Sharing The Love

Well, Noah didn't waste any time sharing his flu germs and I have been down and out most of the week. So, there isn't that many photos to share but here is a quick run through of the (few) highlights from the past week.

1. Noah played fetch with Raph. Andy threw the ball and Raph and Noah chased after it. If Noah got to it first he turned and called to Raph (pronouned 'aaff ' by Noah) and Raph would walk over. Then Noah smiled and shoved the ball into his mouth. Then Raph would walk it back to Andy to throw. If Raph got to the ball first Noah would stop running towards it, slowly turn around (he's still mastering turning) and run back to Andy and wait for him to throw it again.

 2. Each night before bed I feed Noah and we cuddle his teddy 'Winslow'. The other night I put Noah down and walked out and saw his bear on the same chair as my childhood bear so I had to take a snapshot of the momentous occasion.

 3. Going outside to play slingshots with Daddy.

 4. Friday mornings with Mummy. This is the highlight of Mummy's week and she always dresses me in something trendy because, well... she can.

 Today I didn't put Noah's shoes on after dressing him (which would be the normal routine) because it was raining so heavily I knew I would carry him inside to childcare anyway. I was cleaning his high chair and I turned around to see him with my shoe, sitting on the floor trying to figure out a way to put it on his foot. My heart melted.

5. Noah is running. I picked him up from childcare yesterday and he was all the way over the other side of the room when he saw me and there was a clear path between he and I so he just started running towards me with the biggest smile on his face and his arms out ready for a cuddle. There is no better feeling than that moment when you scoop your happy, loving child into your arms after a long day at work.

6. Noah has weaned down to 4 breast feeds a day which means I can express one bottle for him for childcare early in the morning and I don't have to express at work any more. As well as this, we decided that I should stop feeing him to sleep at night time so we can start to teach him to self-settle so we had a big discussion and made a big game plan up about how many minutes we'd wait until we went in to soothe him each night. We tried our new routine for the first time last night and he cried for 4 minutes and went to sleep. We didn't have to do any of our plan Bs... needless to say we spent 30minutes in shock about how smoothly it went. He's a little trooper!!!

And a last little update,
I miss Noah deeply and I feel like I have blinked and missed everything. Despite this, we must be doing something right because he is such a sweet natured little guy who always seems to be smiling (unless you take a mobile phone or iPod away from him of course... then there is some feet stomping).
Whatever my feelings about our situation, he knows he is loved beyond belief.