Friday, January 10, 2014

Five!!!

Noah turned 5 today.



He's such a great 5 year old boy. He loves silly noises and practices silly faces in the mirror and bounces around and sings and wrestles with his friends like little bear cubs and loves to play outside and loves to climb and build things and knock them down as violently as possible and then build them up again.  He asks so many questions.  SO many.  And while exhausting, a lot of them are pretty good questions.


He loves to play with Eva and they have a series of adventures every day.  He is strong and tough and kind and accommodating and empathetic to others, and somehow also very sensitive that he is being heard and easily hurt if he thinks he is not.   He is obsessed with the way the body works and how time works and where things are and knows more random animal facts than Chad and I put together.  He still does his little twitch whenever he is excited about something.  He can tell a knock-knock joke with pretty good delivery.



So yeah, he's a great 5 year old already.  Happy Birthday, my special boy.

Monday, January 6, 2014

Eva, with Silly Putty


Unfortunately pictures cannot capture the silly putty song she was singing at the time...




Sunday, January 5, 2014

Beads

Noah wants to show you his bracelet


Saturday, January 4, 2014

Playdough

The home-made kind, perfect for biologically-inspired structures



Which take a lot of work to create


Sometime the entire arm is required for shaping


And a mug shot when completed is totally deserved




Friday, January 3, 2014

Ciara

The youngest cousin, aka the one most likely to tolerate my repeated clicking... 





Also, a serious cutie.

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Christmas Recap

As usual, we went to Brimfield to celebrate Christmas with the Pytel clan

Yay cousins!

I took a lot of pictures with my new camera in various stages of blurriness and poor lighting, and a few ones that are ok

Waiting for presents... 







 There is one new MD in Brimfield this year...


Actually make that two... 


And a furious rainbow-loomer


Overall, a great visit.  Merry Christmas! :)

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Happy New Year!

We celebrated by building this


What?  It's obviously a robot.


That you can ride in 




Happy New Year Everyone!!