Noah Wolfgang

It has been an absolute treasure watching our Noah learn and grown. When the saying goes, "the days are long but the years go by fast" -- man, that saying couldn't be more right. I just feel like i've blinked and he's grown up so fast. Noah has so much spunk and personality. He talks our ear off whenever he has the chance and is the most inquisitive kid as he wants to learn and know everything. He is really understanding behavior and as we've navigated a year of tantrums, but our hard work is paying off and for the most part is extremely obedient. Noah's asthma hasn't been too bad this winter. I've gone a few weeks without administering his inhaler, which is big news over here! I've been really diligent in the vitamins i've given him and it all really seems to help his immunity stay strong. I am a huge believer in elderberry, b12, and liquid turmeric. Really, liquid gold!

Noah is in school while we both go to work. He skipped a class this year and instead of staying with 2-3 year olds he got to jump into the class of 3-4 year olds. He is one of the youngest in the class, but with that has come a huge language jump. He is forced to keep up with the big kids and I cannot believe the words he knows, especially when he casually told us "my ear effing hurts." No, he did not say effing, rather, the full on F word. I just asked him where he heard that and he said school. 4 years old, people and kids are saying the F word! Just crazy the things they pick up at school. Anyway, we had such a fun 2019 year with Noah and watched him grow astronomically. 

Our favorite current things about Noah:

-loves to eat apple sauce and a fig (figga) bar every single morning

-his current favorite movie is Nightmare Before Christmas and he will sing the songs over and over and over again. I'm always so surprised at his ability to retain lyrics

-he has the funniest stories that make me crack up. The other day we were at the drive thru and the girl handing us our food looked as if she had botox injected right into her lips as I swear her mouth didn't move at all. I thought it was funny, but just said to Noah as we drove off, "she was nice, wasn't she?" and he said "yeah, but why was her mouth like a statue or a mountain? it didn't move." I couldn't stop laughing. I thought I was the only one who noticed it. Kids are so painfully aware of everything around them.

-he loves to jump, dance, and PLAY. He is a true boy through and through.

-he loves legos and can sit and build them for a long time.

-he loves to color and is very good at staying in the lines. I'm super impressed with his ability to stay patient and color as long as he does.

-he loves to listen to music, especially soundtracks to movies. Taking after his mom and dad that so similarly also love listening to movie soundtracks.

-Noah loves to read through books and I will often hear him reading to himself in different voices. haha

-Noah is scared of monsters and his imagination is taking on a life of its own. Sometimes it is really fun to watch and others it is sad when it is used in a scary way for him.

-he worships his aunt abbie who lives next door. Always wants to go play with her and is constantly asking if he can go over to her house.

-loves to drink "hot honey lemon water" that mom makes for him, especially when he is sick.

-loves to play with his sister. Can be rough with her, but they are really interactive with each other right now which is really sweet to watch.

-he loves his blankey's 

-really into robots and building things

-loves to eat and is still a really good eater

-loves going to his swimming lessons and he is doing so well!

-loves getting a special treat at Swig with mommy. He gets a small kid sugar cookie and always gets so excited.

-i've been very diligent in teaching Noah about 1) his private parts and boundries with where he can touch people/where people are allowed to touch him. He is so strong and will always say things like "only Noah can touch that, right?!" or "mom, let me wipe my bum. That's my private parts, okay??" and it has been great for me to watch him understand his body and have respect for it. 2) we've been working on being kind, but not so kind that you risk yourself to strangers, etc.. these lessons are really hard and for some reason emotional for me to go through with him. I don't like teaching him things like there are some bad people that want to hurt little kids, etc.. but he has been good and receptive. It is hard when I play legos and pretend to be a stranger and go up to his lego character and say "hey, I know your mom and dad and they want you to come in my car right now" he will respond "noooo that's not safe" and will do pretty good until I say "hey, come get into my car, I have a lot of candy" and he says "okay! can I have some?" hahaha. Fail fail fail. I don't want to scare him either, but it is my absolute greatest fear and I have nightmares about it. I just hate that he is at the age where we have to start talking about this stuff. But I am so glad I get to chat with him and help him understand.

We got to go visit my dad in Florida for a few days in January. We had so much fun going to Disneyworld (and getting onto Rise of the Resistance!!!!!!). We spent so much quality time together before crap hit the fan in February with COVID-19. So glad we got to getaway. Love my little sidekick.

We love our Noah Wolfgang and can't wait to see him turn 4 this year!