The Oistad Family: February 2011

Another busy month with our sweet, happy pre-schooler! Every day, Noah surprises us with how much he knows and can communicate. His vocabulary has grown tremendously and he can clearly tell us what he wants which is a mixed blessing. We love being able to have conversations with him and talk to him, but Noah doesn't like it when he does a good job of clearly asking us for something and we tell him no (i.e. cookies for breakfast or juice at bedtime).

Noah also knows quite a few songs: "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", "Thomas and Friends Theme Song", "Itsy Bitsy Spider", "Ring around the Rosie" and "This Old Man". One Saturday morning, Noah got out of bed and came into our room and started to serenade us with the Thomas theme song. He probably only sung about 1/25 of the words and hummed the rest, but the words he does sing, he sings with enthusiasm!

Noah's Favs this month:

Favorite book: "Roadwork" from the Cars movie where he proudly points out all the characters by name
Favorite song to sing: "Spider" - Itsy Bitsy Spider, complete with hand motions
Favorite food: Ham and cheese
Favorite way to stall bedtime: after reading books, he wants to "Rock-Rock-Rocky" and cuddle in his rocker with Dank. Tonight, when he asked to rock for the third time, I told him it was time for bed, he looked up at me and said, "hug?" and he gave me a huge bear hug. I'm such a sucker, but it was so cute.
Favorite shows: Sid the Science Kid and Thomas and Friends
Favorite toy: His "white car" which is a mini Anchorage Police Car that Papa Keith gave him.
Favorite online video clips - Thomas and Friends theme song and Crazy Frog-Axel F
Favorite bath toys: At bathtime, Noah will go into his room and grab as many toy cars as he can carry (often dropping some and stopping to pick them back up) to play with during his bath. He also gets us a washcloth too, which can be quite the handful when you have arms full of cars. It is fun to watch him try to manage it all. We are in trouble once he realizes that he can bring more toys to the bath if he makes two trips.

Here are a few random moments of playtime fun that we shared with Noah this month. Most of these are indoors because we hit a cold snap in late January with negative temps. Thankfully over the past week, it is has warmed up to 25-30 degrees which feels like a heat wave in comparison!