Flashback: Hello Noah

We are getting ready to have our third child in May, and I was looking back at the videos from Noah's birth five and a half years ago on May 9, 2005, in Memphis. It's neat to look back and see how small he looked when he was born and how fast they grow up. Grandma Williams made the trip from Idaho to help out.

My favorite part of the videos is the one where Shelby meets Noah for the first time. She had just turned four when he was born, and her interaction with him is really cute.

It's funny how you remember a lot of the difficult times, but forget how adorable kids are at the different stages until you look back on it. I wish it was easy to remember that during the moment. Even now, I look at the kids as being a pain in the butt a lot of the time, but I'll look back on this moment and long to be there again. Time is always moving way too fast and it's easy to focus on the next moment in life rather than slowing down to enjoy what you have in the present.

Noah’s New Friend; Beehive

Noah immediately made a new friend in our new neighborhood who lives next door. His name is C.J., and the two have immediately hit it off and spend nearly every evening playing together.

Tamara caught them racing their bikes, which are exactly the same, down the sidewalk. Of course, Shelby being the entertainer that she is, fills in the commentary of the action.

At the end of the clip, Tamara zooms in on a beehive we had formed on a bush in the front of our house. It was the size of a pineapple, and we later found out it was actually just a huge mass of honey bees.  It wasn’t there when we moved into the house a couple of weeks ago.

We found a local beekeeper who was going to meet us at the home to take them away for free. I came home to meet them and when I went to look at the hive, it was gone. The only trace of them were a few lost looking bees flying around. I thought maybe the beekeeper had came before I got there and saw the hive and took it away, but he came a short time later. They said when bees are starting out a new hive, they sometimes leave suddenly to go somewhere else. We thought it was funny that they left the day we called someone to get them after they had been there for at least a week.