no beeba today

noah is a little meaner than he was a month ago. he's still intermittently nice and mean, but now it's more often mean. he's been saying "no beeba today." and he likes to push her down and squish her, as i've written before, and we used to say it was okay until she made unhappy noises. but now, he has to ask our permission before pushing her. if she's on carpet or something soft, we say okay. if she's on the tile or wood, we say no. if he does it anyway, he gets moved away from everyone, and sometimes put outside. the other day, he was kissing her arm and it was nice. actually he was kind of sucking on her arm. then she started fussing, and i told him he had to stop. he stopped, and i saw teeth marks on her arm. so that's the kind of mean-ness we're seeing.

his language is great. he gives a lot of commentary or narration about what's going on. what he's saying is peppered with "happened last week" and "just a little bit" and "that's weird." and there's a lot of repetition. "had ice cream last week. had ice cream last week. just a little bit of ice cream last week."

he loves to read books together and there's a little bit of wanting aviva's books, but also he likes books with a lot of text and a few nice pictures. the other night, we read the book about peter and the wolf twice, and then the book of colors. so when i'm reading, i'm going from words like "struggled" and "procession," to the book of "red." (next page) "blue" (next page) "yellow" (next page). and at the end of each book, he says "again!" and wants to read it again, whatever it is.