Characteristics

And, as a side note, I really believe children come with their own personalities that are uniquely theirs.  Also a lot of behavioural traits are just developmental stages.

Even so, one of the joys of having children (and I don’t think they have to  be biologically yours to play, although that’s a traditional requirement) is to speculate on which aspects are related to you.  In our system, even, we play it, so here’s some of our imaginative leaps about Noah’s current personality traits.

Noah continues to be amazingly extroverted; other kids, especially, seem to gladden his heart and bring him deep wonder.  I think everyone in the system would turn and point to me for this one and I think that’s true; in that, he is very like me.

Noah’s favourite foods are lima beans (he seems to think they are like candy and when they show up in dishes he digs through the dish to eat them all first), fruit of all kinds, other beans of all kinds, broccoli, and lemon cookies.  I would say he pretty much has Lyria’s taste in food. Although he has recently discovered ketchup too.

Noah also has this elephantine memory.  An an example: before Carl left on his trip we had to go to the driver’s licence place.  Friday we had to go back on Carl’s behalf although Carl couldn’t come along, and Noah hit the door and started getting upset and saying “daddy!”  Finally I sorted out that he thought Carl was leaving on a trip. But really just about everything is like this with Noah, and he remembers where everything is in the house – seriously. If I lose something I just ask him and 9/10 of the time he takes me to it. I would say this is very much like Lynn. (And Carl, but we are playing the game in system :))

Also like Lyria &/or Lynn: Noah is pretty sensitive to people’s moods. Now that he’s talking more and more he often will tell me if someone’s hurt, angry, sad, happy, etc. Sometimes I have no idea if he’s right though.

And he loves his body, which again I think is like me… before society got hold of me anyway.