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Happy Birthday, little guy!
Jonathan and I have been singing the birthday song to him all day, and Jonathan's version includes "dear my little brother Noah."
6/15 - Upper left canine begins to poke through.
6/18 - Two steps in the morning, three in the evening! He continues to try walking more often, usually one or two steps before deciding that crawling is better. But yesterday, he did start crawling to me, then stood up before he reached me and took one step towards me.
He is mostly using only one sign now, rather a "universal yes" - it's kind of like the real "yes" but kind of like a wave, and often done with both arms. Do you want to get down? Yes. Do you want milk? Yes. Do you want more granola? Yes. Etc.
Yesterday, Noah poked a coat hanger into his eye. All is well now, but I wanted to post the adventure. My mom wrote up the story after my phone conversation with her, so I'm going to paste that here to save typing. I'll interject where I want to add details or comments. Mom's story will be in italics.
This is the weekend for strawberry festivals and several local farms have pick-your-own fields. Last year, when I was about 39 weeks pregnant, Mom, Dad, Jon, Jonathan and I picked 14 lbs of strawberries at Trax Farms.
One is Jonathan at 9 months, one is Noah at (almost) 11 months. Can you tell who is who? There is at least one environmental clue in the pictures themselves, but don't look at the links until you've made your guess.
The other day, Jonathan pointed his hand like a gun at Noah and made the shooting noise (not going to try to spell that one!) Directly in response, Noah pointed at Jonathan and went, "pfff, pfff, pfff."
Noah can now unscrew and screw on lids. He is also turning out to be an adventurous climber. He wanted something on top of the changing table and he succeeded in getting both feet on the top of the bottom drawer. But then he was stuck. He also likes to step onto the stool in the bathroom to reach the water in the sink.
Well, Grammy, he didn't wait for you. For your sake, I'm sorry, but it's really hard to be sad about such a fun milestone!
5/18 - Noah sucessfully put back one of his big knob puzzle pieces.
5/7 - Noah was sitting on the kitchen floor, trying to plug the breadmaker into his bellybutton.
Noah has been so much fun recently. I know I've said that before, but now he's initiating the fun, which is a new development. He likes to dance, to bounce, to jump (with my help.) He continues to like peek-a-boo, he loves to play the dropping game. He even played it with himself the other day! He had a magazine on the couch, threw it to the ground, giggled, picked it up and placed it back on the couch, more giggles, repeat!
Here are the things I've written down over the last few days - and I had the foresight to take the paper out of my pocket before going sailing!
Noah has discovered the fun of taking out and putting in objects to a container. He also isn't interested in crashing towers. Instead, he likes to take them down carefully block by block. He likes to copy us in driving cars around and the other day we were having a blast together - he'd run the car back and forth and then throw it off the table and laugh. He's cruising the furniture more, and will walk behind a sliding object for a few steps.
