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It’s amazing to me how each day with Noah will remind me of moments I shared with Ryan when he was younger.

A few days ago I had Noah sitting on my lap, facing me.  I zoomed him backward so that he was upside down and tickled that chubby tummy of his until I extracted the greatest of belly laughs.  I then pulled him back up to me to observe that goofy new crooked-toothed smile of his, one top tooth fully grown, the other just coming in :)  How cute can you get?  Well, he decided that this whole upside down thing was just too much fun to pass up and pushed his legs off my chest with such force that I had to catch him as he flew backward, giggling the entire time.  I tickled him once again and pulled him back up just so he could push himself back again and again :)  This seems to be one of his new favorite games to play with me now and when he first discovered that being upside down was just that much fun, I immediately remembered when Ryan made this dicovery as well.  And that’s when the smile quickly jumped onto my face and I began to laugh right there with Noah.  These simple discoveries that we witness our children making has got to be one of the most amazing aspects of parenthood, that’s for sure.  And that would bring me to Noah’s second new form of amuzement.

He’s now discovered that dropping items onto the floor from his highchair is captivating.  He’ll sit there with his head and arm dangling off to the side of his chair and slowly let go of whatever it is he’s holding in his chubby fist.  And of course, we make a game out of it now :)  “uh oh,” I’ll say.  To that, he’ll giggle and do it again.  Of course.  I can definitely laugh about the adorableness of these moments, the way his head is tilted to one side, the sound of his voice as he laughs and how my reaction makes him want to do it all over again.  But man does the cleanup stink! :)  Today was the first day he’s done this in a restaurant and I must have looked truly interesting to onlookers as I was on my knees picking up after the mess when all was said and done.  But hey - he was happy

My gosh, am I smiling from ear to ear right now :)  This afternoon Ryan was coloring with his paint dobbers.  He made his very first person!  Wahoo!  First a circle for the face and then two very long straight lines for the legs.  Then he made even longer (smile) straight lines for the arms coming directly out of the circle of a face.  Then two dots for the eyes, another for the nose, and semi-curved line for the mouth.  How cute?   But that’s not it!  On one particular person, he told me he wanted to make hair and then proceeded to make some scribbles on the top of the head.  On a different person he made some dots above the eyes and said he was making eyebrows!  What?  Eyebrows aren’t even things that we talk about much at all :)  Goodness…this mothering thing is something, isn’t it??