10. How he smiles with his eyes...they twinkle and his whole face lights up with his smile, but mostly those eyes smile as big as his toothless grin.
9. How he "sings" himself to sleep. When I'm walking or bouncing him to sleep or when he's falling asleep in the car, he doesn't whine or cry...he softly makes this singing "Ahh Ahh Ahh" sound. It's so sweet and so precious. His eyes are usually closed for this and he does it at a consistent rhythm until he's totally asleep.
8. How he eats...this sweet boy loves his milk and loves his food. When we walk into the kitchen he begins to chomp his mouth up and down if he's hungry and kick his chubby legs toward the counter where I fix his food. It's hard to shovel the food into his mouth fast enough as his tongue flies out in eager anticipation for the next bite. When he drinks his milk, he makes these "mmm mmmm mmmm" sounds as long as he's awake and nursing. When we sit down as a family to eat, his feelings are hurt if he's not offered nibbles, as well. He LOVES to eat and loves his milk. We may see evidence of this in his thunder thighs and belly...and chins....
7. How he joins in conversations...often when we're riding in the car and his VERY talkative big brother is talking away, Noah David gleefully and wholeheartedly joins in with his coos and inflected syllables. Even when Daniel and I are having a conversation, he'll often interject his thoughts and opinions with "Goooo...eew...heeey....babaa..." Sometimes when we're all talking or hanging out with friends and talking, he'll make an unhappy fuss sound and all it takes is acknowledging him and mimicking his coos and sounds and then he's happy as a clam. He just likes being included and acknowledged. :) Who doesn't?
6. How he looks for his daddy and brother...and mama on the rare occasion we're not together. Last weekend Daniel and Daniel Isaac were out of town, and when Noah David and I woke up Saturday morning, Noah David kept looking around the house as I was carrying him calling out "Wuh wuh!" "Wuh Wuh!" I realized he's calling Daniel Isaac because we call him "brother". Whenever Daniel Isaac isn't here (especially if he's gone when he wakes up from his nap), he looks around, very concerned calling "Wuh Wuh!". He does the same for Daniel except "Da Da" "Da Da" "Da Da". And when Daniel has gotten him as he's woken up from a nap a few times, he's pushed him away saying "Ama...Ama" for "Mama". I just love that this sweet boy wants us all around him and notices when someone is "missing" and has figured out how to communicate his concern about that.
5. How he rolls around to get to what he wants...Noah David is working on crawling, but for now he has still figured out how to get what he wants. I left him in the middle of the living room floor to go to the kitchen for a moment the other day, and when I came back in the room he had made it all the way to the sofa, reached underneath it and was happily chewing on a piece of paper. He rolls from front to back to front to back until he can get to what he wants. What an adorable rolly polly!
4. He finds his gas and bowel movements to be hilarious already...I suppose this is just part of being a mother of boys, but Noah David already gets a giggle out of his gas and poop. He finds his really messy in-public, outfit-change-with no changing table available-poops the most hilarious. It's like he knows that I need to see that round face light up with dimples and giggles to distract me from his stress-inducing public poop. Bless him. And me.
3. He is so snuggly....he loves to be held, hugged, kissed, tickled, etc. He is so cuddly and snuggly. This works out very well considering the rest of us love loving on him and each other. He is most comfortable on my hip, in the baby carrier on Daniel, and snuggled right up to me to sleep. He and Daniel Isaac snuggle together and he rolls over and grabs his face cooing and grabbing him, and Daniel Isaac is regularly taking play breaks to give "Baby Noah" hugs and kisses. He's like this wonderful, warm stuffed animal that we get to sleep with every night. Bliss!
2. His belly laugh...ooooh, the sounds of this deep chuckle. He gets very tickled over the funniest things. He loves the sound "z" and laughs out loud when I sing "Zippity Doo Da". He is VERY ticklish and it just takes lightly brushing his round thighs to get a chuckle. He also laughs out loud and freely when I brush my hair on his face. Daniel Isaac used to love this, and Noah David does very much, as well. There are not many sounds in the world I'd rather listen to than my baby's laughter!
1. His disposition...oh, what a sweet, content, happy child Noah David is! I took him to the doctor last week because he had fever, and after the doctor examined his two very inflamed infected ears, he leaned back and said, "Wow, this is the happiest child I've ever seen with double ear infections." And at that, Noah David shared his big toothless eye-sparkling grin with him once again. I think if he could speak in sentences already, he'd say, "Just feed me and hold me....that's all I need." Very little upsets him...he just really enjoys life. And we soooo enjoy his sweet life!
