a noah update

Noah is at the age (2 years, 9 months) where he is learning new things, singing new songs, saying new words, and surprising us with new thoughts each day. He has an incredible amount of energy which I attempt to channel in a good way. He's becoming more and more obedient, throwing less fits, and is a joy to be around. Someone described him the other day as "obedient, but fun". I think that sums our Noah up pretty well.

Noah's favorite songs as of lately: "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and "The Gospel Song" (You can click here to listen to this song by Sovereign Grace Ministries.)

Noah enjoys reading books, lots of books. He enjoys learning about sharks and other marine life and trucks and other forms of transportation. He also enjoys hearing bible stories. His favorite bible story is Jonah right now.

Noah identifies all shapes and colors with the exception of sometimes calling rectangles, triangles. His favorite shape is of course the circle. But he is also fond of the oval and star.

Noah is aware that words are comprised of letters, but is not identifying letters yet. Our plan is to work more on identifying letters and their sounds in the coming months.

No news on the potty training front. This is more my fault because I haven't invested the time or energy. I hope to work on this in the coming months as well!

Enjoy some pictures of Noah's busy life!

Noah did not suddenly get diagnosed with a vision problem. He just really enjoys wearing our glasses. Though I hope he doesn't inherit his mom and dad's near-sightedness, he does look awfully cute!
Here's Noah reading a bedtime bible story to his Elmos.

This is a world map puzzle I bought for the boys. It's quite advanced for their age, but I thought Noah could learn about the animals in different continents and where daddy is going when he goes to Africa in a few weeks.

We've had quite a few rainy days lately, so lots of indoor play. One day Noah spent quite a large chunk of time transferring beans to different sized bowls. This proved to be a big hit!

One of his favorite activities- reading books by the bookshelf. He'll do this activity for 30 minutes or more!

I spread out a blanket the other night for us to watch Finding Nemo for our Friday Family Night. Noah ran in circles before the video began.

One day for snack time I made Noah and I some Raspberry Lemonade using some Crystal Light individual packs. Noah thought it was such a treat!

Here's Noah playing underneath his slide. His friend, Grant, calls it a "jail". I think that's because his dad is a security officer.

My sweet boys are ready for a wagon ride. There's this area by our house that has a bunch of hills. The boys yell like crazy and beg me to take them down again and again. Going down is fun but try lugging this wagon with these big boys up all the hills. Talk about exhausting!

Last Saturday we took the boys on their first swim of the year. Noah wore floaties for the first time.

He was a little afraid at first and just wanted to stay in the kiddie pool. Towards the end I pulled him in to the big pool and showed him how he could touch in the shallow end. Then he had a blast!

Noah and his daddy are laying on the floor watching Finding Nemo. This was Noah's first full-length movie ever. He didn't really sit still, which is totally fine. He basically watched the movie while running around the room and sitting on different pieces of furniture. I guess that's how active little boys watch videos :)