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.

A Few Pictures for April

Here a just a few pictures for the month of April. Not doing so great on the two posts a month goal for this year.

We noticed recently that we had 44 posts for 2010! I'm not sure if we're going to have that many for 2011. We had also forgotten what we blogged about before Nora...oh, yeah, we wrote about what we were doing!

Here' s a picture of Nora getting into the pantry, which she does any time the door is left ajar. Her ability to get into things is increasing. She's so fast! And her reach is growing. Tonight she actually climbed up onto a stool to reach onto the counter top. Oh no...

Here's another of Nora sporting my new favorite hair-do. Pigtails! I'm so glad it's finally long enough!

And finally, a picture of a few of the Easter cookies I made. Let's face it, I'm a total novice in the field. But getting a little better...

Trip to the Park

In Abstencia

Don't worry, we won't share any excuses for why we didn't post at all in February. Although, we're wondering if people who check our blog have given up on us!

Nora's milestones:

Walking!

Two teeth!

An ever-expanding vocabulary! Here's the short list: Na-na-na (banana), ba-pa (apple), cra-ka (cracker), juuu (juice), noi (milk), num-num (yum yum), de-dyet (blanket), nigh-nigh (night night), ba (bath), ball, da (dog), tahhhh (Star, our new little dog, pictured below)

Animal noises! Only growls, woof-woofs, and fish puckers at this point...

Here are a few pictures from the past several weeks:

Time with our friend Clark

Our little dog, Star

Getting into trouble - yes, that's a checkbook and a remote

"Sharing" with our friend Reese

Cruising with walker

Here is a nice video of Nora playing with her new/used walker, courtesy of Hannah, Emily and Will. She is really starting to get the hang of it. At first when she ran it into something, she would simply abandon the walker and crawl off. Now she can pull it around and go where ever she wants!

Snow Day

It snowed here in East Tennesse, and we decided that it was high time Nora got to experience the fun of playing in a winter wonderland. Since it never snows in Maryville, and we don't have a hill at our house, we don't own a sled. So I improvised one and we sent her sailing down the driveway. She loved it.

Happy Birthday!

We can't believe it's been a year! Here are some pictures of our sweet one-year-old on her birthday. We feel so blessed to have her in our lives. She helps us remember to be more tender-hearted, more joyful, and more grateful. It's hard to imagine life without her, and we are so glad we've had this year with her.
We are also grateful for all of the family and friends who love her. She is one lucky girl to have so many people who love her!












PS: Still no teeth...