Swim Day

You know it's summer when an ice-cold pool is a relief! We had a great time swimming at Aunt Sarah's pool last Saturday. Nora likes being in the water, but was a little more cautious about getting her face near it than she was last year. She loved going back and forth between the baby pool, the big pool, the chain-link fence, and the lounge chairs. All was like a picturesque Saturday afternoon until the car ride home. Just keep scrolling down.

Here's what happened.

MG: Nora? Do you want some goldfish?
Ben: Yeah, she's probably hungry.
Ben (looking in the rearview mirror): Nora, don't stuff so many in your mouth at once. Yeah, that's right, spit out that little bit. Wait...auughhhhhh! Oh my gosh!
MG: Is she throwing up?

She had indeed. So while I went into Wal-Mart to grab a few crucial items (paper towels, butter, and decorating bags) Ben was in charge of the clean-up.

And somehow it resulted in this shot.

MG: Oh, my gosh! Someone's going to nominate us for one of those bad parent photographs!
Ben: No, the car was not running. Yes, it was still cool for the 30 seconds it took for me to take this shot. Yes, the doors were unlocked and I had the keys.

And yes, those women in the background were giving him some weird looks.

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.