Noah, tonight...

I came home and gave Paul a hug. Then Noah pulled me back to embrace Paul again so that he could hug both of us (well, our legs) at the same time and say 'I love you.' He then did this about twelve times.

Noah can count to fourteen. Not totally in order. It goes something like this, "seven, eleven, FOURTEEN!"

Noah is picking up words from the radio...He can now say "NPR" and "Bama, Obama!" When we ask him who the president is, he either responds "grandma" or "Obama."

He's still carting around his stuffed animals saying, "baby, baby, I love you." He threw all of his babies into his crib, as well as half a dozen books (much to his mama's chagrin, but I couldn't think of a good reason to forbid it, except it seemed rather busy in there).

Noah loves his babies

Noah loves his baby monkey and snowman... click on the image to view the video.

Not Noah related

So a plane ditched in the field next to the house.

Apparently all passengers are fine, including the dog.

Noah & Susan gallivanting

It was a beautiful day at the locks.

Noah buying cheese

Noah added around 14 loss of artisinal mozzarella to our shopping cart.

Stairmaster

Stairs are fun!

Noah riding his bicycle

Vocabularious!

Noah's vocabulary has been growing by leaps and bounds. We were sitting at the farmers market and Noah heard me say "canonical". He immediately started saying "can-i-cal".

He's also been stringing together sentences. Karen was driving Noah to a friends house for BBQ. I was riding my bike to the BBQ and Noah was asking for "Daddy". Karen explained that I was riding my bike and that he would see me soon. Noah then starting explaining to Karen that "Daddy, baku (his word for bicycle), soon".

He's also warming up to the word "no". When we ask him most questions, he responds with a very happy "no". That doesn't mean that'll refuse to do whatever we ask him, just that he wants to say "no". Two nights ago I asked him if wanted to go upstairs to sleep. He said "no"! I said "Great! Let's go!" and he ran upstairs.

Karen overheard him practicing saying no. He was having both sides of a conversation, which went like this.

"Peas"?
"No"!
"Peas"?
"No"!
"Peas"?
"No"!

He's also been going to sleep practicing the names of everyone he knows, grouped by relationship to each other.

He's just fantastic.

Love to everyone,

Paul

Leaving the farmers market

Stylish man about town

It's a beautiful summers day, and Noah is dressed for the occasion.

Note his excellent car shirt.

Playing at the park!

Noah's getting very good at climbing and clambering. He also just
neologised the word "lilpiops" for lollipop.