Noah Cardiel Holt | My life according to other people

Saturday morning we packed it up and drove up to NH.  As you can imagine, driving with little dude (and his mom) requires a couple pit stops.

Luckily, about half way there is The Basketball Hall of Fame!!

After using the bathroom, Noah wanted in on some basketball games.

Instead I gave him 3 min. to try and dribble in the gift shop.  Not pictured, Noah being really bummed on me.

Lunch!  Brattleboro, VT.

Last stop, Milan, NH as ash was falling from the sky from Jasper and Doug’s bonfire.

Aunt Mindy made it up from Charlotte!

Noah was a little overwhelmed with everything being on fire, dudes with years of facial hair, and four-wheelers racing around..  Happy Birthday Son.

Uncle Gerry tossing some branches on the fire.

Doug.

Jasper…

Goodnight Noah.

There was a lot of wood to burn, and Jasper gets impatient.

A while later..

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).

Catching up with Nana, Grampa, and Aunt Mindy up in NH over dinner…

…a particularly messy dinner.

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

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.