But let's really move on to why I'm writing this post -- our Noah! now that he is 21 months, he just keeps surprising us everyday with his vast grown and learning. Here are my favorite things Noah is currently doing:
-talking up a storm. I was worried about him for a while because he wasn't even interested in talking, while some other kids his age were already chatting up a storm (this is a good example of not comparing yourself or your kids with others). He has taken such an interest and can say so many words! Travis and I will be talking and he will just randomly repeat words that we are saying (shoot, I think this means my cussing vocabulary needs to cease ;) ). My favorite is when we say our prayers together at night and we will say things like, "we are thankful for Dada" and he says "Dada", "we are thankful for baby" and he says "baby", "we are thankful for our health and bodies" and we hear something like "thhhh and odi" hahaha, but he just does this for everything and tries so hard. The best is when we say "Amen" and he says it in the most precious way, "memen."
-he LOVES to play with anything that relatively looks like a ball. He points to anything that is a circle and says "BALL!" he has a basket of probably 100 balls that we play with everyday and then clean up before bed time. He always walks to his closet where we put them away and points to them and just says "pease, pease, pease" with the sadest face. Gosh dang it, I am such a pushover when it comes to the cute please saying.
-he loves apples, broccoli (has to have lime juice on it or he won't eat it), sausages/chicken apple sausages, mandarin oranges, grapes, any form of berry, smoothies (mom makes a green smoothie for him often and he DOWNS them), pirates booty, fruit leathers, chicken nuggets, and yogurt. Those are his staples and he loves them.
-he loves saying "mama, dada" "mama, dada" "mama, dada" he will repeat those two words over and over. Even in his crib when we are out of his room. so cute.
-he loves to watch TV. I really have to try hard with this one because I don't want to give him a ton of screen time, but he LOVES Daniel Tiger, BB bus learning songs, and CoCo.
-he LOVES to pick up rocks when he is outside. We currently live with a lot of construction and dirt around us, so when we go on walks he always wants to get out and will fill any crevasse on his clothes with rocks.
-he loves to climb on our barstools and basically anything that can get him up high. He has taken some pretty bad falls, but he still doesn't care and will still climb, climb, climb.
-he loves animals. My in-laws and sister-in-law both have dogs and he loves going to their houses and playing with them. My sister-in-law just got a yellow lab puppy and that dog loves to follow Noah around and lick his face. It is so cute.
-he loves to hide behind curtains, or the clothes in our closet and wait there until we find him. He has given me a couple of scares where I could not find him in the house and finally saw his little feet sticking out of Travis' shirts in the closet. Quiet as a mouse. just waiting for me to find him.
-he loves to be held and constantly wants Travis or I to hold him.
-got his first haircut and did such a good job!
-loves loves loves balloons. We usually always have one at a families house and he is always pulling it around the house with him.
-he loves to laugh and is truly the happiest little boy. He rarely just cries for no reason.
-he loves hiding in his closet and while shutting his door he will look at Travis and I and just say "BBBBYYYYYEEEEE"
-my mom got him a slide for Christmas and he is obsessed with that thing. He goes down it probably 100 times a day. Best thing you can get a boy at his age is a slide, I swear to you. It keeps him distracted for hours.
-he loves to go into his bedroom and shut the door and play by himself. Besides the aforementioned holding, he loves to play alone. He has a huge imagination and I will often see him talking to his stuffed animals and giving them hugs and kisses.
-he loves to love. Ha! he is the sweetest and cuddles with me often. Not sure how long I'll get that out of my baby boy, but I'll take it as long as I can!
-he loves to take baths and looks forward to them every night.
-loves night lights. We just recently upgraded him to one that projects the stars and moon all over his room. He just lays on his back staring at them and repeats "stars, moon, stars, moon" and he usually falls asleep staring at them.
-we got him a stuffed Japanese Porro animal from costco that is microfiber inside and is the softest little pillow/animal. He throws all of his stuffed animals out before he falls asleep every night, but always keeps that one in and will cuddle the crap out of it each night. Cutest thing. Best $10 purchase.
- LOVES nursery. We take him on sunday and when we put him down and doesn't look back.
he is our world. We love that little cub so much and I just can't wait to see if he will have a little brother or sister. We have had a few play dates with friends and he LOVES to be around other little kids/babies and always wants to love on them. I hope that is still the case when it is mom and dad's new baby and he isn't getting as much attention - fingers crossed! we will see. I'm proud of the little boy he is (I'm biased of course! i'm a mom :)) and can't wait to continue to see him growing. He goes into an art academy school this summer and i'm so excited for him to get to be around other little kids and grow!
18 month visit: Weight 25.12 (48%), Height 32.25 (48%), Head 18.8 (48%)
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