26 weeks

Fort Monroe

This ends my flood of posts from Tara's visit. We had so much fun with her here. The boys love their Aunt Tara, and those 2 weeks flew by way too fast! The last day she was here, we went to Fort Monroe, which is one of the oldest military bases in the U.S. It is so beautiful and ancient there, and there is still a moat around the inner part of the base and inside that they have a casemate museum that we love to go to. It is very cool.

Lighthouse

Boats

Tara and Micah on the bridge that goes over the moat.

Noah's Book of Rare Sights

Noah has started a book called "Rare Sights" inspired by his brother Kaden, who scraped his nose at the bottom of the pool in swimming lessons and had a sore in the perfect shape of the comma. Noah asked and asked me to take a picture of it for his book, but Kaden picked at it a few times before I got around to it. Also included in Noah's book with be Kaden's 2 toes that are connected half way up. I hope he finds more things to include, so that Kaden doesn't start to get a complex.

Decorating the Christmas Tree

Here we all are putting up the tree. Noah: "Christmas season does not start until Dec 1rst!!" In the same breath, "Can we put up the tree tonight PLEASE?" well before December...silly boy.

Noah finally gets his cake

We ate Noah's birthday blackberry pie a couple of days late. I can't believe I have a 9 year old!!!

Swimming at the hotel

We got to swim at the hotel both nights we were there. I even braved the cold water and got in. I am the biggest cold wimp lately!! Trav got a great workout just throwing big boys into the air, and Micah shocked us all by asking to be dunked in the water like his brothers once in awhile.

After 2 days of no naps, and it being bedtime, Micah is very relaxed. I wondered if he would let me put him to bed (under the table) earlier than everyone and he wasn't going for it and said he would sleep right there (in front of the TV). I told him he had 5 minutes. A couple of minutes later, he got up, said "Micah go night night" and put himself to bed. I went to lay by him to see if he would actually fall asleep and he ordered me back to my own bed, and was asleep in about 5 seconds. It was amazing!

Natural Bridge caverns

I have been wanting to take Noah to see some sort of caverns ever since Trav and I went to the Luray caverns a year ago. These were also very cool, although if you have to pick one cavern to visit in your life, these really didn't hold a candle to the Luray ones. Noah ate it up, though. It's just his kind of thing.