Noah’s little quirks and St Martins

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What a great 'pic'!

 Noah’s favourite song is not Incy Wincy Spider, Twinkle Twinkle or any other cute nursery rhyme, his favourite song is Beyonce’s ‘All the Single Ladies’ which he sings with gusto around the supermarket making the ordeal much more amusing than normal!  He’s watched ‘the greatest music video of all time’ on You Tube many times.  Not sure about the appropriateness of this, but I figure he’s too young to know anything anyway!  He’s also very keen on dressing up in Amelia’s clothes.  His favourite items are her pink Dora socks and Hello Kitty headband which he has worn out in public a good few times.  The other day he ran out of the bedroom dressed in a skirt, white leggings, and a Barbie t-shirt!  He does make a very pretty little girl, but we’re not concerned.  He equally enjoys cars, tractors, playing with his little fella, destroying things and hitting his sister over the head with a plastic stool from IKEA.  And the chunks of hair he pulls out of her, I’m amazed she’s not bald!

He has a collection of cars from our travels.  I can’t remember now where each of them came from, but he loves them all and has names for each one.  ‘Body car’, is big and green, and is so called because it came from some ‘body’ else.  ‘Buse car’, is red and has flames on it.  No idea of the relevance there.  'Auto car', pronounced with a very German accent, is a little red one.  ‘Nee nah’ car is an ambulance.  Self explanatory.  He also has a car from the movie ‘Cars’, sent by Nana, it speak when the button is pressed and it says ‘Fin McMissile, British Intelligence - Time is of the essence’ .  So this is called ‘Time-a-essence car’!  He likes to dance.  His dancing goes like this – a couple of swaying movements as if he’s snowboarding (Maciek is excited) followed by two spins, for which he actually uses his head to spot (like a ballet dancer – daddy not so happy about this one!).

Facials by Noah

Friday 11^th November was St Martin’s Day and the lanternfest at school.  Don’t know much about St Martin except that he was a good man who was riding his horse one day and seeing an old, poor, hungry man on the side of the road, stopped and offered him the shirt off his back.  He was probably responsible for many more good deeds than that, but that’s the gist of it!  All the kids spend the week prior making lanterns at school and learning songs, and in the evening all the families gather in the courtyard at the front of the school, and the children do a procession holding their lanterns.  Noah’s group did theirs through the candlelit playground and sat around on tree stumps while the teacher played guitar and they sung a couple of songs.  It was very cute.  Included a very dark picture, you can just make out Noah on the right.  There was a small bonfire in the centre of the courtyard, and warm orange punch and homemade breads.  It was pitch black, the only light coming from the lanterns and the bonfire, and Noah wandered about for an hour holding on to his lantern like it was a lifeline, looking very bewildered!  Amelia has made a new friend, and here is a picture of them holding hands for the procession.  We’ve hung the lanterns up in the house, and every now and then we go out for a ‘midnight walk with our lanterns’ (it’s more like 5.30pm, but don’t tell Amelia!).

Another one for the 21st!