Noah's blocks

Noah's favorite toy are these wooden alphabet blocks.

We keep the blocks in a wooden storage tray that we slide under his crib. There isn't any reason to keep them there except that is where I first put them when he was too little to play with them and then I kind of forgot about them for a long time. But now Noah knows that is where his blocks are kept, so first thing in the morning when we put him on the floor to play he'll crawl over to the crib and pull his blocks out. It's so cute. Even when we went to Maine and were gone for nearly a week, when we got back in the middle of the night, Noah went straight for the blocks storage place.

I am trying to get him to say "blocks" as his first non-mama or dada word. Currently he'll hold up a block and say "Ba," which I can imagine is meaningful, though admittedly he'll say that syllable at any random point in time. In my defense, though, my mother interpreted the "Ba" syllable as meaning: book, butterfly, balloon, and several other words starting with the letter b when my brother was a baby. I'm going to keep pretending that he means it.