Saturday, November 22, 2008

Birthday Fun!

We went to Chattanooga to celebrate Noah's 2nd birthday and had a really great time!

Here we are at the Incline Railway up to Lookout Mountain. It goes really slow, but was crazy steep! (You might have to click on the picture to make it bigger to really see the tracks all the way to the top of the mountain.) If you look just to the right of the light we are standing in front of, you can see the train station at the very top of the mountain and the tracks right beneath it coming all the way down to where we are. And yes, it looks like a roller coaster track instead of a train track! Noah had the best time on the train.



Here we are eating some ice cream.



We spent his birthday at the aquarium. He wasn't too sure about the hands-on tanks. There were two of them where you could touch the fish inside. One had stingrays and the other was full of sturgeon. Neither one interested him enough to actually put his hands in the water.

Of course he really got a kick out of all the fish, but he discovered some new favorites ... alligators and otters. He was intrigued by the turtles, sharks, penguins and stingrays, but we had to pull him away from the otters and alligators. He just couldn't get enough.






Birthday Weekend

We had a great time with Nana and Grandad in the days leading up to Noah's birthday. We celebrated the whole weekend together!

Instead of a birthday cake, we put Swedish Fish on top of cupcakes and I think he would have been fine with just a bag of Swedish Fish!

The act of opening presents and seeing what is inside has finally clicked!

Noah and Nana playing with a new favorite toy.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Cat Sitting

We are cat sitting for our neighbors while they are on vacation and Noah is loving it! Each afternoon we spend some time at their house with the cats.


No matter where they are in the house,
Noah will find them and chase after them...



He's gotten confident enough to feed them treats on his own and loves it so much that they probably get a few more treats than their owners would like!



Saturday, November 08, 2008

A New Cousin!

My brother and his wife have a precious new daughter, Emma, and we visited them in the hospital this morning. Noah loves to say her name, but wasn't too sure what to think about such a small baby. Congratulations Bryan and Ashley!

Blue Socks

I'm not sure when it started, but Noah has had a thing lately about blue socks. We're just starting to work with him on identifying colors and he is really intrigued at what color his socks are. It's especially important with his pajamas.

We had a babysitter the other night so we could go to the Symphony and she told us that he kept saying something after she got him ready for bed. She couldn't tell what he was saying, but he was really insistent about it. Finally, he went into his room, dug around in his sock drawer, brought her some blue socks and repeated what he had been saying for several minutes, "Blue Socks!" and apparently was happy once she got them on him.

We've always known he's had some pretty clear ideas about what he wants, but this is a new one to me!

When Kids are Quiet

I was working around the house the other day and Noah was playing quietly. At one point, he was a little too quiet for a little too long and this is where I found him...

on the counter with the powdered sugar opened and everywhere. I'm not sure what he was baking, but he sure was concentrating on his measuring and stirring!

It may not look like much of a mess, but man oh man we had powdered sugar everywhere!

Sunday, November 02, 2008

Trunk or Treat

On Saturday, we went to our church's Trunk or Treat and Noah went dressed as a frog. He was okay in the outfit until we went past a mirror. Then not so much after that. We finally were able to distract him outside with his favorite frog from our neighbor.

For some strange reason at the trunk or treat, anytime he had the opportunity, he would grab as many Tootsie Pops as he could. He would bypass all kinds of great candy bars and go straight for things like the hard peppermint candies and Nerds of course more Tootsie Pops. Go figure. We still don't let him have much candy so we probably have enough to last him until next year!

Here he is with the inspiration for his outfit...
The frog garden figurine that he loves so much from our next door neighbor.

There were plenty of games to play ...

and toys to play with ...

and of course Tootsie Pops to take!