Noah Gets his first Set of Wheels and a Tool Kit to take care of It.

Christmas morning greeted Noah with surprise!...Ok First was a very wet diaper, then a bath, then a cold Oatmeal breakfast, then the Surprise.
Merry Christmas to all!

Christmas Eve 2006

Noah had a very enjoyable Christmas Eve. Noah went to the 2:20 church service at Zion Lutheran Church in Anoka and then shuffled off to Buffalo, Minnesota to have dinner with his Grand Parents. Noah had Swedish Potato Sausage, rutabagas and potatoes, pickled herring and rice pudding. After Dinner we opened a few presents.

The little Lumberjack

New trick: Feed yourself with a fork!

Of course it is Broccoli!

Tis the season for sharing a nack with a friend.

A Dinner with Great Uncle Tom and Catherine the Great

Noah dined with his great Uncle and Aunt Catherine
Noah ate Brie and Crackers
Salmon
Squash
Brocolli and grapes with yogurt.

He had a wonderful time was very thankful for the gift he received from them. A NEW truck!!!

Thanks again

Noah helps pick the Christmas Tree

Picking out a tree with a toddler brings new meaning to "here is a nice one....wait what about this one". Not too many tears......He just could not walk all around the tree field to see the next group of trees around the bend.
Any way as you can see Noah made the best of it. He was very interested in learning what a saw does.....Maybe next year he can cut it down.

Another visit to Santa?

Wow this guy is popping up all over the place! Noah ran into Santa again at the Tree Farm. Noah is surprised that this guy seems to be here and there this time a year. And so it begins.....

LUTEFISK!!! DINNER

Noah attended the ZION LUTEFISK DINNER today. The testing is now complete. Noah has some serious Scandinavian blood in him.
Here is what HE ate.
2 pieces of Lutefisk with white sauce
1 piece of lefse
2 pickled beets
1 serving of rice pudding
3 and 1/2 meatballs
Milk.

OK so what is LUTEFISK?

Lutefisk is made from air-dried whitefish (normally cod, but ling is also used), prepared with lye, in a sequence of particular treatments. The first treatment is to soak the stockfish in cold water for five to six days (changed daily). The saturated stockfish is then soaked in an unchanged solution of cold water and lye for an additional two days. The fish will swell during this soaking, regaining a size even bigger than the original (undried) fish, but the protein content paradoxically decreases by more than 50 percent, causing its famous jelly-like consistency. When this treatment is finished, the fish (saturated with lye) has a pH value of 11–12, and is therefore caustic. To make the fish edible, a final treatment of yet another four to six days (and nights) of soaking in cold water (also changed daily) is needed. Eventually, the lutefisk is ready to be cooked.
Origin
The issue of how lutefisk first was created is as controversial as the fish itself. Some stories tell about fish accidentally dropped in a washing bowl containing lye, and because of poverty the fish had to be eaten nevertheless. Yet other stories tell about fires of various kinds, because ashes of wood combined with water will create lye. A possible scenario is that drying racks for stockfish caught fire, followed by days of rain, and again, because of poverty, the fish still had to be picked from the ashes, cleaned, prepared and eaten. It is quite possible the softening with lye, which is actually a fairly common practice with many kinds of food, was deliberate rather than accidental.

A visit From Santa

Noah attended his first Christmas party sponsored by Kristin's Moms Group. He got to meet Santa. He was one of the only babies that was not afraid of Him or cried. He waved bye bye after getting a book as a gift.

Fetch!!

On the last warm day in November, Noah helped exercise the girls in the back yard with a round of fetch. The dogs did their thing and Noah learned how to throw.