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."