Bethany Beach

We spent last weekend at Bethany Beach with Noah's friends Greydon, Sienna and Mia and their families. It was a great long weekend, even though the weather was less than ideal. We did get one decent beach day out of the trip, but had fun the whole time. Unlike last summer, when Noah did not like the beach at all, he really loved it this year.

Here are all the kids and their dads.

And a picture of just our family looking out over the waves.

When it was raining outside, Noah and Greydon enjoyed spending time playing in the house with vacuum cleaners. Clearly vacuums are much more fun than actual toys.

Noah and Sienna enjoyed "riding" the scooters in the garage. What a little bad ass!

But the best part of all was the beach.

Another fun thing for the parents was "picking crabs." Quite an experience!

We can't wait to go back next year!

Greydon's New House

Yesterday, we went to visit Noah's friend Greydon at his new house. Noah had a wonderful time. We went down to a little beach area by the lake near Greydon's house and Noah had a wonderful time swimming in the water.

It was his second weekend out of three consecutive weekends when he'll get to see Greydon, Mia and Sienna. Last weekend we went to Sienna's house (here's a link to Sienna's blog). And next weekend the four families are going to the beach in Delaware.

Some Recent Noah-isms

• Noah has learned to spell his name. He often asks us to write his name on his magnadoodle (he also asks us to write all of his friends' names and our names, as in "write daddy.") So the other night I said, "Noah, can you spell Noah?" and he answered "N O A H." Then I asked him if he could spell daddy, and he answered "D D Y," which I thought was pretty good for a 2 year old.
  
• Noah has started watching Leap Frog DVDs (it's the only kids TV he has seen), and he really likes the Letter Factory one. He watched it a couple times on Sunday, until I was a bit out of my mind and decided no more TV and shut it off. A couple hours later Noah came up to me and said "Watch letters?" and I said "No, you've had enough TV today." So he then said "Watch Morning Joe?" Apparently, MSNBC's morning show is his second choice after Letters. He recognizes Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski... oh my... what have I done??? He also thought Brian Williams was his friend Micah's father once, but that was a while back.
• This morning (as we were watching Morning Joe) Noah suddenly says loudly "Oh my God!" and of course, when I laughed, he repeated it over and over again. It sounded like he was saying it in response to something Tom Ridge said (he was a guest this morning).
  

The Words I like

For posterity sake, I just wanted to record and remember the cute way Noah says certain words these days... knowing that all too soon he'll pronounce them correctly. So my favorite words of the moment are:

• Coomummer= Cucumber. Noah is sooooo into cucumbers. His daycare teacher planted them in her back yard and he loves to find them. She keeps thinking she has harvested them all, but Noah keeps finding ones she missed. He's little farmer Noah. He also likes to eat cucumbers, especially if I soak them in white balsamic vinegar.
• Cappacappa= Caterpillar. He's a big fan of The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and he likes to say "Cappacappa turn butterfly." For a long time he couldn't say butterfly and would say "butty" instead, but now he says butterfly very clearly.
  

At the Pool

This morning we met Karen, Sean and baby Liam at the Kingstowne pool for a few hours. Noah and Sean always have a great time playing with each other. Neither one of them wanted to go home at lunch time.

Duplos and Dishcloth

These are just some random pictures of Noah playing while we were cooking dinner the other night. He's really into duplos these days, but he gets frustrated when he can't get them to fix together.

He was also enjoying playing with the dishcloth. Toys certainly don't need to be expensive and come wrapped in an insane amount of plastic and junk to be fun.

Farm Pics Courtesy of Greydon's Mom

These pictures are from our most recent trip to the farm a couple weeks ago. Darren was still recovering from minor surgery, so he wasn't able to come, but since we were going with Noah's friends and their families, I had some extra adult help and decided Noah and I would go anyway. As always we had a great time. Of course, being that I was a single mom for the morning, I didn't have time to really take pictures, so these come courtesy of my friend Lisa, Greydon's mom.

We took a spin around the farm on this cow ride. Of course about two minutes after Noah and I got into our cart (and believe me it was a tight fit), and just before we were about to go, I realized that Noah had a poopy diaper... very pleasant.

And of course, the kids went blackberry picking.

Here are Noah and Sienna at the country store.