Deep Thoughts by Noah Libby

Our kids make us laugh all the time and we love to hear what they have to say on a day to day basis but I have to admit, I NEVER know what is going to come out of Noah's mouth next! He is the most humorous of our three children and never misses a chance to crack us up. I have recorded some of his thoughts and antics down on paper over the years and decided to reflect on them yesterday after he said something that made me laugh. I thought I would share some of these on my blog and I think I will continue to add to them here as he continues to surprise us with his next "deep thought". Enjoy!

*After hearing a terrible sound coming from my brand new van after I cranked it one morning to take Alex to school, I called Aaron at work to inform him that something was wrong with the new van and we needed to contact the dealer. He said he would check it out first when he got home from work. Aaron determined the sound was coming from the exhaust and agreed that we probably needed to take it in. The following day it dawned on him to check the tail pipe. Sure enough there were several large river rocks lodged in the pipe. Apparently Noah who was 18 months old at the time had gathered them from the court yard off the front of our house and decided they fit perfectly in the tail pipe. I'm very glad we did not drive around for days like that! Could have been bad.

*Age 2-Noah asked "Mommy were did de sink go?" I informed him that daddy had to build a new cabinet for the bathroom and that we were getting a new sink. He replied "I help him. I go get my hammer!"

*Age 3-At his three year check up the pediatrician noticed that something was in his right ear. When asked if he put something in his ear Noah said "Yes, my toy MOMMY!" Like, "duh, don't you know". We drove all the way to Columbia to the ENT to have the thing, whatever it was, removed from his ear. All he could say the entire time leading up to this was that it was a toy. I was thinking "There is now way. We have no toys that small". As the very pretty ENT proceeded to remove the unidentified object from Noah's ear he flashed her his best smile. She carefully pulled this strange thing from his ear and we both stared at it and said "Is that a googly eye?!!" (You know, the kind from the craft store that you make faces and puppets with.) Noah's face lit up like a Christmas tree and he said, "There IT IS!!!! My TOY!!!"

My all time favorite:
*Age4-His sisters had just finished their baths and I told Noah to go get into the tub and I would be right there. When I came back into the bathroom a few minutes later, I found him standing there buck naked, staring at the almost empty tub. When asked what he was doing he said, "I'm waiting for the yucky, yucky girl water to go down!"

*Age 5-When Aaron showed Noah how to put a candle out by licking two fingers and then touching the flame, Noah said matter-of-factly "That's magical."

*I asked Noah if he was ready to say his prayers last night after I turned off the light. His reply.."No thanks. I'm too yawny." :)

*Alex was discussing and demonstrating the way that cousin Avery is beginning to use her voice. I mentioned that she was learning to talk and that all babies do this. Noah chimed in "Mommy, baby Avery can't talk yet!!Her voice hasn't gotten to her throat yet!" Aaron decided to take this a step further and asked "Then where is her voice, Noah?" Noah replied, "In her big toe!" Like, "you big dummy didn't you know that. You're supposed to be smarter than me". Daddy continued to press this one and asked "Well, Noah when does her voice get from her big toe to her throat?". Noah responded in exasperation "I don't know! It takes a while. It just happens."

Let it Snow!

After praying for snow two nights ago, we woke up to a beautiful flurry of white falling from the sky yesterday morning. Aaron woke Alex up to tell her before he left for work. She then proceeded to wake all of us up at about 5:45 to get us ready. After a quick breakfast of whatever was in the fridge, we all went outside to enjoy the snow. Alex does not remember the snow we had about seven years ago, and Noah and Piper really had no clue what it would be like. They enjoyed throwing snowballs at each other and then we had to hurry Alex off to school. She was very sad that her school was not delayed but delighted to find her class outside playing in the snow when she arrived. Noah and Piper insisted on checking on the geese at the pond in our neighborhood as you will see in the montage. We had a blast playing in all of the fluffy stuff. As I look out of my window now there are still bushes with white "frosting" on their leaves even today. Enjoy the pics!

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Andes Mints and Marquetry

You know the old saying "If it ain't broke,don't fix it"? Well....in the case of redecorating I'm thinking I should have taken heed that advice. After taking down all of the Christmas decorations I commented to Aaron that this would be a perfect time to repaint the great room as we had been talking about it for some time now. Now, if you know Aaron you know that he loves any chance to be creative and to do something different especially in our house. So, he looked at me and said "what color do you want, I'm going to Lowes". Well, I had been contemplating this bright lettucy green appropriately called Lettuce Alone. Kind of the color of a good head of Iceberg. So he went and bought three gallons of Lettuce Alone and I began happily rolling paint on a rainy Sunday afternoon after church. After I got all the way around the room above the chair rail I thought to myself "this is really a lot of green, but I wanted it so I'm not giving up now". After Aaron stared cutting in, because I make a mess when I trim, he so lovingly suggested that we paint a chocolate brown under the chair rail to give the room a little weight to it. Now, I did not want another dark color on the bottom but after staring at all that green I gave in to the artist because he is usually right when it comes to these things. Did I really just say that? Anyway, a day and two coats of paint later I looked at Aaron and commented that the green was actually kind of minty. Like the inside of an Andes mint. He looked at the walls and his eyes got big and he said, "Oh no! And we just painted the chocolate on the bottom!". Well that did it. I knew I was not liking it and now that I knew he didn't either and that it looked like an after dinner mint I put my roller down in disgust. Did my husband sit down and resign himself to the fact that we had just ruined our favorite room in the house? Oh no! He said "come on Steph this is part of the process, this is what makes it fun". Huh? It was midnight and I was ready for bed, and wondering what in the world he was going to do next and thinking that it could not be at all fun. Not only did the room look horrid but we just wasted about seventy dollars worth of paint. So, do you know what my hubby did next? The only thing any good do-it-yourselfer would do. He went to his shop and found some yellow, orange and blue paint and began mixing his own custom color in a big bucket. I'm about to lose it now. I'm thinking "How is he going to get a good color out of this!". Well to make a long story short (too late), he got a really nice darker, yellower green out of it. I went to bed and he rolled the walls until 2a.m. I'm liking the green but still not sure about the brown on the bottom. As you can see we still have some painting to do, but tell us what you think of it. The pictures are not totally accurate but you get the idea. Also, in my montage is Aaron's newest project, marquetry. Check out the rose he did. Oh, and no he has not started building the kitchen cabinets yet. All these little side projects keep getting in the way I suppose! My fault this time!:) Hope you enjoy the slide show.

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