Snapshots from this week

Amazingly, this is the 100th post on Nora's blog. Wow, not only is she a year old, but she's in the triple digits for blog posts as well! :)

Nora adores her bike from Nana and Babchi. She rides it all around the house, and has totally figured out steering and getting herself out of corners by backing up!

Yes, she has to go for a ride before she even gets out of her PJs in the morning.
She can even mount and dismount by herself! It helps to have something to hold onto so the bike doesn't go sliding out from under her.
We had some very hot days last week, which always make for a sweaty, sleepy baby.
She was so sacked out during her nap one day that she didn't even wake up when I came into her room, so I took some pictures. She always prefers to sleep on top of her blankets, which makes sense when it's hot, but not when it's cold and she still does it!
All ready to set off for the Memorial Day parade, snacks, sunhat, and all.Waiting for the parade to start, Nora and Daddy both look pretty skeptical at some people who were trying to give us money on behalf of Christianity and then interview us about how God must exist because there are Coke cans in the world (at least, that seemed to be the gist of their argument). They seemed to know better than to talk to Mama - they must have known I would have told them what I really thought and not been as polite as Daddy was!
Nora looking all grown up in some cute pink pants that were a Valentine's Day gift from Uncle Ben and Aimee and her new big girl sneakers. She's grown out of her leather moccasins, and I spent ages looking for a pair of shoes that would suit her for the summer as she learns to walk. The key for a new walker is that they need really flexible soles, so that they can learn how to balance. She'll still be barefoot most of the time, but she does need some sort of shoes for outdoor situations when it wouldn't be safe to go without shoes. My main obstacle to finding an appropriate pair of shoes is that I'm really cheap, and wasn't going to spend $30 on the really nice ones... I finally found these at Target, and they're cheap and cute and very bendy, so hopefully they'll work. We tried them on around the house this morning to see how they felt.
Hm, what sort of mischief can I get into up here?
Yay for being a big girl!
Nora's been having a language explosion recently. A week and a half ago, she had three words: Mama, Dada, and (sign) hi/bye, all of which she's had for months. Now this is her vocabulary:
Spoken: Mama, Dada, Daddy, hi, byebye, yes.
Sign: hi/bye, more, milk, food/eat, all done, Daddy (occasionally).
Who knows, when she gets up from her morning nap today she may have even more words! She also repeats what we say a lot, but I only put the things she does without prompting on this list. Her most common repetitions are all done (ah da!) and shoe (shooo). It's super cute! She also started clapping yesterday for the first time.