Teacher of the Year

I am very proud of my hubby and wanted to let everyone know that Justin has just received TEACHER OF THE YEAR at Alamance Community College. He is always my teacher of the year- but now he is ACC's too :)! I could not be more proud of him. He works so hard everyday. He far out does himself on a daily basis. I know how much he loves his job and he works so hard for the students and the college. He most definitely deserves this! SO-

CONGRATULATIONS JUSTIN!!

My new "big girl" job!!

I have a new job! I am finally a big girl :-)! I know Justin is relieved and I'm not so sure what we're going to do with the extra money. We've been living on one pay check for so long, it's going to be strange. I am super excited about it. I started on Monday and it's been very exciting and a little sad at the same time. I consider myself VERY lucky. I have been able to be a semi stay at home mommy for a year. Noah has been going to day care; however, being a grad student I have had a lot of mommy time with him. I have been able to let him sleep in until he wanted and my time has been quite flexible. And I have been able to get him anytime of the day or stay home for days a time. Now, I have to be at work at a reasonable hour (but from what I have been told, as long as I get my 40 hours in they don't care what time I come or go). Now, Justin has taken the mommy role. I'm a little sadden by this role change. Typically I get lots of Noah time and now he is taking it all. He takes Noah to school (his day care is on Justin's campus) and he picks him up. I get night times with him, but it's still a little sad. I do miss my baby time! He is growing so fast. But I do feel blessed that I had a year to spend with him. Okay, back to the new job. I am a research associate at Pfizer located in RTP. My actual title is Embryo Manipulation Technologist...EMT :)! So far I love it!! I am still adjusting, but I am excited to be part of the company. I will keep you updated! So it looks like I am a regular 8-4:30ish working woman...still have the part time ICU technician job but I think I'm ready to have my family weekends back. Well, just wanted to let you all know what's going on in the Snyder's lives. Thanks for keeping up with us!

OUR BIRTHDAY BOY!!!!

That's right! Our little boy is 1!!!! It is so hard to believe that he is already a big 1 year old toddler! He has changed so much! I love just watching him learn new things- which is on a day to day basis these days! What a year it's been! From ear infections, to bug bites, to Roesola- he's been such a trooper through it all. Then mommy starting a job and Noah starting child care. It's been a tough year for us all. He's been the best baby and we are so blessed to have him as ours!

Some of the things he is doing...
*Is still a healthy eater- not met a food he doesn't like!
*Some stranger anxiety- but still does very well! Is ALWAYS waving at people in stores and smiles at EVERYONE!
*Tends to be more comfortable with girls than men- and LOVES little kids!
*Is walking up a storm! Cruised for the longest time- I got him a little ball popper that he has to push (but doesn't support his weight, and in one day he was walking on his own).
*Still loves a bath! I think the pool is going to be a hit!
*Is trying to talk! He blabbers sentences and looks at you like you should know what he is saying...it always makes me smile!
*Words he does say: Momma, dada, ball, dog, hi, all done, tickle-tickle and yay (I sware he trys to say turtle)
*Still does very well on car trips!
*LOVES animals!....That's my boy :)!
*Is doing pretty well at signing- so far he does "hi", "bye", "up", "all done", "more", we're working on "cracker"- and he loves to clap, he is an encourager :)!
*He loves to be outside- he's our nature lover! And we love it!
*Recently he has been into basket ball- he got a goal for his birthday and he loves making baskets- he loves when we dribble the ball, but he can't figure out how to do it himself, it's too cute!
*He still gives the best hugs and open mouth kisses :)
*Still likes to cuddle!!
*We still give him a bottle before bed, although that is the only bottle he gets all day.
*He wants to use the big boy utensils at meal time, but he ends up pushing more of the food on the floor than on the fork- but it's fun to watch!


I think that's about it....I'm sure I'll be adding to this list as he changes every day! He's such a big boy!