Alright, I will finally accept that he's crawling

June 26, 2009

So, last week Noah was able to go 3 or 4 "steps" crawling. I admitted that I was impressed with the little guy, but would not accept that he was officially crawling until he could make it all the way across the room without stopping. On Friday, he exclaimed "Booyah!!" and commenced crawling across the office floor. That showed me..... In my attempt to corral Mr. Mobile, I placed him in the pack n' play surrounded by his favorite toys. Not long after sitting back down at my desk, I hear a little giggle. Which, now that I think about it, sounded more like, "ha, you can't stop me now!". I turn around and there he is, with his best Sir Edmund Hillary smile, standing in the pack n' play after succesfully climbing the side.

It is fun watching him, now, after weeks of discouragement at trying to crawl. But it is also a bit sad because it's just another reminder of how fast our little boy is growing.

Father's Day

June 21, 2009

My first Father's Day was very special. After some very impressive brainstorming, Rani found the perfect place for us to go. The Castle of Lenzburg! It was awesome. Not only was it a restored castle, but it was also a museum, showing artifacts from as early as the 13th century.

The family in the castle gardens

A view of the castle from town

A drawbridge!

The castle courtyard

The garden outside the ladies sitting room

Sleepy Noah

Rani and Sarah being corny.

The main kitchen set up like it was back in the 16th century

These things were really cool. It was called a stove and it was connected to the fire place in the kitchen to heat the room. It even had a seat on the left side to warm your bum, I guess.

Another fancy stove in the ladies sitting room

The museum was great with many things to keep kids interested

Noah trying on a helmet

Looking like Sir Lancelot. I don't know who had more fun playing dress up, Noah or the girls.

The Dungeon!! This tool was used for interrogations. I won't explain how......

The knights quarters with armor, swords, and other cool stuff.

They even had a crossbow

A super old fashioned elevator for goods and even people!

It is hard to see, but St. Bernards would run on the hamster wheel to make the elevator go up or down. Don't worry Aunt Carol, I think the dogs liked it.

Just sitting around.....

June 1-20

As you can see, we haven't done much since our trip to Portugal. Rani and I have been studying and Noah has been doing a lot of sitting around. Since the pictures of us are pretty boring, we decided just to share Noah's. Noah started sitting on his own around the first week of June and from that sitting position he has quickly progressed to the "downward dog" or his "almost"

crawling position.

Playing with a new toy

He loves to laugh at the ducks and birds

Helping Daddy cook

Another favorite, wrastling with Mr. Monkey. Mr. Monkey no longer takes advantage of the smaller Noah.


Noah started on solid food this month as well. Unfortunately, we missed taking pictures of his funny faces.

Lovin' the biscuits. Not the mess!!

He is already trying to feed himself....

Pretty happy after a his 2 tablespoons of cereal

I can't remember who was imitating who.

UPDATE! Noah took his new sounds to daycare the next day and really freaked them out when they thought he was choking!!

This was towards the begining of the month when Noah was figuring this crawling thing out. Fortunately, he soon tired of this method.