What a month! We welcomed Valerie Michelle to our family on October 19th, Marie’s Birthday too! Mom & Baby did awesome! The stats at the birth:
8lb 5oz.
20.75 Inches long
Born 8:03pm
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Nora feeds the cow!
This cow was big enough to eat Nora if it really wanted to. Look how brave she is as she feeds it!
Cutest kid
Ok, I claim cutest kid, at least for yesterday. We stopped in Morgantown for some food, and we relaxed a bit and let Nora have fries (actually this place didn’t serve any other vegetables, gotta love college restaurants) — I gave her some ketchup to dip her fries in and she put it in her mouth and then took it out. We figured she didn’t like it (it was Hunt’s after all) Then she kept doing the same thing, lining up her ‘used’ fries on the table. Eventually it occurred to me that she just was sucking the ketchup off of the fries. I had to show her how to dip into ketchup and bite the fry! She got the hang of it immediately. I never thought I would have to teach my kid how to use condiments!
Dance Party!
What can I say she takes after her mother. . .
Nora’s Funny Face
This is the classic “Deborah” Face!
Oh yeah . . . and it’s official.
We are expecting baby #2 sometime this coming October. Due date is the 21st!
Grandma & Grandpa Visit – May 2009
Whew! What a weekend! Frankly we are exhausted, all of us, me, Marie and Nora. Nora took a nap as soons as G&G hit the road (at 9:00am). Ann & RJ arrived Thursday, and although I tried to keep her up to say hello, Nora was desperate to go to sleep. No worries though, she had all day Friday & Saturday to play with them. Frankly I thought she was going to wear them out, but it turned out that the opposite was true.
Grandpa got Nora the bike you see in the pictures below, which she absolutely loves. I’m a big fan too since it has this handy “parent push and steer bar” which means I don’t have to spend the day with my back bent down holding the back of the bike. Genius!
Saturday afternoon turned out to be nice weather, so we all had fun climbing up and down the playground equipment at Lincoln School!
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Danielle’s Birthday Party
We received an invitation to Danielle’s first birthday party, located in Southern Virginia. I said, hey, lets do it. Marie wondered if I was out of my mind suggesting that we get up at the crack of dawn (f not before) to race through Washington DC traffic for a 2pm children’s birthday party. Of course she was happy at the chance to see her long time friends Kirsten and Rob too.
It turned out to be a great success. We arrived just in time, enjoyed the great southern weather and Nora was glad for the playtime to stretch out her legs after the trip. She’s a great traveler. Hopefully baby #2 is as compliant.
EDIT: Oh yeah, it is worth mentioning that Nora found this hot weather to be the perfect excuse to sit down in a bucket of ice water. The ensuing nude baby pictures have been omitted, sorry.
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Washington DC (and Aunt Kimmie!)
As part of our marathon sprint around this part of the country, we headed back north to Washington, DC on Sunday morning to visit Kimberly, who got a job and is getting settled in the city. The weather held up for us to take a stroll around the National Mall & then we headed out and had a nice lunch in the city before strapping Nora back into the car seat (not without a fight) for the trip back home.
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