Imagine 1.2.3

We took Nora to Sesame Street Imagine 1.2.3! She absolutely loved it. She was laughing, smiling and dancing much of the time.

A visit with Great Grandma

Christmas in Omaha 2009

We piled in the family truckster and made the trip to Omaha for Christmas this year. We were lucky to get there being that the weather was terrible. We were smart enough to leave a day earlier than planned. We spent about a week there enjoying time with Pete's family and our friends. Unfortunately with the bad weather were not able to see Molly and her family. Hopefully we will soon. Nora had a delightful time with her Nona and the time of her life with her cousins. She of course enjoyed her time with her aunt and uncles and Papa Larry and Patty too.
Nona lets talk over coffee before you head into work.

Christmas Eve at Nona's. Nora in front of her tree.

Nora loving on her Nona

Again....

I love this picture of Nora.

The cousins....

The cousins making silly faces with each other

Our happy family

Nona with 3 of her 4 grand kids

Nora had to make the silly face....

Megan loving her Snuggie

Nora and Haley Foral

Nora and Harrison hanging out....

The doll that eats and drinks then pees and poops

Nora, Megan and the guinea pig...

Ho Ho Ho

Nora had a few encounters with Santa this year.... She even saw his reindeer. Pete and Nora went to get a wreath at a nursery one day and Santa and his reindeer were there. Then the next morning all of us went to the Chanhassen Rec Center and had breakfast with Santa and Mrs. Claus. Then the next week we had the opportunity to see Santa at the tree lighting in downtown Chanhassen. Santa rolled up on a huge firetruck with the sirens blaring. It was awesome. Nora had a great time. Each time we drive by the location she yells, I saw Santa on a firetruck there. Such sweet memories.

The Gingerbread House

So, we took it upon ourselves to create a gingerbread house. The box makes it look so beautiful and easy to do. The pieces were cut out and simply needed to be decorated and put together. Well, it wasn't as easy as it looks. We had the ghetto gingerbread house.

This is what we thought we could create... We were wrong.

What matters most is that Nora thought it was awesome. She was on a sugar high the entire evening. She snuck candy off of it almost everyday....

Thankgiving 2009

UMMMM yes, it is the end of January 2010 and I am finally adding pictures from November. Life is busy and blogger is darn slow. We enjoyed a lovely Thanksgiving at my parent's house. The food and company was great. The pictures are below. Enjoy.
Nora loves to dance. Look at the air she caught.
Lissie, Nora, Uncle Arden and Vicki
David

Alex, Nora and Lissie
Nora and Lissie getting their groove on.

Sampling the yummy mashed potatoes

Nora is turning 3 soon

WOW... I started this post back in February and never finished it. Now that Nora is 3, I will just post it as it is........

How is it possible that Nora will be 3 years old in 1 month? I feel like my mom when I use this phrase "where did the time go?" It bring tears to my eyes that we are so blessed with such a healthy (knock on wood), happy, beautiful, funny, smart, goofy, loving, caring, silly, witty and the list could go on little girl....

Each day Nora surprises us with a new "thing." Whether knowing the words to a song, using phrases we do, telling us stories that are either fiction or non fiction, playing mommy, pretending she is a doctor, reenacting real life situations.... It is incredible. She talks all of the time. She has a huge vocabulary and has for several months. We are often asked by strangers if she is 4....

A few highlights of the past few months and prior:

• She can dress herself


• She is fully potty trained (since about September) with the exception of night time


• She has an opinion about clothes.. She will say "OMG, I love that outfit." She also will not wear certain things....


• She LOVES tank tops


• She still is a dancing machine


• She adores Dora
  

In December Nora was diagnosed with her first ear infection since she had her tubes put in last February. We are blessed that it took that long for one to come on... Bad thing is that the infection would not go away. Her ear canal was inflamed and bloody. Her tube had moved and was sitting on her ear drum. On Wednesday we brought her back to the ENT for the 4th time since the infection came on and he removed the tube. The thing was nasty..... She screamed and cried while he removed it but right afterwards she was golden. She didn't complain or anything. She is such a trooper.