Noah on a ferry boat!

Impromptu dance party!

Noah & Karen at the aquarium!

Noah's artistic creation

Noah makes birthday cake!

Noah's been making "cakes" with "candles" and then presenting them to
people and singing them happy birthday.

Noah & mommy

Noah taking his balls for a walk

Noah the bee!

Noah's birthday wishes

Best birthday gift ever!

Still at the park

Noah & Karen at the park

Cute stuff!

Headed to Tokyo

Going to Tokyo on business for two weeks.

I'm really going to miss Noah (and of course Karen, but this is noah's
blog).

Noah on the roundabout

Richard and Noah playing at the park.

(it's a video, click on the image to go to the site and then press
play to watch)

Noah's doing some cleaning up!

He saw Karen doing some cleaning up so he got in on it.

Noah's new game

Pushing Liz while waiting at the airport. Liz is absolutely fine, Noah
just needed someone to push.

Noah & Karen on a trampoline

Noah's having a lot of fun in LA at a family Bat Mitzvah.

Noah trying out a hat

Thing is, it's my hat so the fit isn't great...

Noah & Kimberly!

Noah shaving

He's getting to that age where he has to shave every day. It's a
chore, but I think he's also excited about it.

Noah pushing a stroller

Noah's pushing his baby snowman in his stroller.

Noah playing in the park

Niah digging the park!

Excuse the pun...

The driving continues...

I'm driving!

Said Noah. He then managed to get the car out of gear. He them
described himself as "driving Daddy's chair".

Noah at the park

Groovin'

Enjoying some jazz.

Noah at Denny's

We're headed to Vancouver and we've made a strategic stop at a diner
to keep Noah from getting road weary.

Noah watering the garden

We're in the midst of a heatwave. As I type it's just around 103.

Noah really likes watering the "nice plants" :)

P.S.

I put Noah down 20 minutes after this picture was taken. He looked at my bare chest and, commenting on my chest hair said, "nice flowers".

Noah and his babies have lunch

Noah is having a peanut butter sandwich with all of his babies.

Noah on the train, the video

If you listen closely he'll tell the he's "good".

Noah & the light rail!

We're about to go on the innaugaral light rail ride in Seattle. Noah
calls it a bus train and gets very excited every time it goes by.

Noah's new look!

My socks + a diaper = very stylish

First iPhone video of Noah

This makes it much easier to take and upload videos.

Much love to all ya'll.

Noah napping!

A quick car nap before Justine's naming.

Noah, tonight...

I came home and gave Paul a hug. Then Noah pulled me back to embrace Paul again so that he could hug both of us (well, our legs) at the same time and say 'I love you.' He then did this about twelve times.

Noah can count to fourteen. Not totally in order. It goes something like this, "seven, eleven, FOURTEEN!"

Noah is picking up words from the radio...He can now say "NPR" and "Bama, Obama!" When we ask him who the president is, he either responds "grandma" or "Obama."

He's still carting around his stuffed animals saying, "baby, baby, I love you." He threw all of his babies into his crib, as well as half a dozen books (much to his mama's chagrin, but I couldn't think of a good reason to forbid it, except it seemed rather busy in there).

Noah loves his babies

Noah loves his baby monkey and snowman... click on the image to view the video.

Not Noah related

So a plane ditched in the field next to the house.

Apparently all passengers are fine, including the dog.

Noah & Susan gallivanting

It was a beautiful day at the locks.

Noah buying cheese

Noah added around 14 loss of artisinal mozzarella to our shopping cart.

Stairmaster

Stairs are fun!

Noah riding his bicycle

Vocabularious!

Noah's vocabulary has been growing by leaps and bounds. We were sitting at the farmers market and Noah heard me say "canonical". He immediately started saying "can-i-cal".

He's also been stringing together sentences. Karen was driving Noah to a friends house for BBQ. I was riding my bike to the BBQ and Noah was asking for "Daddy". Karen explained that I was riding my bike and that he would see me soon. Noah then starting explaining to Karen that "Daddy, baku (his word for bicycle), soon".

He's also warming up to the word "no". When we ask him most questions, he responds with a very happy "no". That doesn't mean that'll refuse to do whatever we ask him, just that he wants to say "no". Two nights ago I asked him if wanted to go upstairs to sleep. He said "no"! I said "Great! Let's go!" and he ran upstairs.

Karen overheard him practicing saying no. He was having both sides of a conversation, which went like this.

"Peas"?
"No"!
"Peas"?
"No"!
"Peas"?
"No"!

He's also been going to sleep practicing the names of everyone he knows, grouped by relationship to each other.

He's just fantastic.

Love to everyone,

Paul

Leaving the farmers market

Stylish man about town

It's a beautiful summers day, and Noah is dressed for the occasion.

Note his excellent car shirt.

Playing at the park!

Noah's getting very good at climbing and clambering. He also just
neologised the word "lilpiops" for lollipop.

Noah double spooning his yogurt

He really likes eating yogurt (he calls it logurt) so he's using two
spoons and occasionally a knife to eat it.

Noah steering the play structure

Noah getting happy with blackberries

Transfixed by trains

Noah's first sentance

The words are flying fast and furious, he's adding many words a day now.

This is the first sentence I caught on video.

Pics of Noah!

Here's a few pics of Noah from the past couple of weeks.












The Yeshiva Bocher putting his block into the kidush cup




















Trying on Paul's boots














Sporting a very jaunty hat














First course of breakfast














Having a quick read














Being read to




















Going for a quick stroll on University of Washington Bothell campus

Noah & Ivan walking

Noah & Alessandra playing trains!

Three point turn

Noah's bliss

He's got a Baku (bicycle) and a (fake) cell phone!

Newton's train

Noah figured out that if he let go of his train at the top of the ramp it would roll a fair way on its own

Dinner time

Karen fed Noah a dinner of broccoli and pizza, he was fine with the pizza.

Helpful boy

Noah loves helping to unload the dishwasher, especially doing the cutlery.

The Weather

Noah is coming to terms with our Seattle weather. He pointed at the falling rain on Saturday and said "pee pee."

He is also spinning around and dancing a lot these days.

Busses and cars

One of Noah's early words was bus. Starting maybe 4 months ago whenever he'd see a bus he happily yell "Busssssth" and excitedly point at the bus. Soon afterwards any large vehicle became a bus, including airplanes as long as they were on the ground.

Today, when taking Noah out to the car he pointed at the car and said, quite distinctly, "Car!" He then repeated himself 10 or 20 times. Noah is an amazing kid, and I now completely understand why all parents hold the firm conviction that their child is a genius, children are geniuses, and Noah is too.

Stay tuned for some pics and a movie in the next day or so.

Paul

More of Noah's words

Noah is now able to say words with hard consonants at the end, specifically, he can now say "cup"!

The other day Noah pointed at the moon (you can see it here even midday) and yelled "ball!"

His favourite word is still bottle, which he says a lot. He has at least one bottle in his hand most of the time. When he leaves the house it's almost guaranteed that he'll have a bottle with him.

One of our friends gave us some advice, which was that Noah would become attached to some toy or other, and that as soon as we determined what that toy was, we should buy several so that the security toy shouldn't be lost. The trick was to rotate the versions of the toy out, so that he would accept any of the replacements.

It's almost certain that Noah's special toy is a water bottle. Not any specific bottle, any of a variety of bottles seem equivalent and excellent.

It's the day after DST and Noah has been pushing his push toy back and forth for the past 30 minutes, he seems very happy!

-Paul

Noah driving a truck!

A really huge train set!

Noah in his very own corvette

More Lego

Noah & Lego

We're at Kidsquest, a really huge play area. It's like a for profit
community centre, stocked with every toy Ike sells.

Noah's having a lot of fun with it, expect more pics soon.