Posing for Daddy

I didn't realize Brian had taken this one on her ponytail morning. Too cute for words! 

Daddy's in China

Here's Daddy enjoying a hike at the Great Wall! We miss you Daddy! 

Riding the Cow

We found a cow at Pike Place Market this morning that made Nora forget about her terrible cough for a few minutes. She has been a handful today as her throat is probably raw from coughing all the time. The doctor told us that it is just viral and nothing we can do about it. Not too much fun! 

Grandpa and Nora swinging together at the park up the street. 

Man she loves the slide! 

Having Fun at the Park

 

Reading

This is where you'll find Nora for the majority of the morning while I am getting ready. She absolutely loves to read books in her chair. The floor around her is covered with books when she is done! 

The three girls

 

Nora still loves her purple horsey 

Dude! I love these things!

 

Where are we playing today?

 

Look at that form! 

Golf clubs

Grandpa brought Nora her first set of golf clubs this weekend. She loves them and constantly asks to play 'ball'. 

Organizing

Nora spent a great deal of time the other night organizing all my reciepts and printer paper. She put a reciept on top of each piece of paper that she layed on the floor. I'm not sure what the method to her madness was, but she was very confident in her process. 

New hair cut

 

Body painting with applesauce! 

Mommy, this feels cool! 

Posing for the Camera

 

Grandma?

What are these things for Grandma? 

This is the only safe way to have the piano bench at the moment. She is climbing onto everything right now and this one is the most dangerous. She is always stretching for the keys of the piano and I don't even want to think about what could happen! 

Kitty Blanket

Nora loves to give Sydney a blanket. The amazing thing is that Sydney just lays there and lets her do this! 

Her Curls are Getting So Long!

 

White Trash

Ok, I know that isn't politically correct, but that is the way Nora's room is looking these days. I've put a blanket over her window in an effort to get her to sleep longer in the morning. It helped this morning as she slept until 5:30. Hopefully she will sleep a little bit longer tomorrow morning as well. I'd like to try to get her closer to 6:00. I'm not going to give her anything to eat or drink until 5:45 tomorrow morning to slowly move her breakfast later as well. I'm hoping that the combination of the two things will help.

The other good thing about her sleep is that she is going to bed between 7:00 and 7:15 now without any protest. Logic would say that the earlier I put her to bed the earlier she will wake up. Everything I've read negates this notion and says that she will probably sleep later. I'll let you know if all those researchers are right! Let's sure hope so!

She was wonderful this morning as we got ready for school. She played like an angel in her bedroom with her books while I got ready in peace. It made it so much easier than trying to have her in the bathroom with me. It's the little things that make things easier! Good luck to those of you that have number two coming!

After being up for 48 hours, we sure hope you got a good night's sleep Daddy!

Bye Bye Daddy

Brian just left for a two week business trip to London and China. It is going to be difficult around the Remfrey household as a single-parent. Thankfully Nora is playing by herself some, but she is still waking up at 5 am. No matter how late we put her to bed, she wakes up at 5:00. Sometimes she has a little milk and a banana (the morning staples) and goes to sleep on our chest, but most mornings she is ready to play. That is going to be tiring...Brian and I usually trade morning duty.

Thankfully Grandpa is coming on Sunday to visit for a couple of days. Maybe he'll take morning duty ;-)

Playing Alone

Nora has been in her bedroom reading books ALONE for 40 minutes. She chooses a book, climbs up into the rocking chair and proceeds to 'read' the book to herself. It is really fun to sit in the living room and listen to her babble, I mean read, all her favorite books. I can tell when she has a book about animals because she makes all the animal sounds she know. What a character!

"What a Polite Child You Have!"

Nora's vocabulary continues to grow every day. Her favorite things to say at the moment are "thank you" and "welcome". If she is trying to give us something (like the contents of my makeup bag every morning), she will repeatedly say "thank you" until we take the object from her. After we take it from her, she will immediately say "welcome"!

More pigtails

 

Nora's pigtails

This morning we got a bit adventurous and put Nora's hair in pigtails. I doubt that they'll last for very long but they are really cute!!