NOELLE NO FEET, HIDE AND SEEK

 Noelle 

Sept. 2022 - almost 3 years old

Pretty as a princess!

Hands held just so!

Only 2 years old,

pink flounces of voile,

Noelle, 3rd child of 4,

"GrammyPam, look.  No feet!"

"Look.  Look at the floor!"

"No feet no more!"

Sitting on the bench in a Subway booth she was showing off her special dress.

Later, she escaped the booth where we were seated for lunch and went to sit by her mother.

With my back to both of them I heard her mother's voice, an ascending more stringent tone with each exclamation, "No, NO, NO, NO, NO!"  I turned quickly to see the problem, wondering if I could help.  

I saw skin.  I saw a bare chest.  I saw a grinning child standing up in her seat, her arm flung in the air with her pretty pink dress hanging off her fingers as her mother valiantly grabbed for everything!  The child gave it a final backwards fling!

Noelle, no feet?

Noelle, no dress!

Dress gone!

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July 2022 - 2 1/2 years old

We were playing hide and seek.  The other siblings had hid in the hall closet.  Little Noelle and I were It, we were the the ones doing the seeking.  

Little ones can't keep from giving themselves away.  They giggle and snicker and tell each other "Shhhhh".  Sometimes their extremities flail outside the mattress edge or from under curtain hem in excitement.

All of a sudden Noelle, stands stock still.  Not moving.  Listening.

"I hear dem.  I hear a growl!"

And out springs sister and brother arms and legs all akimbo with glee.

Jan.  2022 - 2 years old

Sunday couldn't find Noelle, remember, the kids all rough house together, running down the hall chasing each other, having a tug of war over the baby doll stroller, tossing balls out of the ball pit, and more, but little Noelle, who's only 2, isn't usually among them.  She's doing her own thing.  This time I found her reaching up to the table, she's only eye-high, so how she did this, I don't know -- but from a bowl that her sister left behind  she was dipping a spoon into cereal and dripping milk on the way to her lips, "Yummmmm."

Nov. 2021 - 2 years old

The pictures below are how Noelle's parents and I get pictures of this 2 yr. old.  She will not stand still.  She's gonna be horrible at family photos!  Rusty, her Dad, said, "Here's how you do it.  You hold the camera in one position like you're checking your phone and when she comes around the corner, click."  

Well, here's how I did it.  NOT SO!

Dec.  2020 - 1 year old

Friend Theresa says her little granddaughter likes to dance to Barbara Ann, by the Beach Boys.  So I decided to try it with my own granddaughter.  Noelle was dancing to Barbara Ann, shaking her little booty, but try as I might I could never get her picture.  She teases.  She comes in front of you and smiles and just as you start to click, off she goes!

We'll have to learn to recognize Noelle by her ... and I raise my right little pinky like an aristocrat ... derri -AIR.