Happy Valentine's Day!

Hope everyone has a peaceful and calm Valentine's Day surrounded by the people you love. We're having a low-key day here - Nora's got a bit of a cold, and Daddy's been out plowing and sanding the snow and ice since 4 am, so we're not doing much in the way of fancy celebrations. But thank you very much to those of you who sent Nora Valentines! She loves getting her own mail.

We do have pictures from yesterday's field trip in honor of Nora's 9 month out-as-long-as-in birthday! Nora was born at Backus Hospital, very near our house, and we had a really wonderful experience there in the Frederick S. Eadie Birthing Center. Shortly after her birth, we received some information on a fundraiser called "A Star is Born at Backus." Basically, in exchange for a donation to the Birthing Center, they engrave your child's name and birthday on a star and post it on a mural in the Birthing Center waiting room. Since we were so happy with the time we spent there, we thought this would be a good way to say thanks, and to get a fun thing that we could visit with Nora to boot. Anyway, we donated, and got a confirmation that Nora's star had been installed way back in August or so. And we finally got around to taking Nora to see it yesterday!

Nora checking out the wall of stars.
A mostly unsucessful picture of Nora with her star - she's the one diagonally off the bottom right corner of the fire alarm.
Nora's a star!
The whole wall.

Edited to replace the star with Nora's full name with the blurry one, thanks to Aunt Abby. Thank you!!