At the car wash

Ely spent Sunday afternoon washing the island dirt off of our vehicles. Since Noah loves all things water, he had to help, too!

Noah had to wash his own ride too, of course ;-)

Moving on up (or down)

Noah has finally moved out of a highchair!  We wanted to start having him sit with us at the table when we first moved here, but unfortunately the underside of our table has a border that made it impossible for Noah to put his legs under the table in his highchair with the tray removed.  So I finally found a new booster seat that I thought would work with our table.  This was a somewhat tedious process because I wanted to get something big enough for him to use for awhile, but it also needed straps to contain him while eating! As far as purchasing baby/kid items, there are only three options on the island: Walmart, Kmart, or Amazon, and I think Walmart was the winner this time.

Noah decided to try out his new booster seat before we actually got it set up at the table :)  

And then Ely decided to strap him in...

Do I have something on my back???

Hmm...

Perfect for snack time!

This way he always has a place to sit ;-)

Of course, he had to use the highchair one last time ;)

Cruisin'

Noah took his four-wheeler out for a drive around base the other day. Of course, when you are driving a four-wheeler you also have to rock the muscle tee ;)

The glare on his arm is actually his awesome "surfer's" tan!

Just cruisin' around

I'm not sure if he's waving or telling me to stop taking pictures 

;-)

He started busting out some fancy driving moves!

Trucks, Trucks, Trucks

I think almost every family that came to Noah's birthday party gave him some type of truck as a gift!  So we now have quite the collection of trucks at our house, which is great because Noah loves trucks almost as much as he loves trains :)  I'm also grateful for the abundance of trucks because it means we can have them stashed all over the house and car for easy entertainment when needed!

For those of you that are curious about our house: on the left in this picture is the garage, which is in front of our house (the building on the right in the picture with the Husker flag...in case there was any doubt ;)

The maintenance guy came to fix one of our floor boards, and Noah was keeping a close eye on him!

 

Tumble Dry Low

I thought everyone might be feeling kind of bummed after the Husker game today, so I have the perfect pick-me-up: photos of Noah! haha

Our dryer hasn't been working the best lately, so this morning Ely decided to try his luck at improving its dry-ability (the maintenance guy on base isn't the best or easiest to get to our house so sometimes it's easier to just fix things ourselves).

While Ely was messing around behind the dryer, he heard some noises coming from inside the dryer and this is what he found:

Adventures with Papa & Grandma

We had a pretty productive 10 day "tour" of the island last week while Papa and Grandma were here. We were able to take them to several beaches, a luau, and even on a zip lining tour!

There are over 100 photos from their visit, which I promise to post to the website (hopefully soon!), but here are a few snapshots from my phone that we took the first few days they were here:

Little Surfer

At Majors Bay (one of the beaches on base)

Noah and Grandma

Playing in the tide pool with Papa and our friends Olivia and Eli

The Napali Coast

They might be related... ;-)

Noah's favorite way to play with his new train table!  (Prior to getting the train tracks setup)

Unfortunately, after a wonderful 10 days Papa and Grandma had to return back to the mainland. I have a feeling, though, that we can convince them to come back for another visit ;-)

We may have seen it all...

Here is one last picture from our trip to Cali. We took it at LAX as we were waiting to board the plane.



Yes, folks, that is indeed Captain America helping unload luggage from a plane...