Noah Cardiel Holt | My life according to other people

Rushing to catch Declan’s Christening, after getting the start time mixed up.

The show was already in progress… John (Declan’s Godfather) lighting the baptism candle.

Declan with his Aunt and Godmother, Donna.

With the grandparents.

The after party.

Emmett and Lisa offered their house up for Noah’s Birthday/Labor Day Party with The Urban’s, and you know we took them up on it. Here was my view from the grill…

Declan was having a good time.

Party!

Cake! (Made by Kate)

Nicole with the boys.

Presents!

Rescuing animals, so hot right now!

Declan relaxed in knowing that the following weekend would be his christening and he would show up “mr. seersucker shorts”.

Thanks to Emmett and Lisa for letting us make a mess of their house, and thanks to everyone for the great presents.

This is what Noah woke up to (Darpan, Ryan, Mark, and Dennis).

Every summer, Ryan gets his friends together and we all go to a Brooklyn Cyclones game. This year he had 53 tickets spoken for. Impressive. Ryan’s name even made it up on the scoreboard, appropriately under “Our Lady of Miraculous Medal”.

Sleepy dude waking up.

A little too much cheering, too soon after a nap.

Uncle Tim joined us too.

We ran into this dude.

Then we ran into Oliver who was beating up an ice cream cone.

Oliver’s proud dad and little sister.

T-shirt toss!

Ryan trying to out cheer the cheerleaders.

Ryan’s cheering worked, The Cyclones won!

A victory photo for Ryan and Ellen.

Lou and Avi.

The seagull doing some last minute, back-alley autographing.

Later Uncle Tim.

Thanks to Ryan for getting everyone together!

Tough year for Birthdays in the Urban Clan. Kate and Uncle Bugs’ Birthday was on Mother’s Day, and Opa’s Birthday fell on Father’s Day this year. To celebrate all this craziness, we crashed in on Emmett (who was celebrating his first Father’s Day), Lisa (Who has to wait a whole year for her first Mother’s Day), and 9 day old Declan.

Lil’ Napper.

Declan!

Urban men.

This is the moment when Emmett figured it all out…

Emmett’s pretty good with those tongs.

Meanwhile in the backyard, the hero of our story was waging a battle of his own.

The happy (sleepy) couple.

Thanks to Emmett and Lisa for having us all over.

I also want to thank the place where I dropped of this computer to be fixed last Monday. What was going to be a 2-3 day repair turned into a stressful and agonizing 6 days.

Easter morning, a bucket left for Noah…

After we tore apart the Easter Bucket, and got cleaned up, we walked over to Nana and Opa’s for lunch with the family.

Victoria (who Noah calls “Micky”).

Custom eggs, as always.

Another bucket/basket left for Noah at Nana’s.

A little walk after lunch.

Uncle Matt banged up his knee, so Noah coached him to the park.

Playing with some parachutes.

Our audience.

Hug-fest, as always.

Back at Nana and Opa’s we dug into the cookies that Kate and Noah made the day before.

Mmm… Holidays…