Pride

I can't even begin to describe how much I see this weekend of Jacques and I being away did for Noah.  

He's growing up so fast, and I have to tell you something, for every one of his behaviours that is annoying and hard to manage, he has double or triple that many behaviours that make me the most proud mama in the world.

Noah has the biggest heart you could possibly imagine, he is one of the most compassionate kids you'll find and he is downright hilarious with some of his ideas and deliveries!!!

This year, he figured out that Santa wasn't real (early in the year).  So this Christmas is going to look a little different.  Thankfully, he was SHOCKED that we spent all the money on him for OUR gift AND for Santa's gift as well so it will be easy to scale back some this year. 

Christmas Gifts:

After our decision to adopt was finalized, we spoke to Noah about how we were going to be saving as much as we could and spending much less on things like eating out, going to the movies, etc.  He was very understanding and to our surprise, he was even 'giving' in his acceptance.  He told us that for Christmas, maybe he could just get $100 and put the rest into our adoption fund!!!   My heart MELTED when he sincerely offered that. 

Dollar for the Needy:

The other day, we went to the mall.  A man was playing his guitar with the case open, looking for donations.  Noah asked if I could give some money, but I didn't have any.

Yesterday, we were back at the mall and the man was playing his guitar again.  Noah said, 'Mom, would you please give him some money this time?  He's working so hard for his money.'  I responded by asking Noah if he would be willing to use his 'myjobchart.com' points to pay for this donation, and to my surprise he said 'SURE'.  SO...I handed him a dollar and he dropped it into the guitar case.

Once in the mall, he said, "Mom, that makes me feel SO happy to give that man a dollar."

*heart melting over here, AGAIN*

Special Cuddle vs. Jammie Jams:

Okay, so this is just too funny!  Since Noah was in a bed, we've (for the most part) had something called 'special cuddle' at night.  Special cuddle is where we snuggle in his bed, read a story and talk about our days (the concept and term stolen from my older sister who used to do that with her boys).  I am pretty sure if you ask Noah about his childhood when he is older, THIS time of day will be considered to be one of the best memories of childhood!!!

SO...fast forward to when we had the conversation about S-E-X for the first time.  I explained that husbands and wives had their very own type of special cuddle to make babies....and so on!  I think you get where I'm going.

SO....fast forward like a year and a half later now. 

Yesterday, Noah asked me if we could change the name of 'Special Cuddle' to something else.  When I asked 'WHY', he responded, 'well, Mom when you tell someone that we had special cuddle, it sounds bad because of.....ummm.....well.....you know.'  I said, 'no honey, what do you mean?' He said, 'well it sounds like well.....ummmm.....you know, like what husbands and wives do'.

Ahhhh....point taken.  So 'special cuddle' is now called 'our Jammie Jam' (meaning we're in our jammies and we're jamming about our day!!  (I believe this term comes from The Office)


So there's bits and pieces of my kind hearted, compassionate little comedian!!!

Keep up all your hard work and NEVER stop being YOU buddy.  We love YOU!!!