Walking with friends

Every Tuesday and Thursday morning, a few of us wives get together for a 3+ mile walk. 

Our single jogging stroller bit the dust a few months ago, so Noah has been riding in our double stroller on our walks. Last week our four legged friend Nui was struggling in the heat, so he hopped in the stroller with Noah. 

Noah was so excited to have his buddy riding with him :-)

                        Nui & Noah

Noah also managed to sneak a few pictures without Mommy noticing :-)

Apparently, I was too deep in thought to notice Noah playing with my phone (or something like that!)

Noah selfie:

Mmm Nutella

One of the big treats at our house is an apple with Nutella. The other day Noah requested this treat so I cut up an apple and put a little Nutella on each piece...

Noah proceeded to lick off all the Nutella and leave most of the apple behind :-)

 He also managed to get Nutella everywhere!

Adventures in Potty Training

Potty training has been a slow/somewhat painful process. Noah can and will go on the toilet if we *make* him, but the last thing he wants to do is stop whatever activity he might be doing in order to go to the bathroom.

But at least he has made it entertaining (sometimes...)

Phoenix: Heading home

Noah and I stopped in Phoenix for a few more days before we made the final 6 hour flight home.  We got to enjoy more time with family, and Noah got to meet Aunt CeCe's new puppy!

Puppy Love!

 Talking about trucks with Great Grandpa & GG

Flying back home to Kauai

 

We had a wonderful time on the mainland seeing all of our friends and family, and we want to thank you all for taking the time to meet up with us when you could!

Papa's birthday & Father's Day

Our timing in Kansas was perfect because we ended up being there to help Papa celebrate his birthday and Father's Day (which fell on the same day this year) with him :)

As part of Papa's birthday gift, we took him and Grandma to a Wichita Wingnuts baseball game!

I sent this picture to Ely (since he was still at training in Texas) and he asked who the 6 year old in the photo was! Noah looks so grown up!



Noah helped Papa get the morning paper

 One of Noah's favorite activities at Papa & Grandma's house: mowing the lawn with Papa

Helping clean up the patio

On Papa's birthday we went out to Red Lobster to celebrate :)

 

Noah wasn't really sure if he wanted to touch an actual lobster...

Being silly with Papa

We had cookie cake back at the house, and Noah was very excited about singing to Papa and helping him blow out his candles

(on a side note, Noah just saw this picture as I'm working on posting it and he started singing "Happy Birthday to Papa" again :-)

 

Being silly before bedtime

Spearville: Visiting Great Grandma Stein

On one of our last days in Kansas, we took a road trip out to Spearville to spend the day with Great Grandma Stein!

Relaxing in the car on the way to Spearville

Noah was watching a DVD and asked me if he had the headphones on right ;-)



Uncle Ron joined us for dinner, and Noah requested a ride in his big truck!

Mommy, Noah & Great Grandma Stein

Derby Days

My hometown of Derby, KS usually has "Derby Days" every summer with various events including a parade and carnival.  This year they didn't have the volunteers to get it organized but the people who set up the carnival decided to go ahead and set up all the games and rides anyways.  So Noah got to have his first *big* carnival experience. (Our church in Kauai has a fun little carnival that we enjoy, but they don't have any of the rides.)

One of Noah's highlights: making this "airplane" go up and down!

 

 

 

 

Riding on Nemo!

 Noah made his fishy face the entire time :-D

 

 Driving the big truck

Love that face :)

 

Cruisin' on the motorcycle

 

Riding the carousel with Grandma

Noah had to ride on the rooster again!

 

When Noah first saw the Ferris Wheel he was really excited about riding it, but then when we actually got in line he changed his mind...so we had to go on another ride instead.  Luckily, we were able to convince him to go on it right before we left!