Noah's first house

Since Noah is the youngest child in our neighborhood (I think the next youngest is 5), he was recently the benefactor of a house! One of the neighbor girl's had it in her backyard but she was getting too tall for it so she asked her mom if they could give it to Noah :)

The house is perfect for Noah because it has some of the things he loves: a sink to "wash" his hands and a hammer and screwdriver with some nails and screws for "repair" work.

The other big addition to our backyard is Noah's first "big wheel"! Noah found it at a big garage sale and I couldn't get him away from it. It was at only the second booth of this garage sale and we still had a lot of booths to check out so I told him that if he was good the rest of the time then we'd get it. Wouldn't you know, he was a total angel the rest of the time! So, for only $2 we got a big wheel that Noah loves, and as a bonus all the buttons work and make lots of noise! His legs aren't quite long enough to use the pedals (but they are really close!) so Noah has a few other methods of pushing it around :)

One method is to walk beside his big wheel

Another method is to push it from behind :)  Those are the banana trees in our backyard!

Sometimes Noah gets a little frustrated when it doesn't turn like he wants it to, and he ends up flipping the bike which is exactly what happened here!