Old McDonald (remix)

Noah is taking the lead singer role on this one



Mommy has been demoted to class participant.

Today's dose of Eva

Has been brought to you by the baby bath bucket (or at least that's what we call it around here)

Clean!

More conversations with Noah

It's just toddler talk, but the stuff he says just slays me.



In order to best archive & share (mostly with each other, I will admit), Chad and I have decided to put Noah on twitter. You may follow him (@SaysNoah) or Eva (@SaysEva, we are assuming she will say something interesting eventually and wanted to get the username), in order to catch super important updates like the following:

SaysNoah Noah Pytel

[stands on one leg] Look at me!! I'm a princess! (huh?)

13 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

I realize we're not exactly live tweeting images from Tahrir square here, but come on, it's got to be more interesting than learning someone has become the mayor of Framingham station on foursquare.

Super boring video

I am just fascinated by watching Eva learn how to play. She will see something in which she is interested and really concentrate on exploring it. She gets better at doing things purposefully every day and I think it's great.

Of course, I am biologically pre-disposed to be fascinated by her. Other people may just find this process exceedingly boring.

I present the video below as a self-test to see how much boring baby you can tolerate :)

Fenced!

So remember that giant fenced-in garden we had at our house?

Yeah, that one. It's gone. Or rather, the fence has been moved to the boundary of the yard, and is now serving the useful purpose of keeping toddlers inside.

The garden, I guess it is still there, just growing dandelions.

For blowing.

Noah is becoming an expert dandelion-blower

While Eva continues her training as an expert Noah-watcher

Personally, I am psyched to sit down with a beer and let the children run amok in the back yard. Come on over and bring your toddlers!

Of course, it is supposed to rain all weekend.

More boys

Noah and his friend Jesse really get along great. They travel together...

Work on construction projects

And share a love for music.

(for the record, the pictures & video are totally unscripted. The adults were chatting in the other room when we realized the boys had left us to practice piano together)

Outside Update

So we managed to buy another house with a beautiful magnolia tree, which has not disappointed.

(Please pay no attention to the pile of brush behind the tree, it has since been removed)

Noah finally got his dream ride for the backyard courtesy of mommy's garage sale prowress

And Eva can survey the backyard from her sitting up position in the Bumbo seat. Turns out we have a baby old enough for the Bumbo seat!! Who knew!?