pulling out the tricks

noah is a funny boy. he is all about some play time in the morning...which is not always fun for me, mrs. don't-even-think-about-talking-to-me-or-even-looking-my-direction-until-after-8-a-m. the other morning, though, i couldn't help but crack up at my silly little boy. ryan, noah and i stayed in a cute little room at the beach that was just perfect for us, except for the huge windows that pretty much made up one wall of the room. the natural lighting was great during the day, but not so much at 5 am when it woke noah up. he picked up a little stuffy nose from ryan, so he'd wake up having a hard time breathing...or at least, snuffling loudly as he breathed. we hoped he'd clear his nose up himself by sucking in enough, but no such luck. as he sniffed and snuffed, he began to cough a little here and there. you can imagine, *sniff sniff cough sniff cough cough* by this point, he's pretty much awake, so i guess he wanted to let us know by talking to us *sniff cough cough cough "ayyy" sniff "iayyy" cough sniff* ryan and i looked at each other, hoping if we didn't say anything that he might go back to sleep...but then came the sneezing, which he does in series *achoo achhooo acchoo achhoo acchoooo sniff sniff "ayyyyy" cough "ayyyyyyy, ayyy" cough sneeze sneeze "iiiiiiyyy"* i was like, "seriously, noah? go back to sleep." after a few minutes of this repeating itself over and over and over again, he began to whine...i guess to let us know that he really wasn't going to go back to sleep...might as well go ahead and eat, right? so went our mornings at the beach.... (after the first two mornings of this, ryan ended up doing getting up and taking care of the boy so i could sleep a little longer...he's the best! ;))