Alaskan Cruise

Last week we took a family vacation on a cruise with my parents and brother and sister-in-law to Alaska.  It was a really amazing to see such a beautiful part of the country and be able to spend it with all my family and Noah.  It was Noah's first cruise (as well as my own) and he did extremely well with the traveling (with a few exceptions) and the disruption to his schedule.

Day One (Saturday):
We woke up at 5 in the morning to catch our 7:30 flight and Noah was up the whole trip to the airport.  He was so excited to get on the airplane, it was all he talked about for the 45 minute trip to the airport.  He was such a good boy and even ended up taking a nap for part of the 4 hour flight. Once we got to Seattle (which is beautiful by the way) we pretty much dead headed it to the cruise to get settled in and start relaxing.

Day Two (Sunday):
Sea, waking up early

Day Three (Monday):
Ketchikan, loving the mouse, fever

Day Four (Tuesday):
Jueno, bar, running and playing, bald eagle, pool, glaciar

Day Five (Wednesday):
Skagway, bear, asleep in stroller, pool, beaver,

Day Six (Thursday):
Prince Rupart,

Day Seven (Friday):
Sea day, bryn, musical

Day Eight (Saturday):
Flight home

Casino, beer, guitar, food, pools

Jesus Book

One of Noah's favorite books recently is "The Story About Jesus".  It is a good, kid friendly book that gives a broad overview of who Jesus is and what He did.  A part of the story says "One day, a group of children came up to Jesus, but his friends told them to "Go away" Jesus is tired".  Well, one day last week bedtime was a little later than normal and we had a very tired boy on our hands.  I asked Noah if he wanted to read the Jesus book and he screamed "No Jesus, Go Away Jesus".  After I calmed him down, we did sit and read the book.  All through the book he kept pointing to Jesus and saying "Jesus Chew".  I was so proud of him until I realized he was saying "Jesus Shoe" not "Jesus Jew".  I thought he was pretty advanced.  

House Broken

Well, I guess it is a step in the right direction and really, I have no one to blame but myself.  As I said before, Noah has been doing pretty well at potty training as long as he is naked.  We don't have any accidents anymore in the house because the second he realizes he has to pee, he now shouts "PEE PEE - FENCE!" and runs outside and goes on the fence in the backyard.  I really can’t even get him to go in the potty anymore.  So, our child is house broken.  He really likes his new freedom.  Sometimes, I just hear the door open and look outside and he is decorating the fence, up and down, side to side (it is amazing how high he gets it and the force of his little stream).  Yesterday, he would even finish it with a pose - Legs spread wide and arms in a superhero position going “TAH DAH!”   

Noah-ism

Noah has been obsessed with lawn mowers and everything to do with them lately.  Any time he sees someone mowing the lawn or even hears it, he freezes, listens and starts talking about it.  20 times a day he asks for Hunter or I to mow the lawn.  He points his index finger at us and says "Wee-r (weed-eater) first, mo-r (mower), bow-r (blower)" then he nods his head and tries to shoo us outside.  When we don't do it (which is most of the time since he asks for it so much) we have a tiny little melt down on our hands.  This morning Hunter went in to get the little guy and give him some snuggles.  Hunter and Noah's first conversation of the day went like this:

HUNTER: How did you sleep?

NOAH: Good.  *Points Finger* Wee-r first!!!  

I hope this obsession continues when it is his turn to take over the lawn duties.  

Potty Training Update

Noah has been doing very well with potty training.  Most of the time if he is naked or in big boy underwear he will let us know when he has to go. It may be due to the fact he gets an M&M out of it because as soon as he is done he screams M&M and takes off to the kitchen.  Since the weather has been so nice we have been keeping him naked because we are in our backyard so much.  When he has to go, he yells "PEE PEE" and then just goes in the back yard.  Also, Noah has been practicing his aiming lately, which is a good thing except he keeps aiming it up and trying to pee in his face; he actually shot him self in the eye the other day. It may have been the funniest thing I have ever seen.  Not so funny was Noah peeing in the dishwasher on Sunday.  As soon as he was done he looked up at us and had a huge smile on his face.  You just cant help smiling back!  Next, we are going to try and tackle going potty in the public bathrooms.

Stiches

Fun Kid Friendly Activities

I made a list of fun family activities because I am extremely OCD and sometimes at a loss of ways to keep Noah entertained.  Most of them are outside, nice weather fun which is great for this time of the year.  A lot of this list came from www.freckletown.com which is a great website for mom's in Katy and then some of my own research.  Freckletown also has a Calendar of Events that have festivals and fun weekend activities going on in Katy and Houston.  I don't know if it will be helpful to any of the mom's who read my blog, but I wanted to post it anyway.  If you have any fun suggestions to add to my list, please let me know.  We are always open to trying new fun activities.  :-)  


There is also a place called The Stomping Grounds in SugarLand and it is pretty neat, but packed on the weekends.  I would like to try a place called Wonderwild near downtown.