Noah Cardiel Holt | My life according to other people

On Friday Hanson Place, where Noah goes to day care, held a Dance Recital. First up was Classroom 4. These are 2-3 year olds that will merge with Noah’s class next year.

Next was Noah’s group, Classroom 5.

Audrey on the obstacle course.

Mia Mae.

Zion.

Ryder’s (blond on the left) class.

The last and oldest group of kids at the school ended up being all girls.

Lil’ dude strutting out with Nana.

A quick vid filmed by Kate.

The final post from our stay with Aunt Mindy the other weekend.

We spent a relaxing morning by the pool.

This was about as wet as Noah got.

Lunch at Merts.

Water in a coffee cup, Noah was psyched.

Fried green tomatoes.

After lunch we went to a library that was designed by the firm that Kate works for.

…but it was closed. “Summer hours”.

Crushed. Sincerely.

Fast forward a few hours. Time spent trying to cheer Kate up and pack for our flight back to NYC. As we got our stuff together and waited for the elevator, things got sappy.

Aunt Mindy and Noah at the airport…

When we got to the gate our plane was waiting for us, trying to get off the ground early to avoid a storm.

We didn’t beat the storm and so we sat on the runway for 20-30 minutes, but eventually we got off the ground and through the clouds we said good-bye to Charlotte.

When we landed, Opa was waiting to take us home.

Really grateful to Opa for the ride home, and big, big thanks to Aunt Mindy for a great weekend in Charlotte. It was nice to get a small glimpse of her life down there.

Still more flicks from Saturday. In all I shot 757 photos on Saturday, so just be psyched I could whittle it down to a few posts. I probably shot 500 flicks just on/of/near the balcony.

These colored bubbles are a disaster.

Dinner on the balcony!

Brushing teeth (You can’t do everything on the balcony).

Sunset.

Friday night, our first night in Charlotte, was a little rough. Noah had pressure in his ear from the airplane and it took a while to make him feel better. Needless to say, we were pretty slow to get started Saturday morning.

Blowing bubbles is way more fun 21 floors up.

After breakfast and bubbles, we went Discovery Place Kids. We learned about things like farm work..

..and banking,

…and boating,

..and what it feels like to sit in the seat of an annoying Nascar drivers (just Google, Kyle Busch is annoying and you’ll see what I mean).

Reckless.

Sappy people waiting to pick up lunch.

Back to the balcony.

Kate has to have all 10 fingers on a sandwich when she eats. True story.

Stylish moped.

Sunday, after getting Noah’s haircut.

Neon grass.

When we got home we showed Kate the new sunglasses we bought.

Then we checked out the work she was doing…

..and gave her a hand.

The end.