Snake Wrangler

Aack! A snake! The baby's got a snake!

Well actually, it's an odd choice, but it seems Noah's preferred toy to teeth on is a rubber snake. Bree randomly picked it out of the dollar bins at the store one day and it's been one of her favorite toys ever since, who knew? Now Noah has decided he also loves the snake as well, he can spend quite some time wrestling around with it and gumming it to death, pretending he's a snake charmer I guess. Sometimes there's even a bit of a scuffle at our house over who gets the snake... "MOM! Noah's slobbering all over my snake!"

Here's the slobbering in action, look at that mouth! I would be very afraid if I were that snake.

Mmm...nothing like a good old gnaw on a snake to ease the aching gums!

Besides gumming on it, Noah also spends quite of alot of time staring the snake down...

Or, stretching it out...

He gets really wild with that snake, even swings it all around like a lasso over his head.

Yep, I highly recommend a rubber snake to anyone who's got a kid feeling crabby about teething. Although, I do have to admit that it does look a little odd and has caused me to do a double take more than once to see the baby happily cooing at and chewing away on a snake.

When he's not snake wrangling Noah's other favorite game right now is peek a boo. The great part though, is that he can play it all by himself. If you lay him on the floor within 10 feet of a blanket he'll roll his way over there and immediately pull the blanket over his head. He apparently finds this highly amusing because he'll just sit there for a long time, the blanket loosely over his head and the rest of himself sticking out, kicking his legs vigorously and giggling. Every couple minutes he'll yank the blanket off and peek around hoping to catch someone looking at him, and when he meets your eye he laughs, quickly covers his head again, and goes back to kicking.