Camping in Santa Cruz

This past week my family and a few of the Jensen's went on a camping trip to Santa Cruz. Camping has always been one of my favorite things so I was really excited to take Noah on the trip. We stayed in tents at Sunset Beach just a short walk/drive from the beach. The weather was beautiful and we had so much fun!

Noah did really well...minus waking up at 5 in the morning a few times.


So the first day we were there we went to the beach. Noah has been to the beach before, but he was so little before that I had never really let him go around and feel the sand and the water. This time I just let him go for it. He was crawling around, had his first taste of sand (just one...he was really good at not eating it surprisingly!), and played around in his first mote/sandy playpen.

 Turns out sand isn't really that yummy mom...

 He loved roaming free in his little sand n play!

 After the day at the  beach he was exhausted. He was out as soon as we put him in this. We let him sit and sleep for a bit before we put him in the car (while everyone searched for Tom's glasses that I lost...oops!)

Noah got to spend a lot of time with all of his Great - aunts & cousins. He was loving all of the attention. Also I'm loving his blue blue eyes and this monster out fit! 

 He also had a lot of snuggles around the fire. Love this little monster

 As soon as I pointed the camera at him this day he gave me this face...haha. 

I've got myself a little model.

 We hung out with these two love birds a lot.

 And he slept quite a bit. Camping is exhausting.

 He learned how to skateboard with aunt Caryn and cousin Julia.

 We went to Pizza My Heart two times. We loved the pizza. & The shirts!

Noah got his first peppermint ice cream mustache! (Thanks grandma!)

Overall it was a great time hanging out with family and going to the beach. We love camping and we are glad that Noah did too!! Now we are off to Oregon for more family fun!

8 Months

Noah turned 8 months on the 6th! It is getting really cray to me how fast time is going by! Noah is a little over 8 months now.

Some of his 8 month milestones!

He has 4 teeth now! Two on top and two on bottom. He loves chomping food with them, and he also loves grinding them (my favorite sound!). He has the cutest little toothy smile and I LOVE IT!

He is cruising really well and trying his hardest to walk! Sometimes he'll get half a step in, but then he always falls down and then decides that crawling is just much easier. Which is fine with me! He already gets around SO fast I can't even imagine how I'll keep track of him once he starts walking. I have a feeling he'll be doing it really soon though.

He's loving trying new foods and especially likes fruits. He loves chewing on apples!

He watched his uncle David dance in the Strauss festival last month and LOVED all of the music and fireworks at the end! He also loved great-grandpa jensen's head!

He also loves saying DADA. Which i have a video of but is not working on here for some reason. So I guess you'll have to come visit him to hear it!

Love this sweet happy boy!

4th of July

This year was Noah's first 4th of July!

Every year since I can remember we always go to Woodland to watch my Dad's firework show. I was pretty excited for Noah's first firework show because he LOVES lights (and loud noises oddly enough...). Tom had been setting up the show with my dad for the past couple of days so we were excited to see him too! Here's a little set of pictures to show you our day...Noah loved hanging out with Aunt Ciara, Grandma Jensen, Aunt Caryn, and loved getting to see Grandpa Jensen for a little bit when he got a little break from setting up the show, but he fell asleep at about 8:30, and didn't wake up for the show. So we will have to wait until next year to see if he will like fireworks!

 

Noah 7 Months

Noah is 7 months old today! It's crazy how fast the months fly by. I feel like I was just posting about him being born! He is growing so fast and wishes he was growing faster I think ha. This kid is just so smart.

He is crawling full on now. And not only is he crawling but he is lifting himself up and climbing all over EVERYTHING! He is loving his mobility, but the trouble comes when he thinks that he can walk already. He's got a nice big bruise on his forehead right now because he will just let go once he stands up on something and try to walk off. I seriously think this kid will be walking at 8 months. He is SOOO strong I can't even believe it! And he is always so proud of himself when he stand up!

He has two teeth (and possibly more on the way). Teething is still going on here and really hasn't been as bad as I always hear it is. He IS waking up about two times a night, but other than that and a few grumpy days he hasn't been too bad! He loves to bite everything, including fingers, OUCH! I can't  believe how sharp those teeth are haha.

We went to southern California this last weekend for our nieces baptism and Noah loved looking at grandpa Hall's trains. He also loved swimming in their pool!

Noah enjoyed going to the lake and hanging out with Uncle David for a bit.

I still love hanging out with this boy. It gets more and more fun everyday as he gets older and learns more.