July 09 summer vacation

Noah is now 3 1/2.. and growing like a weed. He measured 37.5 inches and 31 lbs.
He is in size 9 shoes and wearing 3T. He is so helpful around the house, puts away dishes, empties the grocery bags, helps with laundry and taking Paris outside. He is great at picking up his toys (most of the time) and is just an all around great kid. With a few normal melt-downs and "attitudes" along the way...

Last night Noah told me I was handsome... like I tell him. so I said, "really, I am handsome? I am not pretty?" and he says,
"no, you are not pretty.. you are ...... special." ok.. great, thanks.
so I asked if Daddy was handsome. and noah says, "No. He is.... nice."
Just the compliments you really want to hear.. lol.

We just got back from a week in Rhode Island on the beach. We spent 4 days with Auntie Becky, Leo and Emma. We went to the Roger Williams Zoo, and the Providence Childrens museum, (like Kid city). We also spent lots of time on the beach. Noah and Emma would watch tv together at night up in the master bedroom and then becky would bring emma back to her bed. The cousins really had an awesome time bonding this week. The best memory is walking along our private beach at sunset and letting the kids play in the sand and surf and then rounding the corner and seeing the Point Judith Light house above the sand dunes. I did not know we were that close to it. The kids had a blast and ended up getting completely dirty, wet and tired in the regular clothes. Off to the tub for the 3 of them!

It rained two of the days so Noah went to see his first movie, "Ice Age, Dawn of the Dinosaurs". He loved it!!! He did such a great job--seeing that is was soo loud and big and hard to sit still for those few hours.
We also went to a big park, but it was closed at 3pm-- who does that? nuts!
and we brought him to an indoor playarea like Jump Zone here. We also went to a few other beaches after dusk to walk the beach and look for cool shells.

The last night we was gorgeous weather so we watched 4 sets of fireworks from the beach. One on our beach, one across on Block Island and two over to the right further down the coast. It was such a great time! The beach house was amazing and had terrific views from all of the windows. So peaceful to sleep listening to the waves.. but then the light house fog horn would sound when foggy, which was loud!!!!

On our way back we stopped in Essex to ride the train. Noah was so excited! That night, our last night of vacation, we decided to camp in a tent in our backyard! It was fun and actually comfortable. Or we were just really tired! Between the fireworks booming all night and the bright glow of the full moon, it is a wonder we got any sleep. It was really fun.