Uncle Noah

This past spring my brother Noah called and asked what we were doing for Thanksgiving.  Eating turkey was  answer, monthes away I had no idea except that we would be in Connecticut without family.  Noah is stationed in Germany and had found a great deal on tickets to Boston. Suddenly we had Thanksgiving plans.

Trying out the suitcase

Buddies from the start

Noah arrived the Tuesday before and with his arrival it felt more like Christmas than Thanksgiving.  He brought goodies for all of us.  Annabelle received puzzles, coloring books, and Haribo gummies, Sam got whiskey and scotch, Huddy got his first beer stein (just his size), and I got chocolate.

Playing with Puzzle Blocks

Taste Test

We had a wonderful time with Noah here, especailly Annabelle.  She would follow him around, "help" him tinker with his new bike he had shipped here, and demand him play with the puzzles and read stories. 

For the most part we stuck close to home. 

Noah with frog at library

We went for a drive along Merritt Parkway and around New Haven/Yale. 

First "Welcome to Connecticut" I've seen since moving.
Had someone to take a picture, so had to stop.

Welcome to New York sign in distance

 We went on a hike to Topstone Park, since a trail is right out our door. 

Hiking- stop to get us going the right way
I may have got us lost

Hiking in the leaves all by herself

We played Wii (an early Christmas present for us)

She takes it very seriously

 We ate

Dinner Time

Noah's visit went way too fast.  He had to return to Germany the Monday after Thanksgiving.  Hopefully we will get a chance to see Uncle Noah soon (we hadn't seen him since April 2009). 

Saying Goodbye




April 2009




October 2010
How they have grown



Catching Up

It has been a couple of weeks since last post.  No excuse, just busy with life.  Finally, got the pictures off the camera so here we go.

We have been having a mild fall, and have tried to get out as often as we can while we still can.

Zonked after walk



Warming up after playing outside



 

Annabelle loves to help around the house, especially the kitchen.  She drags the chair over constantly while we are cooking and even doing dishes.



Really got into it, had to lose the clothes



Huddy watching Mommy and Annabelle



Annabelle generally stays out of things.  So when she didn't follow me out of the bathroom I didn't think much of it.  After a few minutes Sam went back to see what she was up.  She found some make-up.  As many of you know I don't wear make-up very often and this had been around for a while.  After some pictures, it found its way into the trash.

Hudson will put anything he can get his hands on into his mouth.  We decided it was time for him to get his first taste of "real" food.


 

First Bite

  

Annabelle's turn
(she had been waiting for this)

  

Huddy's turn to try



Free for all

Happy boy
 (Daddy put the bowl on, Annabelle the spoon)

We got our first and only snow thus far on November 8.  It didn't stick and since has warmed up since.



More pics from the last couple of weeks...

Cuddle Time



Sitting Up



Annabelle: "Don't forget me"





First taste of bacon



"I made a circle!"

Hope to get better at this blogging thing and keeping up to date.  We'll see how it goes.



Halloween



We kicked of the Halloween weekend by taking the kids to Sam's office.  They put on a trick-or-treating event on Friday.  It was nice to see where Sam worked, meet some of his co-workers and allow Annabelle to get a stash of candy without too much work on our part.



Daddy with Elmo and Puppy



Sam's Cube

View out Sam's window

 


 

 







For Annabelle's first Halloween we put her in a pumpkin.  She has seen her pumpkin picture on the computer screen saver and because of it has been obsessed with pumpkins.  She knew Hudson would be getting his picture in one for Halloween.  She "helped" in finding and cleaning out this pumpkin for her Huddy.



Buddies


 

Annabelle's


 

Turn



One more

Since Annabelle got a chance to go Trick-or-Treating that Friday, we opted to stay in on Halloween itself.  I took the pumpkin pictures and got the kiddos in their costumes for a couple more.

Huddy Puppy

With a chew toy



Only one I could get of them together

 

Jumping

 

Elmo in the leaves

What is so funny?



This is



Since we have all these leaves decided to give Annabelle the great childhood experience of jumping in leaves.  I raked them up and she jumped right in, loving every second of it.  Hudson, still not a fan.

Some more fun.  Now we love Elmo in this house, so no disrespect, but I couldn't resist taking this picture.



Annabelle taking pictures with her "camera"