Hello friends,

below you’ll find a video collection of clips from late summer adventures of Noah.

This video goes along with the previous post about his travels and fun around his birthday.

You’ll also see him up at Brainard Lake, a high mountain lake that we go to often in the summer, and you’ll see that Noah often runs everywhere he goes. Run, run, run!

Towards the end of the video, you’ll see that he’s starting to teach himself some gymnastics too…the boy has no fear.

Hope you enjoy the video!

Well, it’s a little hard to believe, but little Noah Linden is 2 years old!

We had a great trip out to Chicago and Michigan for 2 birthday parties out there, and then came back to have a 3rd party with all of his friends here in Boulder. Lots of cake and candles…times 3

Below is a gallery of photos from the vacation in Chicago and Michigan, as well as his birthday party here in Boulder. If you’re reading this in your email inbox, you may want to go to Noah’s blog site to see the gallery, since I’m not sure that the gallery photos will appear properly in the email version of this post. (To get there, click on the blog post title in this email, and then click on the small preview images in the gallery that’s in this post to see the photos full size. Use the arrows at the bottom of the photos to get to the next photo.)

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We don’t have many photos from our time with Bubby Sue and Gampa Jeff in Chicago because we used the video camera more than the camera while we were there. I’ll be putting up a video of our trip as soon as I can.

Noah had a great time everywhere he went during our vacation, and also on the day after we got back at his party.

While in Chicago, we got to ride a BIG bus and go to the Lincoln Park Zoo, which is only a mile or so from Bubby Sue and Gampa Jeff’s new lovely condo on Lake Shore Drive.

There was lots of playing and walking in the park across the street from their condo, and a lovely birthday party way up high on the 27th floor, where they live.

From there we drove around the lake to the cottage in Michigan, where much fun was had every day, as much as possible, in the waves and warm water. It was nearly impossible to keep him out of the water, and I think he drank 2 or 3 gallons of lake water trying to figure out that you’re supposed to keep your mouth shut when you go under.

Noah had a great time playing with Mimi, Popo, Gigi, and Uncle John on the beach and in the cottage. He’s also at the stage where he’s figured out that he can tell other people “No!”, and he’s been doing that for many weeks now. Ohhhh, the joys of being 2!

From the beach we came home and had a lovely party with 30 or so people, kids and adults, who came to give Noah some love and happy birthday wishes. Bubbles and helmets and inflatable baseball bats and balls…tons of fun and laughter all around.

We also had a face painter come to the party to paint any kids or adults who wanted to get painted. Noah picked out a lion and a Nemo fish for each arm and was pretty psyched with them.

Everyone lasted a really long time before melting down, and we said good bye to everyone and enjoyed the new toys and leftover, delicious cupcakes and brownies that Mama baked for the party.

So we’re off into year two with our little monkey boy! Yipee!!

His language is really starting to take off. Every day he seems to figure something new out about our odd English language. A few days ago he figured out how to use past tense and present tense correctly in all kinds of sentences that he’s putting together.

The ABC song and Twinkle Twinkle are his favorite songs currently, and whenever we go shopping at the grocery store, he sings either or both throughout the isles while we’re getting food. He only stops to say hi to people passing by, or to ask for “one chocolate,” which is how he asks for treats that Mama gives him (little chocolate balls wrapped in tinfoil that looks like a little globe of the Earth.)

“One chocate peeez?”

We hope everyone is doing well!

We’re back home now from our vacation with Noah out to Linden Hills and have been busy getting back to work.

I’ve finally had a wee bit of time to create a little collection of video clips from the trip, which was a wonderful one.

Thank you to everyone who traveled to see Noah and visit with everyone. He loved meeting and spending time with you all! We look forward to having Noah meet the rest of his relatives who weren’t there, and for him to be able to spend time with folks in the family he has met, but who weren’t there for this trip. He’s a very extroverted little fellow and loves to meet and play with all kinds of people, so we can’t wait for him to meet everyone in the family.

Hope you enjoy the video.