{Noah Lowe!}

Today we celebrate 7 years with this fun kid!

(photos by Erica)

Noah Lowe is a great kid.  We celebrated his birthday this year by having a small friend party yesterday.  Noah insisted in having a friend party.  He didn't have one last year, so we agreed.  Then he only wanted to invite five kids - only one showed up for the party, but he had a great time playing monster games and eating cake.  He said the day was perfect.

Today we are doing a combined party for Noah and Lucy.  

More cake, ice cream and root beer.  

What more could he want?

(Noah's birthday link)

At seven years old, some of Noah's favorites, in his words are:

color: orange

food: friend chicken legs

drink: chocolate milk or root beer

game: video games - Lego Star Wars

toy: video games or legos

restaurant: Ihop

song: wild songs - like the fox song

movie: Star Wars

book: The very hungry caterpillar

what do you want to be when you grow up: a scientist

treat: chocolate bars

Noah loves life.  He is very opinionated and will tell you exactly how he feels.  He loves school, but is softspoken there and very well behaved.  He loves recess and running around with his friends.  Noah is not a procrastinator.  He is always so fast when he has a task to get done.  Every day after school he comes in, gets his homework out and does it first thing.  Most days before a snack or even going to the bathroom!  He wants it done and out of the way.  He is such a great brother and is very kind to baby Lucy.  He is always first to do jobs without me asking.  On laundry days I know Noah will put his pile away without me even telling him it's laundry day.  He is such an acrobat.  He can do a headstand anywhere - just ask him!  He isn't a fan of loud noises or large groups of people.  He is a ham and has the best funny jokes.  He loves to make me laugh.

Happy Day Mr. Noah!

We love you!

{Halloween 2013}

We had a busy and fun time this year for Halloween.  The trunk or treat at church was the day before and we had fun watching the big kids at their parade at school.  We spent Halloween night at Aunt Judy's house celebrating with a spookie dinner and a little trick or treating.

This year we had:

A hobbit:

A skeleton:

A fairy princess:

A pirate:

And a pretty little ladybug:

And the group picture - well it turned out typical for our family.

Don't they look like they are up to something?

BAM!

 Happy Halloween!

2013 Goals

A couple weeks ago we sat down at family night and worked on making some goals for 2013.

I found these fun worksheets on Pinterest that each kid filled out.

As you can tell, we tried to make suggestions, but in the end we wrote down exactly what they came up with.  

It made for some interesting answers!

Gage

Age: 8

Favorite color: white

Favorite food: pizza

Favorite activity: Legos

Favorite book: The Hobbit

Highlights of 2012:

Greatest lesson learned: cursive

Hardest thing of the year: reading

Favorite memory: Christmas

What I loved most about 2012: Legos

Looking forward to 2013:

Want to learn: Multiplication

Want to get better at: Reading

Biggest Goal: Get the most legos, legos, legos

Noah

Age: 6

Favorite color: orange

Favorite food: fried chicken Legs

Favorite activity: legos

Favorite book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Highlights of 2012:

Greatest lesson learned: site words

Hardest thing of the year: moving to Utah

Favorite memory: finishing preschool!

What I loved most about 2012: getting a huge bean bag!

Looking forward to 2013:

What to learn: to read

Want to get better at: wrestling, learning articles of faith

Biggest Goal: Get Better at Angry Birds

Avery

Age: 3

Favorite color: purple

Favorite food: chicken legs

Favorite activity: playing house

Favorite book: Barbie books

Highlights of 2012

Greatest lesson learned: be nice

Hardest thing of the year: leaving Linkin

Favorite memory: Linkin

What I loved most about 2012: When Lucy was born!

Looking Forward to 2013:

Want to learn: ABC sounds and write my name

Want to get better at: being nice

Biggest Goal: Learn a sport!

Eli

Age: 2

Favorite color: blue

Favorite food: food and candy

Favorite activity: flips, cars and trains

Favorite book: anything anyone else is reading

Highlights of 2012: 

Greatest lesson learned: to like nursery class at church

Hardest thing of the year: moving

Favorite memory: Lucy

What I loved most about 2012: Playing in the splash pad

Looking forward to 2013:

Want to learn: to go potty!

Want to get better at: sharing and singing

Biggest Goal: ABC's

Lucy May

Age: 2 months

Favorite Color: pink (just a guess) 

Favorite food: milk

Favorite activity: being with mom

Favorite book: The Hunger Games and McGlamery's Comprehensive Foot and Ankle Surgery 

(just kidding, just seeing if anyone is paying attention)

Highlights of 2012:

Being born and coming home

Looking forward to 2013:

Want to learn: roll over, sit up, crawl and walk

Want to get better at: not crying

Biggest Goal: Be as cute as I can be!

{6}

Today Noah turned 6!

I can't believe it's been six years since this little blond hair boy joined our family.  He keeps us on our toes.  Some of Noah's favorites this year are:

Food: Fried Chicken Legs

Song: Star Wars Theme Song, and When I am Baptized

Color: Orange

Toy: Legos, Handcuffs and Star Wars Figures

Book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Drink: Orange soda or Root Beer

Movie: Star Wars

Game: Lego Star Wars

Ice Cream Flavor: Chocolate

Animal: Turtles and Newts, (because they start with N)

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Noah always cracks us up and has the best jokes.  He is full of energy   His favorite thing to do is jump and do flips on the giant bean bag.  We often find him doing summersaults from room to room instead of walking.

Since our move Noah has started to really love singing and primary (the children portion at church).  I attribute this to the male singing teacher they have in our primary.  He is our neighbor and now Noah thinks singing is so cool!

Noah is very caring and a good helper.  In his school class there is a boy who has a special speech problem. The teacher has told the class they can all be helpers to this other little boy.  Noah has become his best friend and loves to play with him.  When I've talked to him about this he says, "I don't care that I can't understand what he says all the time, Mom.  We just like to play together.  He is fun!"

Noah prays that the new baby will be healthy and not sick every night.  He is the only one that will sit still and wait for her to move.  He is going to be a good brother for her.

Noah is such a good sport about taking his medicine.  I think it would be hard and I would complain if I had to take a medicine twice a day that I didn't like.  But he takes it without complaint.  He loves to go with me to refill it and picks a different flavor every month.

Food is very important to Noah.  He loves to dream up "food machines" and draw them for me.  If he could invent these they would make whatever food he wanted, whenever he wanted.  He wants his very own slushy maker for Christmas.

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Noah wanted a pretty simple birthday this year.  

He wanted to play with his cousin Keegan,

 he wanted to go to the jumpy house,

he wanted a slushy,

and he wanted to play video games.

For lunch today we drove to Sonic and Noah got to pick out any slush he wanted.  

He choose an orange cream slush.

Then this afternoon Keegan and Daesha came up and we all went to Kangaroo Zoo!

These boys were a whirl wind of action!

I could hardly keep up with them and where they were going!  

They had a blast!

A couple hours later they were all tired and hungry.

We headed home for hot dogs, cup cakes and ice cream.

The only disappointment he had was that we didn't let him play video games (because we only had 2 controlers and there were 6 kids).  

But he was pretty happy with the Bionicle movie he got to watch instead.

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Happy Birthday Mr. Noaha-Lowa

You're a great kid.

We all love you very much!