She's a natual ice skater...where'd that come from?

 

Nora's favorite player

 
This is Jeremy, Nora's favorite Seattle Thunderbirds player. She can often be heard yelling, "Go Jeremy! You're a goal scorer!"

Jeremy lives with Dyanna and her family temporarily while playing on the Seattle team. It is the league that the pros get their players out of. Jeremy goes to high school in Kirkland while practicing and competing on the Thunderbirds. Nora has gone to at least a half dozen of his games so far.

Skating with Jeremy and Sena

 

Favorite picture so far

 

True Love

 

Take a look at this

 
This is a picture of Nora when she was just 4 days old. Do you think they are brother and sister? Holy cow!

 

 

 

 

 

"Now don't make the pieces too big!"

 

A Johnson Thanksgiving Tradition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nora has a new brother!

It's official...Nora is now a big sister. Little baby Nicolas was born early Tuesday morning, and will be finally coming home in a few hours from now.

Nora was very excited to meet her brother for the first time yesterday afternoon.

Pretty Woman

Nora has really enjoyed her first few dance classes. Every night when I come home, she gets dressed up in her dance outfit, puts on her slippers, and asks me to "put on some music on the complitter" so that we can dance.

This video was shot a few nights ago, when she was rocking out to Roy Orbison. Enjoy!


Video: Pretty Woman

Nora is asleep on our bedroom floor, again. Her sleeping has been less dramatic lately, but she still prefers to end up on the blanket next to me on the floor. Thankfully, she isn't interrupting my sleep...the Little Man surely takes care of that!

I also wanted to let you know that our little girl's new favorite band is Queen. Yes you read that right, Queen. She knows all the words to Bohemian Rhapsody, Bicycle, and Under Pressure. We definitely have a singer on our hands! Every time we get in the car, she demands to hear Queen and Freddy. This is a big change from wanting to listen to The Magic Girls, a.k.a. The Indigo Girls. Amy and Emily's album got rave reviews from Nora as she knew all the words to that CD as well.

Happy Halloween!

 

 

 

 

Second Night...Same as the First

Not only did Nora sleep through the night (although she didn't go to sleep until 10:30 because Cousin Renee is here from Zambia) last night, I did too! I didn't even wake up to pee! That is a first in MANY months.

Sleeping Update

As per some advice from Brian's Aunt Peggy, I tried something quite unconventional to help in aiding Nora's sleeping patterns. I'm sure Auntie Tracy knows what the Comfort Zone is, but for those of you that don't, I'll give you a quick overview. The Comfort Zone is a device that emits pheromones into the air that are supposed to help dogs and cats relax and not display behaviors such as peeing/pooping on the carpet, barking excessively, or having separation anxiety.

Obviously, Nora isn't having these problems, but Aunt Peggy inadvertently found out that these pheromones also improved her sleeping habits. I thought, what the heck, I'll try it out on Nora. I'm all over anything that doesn't involve giving her any drugs AND may have the possibility of getting her to sleep through the night.

I knew it worked when I woke up at 6:00 AM ASTONISHED to not find my little girl sleeping on the floor next to me! I ran into her room to see her fast asleep in her bed. I actually put her down in her Love Sac, but somehow she moved from one to the other in the night. That means she was awake, but not awake enough to realize that she was not right next to me and come into my room.

I know...quite strange, but we'll see if it works again tonight. If so, then it will be deemed not a fluke. I'll keep you posted.

Singer & Sleeper

Nora is into singing and dancing ALL the time! Tonight she was dancing around the kitchen making up her own song. Some of the lines she included were, "We don't bite our friends," "We don't say that word," and "Put me in the fridge because I'm food." We'll try to get it on video soon.

She's so creative when it comes to her imagination, but it often pushes her over the edge. Last night she had a wonderful night of sleep, but she still ended up on the floor of our bedroom. After a little advice from a colleague at work, I decided to give Nora two choices for when she wakes up in the middle of the night: she can stay in her bed and try to go back to sleep, or come sleep on the floor in our room right next to me. For the last month or so, she has been ending up on the floor of our room at about 2:00 AM. When she comes into our room, I've usually just come back from the bathroom or a short walk around the house to straighten out my pelvis. She tells me about something scary or someone that she has seen in her room. This is often accompanied with screaming and crying. What ever it is that she is imagining, she is truly unable to understand the difference between reality and make believe.

Last night, Nora came into our room at about 12:30, laid down on her designated blanket on the floor, and went right back to sleep. She didn't move until 6:30 and neither did I! It was the longest stretch of sleep I've had in a couple of months. We're hoping for more 6-8 hour stretches of sleep for the weekend.

Firewood anyone?

Another tree falls in our yard

We had another wind storm today. Not anywhere near as bad as the one we experienced last December, but bad enough to knock down another one of the neighbor's 100-foot pine trees into our yard. In fact, this one fell down in exactly the same spot as the last one. Miraculously, the only thing hit by the tree was the same section of fence Grandpa replaced for us last spring. The fence sustained a little damage, but can be repaired easily.

The highlight for me was chopping it up into tiny bits with a chainsaw. We are going to have plenty of firewood this winter!