22 Months

It's been awhile since we have updated Noah's story. The summer came to a close and with that Mom returned to work.

Noah just celebrated 22 months. He is growing and more energetic than ever. We have officially claimed the terrible 2s even though he is not two yet. Nothing much is new. Noah continues to feed well. He is climbing on everything; he likes to move boxes (or pretty much anything) to use as a stool to reach and touch things he (most times) shouldn't be touching. He is also doing relatively well with his speech. He is putting two word phrases together like "goodnight mami" "good night daddy" "bye mommy" "mommy, I love you" "one minute mommy." He also is doing well communicating his needs. He is understandable to us 80% of the time. We are working with him by doing lots of reading, talking, and singing. Big brother Caleb is a great help; he often has Noah repeating words. Noah is doing well with repeating just about everything and anything. He is deleting a few sounds and so we are keeping an eye on that.

Otherwise, we are now looking forward to celebrating his 2nd Birthday. We can't believe we started this journey just about two years ago. At times I find myself reliving those hardest moments and I shed tears of pain which quickly transition into tears of gratitude. We couldn't be more humble and blessed by God's mercy and faithfulness in our hardest time.

With this experience our family moves forward with a deeper understanding that the creator of all is leading our family and is walking by our side through every step. We are blessed to be expecting our third child in the next 6 months. Noah will become a big brother and it should be an interesting transition for our baby. He knows the baby is in mommy's belly and he loves to give it a kiss.  He is ever more sensitive to seeing babies in pictures and in person. We hope all this is building the excitement for our new family member.