Noah in Singapore

Thought we'd showcase Noah.  Noah has adjusted well to Singapore.  Of course there was jet lag and then when school started it took him about 6 weeks to be ok leaving Holly to go to class.  And if she ran into him walking the halls at school it spelled trouble.  But now he is a bit of a celebrity on campus.  Holly's middle school girls think he is just the cutest thing; so if Noah actually speaks, touches them or hugs them it's a big deal!!  Though that doesn't happen often usually he looks at the girls strangely with a look that says who are you?

Noah has visited the zoo and a local water park when his cousins came to visit in October.  The zoo was fun.  Noah and Karis even got to feed the manatees.  Noah was not as excited as the rest of us about this!

Later we visited the bird park. This was Noah's favorite place so far, asking us mulitiple times if we can go back. Noah wanted birds to land on him so bad he pretended to be a tree! It was quite hilarious!! He did get an opportunity to feed the birds, which he loved and then was jealous cause the birds were landing on dad and not him.  In an attempt to help encourage the birds to land on Noah I held his hand right at the feet of a bird hoping it would climb on.  Instead his little fingers must have looked like tasty worms so the bird took a bite!  It was painful for everyone, but Noah did recover and went on to feed more birds.

While at the bird park Noah got to play scientist.  This is his new gig.  He says he's going to be a scientist one day and he loves to ask questions about other scientist he sees (usually in movies).  His favorite movie is Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (very scientist friendly!)  So anything labeled as science he is on it!

The blue tear drop is part of Noah's favorite playground.  It is on the roof at a mall we frequent quite a bit cause it's the only place we can get a real american hamburger with pork bacon!  As soon as he is done eating (really it starts before he's done) he is asking if he can go play.  There are many other acpects to the playground, but he loves to be turned around in this crazy seat.

Coming home from the mall on the train, Noah starts practicing his Mandarin (Chinese).  This lady knows exactly what Noah is saying and doing and starts to help him count to ten.  She continued to teach him other words, mostly body parts.  The people are very friendly especially when it comes to children!!

And most recently we purchased Noah an authentic Indian outfit.  He liked it a lot more than we were expecting.  We hope we find him a chinese outfit too so when we visit the states he can dress up like the locals! 

So Noah for the most part is loving life.  Except when the 4 yo inside tries telling us that because "no" is in his name he does not have to listen to us telling him no.  It's never ending, but life would be so boring otherwise!!