~Noah learns to ride his bike without training wheels!~

I was upstairs doing Sarah's hair when I heard Phillip tell Noah that he was going to take off his training wheels...and my heart did a flip. MY BABY...riding his bike on the road in front of our house...with parked cars on both sides...EEEEKKKK! In my minds eye...I could just see him crashing!!! Was he ready? WAS I READY? So, I came downstairs and watched Daddy take off the training wheels...and I wasn't the only one watching...there was a VERY EXCITED NOAH watching too! Our girls were excited about this event...another stage in their baby brother growing up. So, off came the training wheels, and Noah sat on his bike and sort of walked out of the garage with BIG SISTERS Kimberly and Sarah on either side to "protect" him. Then they took him to the road, held on to his bike seat until he got started...

...and OFF HE WENT, on the first try, with his little tongue stuck out in concentration! =D

He did a great job, and we were all happy that he survived his first day of riding his bike without training wheels...but no one was more happy (and relieved) than this MOTHER! =) (Sarah was so excited she was skipping and jumping, and so was her dress...it's a good thing that she wears bloomers! =)

Here's a cute little video of him.

Noah's new bike,& a close-up of my new ann. shoes!

~NOAH WAITING FOR THE MAN TO PUT HIS TRAINING WHEELS ON HIS NEW, "BIG" BIKE!!~

NOAH IS THRILLED BEYOND MEASURE. MOST OF YOU WILL REMEMBER THAT HIS LITTLE BIKE BROKE A FEW WEEKS AGO. WELL, THE DAY AFTER HIS BIKE BROKE, I CALLED HIM TO DO SOMETHING...TAKE A NAP OR SOMETHING...AND HE SAID, "LET'S GO AND BUY ME A BIG BIKE, THEN TAKE A NAP." =) NOAH WAS DREAMING OF A NEW, BLUE, "BIG" BIKE!
ALSO, HE KEPT TALKING ABOUT GETTING A BIKE, AND SO I TOLD HIM TO PRAY FOR A BIKE...AND SO HE BOWED HIS LITTLE HEAD AND SAID SOMETHING LIKE, "JESUS THANK YOU THAT ....I MEAN PLEASE HELP JESUS TO GET ME A BIKE THAT'S NOT BROKEN...AMEN!!" IT WAS SOO CUTE!
THE NEXT DAY, SOME OF OUR DEAR FRIENDS FROM OHIO E-MAILED US THAT THEY WERE SENDING US SOME MONEY TO GET NOAH A NEW BIKE!! WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS WHAT THIS MEANS TO ME AS A MOMMY!!! SO LATER THAT WEEK, WE WENT AND BOUGHT A CUTE BIKE FOR NOAH. I HAVE TEARS IN MY EYES AS I WRITE THIS, FOR NOAH IS SOOO EXCITED THAT GOD HAS ANSWERED HIS PRAYER AND THAT HE DOES NOT HAVE A BROKEN BIKE NOW! HE HAS A NICE, NEW BIKE =) WE ARE ASKING GOD TO RICHLY BLESS OUR FRIENDS THAT IT MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR NOAH TO HAVE HIS VERY OWN, "BIG-LITTLE" BIKE! =)

~Some of you were curious, and wanted to see a close-up of my new shoes that I got for our anniversary! There are a light blue leather, with a beige ribbon woven through the holes in the shoes. (I can change the ribbon when I want to!) Phillip knows me well enough to know that I would rather have a new pair of shoes, than anything else he could have gotten me! =) My skirt is one of the ones that Phillip got me in Ecuador for $2.50...and it matches perfectly with my new shoes. =)~
PRAISE THE LORD...MY PARENTS HAD PURCHASED A YEAR'S SUBSCRIPTION TO TASTE OF HOME FOR ME, BUT SO FAR, I'VE ONLY RECEIVED ONE ISSUE. I HAVE BEEN SAD, FOR MY APRIL/MAY ISSUE IS ABOUT 2 MONTHS LATE COMING. SO I HAVE BEEN ASKING JESUS TO PLEASE HELP ME TO GET A TASTE OF HOME MAG. WELL....TODAY, I DID NOT GET THE APRIL/MAY ISSUE (THAT'S HOPEFULLY STILL COMING MY WAY) BUT I GOT 2 OF THE JUNE/JULY ISSUES! YEA! THERE WAS SHOUTING IN THE CAMP WHEN I SAW A T.O.H. MAGAZINE HAD ARRIVED! =) GOD IS AWESOME!