He's a regular Michael Winslow

Not a great night for sleeping. Noah was making a ton of noise in his sleep and since I wasn’t in the room with him I kept leaping out of bed just to get in the room and realize he was asleep. It happened like three times. Then when he woke up at 3:30 am I probably took extra long to get in there and as a result he was pretty damn awake. It took me almost two hours to settle him back to sleep enough to put him back in his crib. Anyway, you’ve heard it all before. Once we get a bit more settled with the new crib locale we can try some sleep training. After someone kills me.

This morning we went to the local free library branch. I renewed my card and chased the boy around the stacks. It was a good place to go to get out for a bit on a grey day. I got a nonfiction book on China, a Cornelia Funke book to indulge my interest in kid lit, and a board book for the boy. And on the way home we got some more cookies – from a different local bakery. This time they were chocolate sprinkles.

Here are a few new Noah bits:

- Noah has begun to meow at the cats. It’s a high pitched “Owwww” and it’s diabetic coma inducing.
- He also hisses like a snake – even if the word you said was stick or he's pointing to a picture of a worm.
- When I was leaving a vm for my sister Elisha yesterday Noah heard me say her name and went over to the refrigerator and pointed at her picture.
- I wasn’t sure if he was going to do anything but try to stand on that table I got him last week, but I’m happy to say he loves to sit in a chair and have his snack.
- For the first time the other day he began moving forward in his little rider car rather than backward.
- We’ve been working on his word recognition. When we read books I’ll open the page and say “Where is the computer?” and he’ll point to the right thing. It is so cool to see him learn new words.
- He’s taken up fishing as a hobby. I got him a bath tub toy set that included a plastic fishing rod and floating fish. While he doesn’t yet have the manual dexterity to hook the fish while floating, he can hook the fish with the rod while holding the fish with the other hand – and while that might not sound too impressive, I assure you it ain’t all that easy.
- He knows the location of all the power buttons on the TVs and stereos in the house and wants to spend a great deal of time turning them off and on and off and on, and off and on.
- He’s become fascinated with the dustbuster and my hairdryer and will pick up an array of objects and pretend to vacuum or dry his hair with them, all the while going “zhhhhhhh.”
- And he now picks up the phone and says Hello - though it's really more of a "Ha-Ohhh."