THREE YEARS OLD!

My Noah Wolfgang is three years old. It is quite true what they say; the years are short but the days are long. I still remember the warm June evening I went into unexpected labor six weeks early to deliver our firstborn -- a boy! a beautiful little boy. I have been smitten with Noah since day one. I had quite the struggle and postpartum recovery with him, but he made every ache feel that much better. I have had an overwhelming amount of love for him as the years have passed and I have watched him grow into a brave, talkative, energetic, loving, toddler. Noah is such a passionate little soul. When he loves something, he loves 100%. He is so smart too. Talks to us in full sentences, is fully potty-trained, can name 15+ different kind of dinosaurs, knows all of his shapes and colors, knows an incredible amount of nursery rhymes (he LOVES music), knows mostly any animal you could show him in a book, knows all of the letters of the alphabet, can sing his ABC's, I really could go on and on. The most impressive thing to me at his age is his ability to hear and know music. Travis and I are huge on instrumental music and play it at least once a day at our home and have since Noah was born. If we play something he recognizes, he will yell it out. More specifically, he will know the parts in the movie that the specific music is from. He knows what music belongs to Buzz trying to fly and landing on Sid's stairs, he knows when Joy falls into the darkness, he knows when Jesse and Bullseye are riding through the desert, he knows when Baymax is pushing Hiro away from him to get back through the portal. Seriously, I could keep going on and on. HE KNOWS his music and it is seriously impressive. I am going to try and get him in piano lessons once he turns 4. He has always been drawn to music and especially the piano whenever we are around it. I'm so proud to be his mom. He is a magical little boy who fills our home and hearts with so much joy. I am so lucky.

Noah at 3 years old:

-doesn't ever want to go to bed. Could stay up until midnight if we let him. Bedtime isn't very fun around our house.

-loves PJ Masks and his toys he got for his birthday

-loves reading books. Every morning he gets out of his bed and comes into our room with a blanky and a book for us to read in the morning.

-loves bath time and often requests bubbles if we have it. I don't let him have it often though because it irritates his skin.

-loves to be outside. He loves to run, run, run and play HARD. 

-he loves to play with chalk

-he loves to fly his "scary snake kite"

-he loves to play with his dad. He always wants to wrestle and Travis does such a good job always playing with him.

-he loves to watch TV (I mean what kid doesn't). More specifically, he loves to watch youtube videos of people playing with fake insects, monster trucks, playdough, you name it. He is very easily entertained.

-he loves crafts; coloring, painting, etc..

-he loves doing puzzles and can navigate a 25-30 piece puzzle all on his own -- impressive to me!

-I've been trying to teach him that if someone hits or pushes him at school to say "I don't like that, Please, walk away!" His teachers told us that he manages his emotions very well and rarely reacts. At home is another story, BUT he does tell me when he is upset with me and will tell me to "walk away!" if I am not doing something that pleases him.

-he loves to play with his sister. He has been a very good brother for the most part.

-he is very good at recognizing where we are at. He will often remember where he got his hair cut, or where we got ice cream. Very good memory!

-When he wants us to see something in his perspective, he will close one eye and squint as if something is really far away and point to it. This can even mean something right in front of his face and will say "look mom and dad, look at this!" and will point and squint.

-we were going to take some toys to the DI the other day and he saw some trucks and said "that's my favorite toy!" we now hear him often say "that is my favorite!" it is super cute.

-loves to say "mmmmhmmm, I like it." For example, if I am turning on the TV he will just see something he wants to watch and will say "mmmhmm I like that one. I like it." haha 

-he thinks the following words are the funniest things ever: stinker, bum bum, fart (typical boy), yo-yo, goofball

-I'm not sure where he gets this from because we DO NOT do it in our home, he will just come up to me, fart, and walk away and laugh.

-he gets scared very easily. Has randomly been telling us the "coco's" are coming to get him (skeletons in the Disney movie coco), the lion (stuffed animal on his wall) is coming to get him, and if anything is in the dark, he won't go.

-loves to sing! LOVES to sing. He will often want Travis and I to sing and then he will very loudly announce that it is "Noah's turn to sing."

-He came home from school one day and started singing "oh my gosh, look at her butt." He got it from a girl at school and I had to teach him that saying that isn't nice. He will now randomly sing "oh my gosh, look at her face." hahaha. Touche, kid. 

-loves the water. Loves the splash pad

-loves playing with his cousins

-loves eating treats

-asks for a fig bar and applesauce every.single.morning.

-loves going in the stroller when i'm out running. It is getting harder and harder for me to push him, but he loves it. Been doing it with him since he was a baby.

-knows my name and Travis' name. If he calls us to find us in the house by "mom (or dad), where are you??" he will say "Travis! (or Erin), where are you!?"

-knows his whole name and says it really well (impressed, our last name is hard

Overall, our boy is so special and sweet. We love this stage. I'm so excited to see the man he will become, but also don't ever want to forget his 3-year-old self. He is the little boy who made me a mom and we got to celebrate him with a big dinosaur cake that his aunt made him. He was so happy!

I love you, Noah Wolfgang Siebenhaar.

3 year checkup: weight 32 lbs (52%), height 37 (36%)

Poor kid. Going to be short like his mama.