Noah Cardiel Holt | My life according to other people

I don’t know if it’s because of his short little legs, or if he isn’t into stairs, but every day he takes the wheelchair ramp from the play room to his cubby.  Screaming and running and flapping the whole time.  Every day.

The class fish.

You never know when it will be time for a life lesson.  Saturday, on the way to a playground, we spent some time talking about shadows.

Then Noah spent some time beating up his shadow (and leaves) with a stick.

Isaac!

My life.

Isaac asked his Mom (who is due in Feb.) to go down the slide with him.

When it was time to eat a sandwich, Noah asked Kate to put out the picnic blanket.

Isaac giving Noah dessert.

Saturday was chill.

Mainly shopping.

Joshua on Marathon Sunday.  His father and 2 older brothers were on the other side of the Verrazano Bride, getting ready to walk/run 26.2 miles.  I’m not judging, I’m just reporting the facts.

When Joshua left to head back to RI we walked to the most industrial and desolate place we could find to meet Derby for the first time!

It was business as usual for these two.

“I don’t see what all the fuss it about.”

Savannah went to swim class, we went to watch people run.

After Noah took a nap, we walked back over to meet Derby a second time.

Kate and I both had a cold so we didn’t want to hold Derby, not to mention friends and family were there and we didn’t want to get in the way.  Better pictures coming soon, you got my word on it.

Stay tuned.

Last Saturday morning.  Joshua Deaner was in town for an art book fair, and Ryan and Ellen invited us down for bagels.  Oliver and his parents Kate and Grant came over too.

Ryan and Ellen’s cats getting creative with their hiding places.

Ryan showed us a slideshow of their recent bike trip (Noah, nonplussed).

When Ryan broke out his Lego collection I knew we had to go.  One more minute and Noah would have turned that thing upside down.

On the drive to Chelsea.

“Noah!  Time to look at some art!”

Later at the playground, stuck finger.

Found bike made gender neutral.

In a moment of excitement, Noah ran up to hug my leg, and caught my camera in his forehead…

Then Joshua’s parents (Ellie and Dennis) and brothers (Rob on the left, and Jon on the right) showed up out of nowhere.  3 of the men in this photo took part in the NYC Marathon the next day.  Joshua was not one of them.  Neither was Noah.

After lunch, back in our ‘hood.

Fun with traffic cones.