noah was 16 months yesterday! He now has 7 teeth and plus a new big molar popped through on his upper left.
I need to start challenging Noah more. I gave him the opportunity to get off the couch on his own without my help, and he totally did perfectly well. which also meant he tried that with the stairs and can totally get down by himself, all the way down. I went to visit my friend Laura in Baltimore this week. Her nephew is a month older than noah and can answer you when you ask him what a cow says. so I told joe we need to start doing that. so tonight after dinner we started that. and before bed, he was already answering us! I'd ask, "Noah, what does a cow say?" and he answered, "moo moo" !! so cute! I was like, no way!!! so, we really need to start seeing what he can do!
We had a very bad trip to philadelphia this week. Noah did not travel well. He totally freaked out at the hotel room, crying and was soo wound up like on speed, so we packed up and left for home at 12am. yes, it was extreme for us to leave, but he was that upset. I could not see spending another 5 nights like that plus naps. he would not stay in the pack n play they provided and the first one was broken and collapsed on him so that freaked him out. the only thing that worked was sitting in his stroller watching baby faith. and after 3 hours of that he got bored. I wish he were still nursing or even slept with us at home, so he could do that at the hotel. when we tried to put him to bed with us, he would bite or pull my hair (not maliciously but out of "what the heck is going on"????) and he would sit on joe's head or step on mine and jump up and down and bite the head board, climb all over the bed, trying to fall off. we never would have gotten any sleep. as it was he did not nap on the way down and I did not sleep after working the night before. it was just so awful. thankfully the hotel took pitty on us and did not charge us for the time we were there. as soon as he saw his car seat he fell asleep, I barely had him buckled in yet! snored the whole 5 hrs on the way home. and to make matters worse we almost ran out of gas... bad trip. So we will try it again in a few months, hoping he does better!
