Noa continues to like standing up with her walker. On Saturday, I asked her if she wanted to stand up by herself or with me. She replied, "self" and then added "Soon. Bye-bye Mommy." She was very proud to stand up and turn herself around, and get herself from her room to the walker to the stair to dinner almost by herself.
All in all a great weekend.
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So, after last week's big surprise, I spied on Noa's room cleaning activities to see if I might be able to catch the lady in action... and I did! It's pretty exciting, if I do say so myself!! The video is a bit long (even with a break in the middle). I started when she first reached in the direction of the walker. I just put it where it had been the week before. Towards the middle of the video, she realized she still had a few toys to pick up and I was afraid my camera might run out of space so I paused filming until she seemed to finish with that. I figured I'd include the full video here because I think the moves leading up to standing are also interesting. In other news, Noa had a quiet but fun weekend. Since she had her COVID shot on Friday and it was that time of the month, we just figured we'd take it easy and that seemed to work fine for everyone. She seemed to be a bit tired Saturday but other than that no real reaction to the second shot.
She was very glad to be able to do her spinning swing outside in the nice weather. Noa had a great weekend at home, which included a bunch of signs that we don't understand and a surprising and very exciting development!
Now for the amazing story: One of Noa's usual weekend tasks is "cleaning up her room" - basically, she lays on the floor, we dump her toys on her head and she sorts them into four bins: bumpy blocks, brown blocks, balls and stuffed animals. This is usually a time when we can sneak off and doing something fun like dishes or laundry. On Saturday, Noa was "cleaning," Jeni was in the basement and Ben was in the kitchen when Ben heard a noise. It sounded like someone was walking around upstairs. He thought it must be his imagination - still, he decided to check. Upstairs, Noa's toys were all cleaned up (a bit odd because she often takes her time or get distracted playing with items) and Noa was gone. Jeni must have come up, he thought, but then where'd they go. That's when he saw Noa in the corner. STANDING with her walker. To be clear: Noa had been lying on the floor. The walker was not within her reach, as far we knew, she didn't know where it was.
Noa had a great winter break, thanks in great part to Aunt Paté (and yes, Noa pronounces it much like the liver spread) who came up from Maryland for the week to help up since Mommy was still very much laid up.
BOTHER HIGHLIGHTS: before Aunt Paté's arrival, we celebrated Noa's birthday. She got two "blanket sweaters" - one blue and one brown, and a gold bracelet which she wore for a couple of hours and then put on Electra Monkey (with all the other bracelets) - and it's still there. She also got some more scrunchies with scarves attached, I put a few in her duffle bag. Of course, Noa is excited about getting back to school too and on Sunday morning was already talking about getting back to school.
(btw: Paté did quarentine before coming up to say with us)
Another quiet, mostly indoor, weekend in the Land of Noa. While Noa seemed to be fine with staying in (as long we promised to keep checking the weather in case it suddenly got warm), she did make use of the occasion of being indoors to make several specific and interesting requests.
During breakfast (which Noa insisted was breakfast, not to be confused with brunch or lunch, which would be followed by chocolate ice cream that she clearly wanted to save for a later lunch-dinner meal), Noa requested that after breakfast Mommy should put snaps on Electra Monkey's feet. Noa sorted coins while Mommy sewed on the snaps. Noa tested out the snaps by having leaning down from her chair and making Electra Monkey tap dance so she could hear the clicking on the floor. She, again, wanted to where her pink hat and scrunchie scarf pretty much all the time (except when showering). All in all, letting Noa call the shots this weekend turned out to be a pretty good thing, and it helped us to get over the hump of not being able to do some of the outdoor activities that tend to dominate her focus when she is home. 
Noa enjoyed carrying Mommy Monkey over her shoulder everywhere and insisted on wearing her pink knit cap (which she'd worn to bed - with her hair scarf still peeking out) ALL WEEKEND! She only let me take if off her once, Sunday morning, to brush her hair and put the scarf back in her hair. While it was a bit out of the ordinary for a Noa weekend, the rainy weather seemed to have a similar sluggish affect on all of us so, so we just decided to roll with it.
Back in March, we lost Noa's beloved Blue Green Yellow Doggie. Doggie was one of Noa's first toys - she was only about a month old when Doggie came into our lives and for 14 years, they were inseparable. We lived in terror of the day that Doggie would disappear. That is happened at the start of the pandemic only made it even more challenging... and mysterious! We knew Doggie had to be in the house. We hadn't gone further then our own back porch for over a week. We looked everywhere. We moved furniture. Looked in every pocket (so we thought.) Eventually, I convinced Noa to embrace a lessor "Doggie" we called "Greentail Doggie" (whose tail was green thanks to a permanent marker.) On January 1st, just as Noa was getting ready for bed, I put on a hoodie that apparently I hadn't touched since March. The pocket felt heavy. I reached in, than there he was. I filmed the happy reunion and created this video to commemorate this amazing moment. After the initial reunion, Noa and doggie shared some kisses with Mommy.  So much to share! Noa had a great holiday break. She was very communicative. She did well when the schedule had to change due to weather, or Mom & Dad's work schedule, and at times would suggest changes to the schedule that made it more palatable for her. For example, she decided that she liked to walk on the Treadmill Mill before breakfast, which turned out to be a great idea that became a regular part of our Winter Break schedule. This was the first year that Noa seemed to genuinely look forward to the prospect of opening gifts. Because it was just the three of us, we were able to open gifts at Noa's pace which was great. We brailled tags for all the gifts and Noa did a great job reading tags and giving gifts to the appropriate person.
Below: Noa opens a present from Manny, a boy who lives a few doors down. The Talking Hamster isn't new, but Noa spent quite a while with it one day experimenting with the different ways she could make it respond. This video is a bit on the long side, but I thought it was pretty interesting to watch her try to figure out what make this toy tick. This tells you a lot about what our weekend was all about. By the way, the sweater featured in this series was Mommy's sweater. Mommy was, in fact, wearing this sweater on Friday when Noa got home. She felt the sweater and said that she wanted to have a soft sweater. I told her I'd wash it and she could wear it Saturday. Saturday morning she put on the sweater and declared it "Noa's soft sweater." "Oh," I said. "I thought Noa was wearing Mommy's sweater." Her answer: "Noa's sweater." So that was that. |
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