Antigua – Day 3

Seems like we’ve been here a week already! Hard to believe it’s only been three days.

Today we went to see a hotel that is also a living museum…they are both intertwined.

The hotel is called Casa de Santo Domingo, I believe, and it’s been built in and around a very old convent and church that was built in 1500.

They’ve got a big rubber roof over what’s left of the main church area, and many of the ruins are very well preserved, as you’ll see in the photos.

Enjoy

Here’s the link to the flickr set again. I haven’t found a photo gallery plugin for WordPress that I like yet, so I’ll just keep using the flickr gallery for now.

Comments are just below the photos:

Click here to see the photos on flickr

Antigua 2010 – Day 2

Hi All,

Day two in Antigua has come to an end.

Here’s some new pics…just double click on the first one to bring up a slide show that you can move through. To close the slideshow, just click once on any image in the slideshow:

[View with PicLens]

If you’re having any trouble seeing those photos, you can also see them in the flickr set here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25359449@N05/sets/72157623476868468/

Pretty simple day today, mostly focused on getting in to town for various meals and adventures.

We have a window between when Noah wakes up in the morning (around 7:00 or 7:30 am) and when he needs to go down for a nap (around noon or 1 pm) where we can head out and do some exploring of the town.

Today we went up and down some new streets, checked out many new restaurants and bakeries, and bought Noah a great little marimba set (we’ve been wanting to get him one for a long time.)

Papa has learned how to count in spanish better now, so buying things is a little easier. I still barely know spanish though, so it’s making things challenging for me.

More of today’s story after the read more break:

Antigua 2010 – Day 1

First day in Antigua, Guatemala!

Two trips walking around this beautiful town. Riding in a tuk tuk taxi. Dinner at a great italian restaurant. Nooey had tons and tons of noo-noos with parmesean tree. 4 hour nap for Noah. Marriachi band at night at the bed and breakfast in the courtyard. 72 degrees most of the day. Lots of people here. Papa can’t remember how to count in Spanish…had some trouble paying for lunch.

Dancing Noah (loves Mariachi music.) Dipped his finger in mama’s wine and like it. Had three or four dips. Lots of truck, motorcycles, horses and carts. All the roads are bumpy cobble stones. Slower pace in this town. Amazing, amazing doors and walls everywhere you look. Ancient ruins of old churches and convents from the 1500′s.

Here’s a link to some pics from the first day:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25359449@N05/

Love to all…

Christmas 2009 and the dancing boy

Well, it’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to put together a collection of clips and post them here. Life has been a bit crazy busy for the past couple months.

Every day Noah seems to grow up a little more. New words are coming almost every day and he seems to get an inch taller every week. And wow, the boy likes to move and dance and run! Amazing how fast it’s all happening.

So, below is the latest collection of clips…another rough edit of moments from Noah’s life over the past couple months. There’s a few blips in this one…not sure what caused them. Could be time for a new video camera.

Hope you enjoy it

We’re off on our first big family vacation abroad in a couple weeks: going to Antigua, Guatemala for 10 days. The video from that trip should be interesting and fun!

Run Noah, Run

Hi Everyone.

It’s been a while since I’ve had the time to make a video, but here’s one now for you.

Noah is growing up fast! He’s up to about 40 words right now, and seems to be picking more up every day.

As you’ll see, he loves hats, and loves to run (among other things…he also loves the Moon, tractors, and buses…oh, and “chocte” too, which is how he says chocolate.)

Enjoy the video!

My Name Is Papa.

Hello friends.

Just wanted to give a little update on some little tid bitty things going on in Noah’s life right now, things that may not come through in the photos or videos that we post…

Noah Goes to the Farm

A few weeks ago, we took Noah to a local petting farm for kids.

It was super hot that day, but we had plenty of fun watching Noah see all of these kinds of animals for the first time.

After his trip to Michigan, he’s fully walking now, and even starting to run. The footage of him walking in this video is when he was still pretty new to it. We’ll soon get up some new footage of him cruising around at full speed!

Hope you enjoy the video

Noah’s First Trip To Linden Hills

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, which can be seen when you click to read the full blog post.

Noah Does Impression of Einstein

I think I’ll just let these photos tell the story. Bari gave him an entire frozen sorbet bar the other day, and this is what happened.

First Birthday Party!

Noah had his first birthday party last night up here at the cottage! Most of the family was here and wow, was the cake every good. He absolutely loves his new stacking game from Uncle Greg, Auntie Veronika, and cousins Anna and Valerie.