Addison and I waited patiently for the Thanksgiving Day festivities to begin and passed the time by playing Ring Around the Rosie ("Bear" played too)!

I got the hang of the game pretty good minus the part where "we all fall down."

Gammy prepared a wonderful Thanksgiving meal which everyone enjoyed and we all had a wonderful day!!! We ended the day with a visit to great-grandma and grandpa's house to visit all of my "greats" and "2nd's, 3rd's" etc!

As usual, Addie and I were inseparable while we were together!!!!

Addison gave me a lot of really good hugs!

And she put her arm around me!

Another activity of the day....and the only reason I am mentioning this is because I am rather proud of my great hair and dimples too! Aunt Kristi decided to put my hair in bows and then followed up by instructing me to go show my mommy and daddy! :) Being the obedient self that I am, I did just that!!!

To baby boy Frazier, if you see your mommy coming towards you with bows and Addison is no where in site......RUN!!!!! ;)

Colors!!!

Last week, da-da and I were playing with a toy that has all different color of balls. I picked up the yellow ball and said "lello." Da-da called out to ma-ma telling her that I know what color yellow is. Ma-ma thought maybe it was just a coincidence that I picked up the yellow ball and said yellow. Well, over the past week, I have been so interested in playing with these balls (which I hadn't given much attention over the prior couple of months). At first, I would pick up a ball and say a color. Sometimes I was right and sometimes I was wrong. Ma-ma would point out the correct color for me and then I would repeat it. I say all the colors of the rainbow really well; "red", "ng", "lello", "geen", "bue", "pple" and after a week of practicing....ma-ma says, it's no coincidence, I CAN point out my colors!!! I can't deny the fact that there is always room for improvement as I do mis-speak every once and a while.