Noah Cardiel Holt | My life according to other people

Tis’ the season for Noah’s school to put on their annual Holiday Extravaganza!

(note – Not my best photos, I took the seat of a proud parent for this)

First up, the lil’, lil’ ones.

Proud parents everywhere.

The second group (the 2 year olds) kind of fell apart.

Intermission. Twin violinist, the daughter’s of Ms. Shameka who works in the office.

Next up, Noah’s class.

Group song.

The girls were snowflakes.

The boys were elves.

Noah cheesing at us.

His well practiced bow.

A quick vid of the elves performance.

They closed it out with the big kids (4 year olds).

Noah was proud of himself, or maybe he was proud of the red turtleneck he had to wear. Either way, he was happy to see us.

On Friday Hanson Place, where Noah goes to day care, held a Dance Recital. First up was Classroom 4. These are 2-3 year olds that will merge with Noah’s class next year.

Next was Noah’s group, Classroom 5.

Audrey on the obstacle course.

Mia Mae.

Zion.

Ryder’s (blond on the left) class.

The last and oldest group of kids at the school ended up being all girls.

Lil’ dude strutting out with Nana.

A quick vid filmed by Kate.

Wednesday morning we got up and life was pretty much back to normal after all our time apart.

Noah was even dancing around (here he is in mid shimmy), happy to have us back.

Then The Deaner’s showed up…

…and all at once, everything was upside down again.

Truth be told, we were really happy to have The Deaner’s over, and excited for Joshua who won a rather impressive contest for a book he designed (see an interview with him here).  Wednesday night us grown-ups celebrated at a swanky awards party for the book, Julian and Noah stayed home.

Our friend Tonya is partners in a great production company called Sweet Genius.  They mainly wrangle together high-end photo shoots, which is kind of like coordinating a wedding everyday.  Sometimes the photo shoot calls for models, and that usually leads to a casting.  When a casting comes around for a kid Noah’s age, we get the email.  This was Noah’s second casting, but even better, it would be the first time Noah got to meet Tonya (that’s completely my fault, I’m a hermit now).

Every budding model needs a good lunch.  Noah had a late and long morning nap so he had to eat his lunch on the train.

Busy studio…

This campaign was for an anti-drunk driving campaign and they need real people (not just Noah quailty models), so we stood there with him to try and get a taste of the limelight too.  The mood of the campaign was a little sad so we were asked not to smile, which is why Kate looks like she is mad at me.

We also had to show pictures of loved ones.  I tried to show a picture of my snowboard, but Kate made me use a picture of her. (Photo below by Kate)

Tonya said Noah did a great job.

After that was over I dragged everyone to the AT&T repair store so I could get a new phone (the Y-key on my Blackberry stopped working).

Noah liked to slap the black glass coffee table.  I told him not to leave evidence that we were there, but he wouldn’t listen.