Day 237- Who Loves You, Baby?

These frames are above our dining room table. Nora will stand on the floor pointing to the pictures and begging to be picked up so she can look more carefully. She will point to the people in the pictures, asking for them to be identified. Once we tell her who each person is, she either agrees with us ("yeah!") or she'll try to repeat their name (which she still hasn't really mastered, but she gets close with "Tessa".)

Why yes, she is standing on the dining room table.

Pictures of people she knows are a new fascination for Nora, but whether we are at home or at Dede and Grandpa's, she is always eager to play the "Who dat?" game with family photos.

Day 236- Une Artiste Extraordinaire

Nora's Melissa&Doug jumbo coloring book and crayons arrived in the mail today. Nora took her art work very seriously.

A little pink here...

... and a little purple there...

Is that Thomas the Train on TV?

As you can see, she is a budding talent.

"Un bel oiseau"- An Elinor C. Lyle original.

Day 235- Bookworm

I'm cheating. This is a picture Ms. Tracy sent me today of Nora "reading", but she took it yesterday.  I know it's not very clear, but I just love it. Seeing her happily work her way through a book is definitely among my most favorite things.

Day 234- Head of the Class

Tonight, Nora accompanied me to Open House. She only stayed until Brad got off work and was able to come get her, but for the short time she was there, she enjoyed playing in my classroom.

Snack time!

I know you're hungry, but please don't eat the desk.

She's quite advanced for her age, no?

If you look very closely, you can see a small stage area with 3 steps leading up to it at the very back of the room. Nora spent a good amount of her time in my room climbing up and down the stairs. I would have loved to take pictures, but I was so nervous that she was going to fall (we don't have stairs in our house!) that I decided to spot her instead.

Day 233- Outside

Nora loves outside. Brad and I are really looking forward to the fall so we can spend more time outside with her instead of hiding out in the air conditioning. Mostly, she just gets to hang out in our back yard, but it is fun to see her get braver and more confident as she wanders around our carport, patio, and a little bit into the actual yard with the dogs.

Walk like an Egyptian.

Nora is giving her dogs the side-eye.

Left, right, left, right...

Dada! (Because heaven forbid she call me Mama.)

Ok guys, let's go inside now.

As an aside, I am giggling at the mis-matched outfit she wore home from day care. I guess she must have spilled something on the shorts she was wearing this morning.

Day 232- A Girl's Best Friends

Today, Brad, his father, his brother, and his aunt went on a little genealogy excursion, and he took our camera with him. Too bad because Nora had a couple of super cute playdates this afternoon!

However, we've taken a few pics of her hangin' with her pups last week that are worth sharing.



What are we looking at?



Brandy, Bailey, Nora

Nora telling stories to the girls. Copper is nowhere to be seen.

Nora trying to tell Copper a story, but he isn't interested.

Feeding the princess pup.

Peek-a-boo!

Day 231- Spoon Feedings

Nora has been showing more and more interest in feeding herself with utensils. All I have for her right now are her baby spoons, so new "toddler utensils" are on the list of things to buy.  Tonight, she fed herself a whole container of yogurt (mostly) with a spoon.

She ditched the spoon as she got closer to the bottom of the cup, though.

Sweet, silly, messy, big girl! Your big girl fork and spoon are on their way.