May Days

Here are a few pictures from a Mother's Day shoot, and last week, when we hit 90 degrees! It's funny I'm posting this today, when it's rainy, and around 60.
Nora is getting really hard to capture on film, at least the front of her is! She runs all the time now, mostly away from us. I think there were only about 7 shots of her facing the camera and smiling of the 2oo attempts tried!





I found out one day when I was watering the garden just how much Nora likes the hose. She walked right into the stream of water, fully clothed of course, and had so much fun running in and out of it! She also loved playing in her kiddie pool, especially getting in and out, in and out. She did not like the grass clippings that stuck to her hands ("nyuuuch!")




She's using lots of words now, including "poo-poo" when she has a dirty diaper (yay!), "pappy?" which means we sing "If you're happy and you know it" over and over, and "Weeese" which is her friend Reese! Elmo (a.k.a. "la-la") continues to be a favorite, especially on a certain miniature guitar, complete with wammy bar and the worst renditions of the alphabet song and Seasame Street song ever heard. No volume control, no off switch. If it didn't keep her happy in the car, the batteries might have gotten lost by now.