When your Mommy phoned me in November to come and stay at your house with you and
Dylan and Myles , I was so excited. I booked a flight for Papa and myself for December the 20th.
I had a few things to finish up. No one had any idea that a new brother would arrive on December
the 17th. Papa and Gramma arrived just before your baby Ben we were all blessed to have
Baby Ben come home on Christmas Eve. You loved to call him your baby Ben. That was so
adorable.
Christmas was very exciting for us being with our children , Cherie and Thomas and
grandchildren,Dylan, Myles, Noah and Benjamin.
Christmas morning was filled with fun and laughter. We laughted the most with you Noah, you
were just a bundle of joy jumping up and down as your Dad shot whirley birds up to the vaulted
ceilings. Your laughter and happiness just filled our hearts all day and night .
We love you all so much.
Noah you were always the busiest boy finding new adventurous things to do.
We quickly learned that shoes on meant I want to go outside and have fun. You had your
play shoes and your good shoes and if we messed up and gave you the wrong ones you quickly
let us know by refusing to wear them. One day I was putting on your new shoes and you refused
to wear them this was confusing because you kept saying mud, mud and we were going in
the car. Another day I had been down at the trambolene and found many pairs of Noah's shoes
I brought them up and cleaned them up. Noah loved them all now they were all clean.
Finally us silly adults figured it out you just wanted clean with no mud. Oh boy!!!
Mornings were a busy time of your day, there was so much to accomplish such as jumping on
the trambolen, riding the yellow bus filled with your favorite things, riding your new bike with
the push handle on the back, pushing your big dump trucks all around the gardens and
playing catch. When all was said and done we would play bake shop and make all kinds of
cookies and cakes. This would make us hungry so we would pack up and go in for our lunch.
This was not in Noah's best interest he would rather just be outside all day.
After lunch was Noah's nap time. We tried very hard to get Noah to sleep so he would be a
happy boy all day. This was not always possible.
This is went we would call him NO NAP NOAH. After his nap in the latter afternoon
we would have a hot tub. Noah loved the hot tub another of his favorite things to do,
of course it was outside. He would jump in 1 2 3 jump into our arms, go underwater and
bouncing back up laughing all the time.
Noah, loved to read his books. He would point and find things on every page and you could
not fool him if you got it wrong he would keep pointing until you got it right.
My favorite page was the gorilla page, Noah would point and I would say Noah,
he would laugh and laugh at silly Nana until she got it right. Reversing the order I would point
and he knew everything in the book.
Noah had his way of doing things the other Grandchildren called me Gramma but, Noah
like to call me Nana. I loved it.
Noah and I loved to count so we counted the stairs everytime we went up or down. He loved to
sing the alphabet. And we said our prayers everynight before falling to sleep.
To Nana the first song Noah loved was IF YOUR HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT.
If Noah was sad we would sing this song and soon forgot what was upsetting him.
This year we had Itsy Bitsy Spider and Miss Polly. I remember you getting up on Nana's knee
and we would sing our songs and hug and laugh.
Noah was so full of life and happiness. His smile was contageous and heart warming.
He would come to me put up his arms and look up at me and say "UP NANA UP PEEEEEESE
UGH" the ugh was my grunt as I bent over to pick him up.
He was also good at getting what ever he want from Nana as he would take me by the hand
to the pantry and ask for crackers, peeeeese. Otay thanks Nana.
We would get out the cream cheese and make a snack put it in his bowl he brought me.
We would also get a drink and the go down stairs and watch Blue Clues. This was another of
our favorite times.
I could go on forever about my little angel I had the good fortune of being with for almost
four months this year. I also had great times with the older brothers and Benjamin but
somehow the times with Noah were so special because he was such a tender loving age
of learning about the world around him.
You are my Noah I will love you forever and you will always be in my heart.
I also know you made a great impressions on all who knew you.
Your loving Nana
