Noah, the Cute--Day 150/10/10

I'm enjoying the How to Study the Bible class and I feel fortunate to have found this class when I did.

I hadn't mentioned on here how I wrote down Psalm 119 (partly because of day 143) in it's entirety last week. I enjoyed what it said so I started again, this time doing the NASB version rather than the NIV. I should finish that up tomorrow. Maybe I'll try the King James version. I'd like to study it after a few more weeks of the class and see what I get out of it.

I like when Noah grabs me when he need something. It's almost as if he doesn't think I'll get up or walk his way if he just tries to ask me to. Gabrielle and Colton were doing their own thing, so I asked Noah what he wanted to do. Cars? Blocks? Trains? The latter caught his attention so, even though I was standing right next to him, he grabs my finger and says "C'mere, Daddy. C'mere." He leads me to the stairs and starts crawling up. I crawl up right behind him which makes him giggle all the way up the stairs.

I pull out the train tracks when we get up there, but he seems fairly disinterested in it. I grab the cars and we play with those for a bit. Then he gets up to see what he can find in the toy box. He finds a number book with a pig on the front. "Pig.", he says, wrinkles his nose up and makes the pig noise. I'm laying on my side on the floor, so he walks right to me, does a 180 and slides down my midsection to the floor. "Book, Daddy." I get through half of it and he's turning pages to the end (I swear, he's got the attention span of a two year old. Fortunately, he is two. :P)

He puts the book away and grabs the gear toy. It has several colorful plastic gears that can be placed on it. There's a main gear already permanately fixed to the toy, so when other gears are placed just right, they all spin. I grab a couple gears and he puts them on.

"More, Daddy, more." I grab a few more.

"More, Daddy, More." as I look for the remaining gears. I find a few more.

"More, Daddy, More." as I look for the remaining three. I find two. He puts them on there and sees the missing space.

"More, Daddy, More."

"No more, Noah."

"Oh."

He pushes the big red button and his eyes light up as the toy lights up and plays music. Then the gears start turning. His eyes are all over the toy at once. It stops and he pushes the button again. I put my fingers in it to show him that he can if he wants to. It stops, and he pushes the button again. He puts his finger on the big green gear making it all go and I think he notices how it slows everything down. He does it again, but this time harder. It slows wayyyyy down. He must've thought that was pretty cool, because this went on for a while. We'd take the gears off and try to put them back on. If you put some on in between others, you have to put them on just right. He didn't get that concept, so he'd say "Stuck." and hand it to me. they can be put on normally, or upside-down. When they're upside-down, you can see the hollowed out part of the gear. I thought it was pretty cool when he says "No, Daddy." as I placed them on. He grabs one and flips it around. He grabbed a couple other upside-down ones and placed them as he thought they should be. Eventually, he even got bored of this, so I tell him "We'll head downstairs now, Noah." You can say almost anything to him and he'll say "Why?" When it's something he doesn't want, he'll say it all drawn out: "Whyyyyyyyyy???" When he thinks it's a game, he'll say it real quick. If you keep answering the question, he'll keep answering/asking "Why?" Answering "'Cause I love you." ends the conversation about 75% of the time. Either that or I get a quick "Why?"

A typical nightly conversation:

"Time for bed, Noah..."

"Whyyyyyy???

"You have to get some sleep."

"I don't want it."

"Give Mommy (Daddy) kisses."

(*Smooch*)"Night-night, Noah."

"Why?"

"'Cause I love you."