Monday, March 19, 2012

Phone Pictures

It's about time to look through my phone for pictures of all the fun things we do when we forget to bring a camera. :)

 The morning taming of the bed head. Reading books while sitting on the kitchen floor often makes us late.

 
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Speaking of reading, here's Noah's newest talent.

 Pre-taming of the bed head.

 Sometimes our living room turns into a train yard.

 Marty! Crumbs!!

 Olivia has (hopefully had) a mouse in her office. He dug a little tunnel in her plant.

 Tired boy is pooped after a walk around the neighborhood. He probably wasn't really as up to going out as he said he was, but we figured fresh air would do him some good. This was a while back when he had a fever for a few days. The cup has the last of his Pedialyte.

 Sick little man snuggles.

 An awesome stop on the way home. Roadwork!!!

 Pretending to be a backhoe.

 Helping make dinner. Yum!

Victor ran in the Marine Mammal Center's Run for the Seals race, so we bundled up to head out to Rodeo Beach on a cold Saturday morning.

 Sliding down the embankment to the sand.

 He'd run and then jump to land on his bottom and slide.

 He probably did this 15 times. Great fun!

 Look, it's Wolverine!

 Noah found the perfect tree to sit in while pretending to be a bird.

 Fly, fly!

 He's laying an egg.

 Victor dropped an Easter egg underneath him while he was pretending.

 He was excited to find it there, but a little disappointed that nothing had "clucked out". Why say hatched when you can say clucked out?

 There goes Victor at the start of the race.


 There goes Noah.

 Wait, Noah's taking a side route.

 Look who came in first place! He was too short to break the ribbon, so he didn't count. Oh yeah, and that detour he took avoided the entire course and popped out at the finish line.

 Victor came in 5th and Noah was there to meet him at the finish line.

 Post race snuggles. Noah promptly said, "Daddy's all wet!" Sweat and a spilled water cup will do that to a guy...

 Noah then went up to the Center to diagnose some animals. He's a vet, you know. According to Noah, this harbor seal had worms in his stomach.

 This sea lion was having seizures.

 And had a broken flipper as well. 
For those of you familiar with the MMC, you will recognize these as the ailments of the model sea lion in the lobby.

 Breakfast stop with Mommy! Bagel and whipped cream...er...hot chocolate.

 Tie dyed friends.

 Sad that he doesn't rule the world.

 It's hard to be three.

 Especially when being 3 doesn't give you permission to do anything you want. His right arm is back and hand about to come down in a definitive movement with the shout of "I DON"T WANT TO!". He has that move down to a science. Here he is at 17 months with throwing a similar fit.

Ahh...memories.

 Thankfully, life was made better with a stop at Whole Foods and a shamrock cookie decorating station. That frosting tasted disgusting by the way.

A fun stop at the Walnut Creek Model Railroad to check out trains. Such fun!

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Fun with Nutmeg

Monday, March 12, 2012

Noah's Belated Birthday Party

Noah was sick for his original birthday party, so we had to reschedule. He wanted a construction party, so construction is what he got. Happy birthday Noah!




 












 








Monday, March 5, 2012

Busy Friday


We started the morning with a trip to the doctor for his 3 year old well kid check up. Noah now weighs 30 lbs and is 36.5 inches tall. The doctor was again impressed with Noah's language skills and imagination, but glad to hear that he has "selective hearing" like every other 3 year old she meets.

Later that afternoon, he headed to the dentist for a cleaning. Clean bill of health there, but when we return in 6 months, they want to do x-rays to check on his missing teeth. As you can see in the picture below, his top lateral incisors (the ones between his front teeth and canines) never came in. The dentist wants to see if the adult teeth are in his gums or if they too, are missing.



In the evening, we made a quick trip to the pet store to pick up kitty litter. Noah likes to pretend that he's a kitten when we go there.



He even thought he needed to visit the litter boxes.

According to him, he just pooped in the litter box. (Don't worry, this was just pretend.)

Weekend Bike Ride

We took a short ride to a park after church last Sunday. Noah had a great time playing with the sand that came down through a tube.







 This is also a fun feature to ride through. It's a mist fountain!


We finished the night with a trip to the Marine Mammal Center and a refresher class on tube feeding elephant seal pups. Here's Noah demonstrating the rodeo cowboy restraint technique. Don't worry, it's a stuffed elephant seal pup. He has to wait quite a few years before we'd let him on a real one.

Sunday, March 4, 2012

New Additions to the Fish Tank

 Red Fin wanted in the picture.

We have baby snails. You can see one of the adults partially buried in the rocks, and a few of the babies up close. We've counted 8 so far. This could get out of hand!