Noah

This is a cool kid. Something about him just lets everyone know that he is cool. The way he wears his cap backward, his choice of words, the way he walks. He is just cool. And funny. Noah has always been very happy, and a little hyper. It wasn't until he was about 1 that I learned that "bouncing off the walls" was not an idiom. He has boundless energy, and is very, very strong. He is a little on the small side, but he makes up for that with his strength and agility. He can balance, do cartwheels, and perfect diving rolls--all without a gymnastics lesson. Abram's friends love to wrestle Noah, because he is so dang strong that he actually can keep them down.

Noah loves school. He is learning so much at his new charter school. He came home last month and handed me a square of clay, and said, "Look, Mom, we wrote in cuneiform today." Yes, the same cuneiform that I hadn't heard about until 10th grade world history. So I asked him, "Did you learn about any rivers today?" "Yes, the Tigris and the Euphrates." Pretty much every day he surprises us with some bit of information that most first graders don't pick up at school.

Noah loves The Lord of the Rings. He loves the movies. He loves the soundtracks. He loves the toys. He loves the costumes. His other favorite movies are the Rocky movies--all 6 of them. Sometimes we call him Noah Balboa.