Noah’s first day at Miss Heather’s was a success.

There was no upset when Jill dropped him off. He didn’t nap well or eat much lunch, but since he’d had 2 yogurts and a bowl of cereal for breakfast, this was not shocking. He also ate like a teenage boy at dinner. (A piece of steak, carrots, broccoli, and then 2 pieces of string cheese and 2 cups of chocolate milk because he was still hungry.)

We don’t know what all of the activities were, but judging from the dark green smears all over his fingers and wrists, coloring with markers was probably among them. Jill said the front room at day care was also littered with partially connected choo-choo tracks, a hallmark of Noah’s enthusiastic participation if ever there was one.

In fact, he was so absorbed in playing when she arrived, that he announced, “You have to go away!” when it was time to go home.

Fortunately, by dinner, Noah had become more charming. Jill told Noah, “I love you,” to which he replied, “I love you too!” We died of the cuteness.

That charm was kept in check by some serious possessiveness. First, Noah was very possessive about his broccoli (short). It continued with a very funny possessive “rendition” of the ABC song (longer).

There are also some entertaining sound effects and a sample of the kind of narrative (longest) that fills our house approximately 80% of the time that Noah is home and awake, up on Flickr.