Noah, age 5,  at the Windmill. Goes with Pop-Pops and NaNa. Oct. 2023. PG photo.  Click enlarge.

Eileen and Noah at the Windmill. Paul Goldfinger photo.

Noah has crispy chicken.  He’s a fussy eater who prefers (today) onion rings to fries. Eileen had a hot dog–very good.  I had a burger: over-rated.  He asked for orange soda and drank one sip.  He is wearing my sweater and my hat.   He recognized the Statue of Liberty on the hat.   I got it during America’s 200th anniversary. A little shop on Fulton Street sold me the hat. Noah likes to wear my hats.

Noah loves anything mechanical.  He borrowed my Leica camera after I set the exposure and the focus.  He set up the shot, decided where to stand, composed and then took the photo  without any shake. He passed his audition, and I will be looking for a digital camera for him.  It is genetic since his dad and I are photographers.

I’m trying to teach him to play the recorder, but he needs to be older. I tried to read him a Peter Rabbit story, but he was not interested. He whipped up a drink of chocolate ice cream, coffee, and whipped cream and insisted that I drink it.  I took a sip–he put about 5 Splendas in.

When we went to Days a few weeks ago they made him a hot fudge sundae to his specifications.  I commented on the pretty girls who were waiting on him.  So yesterday he said, “Pop Pops–do you want to see pretty girls?  Let’s go to Days.”

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