♫ La La La Poo Poo ♫

Noah has been very disinterested in potty training lately, to the point on refusing to wear his big boy underwear and opting for a diaper instead.   Yesterday Ale and Noah spent the whole day running to the potty or sitting on it singing songs about Poo Poo.  :-)  Still, he refused to go.  Then after lunch he was sitting in his chair and he looked at Ale and said "Big boy poo poo".  They took off running to the bathroom where he indeed had a big boy poo poo!  After all the excitement, cheering and celebrating it was nap time where he feel asleep singing " ♫ La La La Poo Poo  ♫" to himself.  We were a very proud bunch of Normans last night!

A picture of Noah in his big boy Elmo underwear.  

This was in the middle of a huge temper tantrum.

Not a happy camper.  :-)

But a cutie!

Noah-ism

A few weeks ago the lock on our front door jammed and my dad came over to fix it.  It was quite a struggle and when Dad finally popped the lock both my mom and I yelled "Yay Papa!".  Now, for the past 2 weeks, every time Noah even glances at the front door he yells "Yay Papa!" and when you ask him why he says "Papa fix door. Me help".

A New Fort

Between all the dogs that my parents babysit, occasionally they have had to have a dog cage out to lock them up when they get unruly or don’t play nice with Noah.  When the dogs are not there, Noah loves his little fort/play house (cage).  He crawls in and out, hides himself and objects in there and just has a bunch of fun.  Against some people’s advice, I wanted to post a few pictures of him playing in there.  I doubt anyone who reads this (all 2 of you…) would be upset, but if you are disturbed by a CHILD PLAYING IN A FORT THAT IS NOT LOCKED, stop reading my blog and get a life.  And then let me know who you are so I can slap you.  J     

Black Eyes

Although this blog is for Noah and all his funny stories and milestones, I have to add a little in here about my 2 week ordeal trying to blind myself.  Saturdays are the days Hunter gets to sleep in and I have the whole morning to play with Noah with no distractions or chores.  Normally they are super fun, but a few weeks ago Noah and I went out to the car to get something and as I swung the door open the top corner of the door smashed into my face right below my eyeball.  I had a black eye almost immediately.  Exactly 1 week and 30 minutes later I was laying on the couch and Zoey came up and punched me in the other eye.  No black eye this time, just the red dots caused by popped blood vessels in each of the corners.  There have not been any other instances, so hopefully fate has decided to let me see a while longer.  Now, our fun Saturday mornings are back on track.  

Right after the door hit me.  I didn't get a picture of both eyes.

Artwork

Noah has been having fun with Arts and Crafts lately.  We are still trying to stop the eating crayons habit, but so far he has not been eating play-do or sniffing glue.  :-)

Noah's 1st Crayon drawing.

Christmas 2009 Santa 

(Every time Noah walks by this he points to it 

and says "Made".  He is very proud of it!)

Balloons and Sticker

Glue and Paper

He had a little help with this one. :-)

Snow Day

In December it snowed in Houston and it was the first time Noah had seen snow. He just stared outside and kept saying "More".  :-)  I can't wait to take him to the mountains to see how he acts with real snow, not just Houston flurries.

Waiting patiently to go out and play

Do I Look Older Now?

I’m not sure if you can tell by the pictures but Noah gave himself his first hickey.  He has a little plastic bottle that he carries around and sucks on and he ended up giving himself a mustache hickey.  He looks so much older now.  I bet he could pass for 2 1/2.

Practicing his "smile"!