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Brooklyn Birthday Picnic

Kreg — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:54:55 +0000

The Sunday after we got back from NH we had a little picnic in the park for Noah’s birthday.

The little dude is fast.

Recycled decorations. Thanks again Mindy!

Noah’s new phone from his Nana and Opa.

Sleeping Savannah.

Dragonflies.

Savannah and her new haircut.

Michael, who is renting a room from Noah’s Nana and Opa.

Hike

Kreg — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:00:37 +0000

Like I said before, the rain hung over NH for most of our vacation up there, but we did get one day that we pretty near perfect and we jumped right on it with a quick hike.

…an hour or so from the sound of traffic.

I turned us around right when it was starting to get good..

(photo by Kate)

Noah’s 2nd Birthday up in NH

Kreg — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:00:24 +0000

Sunday morning, the day of Noah’s NH birthday party, we woke up to rain.

Since we couldn’t just have the party on the lawn, we relocated to my Dad’s new garage. Nana, Aunt Mindy, and Kate spent the morning decorating.

The remains of Saturday night’s fire.

Darn rain.

Noah’s first present of the day, a fire chief outfit…

…to go with the fire fighter theme! Check out the great cakes Noah’s Aunt Mindy made!!

My Uncle Wayne got into the spirit.

Kaelyn and Jaycee.

This one is a real nice and thoughtful gift…

Noah asked my Nana to hold a gift for him.

Tagging the floor of Grampa’s garage.

One more look at those cakes before we tore into them.

Abigail and her Aunt Lori.

Abigail, making sure everyone has a fire hat.

“What a bunch”

Thanks to (Noah’s) Aunt Mindy, Nana, and Grampa for planning, decorating, cake-making, and hosting. Thanks to everyone else for coming over, up, and down for Noah’s birthday party!!!

Happy 2nd Birthday today to Noah!!

Kreg — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:33:22 +0000

Thanks to everyone who texted, emailed, Tweeted, Facebooked, Four-squared(?), sky-wrote, smoke-signaled birthday wishes to Noah. We are in NH and yesterday Noah had a nice, little party (in the rain) with his NH family. Photos coming soon(ish).

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNT MINDY

Kreg — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:30:09 +0000

Noah’s greatest (paternal) Aunt, and this blogs top commenter, Mindy was born on this day a couple years back. BIG UP!!!

It’s so haaaaaaaaarrd to say goodbyyyyyyahahyyyahyyyyye to Auntie Mindyyyyyy-iiiieeee.

Kreg — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:00:28 +0000

A week ago today Noah skipped day care and I skipped work(ing in my office) so that we could spend the morning with Aunt Mindy before she flew back to NC. Even the best of plans can hit a snag though, and Noah needed a little time out before we could grab some breakfast.

Real nice to have the park all to ourselves.

Can’t blame the boy for thinking about trying to pick up this stick. The “tough guy” Holt gene must be like the twin gene, it skips a generation.

But for a tough guy, Noah sure does scare easy.

Mindy was literally being reminded that she had to head back home.

…so we made our way back to the apartment when what do we see?

A firetruck and a friendly firefighter who offered to let Noah climb all over the truck (notice I volunteered to take off the Red Sox hat).

Thanks for coming to visit Mindy, and thanks for all the help taking care of him. A week later and he is still asking about you. Hope to see you soon.

The gift of NOISE!

Kreg — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:20:22 +0000

So Aunt Mindy’s mystery gift?

A big bucket of musical instruments.

First I want to apologize to the people that live below us. Second I have to apologize to Kate, who has to live with Me, Noah, and the new jam band we’ve created.

Happy Saturday

Kreg — Sat, 15 May 2010 17:38:43 +0000

Aunt Mindy got here this morning! She’s here until Monday!

Aunt Mindy’s Easter Presents!!

Kreg — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:00:45 +0000

To strengthen her reign as Noah’s favorite Aunt (on the Holt side), Auntie Mindy sent up a gigantic box from NC filled with Easter themed goodness.

Thanks Auntie Mindy!! Noah loves the toys, and Kate and I love the chocolate.

April Fools!!

Kreg — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:00:14 +0000

Did I get you? Here’s a flick of Noah playing with Savannah while some of you were scratching your head.

Noah’s blog lives on!!!

Sick again, but not of presents from Aunt Mindy

Kreg — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:00:21 +0000

I got a call late in the day from day care saying Noah had a little fever, nothing crazy but he wasn’t going to be feeling very well.

Dang colds, hopefully this will be the last one of the year cause spring is coming… like it or not. Soon the leaves will again cover up all the trash stuck in the trees.

Waiting for us at home was a present from Aunt Mindy, a guaranteed pick-me-up.

Thanks for the custom St. Patrick’s Day shirt Auntie Mindy!!

4th.. 5th..? Snow day of the year

Kreg — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:00:01 +0000

On Friday NYC’s schools were closed and the city was crippled up to their ankles in 8-10 inches of snow! All roads to Noah’s day care were also rendered impassible, yet in the face of all these mounting challenges, we survived.

So Noah and I dressed in funny clothes and took a walk to Prospect Park.

Noah in the backpack, ready to go.

All the snow storms have been given nicknames lately. The last one was called the “Snowpocalypse”. This latest storm was dubbed the “Snownami”. Someone on the Colbert Report had the best name so far for a storm though.. “Snowtorious B.I.G.” (for those people in NH and Kentucky, Notorious B.I.G. was an influential rapper who was tragically killed in his prime… “rap” is an urban form of musical expression… music is that think that comes out of the wine jug when your toothless friend blows in it…).

New Yorkers are amazing.. I saw 4 maybe 5 cross country skiers. All of them moving slower than I was walking.

Agreed.

A corny, out of focus look at us.

Somehow our car managed to get buried again.

Brooklyn Children’s Museum

Kreg — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:00:03 +0000

A week or so ago, before I took off to snowboard in one of the few areas on this planet where I don’t cell or internet connection, my parents were in town and we all took Noah to The Brooklyn Children’s Museum.

We started things off at the fake grocery store.

Then we laughed at some real (small) turtles.

I’m still working on phasing out these bibs, we’re almost there.

Noah’s new thing is trying to swim…

It might be fun to try to swim in, but the cork pit doesn’t taste very good.

Shake the cork pieces out.

Look at this bib… see why he needs one? Especially when he is having fun.

“Time to get out of here?”

Yep.

Presents and Lunch with Nana and Grampa Holt

Kreg — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:00:18 +0000

When Noah woke up Saturday morning, KABOOM! Nana and Grampa Holt were there. Crazy world… and they came bearing gifts.

Noah showing Grampa one of his favorite books.

Eventually we got ready and went out for some lunch.

Nana was cozy.

Noah was trying to nap before we even got our food, and he was nice enough to be patient while we ate it.

“Done yet?”

The new backpack is amazing.

Isaac’s Birthday Bash!

Kreg — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:00:16 +0000

Last night was another party for one of Noah’s day care mates, Isaac. I was worried Noah might not have as much fun because it started around dinner time…

…but he quickly forgot about being hungry.

It was at a local gym for kids and it was the first time I really got to see Noah play around on the equipment, even the stuff that was too big for him.

Isaac the birthday boy posterizing fools (no offense little girl).

Jojo and Violet, girls who also day care with Noah.

Noah laughing at a random girl staring into the corner.

Mocking random girl.

The bubble show lured the kids (and adults) into a room for pizza.

Birthday boy was into the pizza.

Sarah protected her cupcake from Noah a little better this time.

Mata with her dad and new sunglasses.

Thanks to Isaac and his parents for inviting us!!