Halloween, Thanksgiving & Christmas, 2011 Here We Come!

We have lots to catch up on so here we go! We will start with October and work our way up to the new year.
This was Noah's first Halloween where he could participate so we tried to do some fun things with him this year.

We went to a friend's pumpkin patch so Noah could pick out his very own pumpkin.

After choosing his pumpkin he decided to gaze thoughtfully at the blue sky and wonder why in the world his parents were making him crawl through the dirt to pick out a squash.

Noah as Winnie the Pooh for Halloween. We borrowed an outfit from Noah's buddy Hunter who was too big for this costume last year. Noah is 20 months old wearing a 9 month size Halloween costume! When is this kiddo going to spurt???

He's not too sure about this whole costume thing.

Once we told Noah we were taking him to a Harvest Festival where he could play games and win candy he was all right with the whole costume thing.
Noah also started walking right around Halloween, which was great. We have actually enjoyed having him finally walking rather than crawling everywhere. Here's a video of him at Halloween practicing.

We got the opportunity to get some fun family pictures taken in October so here are some of those.

It was a lot of fun getting our photos taken! The photographer drove us around Downtown Portland for about 4 hours just stopping at random places and took great shots.

Noah is our little dancing fiend and has been known to dance to the smallest amount of music, even a clock chiming. Well, we discovered that he really likes the theme song to "King of The Hill", a show on TV. He doesn't care about watching the show, he just likes the opening song. So, we thought we would share a video of how he reacts when the theme song comes on.

Over Thanksgiving our good friend Julia Miller stopped by for a visit with her adorable daughter Gretchen. Noah was smitten with Gretchen and immediately ready for hugs but she remained cautious. Her parents should be proud! They won't have to worry about her in high school. Now our son on the other hand, well, we need to talk to him about not being so forward. We didn't manage pics of the hug but here's a couple of them eating lunch together.

 

We picked up our Christmas tree the weekend after Thanksgiving (mommy just could not wait) so we took Noah to our friends who have a Christmas tree farm. Noah seemed a bit confused as to why we were cutting down a tree but he went along with it.

December was a whirlwind! It seemed we had something every weekend but we still managed to take Noah out to see Christmas lights and visit with friends. He loved this place we took him to near Colton that has thousands of lights but also an entire Christmas village with trains. He stood staring at the trains for about 30 minutes saying "choo, choo" over and over until we were so cold we had to carry him away.

You can see in this last picture that Noah was not happy with us for dragging him away from the choo choo!

Christmas morning was fun this year. Noah still wasn't all that interested in opening presents. Once the first one was opened he was fine to play with that and forget the rest so we put some away for his birthday and opened others over the next few days.

And finally, January. Noah has been into hats so it seems that a lot of pictures we get of him, he's wearing a hat. Here's some pictures from the month of January so we are caught up!

 Noah put on a hat and started dancing down the hallway, so I snapped some pictures.

                                    

Out at dinner with friends. Noah wanted to wear his driving cap, his favorite hat ever.

Noah and his mommy visited a friend's farm. He didn't seem all that interested in the horses, rabbits and cats, he just loved throwing hay everywhere and climbing hay bales.

                                              

Wow, I found a couple pictures of Noah without a hat!

                                              
And now it's time to wrap it up until next time. Noah turns 2 on March 6th so hopefully we will have an update around then. God bless!