Noah: Curls and Commentary

Oh, be still my heart!  As if he wasn't cute enough already, look at these cherubic curls!  {Love}

Josh, for some crazy reason, wants to cut his hair so badly, but I am BEYOND in love with this luscious head of hair and will NOT allow it.  You hear me?  Not. A. Chance!  This little 'fro has been a huge success if you ask me, and I was the first and antsiest critic.  Now I just melt and grin and coo.  And I can't help lightly patting the top of his head and saying, "Boingy, Boingy, Boingy."  These curls are so thick, so sweet, so ... curly!  {Oh, Love.}

Speaking of love, here are some quotes from my curly love bug at 4 1/2. Lately, my favorite thing about him, besides the curls, is his eager and positive spirit.  {Love}

• While playing in their new kitchen set, he explained to me, "I da Dad and Anna's da Mom cuz she's at da buggy."
• Contemplating the gifting protocol once Mimmie and Papa brought the Batman Cave he'd already told SANTA about:  "Maybe Santa gonna bwing me TWO Batman Caves?" I said he'll probably bring some other surprises now.  "I know! Maybe Santa bwing me a tennis ball now!"  I melted at his excitement about a tennis ball of all things.
• While he waited for me to get off the iPad so he could play on it, he hinted, "{loud, exaggerated sigh} I finkin my brain wants to pway iPad.  I finkin."
• We've been reminding Noah to ask the Lord for help in making right choices - usually regarding how he gets along with Anna.  One day, he literally stopped mid-outcry when Anna started touching the toys he was using and his flesh wanted to yell "Mine."  He looked at me all excited and said,  "God said me, [in] my brain, share wif Anna!"
• When I told him that when he is praying is not the time to be silly, he reasoned, "God wikes siwwy words."
• When he counts, I hear some of the sweetest numbers out there:  Awevven (11), Firty Free (33),  Firty Seden (37)
• He still uses a number of precious preschool grammar and pronunciation:  Him's a nice guy.   Dank you taking us dare (thank you for taking us there).  Gumote (remote), Shellfish (selfish), Portend (pretend), Dizzyward (Disneyworld), I not notice dat! (I didn't know that).
• It KILLS me when he retells things by explaining they happened back when he was a kid.
• "Daddy, when I gwow up, on next Friday, you teach me how to make this lego?"
• I don't know where he learned to ask this, but a lot lately he will offer to help us do one one thing or another by asking, "Do you need a wittle boy to help you?"
• He pointed to my loose cover-up type jacket and said, "Hey! You dwessed wike a Jedi!"
• "Mommy - I finkin Chewie wuvs me.  He wants to keep me cuz he wuvs me."
• After he sang long and strong to a song on the radio, he said, "You wike my boice(voice), Mommy? "  I said, I did.  I always do.  He said,  "I finking I awmost weddy for singin on dat {stammer, studder, hem and haw} on dat, on dat ... speaker."  You mean, radio?  "Yeah, on dat wadio."  And I assured him I would be so proud to hear him on the radio one day.
• When I got grumpy on Saturday and he heard me snap at Josh, he said with frank sincerity, "I finkin' you need a time out."  I couldn't have agreed with him more.
• As I worked in the kitchen trying a new recipe for dinner, Noah ran by on his way out the door and called back over his shoulder, "It gonna taste gooooood!"  {Love}
• Josh predicts it will only be a matter of days or months before Noah comes home from school with a note about his language learned from me:  "Oh. My. Freakin'. Gosh!"  He's never copied this phrase before, but I know Josh is right.  Duly noted, I say.