Ok, ok, two weeks in the life...

Oops, a long time since posting again! Nora's so active and mobile and into everything these days that it's become very difficult to get a chance to get online when she's awake! And I always seem to have 100 other things to do when she's napping... Excuses, excuses. On to the pictures!

This happy girl is who greets us, standing up in her crib, each morning and after naptime. We lowered her mattress a couple of weeks ago, when it seemed like pulling up was imminent, and it's a good thing we did, because otherwise she'd be flipping right over the edge!
Early last week, before the snow and ice storm (bleh.), it was 60 degrees out and we went outside on the porch to play. It was a gorgeous, bright, sunny day, and we discovered that none of Nora's sunhats from last summer fit anymore! She kept her hoodie hood on for a little while, but we did have to plan a shopping expedition to find a new hat.
She's actually in the process of trying to take her hood off here, not contemplating her hand thoughtfully, as it appears.
Nora reading cookbooks. She's responsible for cooking us dinner one night a week. (Well, maybe in a few more years!)
Daddy was working at a home show on Sunday, and Mama and Nora went to visit him. The highlight of the trip for Nora was the balloon she got! She absolutely loved it, and spent at least 30 minutes after we got home hanging onto the string and hauling it around with her. It wasn't even tied to her wrist here, she was just holding on tight. You can see in this picture that the balloon made her hair very staticky.
Having finished her raspberry course, Nora attacks the bagel portion of her breakfast.
Yes, of course you need a spoon to eat a bagel! Why wouldn't you?
Nora helps Mama do the laundry. Clean diapers are way more fun than dirty ones!

Such a long time... So many pictures!

I don't really have a good excuse for the long hiatus since Nora's blog has been updated - just that we're a busy family these days! To make up for it, here are a bunch of pictures from the last few weeks.

Every morning, Daddy gets Nora when she wakes up, changes her diaper, and brings her into bed with Mama for her first morning nursies. After that, Nora likes to crawl around and see what mischief she can get into on the bed! She's learned how to pull herself up, and now our morning routine includes pulling up on the windowsill and checking out what's going on outside. Another new Nora trick is the newfound ability to get from her tummy or a crawling position to sitting up. The other day I came into the kitchen to find that Nora had made her way from the living room rug where I had left her over to the shelves on the far side of the kitchen where we keep some photo albums. She sat herself up, pulled an album of her baby pictures off the shelf, and was flipping through it! Very, very, very cute.


Nora still gets most of her crawling mileage in on her belly and forearms, doing a combat crawl maneuvor. But she can do a traditional hands and knees crawl when she wants to, which is usually on the bed or somewhere else soft. I think our hardwood floors aren't cozy enough on her knees to encourage her to do it all the time! But her latest trick is putting her hands on something that she can then push around while she crawls, like her mixing bowl in the next picture and her red toy box in the pictures after that.


Yesterday, we went to the annual Maple Festival in Hebron, a nearby town. Here's a shot of Nora enjoying her first helium balloon and Mama enjoying her (not first) maple cotton candy. Mmmmmmmmmm.
Nora and Mama are on the couch watching a squirrel outside on the porch. He hung out there for quite a while!
Here are some really cute sunlit picture of Nora enjoying a magnet that came free stuck to a bottle of salad dressing. Her favorite toys are always the free ones!

Pulling up on her chair.
We got Nora a push wagon toy at IKEA last week, and she loves to walk behind. It's a little fast for her to drive on her own, and would definitely result in a faceplant that way, so it's used with parental supervision only right now!
And she doesn't only like pushing it.... Riding's fun too!

Snuggling with Mama.