Curlers and a bed-time story

As a baby/toddler/child, I lived in pink sponge curlers. 

Which resulted in some beautiful blond curls (and while we're at it, check out those huge cheeks!)

So tonight I figured I'd extend the family tradition of golden curls and I set Norah's hair in nothing other than pink sponge rollers. I'll be honest, I'm not sure I did it right, but we'll see how it looks tomorrow!

New Trick

Norah's got a new trick up her sleeves, check her out!



She's pretty proud.

We had a mini photo shoot today in hopes I could get a good picture of her for the back of her birthday party invitation (be excited, I tell ya). She wasn't really having it, but we got some good stuff. Kind of.

But a few minutes into the shoot, she told me in no uncertain terms that she was done.

New tooth for Norah

Our sweet little girl just keeps getting bigger. Not really, actually, she's having trouble gaining weight. But her skill set is growing! She waves, gives kisses (nice big wet kisses), gives "loves," pulls herself to a stand, drinks from a straw and chases the kitty around making her kitty noises. And after many tears and sleepless nights (for both mommy and Norah) she finally sprouted her first tooth. If you look closely, you can totally see it in the third picture down - and consider yourself lucky because she likes to keep this beauty hidden. She'll either clamp her mouth shut or put her tongue over her tooth whenever anyone tries to get a glimpse.

So big!

This is Norah

Norah can sit!
Sometimes she tumbles over ...

But she doesn't mind!

Just as long as Mommy picks her up quick!

Norah's first food

For the longest time, Norah has been SO aware of food, mostly aware of the fact that she wasn't getting any. Jason and I weren't too keen on the idea of starting her on single grain white rice cereal, so we skipped right to the good stuff. The plan was to wait until Christmas and as the best gift ever feed Norah sweet potatoes (festive, eh?). But last night, she made it very clear that she was more than ready. My plan is to make her baby food, so I started up the oven and cooked her some sweet potatoes. Using this Web site as a guide, we fed Norah her first big people food!

She was in heaven :)