Noah at 17 and a half months old... June 14, 2007

New words: "car", "bye-bye", "mommy" (instead of the mama he's had for a long time)

He loves to climb, in fact, he climbs so well and so fast now that I had to move all of the chairs to our kitchen table downstairs to the basement.  He would climb up them and onto the table so fast that I would literally turn my back away from him to reach something, and when I turned back, he was on top of the table already getting into mischeif.  I needed a chance to relax from worrying that he was going to fall off, so I had to get creative!  

He loves to play outside and wrestle with his Daddy and cousin Mason.  He loves that there is a little 3 year old girl who lives in the house next door who has a jungle gym.  He also loves it that this little friend is an expert escape artist and that she will run to our house and ask if Noah can play...all without her parents knowing, of course.  We laugh because lots of times she will open our sliding glass door and just come on in.  I think her parents hate it that she does that, but Noah doesn't mind because it's a friend to play with, and we don't mind for the same reason as him!

He's an amazing sleeper and will still take two naps a day.  He wakes up at 7, if I'm lucky...(way too early), which is probably why he takes two naps still.  He's so good at going to bed though!

He went to nursery for the first time all by himself last Sunday, and loved it!  No stranger anxiety at all.  He's our little social bug.  I don't think he even noticed we weren't there, he was having so much fun.  Chris peeked in on him and he was just sitting there like a big boy, eating his snack off a napkin on their tiny toddler-sized table.  He got a little choked up thinking that Noah wasn't going to be his buddy for Priesthood meeting anymore.  

His baths are getting so splashy!  (That's why I included this picture of him in the tub.  That and he's got such a darn cute little naked body!)  Last time I gave him a bath I was drenched by the end and I had to use a towel to mop up the floor, but he was having so much fun I didn't care. 

He fits so well into our affectionate family!  He loves to give us kisses complete with a loud smack, and will blow kisses too.  The other day I said goodbye to him as I was walking out of the room and he spontaneously blew me a kiss.  So precious!