Happy Halloween 2008

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

Here I am at my third annual Halloween! (pretty awesome considering I'm just 2!) My first year I went as a newborn baby dressed in an oversized Halloween onesie. It was kind of a stretch. You may remember the Oma hit costume the mouse in the wedge of cheese from last year! Well Oma has done it again! This is me in a design by Oma that I call Dinosaur Chic (we also heard musings about a dragon and alligator while out trick-or-treating).


I dragged Mom and Dad all over the 'hood on a candy and chocolate mission!!!!


I'm not so much into the posing with the pumpkins thing. Our front porch isn't nearly as picturesque as the neighbors!


Now THIS is what I call a front porch! I swoon to visit everyone else's front porch and knock on their doors the other 364 days out of the year. So it would figure that Halloween is my kind of bash!



Some people really go all-out!


I carried my snickers bar the whole time we trick-or-treated. Remind me again Dad, when do I get to open it and eat it?


Our last stop for the night was at Rosalind's (oops, I mean Minnie Mouse's) house. She invited me to sit in her little red wagon.




We made it home at last. Just in time to watch "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" starring Lola Jean, oops, I mean Snoopy!


Earlier in the day, Mom and I made Halloween Cut-Out Cookies!
I was a whiz at the rolling pin!


You see...you hold the handles tight and it rolls back and forth. Get it?


We bake a lot at school and I think it's the best!


Here are the cut-outs before they hit the oven (and grow into undecipherable shapes). Mom had cut-outs for a pumpkin, a scary cat and a long and skinny bat. Can you tell which shape was my favorite?

Hope all you ghosts and ghouls had a great Halloween! I sure did!

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Visitors for Snack Time

My trains have found a permanent home. Oma and Opa got me this awesome train table for my birthday. It has the train part inside and a cover so it can be used as a regular desk or even a chalk board (it has a chalk board side). I love it!


I especially like playing trains with Opa. I love my train set-up at the house, but it pales in comparison with Opa's train room in Florida.


Oma and Opa also made a special trip to visit me at school for snack time. Here I am eating a "quesedilla." I sound so adorable saying the word!


I still love my teacher, Miss Angie!


Here's a view of the chaos of 12 toddlers coming in from the playground. It's a blast at school!

Check out all the posts. There are several new ones. Hope you enjoy all the photos as we went a little bit overboard this time around. We had fun, hope you do too! Love ya, Noah

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My Fair Lately

As if this weren't already a jam-packed weekend, we took in the sights at the state fair on Monday!


As I was explaining, I am a bird man. My face lit up completely for these baby chicks that I got to touch.


Come here little chick, I won't hurt you!


I call him Tom Turkey. Opa calls him Thanksgiving dinner.


Cock-a-doodle-doooo!


I don't think this photo even needs a comment.


All my favorites were inside the PBS booth!


Wanna share your banana?


Get out the checkered flag! I am in love with this Indy racer.


But first I will hone my skills behind the wheel of the best ride at the fair - the maintenance crew's golf cart!


We sure can make up extra time if we ride this instead of walk. What do you say, Opa?


As promised, here I am on my third carousel in three days!


Mom convinced me to take the twirling and flying dragon ride. I was open-minded and enjoyed myself, but there is something about the carousel horse that the dragon just doesn't have. That certain something special. You know what I mean!


OK, if you've never had State's ice cream, you are missing out (taste-wise and the half a gallon then give you in one serving: this photo was taken after about half-way through our eating. It took four of us to finish it.)


Vintage tractors! Now we are talking!


Gotta have classic all-American Coca-Cola at the fair. It just wouldn't be the same!


I truly loved hanging out at the fair. I can't wait until next year.


Maybe between now and then, I will learn some farm-hand skills and show cows like the big kids at the fair! Mooooooooo!

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Monkey-ing Around at the Zoo

The day after my birthday, we headed to the zoo. I was super excited to see a kangaroo!
(Umm, unfortunately, the exhibits were only for Africa and North American. No Australia on the list.)

I started with an elephant ride.


Oma mentioned on the way into the zoo that there was a carousel. She explained but I failed to fully comprehend that the carousel was in the middle of the park and that we needed to see approximately 1/2 of the exhibits before the carousel. Needless to say, I was very pre-occupied with reaching the carousel and didn't give much of a hoot about the animals until my second half of the trip.

Live and learn, right Oma?




I, however, dug deep and found it within myself to enjoy the helicopter. Oh the energy I had to muster...not!


Oma digs aviators!


Meanwhile, Opa digs for animal poo.


I popped in for a visit to Meerkat Manor.


Baboons sure aren't pretty but they are a blast to watch. We saw several baboons play fighting and racing around that day.


This guy did a pretty dead-on impression of a gorilla. Almost as good as Opa's.


Finally, we reached the carousel! I was the zebra for all 6 of my rides that day.


I visited with some pretty pink flamingos. We discovered that I am a bird-guy on the trip.


I really reacted to all the birds, including the eagles and this red ibis.


It was about time for a safari jeep ride. I'm ready to hit the sprawling grasslands!


The zoo had a way-cool bug-and-vegetable-garden-themed playground. It had my name all over it!


Mom is finding out all the buzzzzz on this place.


Have you ever played hide-and-squash? I have!


Digging.


Exploring.


Surveying the land.


It's all in a days work.


Oma's a hard worker too. She really digs into what she is doing!


Here I am at the animal show featuring a possum. I'm a big fan of the book "A Visitor for Bear." I have officially retitled it "The Bear and the Moushe (Mouse)." Anyway, I thought the ol' possum was a giant mouse. Mom said, "well, sort of."


Check out the otter. Eat your hearts out Pip and Pop!



There must be more pics from this day. We'll find them. One of the other highlights was watching the Habor Seals and Sea Lions swim around like crazy. Sorry there are no photos on this. Must have been a lot of fun if I convinced Mom and Dad to lose the camera for a stinkin' minute.

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