Noah Michael is 11!

 

I can’t believe 11 years have gone so quickly. How do I have a child almost out of elementary school? It’s crazy to think about and yet, I SO enjoy what each new year brings so there is no sadness in this post!

 

 

11 THINGS ABOUT NOAH:

1. He loves McDonalds. He still only orders a happy meal (not even the mighty kids meal) and he doesn’t always finish it (how is that possible?) but he loves the cheeseburger and fries meal.  For years he ordered the chicken nuggets, but now it’s all about the cheeseburger.

 

 

2. He has mad computer skills. It’s the reason we put him in the “technology” classroom, so he could have his own computer and continue to learn more about using them. I see a LARGE purchase coming when this laptop has to be returned at the end of the year.

 

 

3. He is charming. You can’t teach that and he certainly doesn’t get it from me.

 

 

 

 

4. He loves to duel using Yu-Gi-Oh cards. The neighborhood boys all love to set up shop on our garage floor on a big piece of cardboard and duel. They aren’t as cheap as matchbox cars, but a fairly inexpensive hobby. I figure he can use them to wallpaper his dorm room in 7 years.

 

 

5. He discovered Harry Potter and has been enjoying reading the series. I think he likes the books better than the movies (we have only watched one as he’s only finished one) because he still doesn’t like things that are scary. The movies can be kinda scary. I hear #3 is the worst.

 

 

6. He likes broccoli and hates cauliflower.

 

 

7. When stopping for a treat at a gas station, he makes a bee line for the glazed doughnuts. In fact, it’s what he brought for his birthday treat this year to school.

 

 

8. His favorite singing group is Maroon Five and we got him the CD for his birthday.

 

 

 

 

9. He smacks his lips in his sleep. He is a light sleeper, he tosses and turns destroying his bed, doesn’t sleep much past 7, and loves to sleep with mom when dad is gone. All of the aforementioned make sleeping with Noah hard on the mom! Noah comes from Hebrew origin and means “rest and peace”. Kind of ironic because he doesn’t sleep restfully and this mother gets NO PEACE when I sleep with him!

 

 

10. He has never thrown “a fit”. In his whole life he has never thrown himself on the floor, never screamed and yelled, never gone limp, never flung onto the floor in the grocery store and refused to get up….none of that. (in fact neither of my kids has…ever!). I am kind-of proud of that. I think it says something about Mike and I as parents. I just haven’t figured out exactly what yet.

 

 

11. He is responsible. I never have to worry about him in school, in sports, outside playing with friends…I know I can trust him. He’s a dang good kid.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Birthday Sugar Pie! We are so happy you are ours! We are so proud of the BIG kid you are becoming and so excited for the years ahead. You have promised me that one day when you are married you won’t let your wife take you away from us. You say you won’t go to your wives for every holiday and only take our grandchildren to see your in-laws. We are holding you to that promise. Well, at least I am….because I am already worried about it. Your mother is nuts.

 

We love you!