Noah's a pirate

There's a song that Noah learned at school about pirates. He makes his arms kind of swagger when he sings it. These are his words:

"The day I went to sea

I jumped upon a pirate ship

and the cactus said to me..."

I told him that it's probably a "captain" and not a cactus, but he said no. It's a cactus. 

There's another song he likes to sing,and he sings it to Aviva. It's a lullaby. These are the words:

"Good night, sleep tight,

Lay your head on my stroller..."

We have a book about animals helping each other, and there's a sunbird that helps a gorilla by removing a splinter. When Noah got a splinter the other day, he suggested finding a sunbird. I told him we'd carefully take it out, and use tweezers and maybe a needle also, and he wanted to know if we'd be making a hole in him.

We're finding new ways to deal with a sleepy Noah. Putting him to sleep and waking him up are often so difficult. Josh found a great way to wake him up in the morning: get a book and start reading to him. He wakes up and asks questions about the book and he's totally and quickly coherent, and it's great. At night, we're starting to play music in his room, and soon we'll have sound recordings of stories being read to him. I'm hopeful. I'm hopeful that it will not continue to take an hour and a half to put him to bed.