Noah's language skills and vocabulary have sky rocketed this past month and we have had so much fun talking with our sweet lil man. Below are a few of our favorite "Noah moments" from this past month. Pictures to come soon!
· Going downstairs by himself and trying to make himself breakfast. The cereal was too high for him to reach, so he went for the goldfish crackers and we heard him telling the goldfish to “Get out” of the box on the table for him to eat.
· Saying he loves us and telling us “Sweet Dreams, Sleep Tight” at bedtime. A few nights ago we went over to see his gal pal Emma and when she went to bed he opened the door and yelled, “Night-Night Emma. Sweet Dreams. Sleep Tight.” He is clearly trying to get in some points with Emma early.
· Pushing Emma’s baby doll around the house in baby carriage. Encouraging. Then tilting carriage and dumping baby on the floor. Still needs some work.
· Time out – after Noah had to be put in timeout for pushing, later that night during his bath, Noah put his toy cars in timeout after they “pushed” each other. A few times he got mixed up and put the pushee in timeout, not the pusher, but for the most part he is learning that pushing = timeout. This is good.
· Loving mommy’s iphone and whizzing through the Peekaboo Barn app as fast as he can, yelling the animals out. This is cute. It is a little less cute at 6am when he climbs into our bed to see us in the mornings, but still cute. His favorite animal is the pig when he enthusiastically yells, “PIIIIIIGGGGG!!!” as loud as he can.
· Riding trikes with Pao Pao!
· Getting Noah to wear his bike helmet has been quite the adventure. He kept saying, “Don’t want it, it’s Aiden’s hat”! (Aiden used to have the same helmet). Our stubborn lil Noah would even rather not ride his bike at all than put his helmet on. We got him a Lightening Mcqueen helmet (his favorite character), but he still wouldn’t let us put it on him. Pao Pao put the helmet on him while he was napping to get all the straps adjusted and took a pic of him wearing it. Then when he woke up, she showed him the pic of him wearing the helmet and he seemed less resistant since clearly he had already worn the helmet and had survived ok. As a final ploy, Pao Pao bribed him with a new truck to get him to just “try it on”. Once he had it on, he realized it wasn’t that bad. Tricky Pao Pao!
· Chasing bubbles around the deck as fast as he can.
· Pointing out all the squirrels in the yard and in the trees.
· Watching his favorite program, Mickey Mouse clubhouse. During the Stanley Cup playoffs, he would see the TV on and want to watch Mickey Mouse. Too funny.
· Calling his new race car bed “baby’s car bed”.
· Throwing his new “silver car” in the lake over Memorial Day after mommy repeatedly told him not to throw it in. Afterwards, Noah tried to walk into the lake to get it and I wouldn’t let him. He asked me to get it and I said no way (it was about 7 feet deep off the end of the dock). He offered to go in time out if I would get it out. Noah was so sad for about 10 minutes about the loss of his new car, but lesson was learned. Of course, when daddy found out about it, he dived down to the bottom of the lake and got it, but we aren’t giving it to Noah until his birthday this September.
· Jumping on Wes’ chest and yelling “GOT YOU DADDY”!! He also body slammed Wes’ head while he was sleeping at 6:30 in the morning, giggled, and then said, “Cereal?”
· Singing Twinkle Twinkle little star, ABCs, 10 little monkeys and counting EVERYTHING in sight. He can count up to 25 but often skips over 13 and 16. Singing random words, names of family members and favorite Cars characters, and then ending each song with “Mom….dad….. NOAHHHHHHHHHH!”
