Busy busy busy May

As usual, the end of the school year brings a flurry of activities. In the last 2 weeks, Noah has participated in the Tap Show (pictures in a previous post), 2 Touring Company performances, a school field trip to the Columbus Zoo, a piano recital, Field Day at school and the Arts Magnet Art Show. That's in addition to all the "normal" activities we do on a regular basis! Thanks to a very sweet husband, I was able to chaperon the zoo trip and I helped out with Field Day. I think Noah was pretty excited to have his mom hanging around without little brother tagging along. :) Noah also lost another tooth (his 5th) and continues to draw, play with his legos, write and illustrate his own books and is enjoying playing with Josiah as he gets more playful. Noah even changed a diaper! I don't think that will be a regular occurrence though. ;)

May 10

Noah or Josiah?

Pop Quiz time! Can you tell which picture is Noah and which picture is Josiah? I only saved 2 or 3 outfits from when Noah was a baby and this is one of them... same outfit, same blanket, same chair. :)


Ok, so maybe they aren't twins born 7 years apart, but they're definitely brothers! :)

Tap Show

Each year at Heritage Arts Magnet, they have an Artist-in-Residence program and this year's focus was tap dancing. Mark Yonally with Chicago Tap Theatre worked with the kids for a week in March and then brought the dancers to Lima for a performance with the kids. Unfortunately, no flash photography or video was allowed, though I did sneak one no flash picture. They did have a professional videographer there, so we'll be purchasing the DVD and will share as we can. Noah was in the back row, so any video we would've taken probably wouldn't have been that great anyway.

From Tap Show

Josiah is now 5 months old. He found his toes and loves to chew on them. :) He also occasionally will put his arms up when asked, "How big is Josiah?" (you know, "SOOOO big!" Once he does it on a more regular basis, I'll post a video of him doing it. :) He's eating rice cereal, playing in his saucer and loves the outside swing. I took him and Noah to the park today and he loved watching all the kids playing. He's still all smiles and drools constantly. Noah is still quite enamored with his baby brother.

365 days of Josiah

lots of giggles

Just wanted to share this very cute short video of Josiah from Saturday for those of you not on Facebook. He is still our very happy baby!