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NEW BLOG SITE--Volume 2

We've heard that Noah's blog has gotten so big, some of you have a hard time opening it on your computer. So we have started "Noah's Blog Volume 2". The website is http://noahcharlesblog2.blogspot.com/

Check it out. We'll have lot's of fun holiday updates!

Love, Noah

A quiet week in the Fall

When we came back from vacation, it was cold in Philadelphia. Alot of the leaves had come down, but that's ok, because we had a ball raking and playing. Last year, Noah wasn't so sure what to make of the leaves (check out the blog from 11/23/07), but this year was a blast!

Look at this crazy driver in this movie.

We've been spending a lot of time at home with the cold weather. Noah decided he wanted to have his own little picnic, so picked up his snack and went to eat in his favorite little corner of the house.

And we've been spending a lot of time reading. Noah loves his books.And last week Joseph and his sister Gianna came to visit. Noah likes baby Gianna.

Grammy and Grampy came to stay with Noah one day when Erin was out sick. Grammy read to Noah, and Noah read to Grammy--both at the same time!

And Grampy read to Noah...

And Noah read to himself. He knows the name, color and number of all of these trains!

Well, it's been a relatively quiet week, but Thanksgiving is coming up. We're looking forward to a fun week and lots of turkey. We'll be back on the blog soon!

Bye bye from Puerto Rico

As you can see from the last few blogs, we all had a great time in Puerto Rico. It's funny, but some of the things that Noah had the most fun with was pressing the buttons for the elevator, and riding on the bus that went around the resort. The bus was like Thomas' friend Bertie, and we think his name was Bob the Bus. Also, the funniest was when Noah started singing "The wheels on the bus go round and round....". When he got to "The driver on the bus says...", the driver, on cue but unprompted, yelled out "MOVE ON BACK"! Noah thought that was the funniest thing!

There were so many fun things to do other than riding the bus, including....(check out this short movie)

Well, this was close to the end our trip. It was such a treat to have all week to spend together without work, cell phones, pagers. We really think Noah had the best time. What great smiles all week!

The next blog will be back from Philadelphia and the cold weather...but we have all sorts of fun plans over the next few months so keep checking on Noah's blog!

Invasion of the Sandman

Pictures are worth more than words on this one!!

And two very short movies. We spent a long time doing this..........

Noah at the Fort!

We couldn 't spend every minute at the beach, so Thursday morning we got in the car and drove of Old San Juan. Probably the most fun of the day was riding the tram up to El Moro. Noah called this Toby the Tram and he took us all the way up the hill.

He loved the ride, but then Toby deserted us and never came back!! It was really hot and we had to do alot of walking.

But once up the hill we walked all through the fort.

Noah knows "this is where Poppy used to work". And in case anyone was worried, Noah made sure the fort was well protected. He checked out every nook and cranny

And when we had had enough, Noah just decided it was time to close the doors to the fort. "EVERYONE OUT!"

Once Noah had the fort all closed up, we went for a very long walk as Toby the Tram never came back for us. We walked down the hill and ended up at El Convento...it is an old convent in the center of Old San Juan that is now a hotel, and we had a wonderful lunch in a cool, outdoor courtyard.We got postcards there, and they were so nice to Noah, they gave him a kite to fly once we got back to the beach.

That night we needed to go somewhere different, so went to El Conquestidor for dinner. Noah had lots of good stories to tell that night. Dinner was fun...but the most fun (if you ask Noah) was going up and down the Funicular (I don't even know how to spell it, but Noah knows what a Funicular is!). Unfortunately, none of those pictures came out...it was much too dark.

The next morning it was back to the beach as you can see.

Over the week Noah became more and more fearless...and FASTER! It was hard to catch up with him!

Check out Noah's next blog soon......for "Invasion of the Sandman"!

On and off the beach

We couldn't spend every minute at the beach, and we had a great room at the Ocean Villas to spend time when needed. This was the view from the balcony.

What a great place to have a picnic for lunch!

You can see from these pictures that not only is Noah growing up by the day, but he is "Mr Independent". Here we got all dressed up for dinner....

He didn't mind having his picture taken sometimes, but often he insisted on having it taken by himself! Here we were waiting for Billy Bus outside the hotel, looking for Coqui's.

He didn't mind having his picture taken, but "mommy...you sit over there!"

And you may all remember how Noah was obsessed with Cars and had the DVD case in every picture. Well now if you look above you'll notice we don't go anywhere without either Thomas the Tank Engine or his friends. Noah knows them all by name and color and number!

Sometimes we got Noah to sit long enough to take a family photo.

And on the particular night, Noah was just so good at dinner, we had to stop on the way back for an ice cream treat!

But after a long day at the beach, a big dinner, and ice cream, this was about the only night Noah was sleepier than David. Look how tired he looks....

Well, the next day it was back to the beach. The weather was great, but the pictures look dark because it is late in the day. Here it is after nap time and it is getting dark early. We stayed on the beach most days til til after sunset.... Look what we made.