Noah skates with Lizzy

Had to include a couple of these pictures - Noah wasn't in the mood to get out of his pajamas on Saturday morning to skate...until he heard that Lizzy would be there!  Lizzy Colannino is my friend Becky's daughter and an experienced hockey player.  She's known Noah since he was a little little bean and seemed excited to help him out on the ice.

All smiles and ready to go!

Noah loves this photo.  Big time.  Cracks him up.  

So when he got the word that Lizzy would be there he frantically ran around the house like a crazy man demanding that we get him suited up and ready to skate.  He even abandoned the iPad and a newly opened tootsie pop.

He did a great job - my gosh, by 45 minutes this little kid is sweaty and tired.  Asking to go to Starbucks for a vanilla steamer.   Like father, like son :)

Speaking of Gene: poor guy was sent right down to the ER from his floor on Saturday night.  They did a chest x-ray, found pneumonia and sent him home for three days.  He's laying low at home (or as low as he could be with the kids home all weekend!)


We are looking forward to a fun-filled pre-Halloween week!  Wait until you see the spooky bushes in front of the house.  It was such a nice weekend - warmish, sunny, leaves falling - the boys and I hung out doing a little cleaning up and decorating on Sunday.  Emmy came over and played zombies with Noah a little while - for some reason, he loves the idea of being chased by hungry zombies.  Who am I kidding?  He likes being chased by ANYONE - live or undead.