When Noah was a Baby

It is times like now that I especially regret not starting blogging sooner in Noah's life. Here he is turning 3 and I have pulled together a great list to record this time of his life, but I have nothing to show for the first two birthdays....at least not in keeping with my new blogging documentation. But, since I have been a list keeper for years and years and years, it is not surprising that I was able to dig up two lists for Noah that I stashed in his Life Book. One for his first year, the other for his second. Now they are nowhere near as detailed as I would have preferred, but they will suffice for playing a bit of listing catch up. This post lists some memories of Noah during his first year of life.

When Noah was a little baby:

He had so many scratches on his face at the hospital


He got hiccups at least 4 times a day
He liked to watch TV
He had the startle reflex really bad
His feet always shaped like they were praying


He grunted
He squealed
He was a noisy sleeper
He made an adorable little o shape with his mouth


His neck was never visible under his stocky head and body
He made this nerve-wrecking choking sound when he yawned
He would open one eye and leave the other closed
He hated diaper changes
He was such a good eater....ate anything we fed him


He liked being swaddled
He used a paci
He was diagnosed with a milk allergy at 3 mos.
He was so laid back in temperment


He was soothed by music at bedtime
He was a hard sleeper
He sort of hummed while he drank his bottles
He had loud burps and he spit up regularly
He tooted all the time
He slept so soundly when he was on Josh's chest


He was perfectly content outside in the heat
His pointer finger would always stick out
He was an easy, easy, easy baby
His first book was Water, Water, Everywhere (I still know it by heart)
He loved his swing and slept in it often




When Noah was a little bit older baby:

He was diagnosed with excema and urticaria
He was prescribed asthma medication but not quite declared asthmatic
He got his first haircut at 9 mos. but needed it way sooner!


He met his birth parents at 7 mos. old


He loved to hear me sing the ABC's
He put himself to sleep really well at night
He snored already
He began using a nebulizer at 9 mos.
He would sleep sitting up


He adored swinging and riding his wagon
He always seemed to be broken out around his mouth
He frequently called out "oooooh, ooooooh"
He loved to bump heads with Mimmie
He first fell in love with bubbles
He loved riding the 4 wheeler with Josh


He would wiggle in the bath from the waist down like a fish
He loved books, books, books
He was always drenched in DROOL, DROOL, DROOL
He used his carseat carrier all the way til his 1st b'day
His first spanking had to come over a little spitting habit
His first words were "dadadadada"


He liked to suck on lemons at restaurants
The sound of Velcro ripping really freaked him out
He first started getting stranger anxiety in the nursery at church
He would strain real hard in the face to show discontent
He would dance and dance at his little play table


He first rolled over at 10 mos.
He first crawled at 11 mos.
He got his first tooth at 12 mos.
He first pulled up to standing at 13 mos.
He was diagnosed with milk, peanut, egg, dog and cat allergies at 13 mos.


He started headbanging in his crib to get to sleep
He would bang his head on the ground when he got mad at us
And as he still does to this day, he loved baths


This post just would not have been complete without a naked baby picture. :)