Noah has been working a lot lately on his mobility on stairs. When the gates are left open, he takes advantage. Not only does he practice going up and down them, but brings his toys with as well. Each step provides a new place to push along his "ca," as he calls anything with wheels (not sure where the East Coast accent is coming from). We're hoping that his days of going head first down the stairs are over. He now seems to prefer any combination of feet first, butt scooting, or holding the rails and stepping down. But once is not enough. He can spend hours doing this!
ECFE classes started up again this week. Noah has many old friend's in class with him, along with some new ones. We are happy that our favorite teacher Robin is leading this class, especially as we start working on seperation this time.
Noah's vocabulary is increasing fast now. He says car, out, shoes, this, that, see, chessie, mama, dada, and some other words we just can't seem to pick out yet.
His obsessions are wheels/cars, going outside, and being on the other side of whatever door he finds himself by. Emptying the cupboards, and tackling the stairs have been added this week. He's incredibly attached to a little puppy that we received at one of his showers. The world caves in if puppy is not with him in his crib. Tantrums came with toodlerhood at his first birthday. He adores his dada. Looks for him as soon as he's up in the morning, and after work will cry if dada tries to put him down too quickly after he gets home. Developmentally he's right on schedule!!
Still a solid little guy, but the baby fat is quickly leaving. At least we have his round head and fat cheeks! He tends to charm everyone when we go out. I spent about a half hour in a department store with him today and he had 3 sales people and at least 4 other shoppers eating out of his hands. I'm not sure how he does it! What a personality in such a small package.
