carousel

In the midst of the sad news that's filled our lives, we decided to take a trip out to the beach for good food and fun rides. The first time Noah rode on a carousel, he held on for dear life while whining the entire time. This time around, we had to wrestle to get him off, and he rode it three times in a row! We had to bribe him with dried apples to leave the area...




We've also finally transitioned into the tub. We use a mini-tub within our tub, which saves us water and time, plus, I think it makes him feel a little safer. Fortunately, bathtime is something that he really looks forward to, and he chants "bath, bath, bath," whenever he hears the water running. At the end, he stands and watches the water run down the drain, while waving and saying "bye-bye".





Tom, our family gatherings will not be the same without you, and we look forward to the day we meet in heaven...

Happy Halloween

Getting ready to go to church. He's becomming quite the active participant in Sabbath School. He loves to take the felts up to the board, put money in the offering basket (sometimes even taking change from the basket!), and folding his hands during prayer. Whenever we mention that we're going to Sabbath School, he can't get in the car fast enough!



We had the perfect turtle costume all ready to go for the trick-or-treat through downtown, but the weather was in the mid 90's, so we opted to go for a sleeveless turtle. He thoroughly enjoyed lounging in the wagon while Matt pulled him around, and I thoroughly enjoyed eating all his Halloween candy!






Halmuni and Halabuji also came down for a short visit, and Noah had such a fun time going to the park with them. He wouldn't nap for very long because he knew that someone was waiting to play with him as soon as he woke up!

park

Today was such a beautiful, fall day. Noah and I headed off to the park to play and burn off some energy. He was so happy to be running around outside, that I had to grab my camera and take a picture of his happy self...

more pumpkins!

The weather is heating back up, but we decided to head over to the pumpkin patch again last week. This farm had so many different animals to look at, plus a bee farm! Noah picked out another pumpkin, but was most interested in their barn kitten that was roaming their pumpkin field.



So happy to be looking at baby chickens...


Loading his wheelbarrow with hay before charging the poor kitten!

18 months

Noah had his 18 month wellness check today and I couldn't be more pleased....He's finally on the charts for his weight!!! You would've thought that his pediatrician told me that I won the lottery, I was so excited! Ok, it's only about the 8th percentile, but he's on it. He weighed in at 22.1 lbs and his height was 33.5 inches (70th percentile). Way to go little dude!

Yes, it's that face again from Noah...




Here's a video clip of him reading one of his favorite books...the video is super long, he got distracted halfway through the book and started picking up lint from his rug.

Happy Sabbath

It's so hard to get a 'normal' smile from him these days. Whenever I say 'smile', or 'cheese', this is what we get...Here he is hamming it up before church today!

Pumpkin Patch

I can't believe it's already this time of year again....I feel like it was just yesterday that we took Noah to the pumpkin patch for the first time! The weather has cooled down (finally), so we decided to head over to the pumpkin farm with the Wilkinsons to get in the mood of fall...

It's so hard to get them to look and smile at the camera at the same time!