Noah @ 20 months

Noah's world kind of got shattered in the past week with Callie's arrival. But he is handling it way better than I thought he would.  I thought he would be more angry/upset because of how much time and attentions she needs. And he is a little bit sometimes. But mostly he has just wanted to give kisses and just gets into things he shouldn't when we are preoccupied with her. He has been a little more whiny too but I think part of that is because he has so much energy and sometimes we just aren't able to get him out of the house. 

This is where I wish we had a house with a fenced in backyard he could run around in. Someday. 

Noah at 20 months:

- likes to think he can do everything on his own. He can open the fridge which means he pulls out whatever he is interested in. Lots of spilled milk, open bottles and random food made us get a fridge lock as soon as we got home from the hospital. He was pretty mad when he realized it wouldn't open. But I think he's over it now. 

- loves loves loves to give the baby kisses. On her lips preferably. which means lots of bending and twisting for him and lots of cautious hovering by U.S.  He also likes to look for her when he wakes up. He knows to check her bed and the chair first. It's pretty cute.

- he is really into driving things all over the place. Mostly on the windowsill or the back of the couch. He will wriggle around you and knock stuff off if it is in his way. 

- loves to go outside. He will ask for the stroller a lot or try to make a run for it when we check the mail. He also likes to not listen when you tell him to stop running. Which was as much fun as it sounds when I was 9 months pregnant and couldn't keep up with him. 

- has started being very vocal about which songs we sing him. He won't really request any like he used to but will definitely tell you no when he wants something different. He probably says no 10 times before I finally find one. But then he wants more so he doesn't have to go to bed. Sneaky boy.

- has started trying to combine words and say new words when we talk. However, he has his good ole reliable ones that he likes to stick to even when we know he can say the real word. 

- figured out how to open doors. So fun. Luckily he can't reach the locks yet. 

- he is a really good helper when he wants to be. He is usually really happy to help and will run to get whatever you ask for. But he is also really good at completely ignoring you if he wants. 

- when we ask him questions (like if he wants to go somewhere or help us make something Etc) he will respond really loudly with YEAH! It's pretty great. 

- likes to brush his teeth but only because it means he gets to turn on the water in the bathroom and play in it for a minute. He also can turn the shower/bath on by himself and will run in there before we are ready. He tried to do it with all his clothes and shoes on a couple days ago. We barely caught him. 

- really likes to copycat other kids/people. He has started doing more things at the pool because he sees older kids doing it. He started "swimming" on his belly because of this and will now do it in the bathtub at home too. 

- is starting to get into trains more. We let him watch a "Thomas the tank engine" show and he was verrrrry interested. And got worried when the trains were in danger. 

He is a lot more perceptive than I give him credit for, but I also am having a harder time remembering that he is still very much my little boy. 

Noah @ 19 months

- requests pizza for dinner or lunch or breakfast any time you ask him what he wants.  It's a funny sounding word too. Like squiquiaa or something odd. So of course we laugh and love it.

- took swimming lessons which were basically glorified playtime in the water. But he doesn't have very much fear and even will try to move his arms and kick if you are holding him. He is getting better about laying back but that's what he fights the most. If you're not looking, he will jump in anyways. Which we learned the hard way. 

- loves his sugar. Too much. He thinks everything we put in our mouth is candy. 

(Not naked-- just trying to hide his school bus)

- loves his puppy most of all. We have been around a lot of different dogs lately and Noah now tries to lay down next to them to get them to lick his face. Someday he'll have his own we think.

(Too busy watching soccer with me to look at the camera haha)

- still an adventurous reader. Has figured out that he can point to the words on the page to get me to read them instead of just describing the picture. He also is into more of the longer books lately and less of the board books.

- we are working on (occasionally) helping him identify emotions. Like when he is upset or hurt or sad. He loves to pull a sad face and then switch quickly to happy and have us do the same. It's a fun game. His sad face includes a pretty good pouty lip. 

- would eat fruit all day if I let him. 

-'trying to say more words but most of them are still gibberish sounding unless you are around him all day. He is also slowly slowly trying to put two words together. Sometimes he just ignores it all

And grunts instead.

- he started nursery and loves it. He runs to play with the toys as soon as he can. It kind of breaks my heart that he can so easily not need me. But it's nice to know he is totally okay and happy to go. I've subbed a few times in there and it is fun to see him in that type of environment. 

This is obviously posted super late so my nice pictures are still hanging out on my sd card. 

Oops