Genius

Yes, he is brilliant. Also, I am totally not biased in any way.



Cutest thing ever, right? Also, we love Bucky. Go Badgers!

Friends and animals

We had a lovely play date this weekend where Noah got to spend some quality time with his friends Maytal and Ben.  We walked to a local farm, and Noah helped Maytal stay on track.

 

It was about the cutest thing ever.  They just looked at each other and then decided to hold hands, with no prompting from us.  They chatted a bit as well.  The cuteness was almost unbearable.

 

The donkeys were out at the farm.

 

Noah was very brave, and fed the donkeys several carrots (not pictured.  Are you kidding me?  I may be "that parent" who is always taking pictures for her blog, but there is no way I am letting my 15 month old get that close to donkey teeth without my complete attention).

 

After the farm, we checked out the pond.  There were turtles!

A lovely day overall.  We really learned something.  That something is that donkeys have very large and dexterous lips.

New space

Welcome to our new blog, Entropy Lives Here. You may notice this is exactly the same as our old blog, we just moved it to a web address not tied to our actual address. Since we're moving. To Boston. In about two weeks. Holy crap.

We started the blog in order to show you all the progress we were making on our first house. And then the home improvement projects slowed down and the blog was mostly about our cats. And then we had a baby, so why would we ever talk about anything else?

So who knows what the future will bring for our blog. Chances are, more stuff about Noah. With periodic comments about the cats. Let's be honest, I am just not all that creative. Also, I believe in giving the audience what they want.

So here's what you wanted, probably more than a long-winded story about blog-moving: a video of Noah. We went to the playground today.



His favorite phrase is totally "wheeeeeee! wheeeee!"

Mommy and Daddy went to Florida and all I got was this T-shirt.

It's true. Can you believe it? We dealt with the unbelievable craziness that was the past few weeks by dropping Noah off with Grammy and getting the heck out of town.

On the way to Grammy's house, it was too beautiful for rest stops, so we stopped at a state park. Noah got a kick out of walking with Daddy by the water.


Then once we got to Grammy's house we went down to the lake to watch the waves. Noah loved this. He kept saying "wow" "wow" as the waves broke.


Also, for those of you not from the finger lakes, let me just mention that by "waves" I mean 8 inch swells. This is pretty rough seas for us. Anyway, on to the playground. Who wouldn't want to stay with these crazy kids for a few days while your parents are out of town?


Also, there are music lessons.



Thank you very much to Mom and the Iphone, which kept us supplied with videos of Noah while we were away. :)

We had a lovely time in Orlando. Because we are crazy, we decided to squander one of our precious few sleeping in days to get up early to watch the space shuttle launch. Of course, we didn't bring a camera, so you'll have to make do with Iphone photos. Not bad, huh?


The shuttle trail looked awesome as the sun rose.


We spent one day at Universal Islands of Adventure. That was a trip.


And a few more days laying around by the pool. It was great. And then it was time to head back home, so Noah could investigate the stuff all over his playground.


Oh wow. We were gone for less than a week and there are no blooms left on our tree.


Apparently Spring is ending here in the tropics. Sorry Sarah!

Adventures in the treetops

Noah and I met up with his friend Eliza and her mommy at the Morris Arboretum the other day. It was a beautiful day and the arboretum is just starting to bloom. However, by far the favorite activity for the toddlers was running around the Out on a Limb exhibit. This exhibit has some platforms and mesh climbing areas way up in the trees.


Which, it turns out, are WAY fun to run around.


and around


and around


and around. You get the idea.


On the other end of the platform, there was a giant robin's nest. This was interesting enough to stop the running for about 5 minutes.


Overall, a great day. After dinner, we took a walk with Noah's bike to get some ice cream. After Nana's talk with him last week, it seems Noah has reconsidered his position on ice cream.


Yum!

Oh crap

The baby just figured out how to use a doorknob. The regular kind, the kind we have in our house and depend upon to keep him in the room with me and away from the stairs while I do things like put away his laundry.




We are so in trouble.

-- posted from the phone

Monkeys! and Spring!!

This morning we met some friends at the Philadelphia Zoo. It was very very crowded because apparently no one works on good Friday, they all go to the zoo. At any rate, I was able to get just a few pictures of Noah frantically pointing out the monkeys.


For maximum realistic effect, imagine him yelling "monkey!" while pointing. Also, "monkey" sounds suspciously like "doggie."


Shortly after this he turned to me and started frantically signing "please." I told him sorry, I can't put you in there with the monkeys.

After the zoo we came home and had a snack. This part of the day was not particularly exciting but I include this picture due to exceptional cuteness.


Then in the afternoon, we were back outside, on the playground.



Captian Noah would like to make an announcement.


The tree has bloomed.


Happy spring!!