Noah Cardiel Holt | My life according to other people

After the party for Nana T., we stayed out on Long Island and met up with Brooklyn friends for a tour of carved pumpkins.

Chester and Savannah.

Great fall night.

So many pumpkins.

Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night“.

This was at the end, I think the carvers ran out of ideas.

Recapping our adventure.

The other weekend we rode our bikes into Manhattan for the P.S. 11 Fall Fair.

History.

Pumpkin painting.

We were there to see Kate’s friend Ben and his spin art machine.

Might as well get in some bounce houses while we are at it.

Waiting in line for a turn at the spin art machine, copying and staring a girl who was fanning herself.

Ben with his son.

Deflated bounce houses.

Later at home, Honey came upstairs and we jammed (that’s Honey on the recorder, and me on the ladybug tambourine).

In Red Hook to see the newest BWAC show that Nana T. helped put together. Noah brought his bug net/collector/storage thing.

This was a music box with a recording of a woman asking for help.

One of Noah’s picks.

One of Nana T.’s pieces.

Jam band.

After Red Hook we went to Ryan and Ellen’s for a crab feast. Their son Ren with his crabby shirt.

Ryan brought out the medieval Lego’s for the kids.

Scrappy dude.

Grant feeding the people.

Thanks Ryan and Ellen for hosting. Thanks to Grant for cooking.

For Noah’s 5th birthday, Brooklyn edition, he wanted to have everything be about sharks. Kate did a great job with it, not only with the decorations, but even carving her own version of the shark shaped watermelon that my cousin Julie made for Noah’s party up in NH.

Savannah came dressed up as a shark attack victim.

Sand art necklaces.

Pizza.

Cupcakes were a hit.

Derby.

Chester.

Zion.

Logan.

Zion fishing for his mom.

Cleo.

Layla and her sweet card.

Mihret’s collection of necklaces.

Handing out goodie bags.

Pretending like it’s not time to go.

Leslie and Uncle Tim’s gift.

An Iron Man glove that shoots foam washers… and shoots them far.

Later we stopped by to see Ms. Amanda and Mae.

A bit too forceful with the goodbye.

Thanks to everyone for coming to Noah’s party, and thanks to Amanda for having us over.

A morning swim out east visiting Mike and Kam.

Animal rescue!

Mission accomplished. Diego would be proud.

Inside, having lunch and drawing for Kam.

Noah and Kam really hit it off, it was an emotional good-bye.