I feel terrible that I haven't been taking notes on what Noah is up to these days. I want to have something to look back on someday so I am going to put it here. Since both boys (actually all 3) are resting right now, I will do my best to give an update.
For the first time, Noah asked, "Why?" yesterday. I thought, "Oh no, here we go..."
When we say his name or call for him, he responds with, "What?" It's so cute.
One of his latest things is flipping light switches. For a while, he would push his little step stool ladder around to flip them on and off but then decided the ladder was too much work. So now he wanders around from room to room flipping all the switches down. He's still too short to flip them back up so we have random lights on throughout the house depending on if the room has multiple light switches.
Noah knows all of his manners AND uses them the majority of the time.
He is beginning to use the first person a lot more when speaking. At times he still calls himself Noah but is now saying "I, me, yours, she, he, you, etc"
He tells us stories or recalls events the way he remembers them. It's so interesting to hear things from his perspective.
He has days where he likes Nate more than others. Recently though, he has begun to rub his head and arm and also tries to make him laugh by making silly faces.
Not only does he help Mimi with "chores" at her house (using the hose on whatever he wants and sweeping random things) but he also helps me. He loves to use the Clorox Bleach Wipes and also helps put the soap in the laundry and move clothes from the washer to the dryer. He obviously then has to push the button to turn it on.
He recognizes gender which is funny because I never really quizzed him until I noticed he was calling girls "little girls" and boys "little boys" and using them correctly. We were at the playground the other day and he was playing with a 4 year old girl calling her "little girl" when she quickly corrected him - "I'm a big girl!" He responded with "Oh, okay."
He prefers to drink from an open cup but we still have him use one with a top most of the time.
We still are not 100% sure if he is a lefty or righty. It seems like he switches from one meal or activity to another. If I HAD to guess, I would say righty.
Noah is also showing more signs of love. Not only does he say "I love you" but he also will come up to me and rub my back. Jay is taking advantage of him and asking him to rub his shoulders all the time.
He uses feeling words and will talk about himself or others being happy, sad, excited, angry, etc.
Every time someone coughs, Noah tells the person they're sick, they have germs in their mouth, and they need to go to the hospital. The germs in the mouth part is because I taught him to cover his mouth when he sneezes or coughs so he doesn't spread the germs in their mouth.
He also prefers all the doors in the house to be closed. He closes all doors behind him and likes to be the one to open it upon entrance.
He loves to sing and picks up on the lyrics easily (we're talking children's music that he hears often - not random radio). I am definitely going to get the video camera out because I have to let everyone witness how cute he is. He sings "BINGO", "There Was a Farmer", "Jesus Loves Me" and loves all the songs on his childrens bible songs cd, "Row Your Boat", "Itsy Bitsy Spider", "Rock-a-bye-Baby", the Wonder Pets theme song, and others that I'm sure every kid is singing. If he doesn't know the words to a song he lip syncs. It's so funny!!
Thomas is still his favorite thing in the world.
He knows all of his letters (what they look like and the sound they make) but hasn't quite caught on to the numbers. He can count to 22 (once in a while he messes up 14 and 15) but doesn't recognize them all. He doesn't show much interest in learning to recognize them either. I can tell when he doesn't want to play with the flashcards with me anymore because he'll say the same number over and over for every number just to get me to stop. I'm learning now..
There's a billboard with a picture of the hospital Noah and Nate were born at. Jay and I hadn't seen it until Noah pointed it out saying, "Noah and Nate born there. Noah and Aunt Jenna visit Baby Nate, Mommy, and Daddy. Noah no want leave. Noah cry." Aww.
When it's quiet and he all of a sudden hears something, he makes a suspecting face and says, "Hear that (dat)?"
He's also starting to actually play with others. Before he would just chase other kids around, but now he communicates with them what he wants to do and what he wants them to do. He also listens and follows their instructions if they have an idea what to do.
Noah knows now about monsters. He doesn't seem to be afraid of them, but it worried me when he said they were in his room. I was concerned that he was scared but he reassured me that he wasn't by explaining that it was a happy monster on his Leap Frog Letter Factory movie. He says that it "the letter T" hides behind his curtains. He's a little confused though because the actual monster is the letter A but he thinks the T is also a monster since he hides and jumps out.
He's taking soccer right now but we're not sure he likes taking the classes. The first week, he did pretty well. The second week, he was a mess. He sat on the sidelines and wanted me to hold him the entire time. Did I mention he swatted at the coach. Yes, he did. The third week, I thought it might be best if Jay just took him. So the two of them went and Jay said he did great. He wasn't interested in playing for the first little bit but then decided to join the other kids and have fun. I was so happy to hear that he enjoyed what is supposed to be something fun for him.
Noah chooses which books he wants to read throughout the day and before bed. It melts my heart to hear him "read" me bible stories: "Zacchaeus, you come down - I'm going to your house today!" Except, when he says Zacchaeus, it sounds like Ikeas. His other favorite bible story is about Jonah and the whale. There's a picture of Jonah inside the whale that he just can't get enough of.
We haven't put the twin size mattress on his top bunk yet so he loves to hang from the bars above calling himself "Monkey Boy".
We have gotten a taste of the "terrible 2's" over the last few weeks. His pediatrician seems to think it's this and also still not being #1 all the time since Nate has joined our family. So we've implemented a sticker chart for him where every time he has good behavior and listens without putting up any kind of argument, he chooses a sticker and puts it on his chart. Once he gets ten, he gets to choose a place to go with either Jay or myself. This is uninterrupted quality time doing whatever he wants with whichever parent he wants. I have to admit that this has really helped. He absolutely loves stickers and is usually very eager to earn another. He gets stickers for things like setting the table (napkins, spoons, forks), sharing, washing his hands, having his teeth brushed with no trouble, and anything else he does that's positive.
This is all I can think of now, but I will try to give another update sooner than later.
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