Noah plays with Mommy's water

This is one of those occasions where my parent brain and my filmmaker brain were in conflict.  I think the filmmaker brain won here because I kept recording.

Other thoughts:
Will Noah become a compulsive hand washer?  Currently taking bets.
Does he remind anyone else of Harpo Marx in this video?

Noah Gets The Sillies, Episode 4

Once again, in the hour before bedtime, a pants-less Noah succumbs to a major case of the sillies.  This episode features a silly explosion followed by some more low key silliness, camera-grabbing, and talking from our favorite little guy.

 

Another Haircut

...and more words!

Just in the few days since my last post, Noah has added more words to his vocabulary.  He has said Buckle ("Bucka"), Sock ("Sah"), Chair ("Cheer"), Phone ("Phone"), Sit ("Sit"), Carrot ("Cahr").  He's also mastered the name of our cousin Ariella ("Ayala") who is visiting this week.  It really seems that each day brings at least a couple new words.

Noah has also been saying "Bye" and "Hi"--not consistently, but occasionally and often at surprising and funny moments.

Here are a few pictures from our adventures of the last couple days.

Enjoying Dim Sum at Empress Pavilion

With Ariella and Mommy

**ADDENDUM** In the 24 hours following this post, Noah said 5-10 new words, including Fruit ("Roo" and "Fwut"), Sheep ("Shee"), and Outside ("Tsai").

Words! Words! Words!

Picture taken one hour ago.  Noah's hair is crazy because we went to the plant store and he accidentally dunked it in one of the fountains.  The fountains are his favorite part of the plant store.  His second favorite part is taking the identification tags from the various plants so that Daddy must play detective to determine which tag goes where.

Noah just pointed to my shoe and said: "Shooo"

This morning, he pointed to his blueberries and said "Boo"

I take him outside, and ask, "Noah, where is Daddy's car?"

He points to my car.  Then he points to other cars.

NOAH: "Cawuh!  Cawuh!  Cawuh!"

(He says "car" like he's from the Bronx.  It's his second favorite word after "Butt" which is how he says "button."  He finds buttons, tantalizing buttons, wherever we go, and he is fascinated by them.)

ME: "Noah, where is a tree?"

NOAH: (pointing to tree as he walks by) "Tuh, Tuh!"

ME: "Noah, can you point to another tree?"

NOAH: (pointing to the next tree) "Tuh!"

ME: "Noah, where is the cactus?"

NOAH: (pointing to cactus) "Cat!  Cat!"

Every day with Noah, he surprises us with new words.  Usually, the word is just a single syllable, but there are exceptions.  "Tissue" is "Tshoo."  "Water" is "Wawa."  "Peek-a-boo" is "Picka."

He is also using "Momma" and "Dadda" with much more regularity.  This has been music to our ears.

Over the course of the past month, we have been amazed at how many words he seems to know and how much he seems to understand.  We're enjoying this phase immensely.  Noah is just a really fun guy to be around.  Here are a few more pictures of him with Mommy, playing "Picka" and being generally cute.

Before I sign off, here are three pictures from last month that I happen to really love--even though Noah is not particularly smiley in any of them (two are from our Canada trip and one is from our backyard).

We three in Toronto

Reluctant swimmer with Mommy in Oxtongue Lake

Naked baby with Daddy in our kiddie pool.  Carin took this one with her iPhone and I love it.
It think it's very Norman Rockwell meets the San Fernando Valley.