And I'm even blogging about it in the SAME month that it happened! Woohoo Mommy! Sorry, Shelby & Connor, that I haven't gotten around to your January birthdays yet. But I'm aging and I gotta go with what's fresh in my memory. It's tough being……29.
Anyhow, here's my happy little 6 year old Noahguy. Boy oh boy do I love this kid. I love his goofy personality and his little elf face and his huge blue eyes. I love that he's all boy and tells obnoxious poopie and toot and burp jokes. I always wanted boys and BOY OH BOY did I get lucky with my 2 fabulous boys!
Moving on, NO, this is not a photo for "Find the kid in all the mess, if you can!" But I think it's really fun when people put baby photos of their kids on their birthday blog entry. Unfortunately, I'm not that organized at the moment and all of our old photos are still on our old computer. However, I came across this gem, from when Noah was about 2. Obviously, he'd tipped over in his little toddler rocker and was too lazy to get up by himself (or stop drinking from his sippy cup). But you can tell he'd been crying about his predicament since his face is pretty red. Springing to action is SUPERMOMMY, always ready with the camera to first document the treasured and potentially embarrassing moment and only THEN offer assistance. So, that's that for the baby photo. I LOVE this photo!
Back to the morning of April 6, 2011 - marking the 6th birthday of NOAH! Here's Shelby and Noah running into the kitchen first thing in the morning to see what the birthday table looked like. I LOVE Shelby's face here (click to blow it up). Oh, and I take no responsibility for Noah's attire (or lack of). He likes to dress himself and on his birthday morning he deemed underwear and his Yankees cap Dressed Enough. Yes, Noah's little 6 year lifetime dream is to be able to live naked. We worry for his future sometimes. But at least he had on underwear, so we counted ourselves as blessed.
Speaking of worrying for the future, check out this shot of Mark and Connor. It's worth clicking on it to blow it up bigger. Are they exact replicas of each other or what? Ay yi yi. I don't know whether to laugh. Or weep?
Okay, a couple of notes here - 1) YES, this is still the camera from Christmas (oh wait, you didn't read about my new camera from Christmas that I don't know how to use because I haven't blogged about Christmas yet either! Crap!) that I don't know how to use and everything inside with a flash is always yellow. 2) YES, our family birthdays look the same every year. A few party store decorations around our kitchen table and balloons. You've seen this scene at least a dozen times here on our blog over the years, right? We seriously need to remodel. Or move. Or celebrate a birthday somewhere in some other way that is NOT in this room. Tell ya what, our next birthday celebration blog documentation will be in our laundry room. Or Tahiti. One of the two.
Back to Nakey Noah (one of his many nicknames, though this one was most apropro for today, no?), here's him working on his MarioKart cake. He looks so skinny! I think I caught him right on the inhale. Someone get that skinny kid some birthday cake!
Speaking of apropro, I saw this book and immediately thought of Noah. And yep, it was a hit.
What was NOT a hit were the 2 sets of nighttime goggles! Neither Connor nor Noah liked them. Yeah, Noah, using your goggles to look at the downstairs bathroom wall is NOT really what they were intended for. What the heck is wrong with these kids?
At least Shelby liked the goggles!
And no birthday would be complete for Noah without a video game gift...
Another birthday treat for Noah was being able to watch TV BEFORE school. This is a VERY. BIG. DEAL. And whaddya know? Spongebob is on at 8:00am. Happy birthday to Noah! (Notice Noah also wearing his favorite bright green argyle socks - aren't they magnificent?)
Unfortunately for him, having a birthday did not exempt Noah from school, so we brought the birthday to him at school with some MarioKart cupcakes that were a big hit in Kindergardenland. We also met Noah's intended, Adrianna. They've been engaged for about 3 months, as it turns out. Evidently EVERYONE in Kindergarden knew about it, including Noah's teacher. Welcome to the family, Adrianna? I guess?? I bet he hasn't told you about his dream to live nakey, has he??
We'd told Noah all morning that he had to wait to get his "big present" until after school. So, speeding out of Kindergarden, Noah and I headed for the mall and went to Build a Bear Workshop! Yup, Noah's dream (aside from being naked in public places) for the past few months has been to have a teddy bear. I ignored that request at Christmas, figuring he didn't really want a teddy bear - I mean, huh??!? Anyway, no wonder the stupid $99.00 Big Foot Robot he got for Christmas was played with only once and just taken to the Goodwill last week! *grouch grouch grouch* I guess he was serious about a teddy bear. Fortunately, Build a Bear was hit and Noah built his dream teddy bear.
So, Noah's dream teddy bear wears a Harley Davidson t-shirt, camouflage shorts, has a skateboard and skateboard helmet and related gear, features a Light Saber on his wrist and plays Star Wars music from his foot. Noah couldn't decide what macho theme his bear should have so he picked some of everything. Oh, and……..wait for it……..Noah named him…….CAREBEAR. Yes, Carebear. The Build a Bear clerk about choked on her drink when Noah told her the name of his macho-looking bear.
To follow up on how Carebear has adjusted to life, the bear itself costs $18. All the accessories and clothes and crap took our total up to $72!!! Carebear is now living Noah's dream for him by residing on his bed NAKED, with all the stupid clothes & crap lounging in a drawer. Yep, another $50 well spent. NOT!
Another birthday tradition for Noah is seeing a movie. And he always wants ME to take him (as opposed to Mark). I generally hate kids movies. BUT, I won't pass up an opportunity to drink a 64 oz fully-loaded Diet Coke, so lucky me got to see Hop with Noah.
And, another Noah birthday tradition, Noah wanted to leave the movie halfway through. Well, BELIEVE ME, so did I, BUT I hadn't yet finished my Diet Coke or popcorn, so I made Noah & Carebear stay for the whole glorious dumb movie.
Finishing up our birthday day, we celebrated in fine style at Dennys, Noah's favorite restaurant. There's not much I can say about this. It's Dennys and it leaves me completely uninspired and even a little nauseous. But hey, it's all about the kids, right? *plasters on fake smile*
Sadly, in the end, April 6, 2011, was a bittersweet day for Noah. It was the birth of naked and overpriced Carebear. But we also had a death that evening. Our Wii died. On Noah's birthday. Could that timing be any worse? Oh, I don't know, let's see how Noah handled that:
The weekend before Noah's birthday we did a little getaway trip. We went to see a production called "Joseph" (not the Technicolor Dreamcoat version, but it was still fabulous) down in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, at a phenomenal theatre called Sight & Sound with a stage twice the size of any Broadway stage (plus they use the side walls, the ceiling and the aisles) and JUST as spectacular as any Broadway show I've seen. Seriously, New York peoples, get your tushies down there and go see a show at this theatre.
Naturally, despite the sensational show and even tooling around Hershey Pennsylvania for a bit (yes, HERSHEY as in chocolate - no the town does NOT smell like chocolate, but the Hershey-kiss shaped street lanterns ARE really cute), the highlight of the trip was staying in a hotel with a swimming pool. Oh, and watching TV from bed - the ultimate luxury:
I want to write more about Sight & Sound theatre, but I'm pooping out. I stayed up too late last night drinking caffeine and shopping online. Here's some more pics. They're pretty self-explanatory and you don't really need me to blab more, do you? You just lost another 20 minutes of your life listening to me blab. And yet look. I'm STILL blabbing! And you're still here! *evil laugh*
A few days AFTER Noah's birthday, Noah got a second birthday cake! Noah's church class teacher, Sister Theler, made him a cake! Aside from a naked (but camouflaged!) bear and a hotel with a swimming pool, getting a SECOND birthday cake was one of the most fabulous things to happen to Noah for his 6th birthday. Wowie!
Happy birthday to my little awesome Noahdude! (and yes, that is his DS, pretty much permanently attached to his arm)
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