Up & Over Goes the Monkey

I think I've posted a photo before of our little escape artist, but as he's getting bigger and stronger his escape habits are getting even crazier!

Noah was playing in our backyard the other day and when I peeked out the lanai door to check on him, I spotted this:

Not only was he climbing over the fence, but he was taking his lawn mower with him!

 

and there he goes!

These next pictures are actually of Noah climbing over the fence to get back into our yard! If you look close enough, you can see the lock we put on the fence to keep him in the backyard...it's very effective ;-)

 

Fresh off the tree

Noah and Ely went on a quick guys' trip to Napa Autoparts one morning, and on the way home they spotted some coconuts that had just fallen off of a tree.  So being the sweet boys they are, they stopped and picked one up to bring home to Mommy :)

Noah loved getting to drink the coconut water straight from the nut itself! He also enjoyed trying to eat some of the coconut meat, although I don't think he really enjoyed the taste that much, haha.

Tasting the coconut meat

Silly boy!

Shooting hoops

Story Time with Noah

Noah received a book from a friend that talks about being a big brother and having a new baby in the house.  It has become one of his favorite books, and the only book that I have heard him sit down and read all by himself almost page by page.  It's amazing all of the details in the book that he remembers!

I was able to convince him to "read" it for me the other day so I could get this video!  You can tell which pages are his favorite, haha. A transcript of the video can be provided for those who aren't as fluent in "Noah" ;-)

It melts my heart every time I watch it, especially when he says, "Look at me baby brother, I'm your big brother!"  :-D

 

Nap Time Fun

Ever since we converted Noah's bed from a crib to a toddler bed, nap time has become a major battle! At first, I couldn't even get him to stay in his room, let alone his bed.  Luckily, he now realizes that nap time is going to happen regardless so most of the time I can get him to at least stay in his room (even if he goes kicking and screaming) after a couple of tries. 

However, he definitely has his father's stubbornness, and while he *may* stay in his room, he avoids his bed as much as possible! I think it's his way of not actually agreeing to take a nap ;-)

 

This is a scene from Hurricane Noah...some of the destruction he causes trying to keep himself awake

And here are some of his new napping locations:

 

This one makes me laugh because he actually got his seahorse out of his bed to sleep with!

 

Rain, rain, rain

It hardly ever rains on our side of the island (the West side) even though Kauai is home to one of the wettest spots on the planet: Mount Waiʻaleʻale. But we learned that the month of March is the "rainy" season for our side, so we had to find some new activities besides going to the beach, playing on the playgrounds, and riding around the neighborhood. 

There really isn't a lot to do here when it rains since it is such an infrequent occurrence, but we don't let rain dictate our fun so we improvised! The garage next to ours, which happens to be directly in front of our house, is empty so Noah and I snuck in there for some fun ;-)

Carnival fun

The school at our church, St. Theresa's, had their annual carnival a couple weeks ago.  It is the major fundraiser for the school, and we definitely had a great time supporting them!

We started off at the food booths getting the typical Hawaiian food booth fair: pronto pups (corn dogs), flying saucers (meat stuffed bread pockets...they remind me of those old sandwich press things that used to be popular-The sandwich is pressed into a circle shape with the edges pressed together and meat on the inside), chili bowls (chili with rice on the bottom-the only way to eat chili in Kauai!), teri chicken (teriyaki chicken and rice), and malasadas (tasty fried balls of dough tossed in sugar)!

After eating, it was time to have some fun! Luckily, we got to the carnival early so when we got to the bounce house there was only one child in there with Noah.

Bounce House

All of the Sisters from our church were working at different booths (we only have 4 here). Noah had fun fishing for ducks with Sister Carol Ann.

 

Later in the evening, Noah got a blow up whale that he insisted needed to swim in the pond with the ducks!

 

Noah also enjoyed running around with some of the other boys

"Boat" Rides

Even though there were several games at the carnival (including pony rides!), Noah's absolute favorite thing (and where we spent the majority of our money) was riding in a wooden boat in a circle around the playground!!! He rode this at least 5 times!

 Coconut Bowling

Horse Rides

Even though it wasn't Noah's favorite activity, he still had a great time riding around on a horse!

 

Noah must have worked his charm on this lady because she took him around for an extra loop that the other children didn't get to do ;-)

Hawaiian cowboy: shorts and slippahs (flip flops)  ;-)

Dance Central

When we were walking around, Noah saw two of his friends from base playing Dance Central (or some such dance game) on the Xbox Connect, so he ran over and jumped on the stage to dance with them!  

I think I may have actually figured out how to post a video on the blog! I hope you can all actually watch it...haha

I'm not sure who he got his dance moves from... ;-)

Fish Pond

We had to go back for one last ride before we left :-D