2011

2011
-he had a star wars 5th bday. i made his cake with action figures. he received a lot of halloween costumes i got from discount from halloween super store. it was a lot of fun to play dress up!
-he continues to bond well with his brother. they wrestle together and watch mickey mouse club house and curious george together.
-he still loves his lion pillow and stinky. he is big into cars, super heros, star wars and anything where he can pretend.
-he can count well, knows colors, shapes, letters, and can write his name. he has a good vocabulary. he does have a difficult time paying attention at times.
-he is independent with brushing teeth, toileting, trying to be with bathing, he is with dressing and brushing his hair.
-he did his first year of tball in the spring. his team was the owl's. he liked it ok.. at the end of the season he could bat, kind of throw and sometimes catch.
-this summer he had his 2nd year of summer bible club at valley. he enjoyed it again.
-this summer he went to go see the cars 2 movie with just me on a date. we had fun!
-he took swim lessons again at the y and did pretty well almost swimming on his own.
-we got a summer pool pass at the town pool and he had fun going there. we went a few times with different friends during the day, or with family after work. one day it was just me, noah and ryan in the afternoon towards the end of the summer. it was such a relaxing time and so enjoyable to have just the two of them and hold them in the pool with me.
-he was doing lots of school work with me this summer and learning a lot. he is a smart kid!
-he had 2 great camps this summer.. one week of a jedi camp in avon where he learned about star wars jedi and played outside water play with friends. then he had another week of lego camp and had a great time!! he is an amazing lego builder.
i hope he is an engineer some day the way he can build things!
-the first week of july we went to a family reunion in mass. then we stayed over night in ipswhich and went to the beach. the hotel had a pool and we went out for icecream and got massively eaten by misquittos!

the last week of july we went to canada for our first family mission trip. we brought the summer bible club to a small french-speaking church. we rented an rv for a week. noah helped me and joe do the application part of the sbc and act out the lessons. noah did a great job! such a heart for the lord.
he had fun playing with the kids outside and not relying on toys and electronics/media to entertain him.
-on the way home we spontaneously stopped in vermont over night. had a fun time visiting ben and jerry's, staying in a ski lodge with lots of amentities.
visited a great church and really felt the holy spirit's presence!
-noah had head exhaustion again after jumping at a party in an outdoor jumpy house. vomiting, headache and lethargy and confusion. looking back, he probably needed iv fluids,. but we were able to hydrate him at home.

he started kindergarten this year at wheeler school. mrs miller is his teacher. he goes in the afternoon, 1240-330. he loves it and is doing very well. he is making friends and adjusting quite well. i really am impressed with the school.

2010

2010
I used to keep monthly updates on Noah. When Ryan was born in April 2010, I began to slack off.
I am going to attempt to recall some things noah did during that summer.

To allow me time to bond with new baby Ryan and for noah to have special time of his own, he had a lot of fun activities with Joe and other family members.
-Daddy took noah to the garbage museum in Hartford.,
-went on an "expedition" to the West Hartford resevoir with dad
- went to six flags a few times with auntie becky, leo and emma
-had overnight at aunties a few times as well
-went to six flags with just leo, becky and nana
-dinosauer park in montville where he got to dig for gems and then play on a big playground and then the splash pad
-we had a cousin sleep over in our living room inside a tent
-went to go see thomas day out at the rock cats game in june with daddy and grandpa
-had his first summer bible club at valley
-went to ocean beach park in stonington area on labor day weekend. had a huge pool, beach and splash pad, outdoor playground and small amusement park (which was closed due to incoming storm).
-went to southwick zoo in mass but had heat exhaustion and vomited profusely outside.
-went to go see a movie with daddy
-went to peabody museum in new haven
-we went apple picking in grandby
-pumpkin picking in farmington.
Noah had lots of fun!

He really took to ryan well and had no issues. he was very sweet when he visited us in the hospital for the first time, a moment i fantasized about, of noah meeting his new baby brother and getting a picture of us 4 in the bed.

In the fall he started preschool at valley christian preschool in unionville. he loved mrs heath and mrs thompson very much. he made wonderful friends and to this day (10/31/11) he still talks about them and misses them a great deal.
for halloween he was spiderman. very cute! we had our traditional time over auntie becky's.

for Christmas he got a lot of great things, but the one thing we were most excited to give him: a brand new spiderman bike. he wanted the "tomater tall tales" movie. so when he saw the bike, he began to cry b/c he thought there was no movie. (becky gave it to him). we were really upset with him and disappointed. but he finally got over it.