Fun with a box

Even though we've lived here for about 3 months, we still have a *few* boxes sitting around our house (shocking, I know...).  It's mostly boxes filled with books that we don't have a place for yet (we are in the process of finding a new bookcase) but there are a few boxes of random things we are just trying to find a place for.

So the other day I managed to empty one of these random boxes, which led to several hours of fun for Noah and Daddy! Noah really liked to climb inside the box and have Ely spin him around several times.  He loves the sensation of being dizzy, and its not enough to just spin him around, he then wants to be able to walk around while he's dizzy.  I finally got the box taken out to be recycled, but any box Noah sees he wants to get in it.  Yesterday he actually brought the box that the Cheerios had been in (the giant Costco box) and he tried to put his feet in it and told me to "pin" (spin) it.  He's such a character!

Definitely a Cornhusker :-)

There was never a doubt that Noah would be a Husker fan, but it's the most obvious when Noah eats actual corn, haha! He loves eating corn, and he loves eating corn on the cob even more!

Trying to get every last piece of corn

Here are a few photos from our first Husker game of the season. Stayed tuned next week for some REALLY exciting game day photos :-D

We scored again!!!

TOUCHDOWN!!!

Noah's ideal morning

On Friday morning, Noah got to do some of his favorite things.  First, we were at the playground when the guys came out on their riding lawnmowers to mow.  So Noah immediately ran over and sat down to watch them! He LOVES watching them mow and for his safety and the sake of the guys mowing, I've convinced Noah that he needs to sit and watch them instead of chasing them all over the neighborhood.  So now when they come out, he sits down on the sidewalk and then pats the seat next to him for me to sit down :)

Enthralled 

After we finished watching the mowers, we went for a walk around base and ran into one of our neighbors out walking her dog, Tebow.  Yes, there is a dog here named Tebow! We thought we had finally gotten away from Tebow madness after moving away from Jacksonville, but the original owner of the dog went to the University of Florida so we still get to hear the name Tebow on a daily basis!  Anyways, Noah loves Tebow and Miss Kelly made Noah's day by letting him "walk" Tebow for a little bit.

If that wasn't enough excitement for one morning, we rounded it out with Noah's absolute favorite activity: playing with water.  It started out as a simple request from Noah to wash his shoes and turned into another soaking wet outfit :) There are a lot of pictures but they were all too cute for me to edit some out :-D

Noah decided to be helpful and wash the car

I have no idea what he's looking at...

He created his own "drinking fountain"!

That was so much fun he wanted to try it again...

a little different outcome :)

which he thought was hysterical!

Trying a new tactic...which Mommy put a stop to!

He's on the hunt for something

Now he's trying to get Mommy

Which he thinks is the funniest thing ever!

What a great morning :)

Driving the fire truck

Since Noah's gymnastics class is all the way in "town" (aka an hour away in the closest place we have to a city) we usually try and do our grocery and supply shopping after gymnastics. That means we have to find a place to eat lunch at some point during the trip. There is a pretty big lack of kid friendly places to eat for lunch around the shopping area unless we eat at McDonalds every Monday, which I'm trying to avoid making a weekly thing. I would try and bring our lunch with us but Noah is not a big fan of sandwiches, even peanut butter and jelly now :( He still likes the peanut butter and jelly part, but he just licks or eats it off the bread and then refuses to eat the bread. So Monday's are not our healthy lunch days!

One of our other options is the Little Caesars inside Kmart. It's not exactly healthier than McDonalds but at least it provides some variety. The really nice thing about this particular Little Caesars is that it has a fire truck for Noah to play on, which means I can actually eat my lunch in relative peace while Noah plays in the truck. Of course it's a double edged sword because when lunch is over its a battle to get Noah out of the fire truck (which may be why we've only gone there once, haha).

Wet t-shirt...

It seems like the sprinklers around base are constantly on, which is unfortunate for me because Noah LOVES playing with/in them. It's a daily battle to keep him from running through them, and some days I lose the battle...

Pure orneriness...

And suddenly it became a wet t-shirt contest...I have no idea what inspired this!

Of course he managed to find the broken sprinkler that put out the most water

This smile makes dealing with wet clothes worth it :-D

The birthday train's a comin'

We are less than a month away from Noah's 2nd birthday!!! Some days it's hard to believe Noah is almost two, and other days (like when he's trying to jump over fences...) it's hard to believe he's not even two yet!

A few people have asked about what to get Noah for his birthday, so I thought I'd do a quick post for those of you wondering.  This is definitely NOT a hint to buy Noah a birthday gift, in fact, he is a very lucky little boy and really doesn't need anything.  But I know that a few people *grandparents, to be exact* can't let Noah celebrate a birthday without a present, so this post is really just for them :)

Noah is blessed with LOTS of toys and he has plenty of clothes (although more clothes never hurt-he'll be moving into a 3T soon), so for his birthday this year Ely and I decided to stick with one thing, a train set!  Noah got to play with a Thomas & Friends train set at the Barnes & Noble in Washington when we were visiting Grandpa Jack and Kathy, and he absolutely loved it!  "Choo-choo" (or "Nom-es" as he calls Thomas) and Mickey Mouse are the two regulars when we have TV time at home.

We bought Noah a train table for his birthday, so now he needs all the pieces :)  To help give people ideas/suggestions, we created a wishlist on Amazon.com under Noah's name.  Since we are just getting into Thomas, most of the items on the list were picked somewhat arbitrarily since Noah does not have favorites yet (he likes anything Thomas or choo-choo) so this is not an all inclusive/exclusive list :)

Here's a link to the wish list:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/wishlist/7XJED8R5F4HK/ref=reg_hu-rd_add_wl

If the link doesn't pull up the wishlist, you should be able to go to Amazon.com and search for a wishlist and then look under "Noah Fletcher".

Here's a flashback to Noah's previous birthdays :D

September 23, 2010

 September 23, 2011