Noah Doolittle

Noah has been really into animals lately. He has been obsessed with the Baby Einsteins DVD, Baby Noah ever since Sam received it in his stocking for Christmas. Sadly, I accidentally left it behind in CA so while we've been waiting for my parents to mail it back to us, Noah has refocused his obsession with The Jungle Book. It is so hilarious to hear him talk about the characters because I have no idea what he's saying as he attempts to repeat the jungle-esque names. Also, ever since The Jungle Book started infiltrating our lives, Noah has enjoyed walking around on all fours (but with staight legs), pretending to be an elephant. Noah is also very particular with the sounds various animals make and he will correct me if I am not doing a sufficiently realistic imitation. For example, don't try to tell him that a horse says "neigh." Noah will correct you by doing a very authentic horse noise.

The difficult part of Noah's animal obsession is that he has learned about some of the more random animals and then expects me to know how to draw them and how to imitate them. Sometimes I can just make something up that sounds quite believable, but other times I have to simply say, "I'm sorry, Beeju, but Mama doesn't have a clue how to draw a wombat."

One of the boys' favorite things to do in California was to walk on the bike trail that runs behind my parents' street. Noah asked every day that we were there to go see the "bulls-eyes." There are a bunch of horses along the path and we must visit them all.Which was fine with me because my mom and I could just walk and talk in the beautiful weather while my little guys busied themselves finding rocks to throw in the ditch. After they had all the fun they could handle throwing rocks (and, in Sam's case, getting very muddy in the ditch), we would go on our way and visit all the horses. Every day, Noah would say, "Oh no! We forgot the carrots to feed the bulls-eyes! Oh well, maybe tomorrow." But I would always forget because I think it's kind of gross.

(Oh, and in case you're interested, I added a couple of pictures to this post.)