Noah Cardiel Holt | My life according to other people

Over Labor Day weekend, The Kapadia’s invited a bunch of us out to their Jersey house for the day.

Layla.

Mark, Lou, and Avi.

Noah and his new camera.

Their private beach.

Maya.

Bait.

Crabs!

Some snails(?) we were not trying to catch.

Lou, Maya, and Avi were in charge of the net, and only one of them fell in the water.

Ryan, crabbing supervisor.

Nonplussed.

Mark teaching me how to take care of my crabs.

Dinner.

Lil’ dude.

View from dinner.

Thanks to Darpan and Erika for inviting us out, we always have a great time.

Noah and I took a trip to the city the other week to see our boy Mike and pick up a present for Kate.  Little dudes teeth seemed to be bothering him.

Peep that quality Rest Store packaging.  All that for a wedding band.

Noah wanted to see that “BIG!” bird with a patriotic Pendeen.

Thanks Mike

– Made With Rest
– Rest Store Tumblr

Amanda and Brian were in town from the West Coast so Noah and I met up with them for lunch on a scorcher of a day.

Did I mention that it was hot and that this was the a/c for the place?

..and we had to wait!  At least they let Noah draw on the table.

Photo of Noah and I by Brain of Elephant Encounters fame!

A patriotic walk to pick up Noah from his new day care last week.

On the way home I got a text message from Andy (Savannah’s dad).  Some of the parents from the old day care were hanging out in the shade, trying to avoid the oppressive heat.

I’ll admit it Charlotte, I was hoping this balloon would break…  sorry.

Parenting, with coffee.

Noah, Theo, and Sophie.

Alison, in the pool on the left, and her 3 week old daughter Lira on the right in the arms of Lira’s grandmother.

Before little dude knew..

As little dude started figuring it out.

When it was inevitable.

Last ditch effort to break out (..the patches on his arms have numbing cream to make drawing blood a little less traumatic).

Not photographed… trauma.  Luckily, Noah recovered well.

Noah measured 31.5 inches tall and weighed in at 21 lbs. 14 oz.  That’s 4 oz. less than he weighed 6 months ago at his last check up, but I guess it’s common because kids are more active in the summer.