Bad Blogger/Baby Book Keeper

Wow, I'm really falling behind on Nora updates.  I don't even have things written down for the past 3 months.  Will I be forced to, gasp, read Emmy's updates and compare against Babycenter's milestone charts so that I can create updates for our littlest?  Maybe if I look through enough pictures, and the few videos that we have, I will be able to get a clear idea of what she was up to in her 11th, 12th, and 13th months?

Sorry Nora, and sorry to any future children I might have; because, I have a feeling that it's just going to get worse from here.

I also want to start writing about funny little things that Emmy says- like this:

(last night, at dinner table, Nora screaming her head off b/c we won't hold her while we eat).

Me: "Emmy please eat"
Chris: "Emmy, just eat so that we can go to gymnastics"
Emmy: "I want more smoolie" (aka smoothie)
Me: (tone changing) "Emmy, EAT"
Christ: "Emmy, please just eat your waffle.  You can have more smoothie after you eat your food"
Nora: (constant screams with a few "all done's" mixed in)
Emmy:  "I am VERY disappointed in you guys"
Me: (not taking the time to try to figure out what she's really wanting to say) "BE QUIET AND EAT".

WOW.

Really?

We are THOSE parents.

But guess what?  After that, she was quiet and she ate.

The girl's inside voice sounds more like a yell and her whisper is what you and I would consider a conversational volume.  So maybe our inside voice sounds like a whisper to her and she can only hear yelling?

Yeah, I'll go with that one.

Emmy See, Emmy Do

Last night:

Set Scene: Emmy on toilet, Chris sitting on side of tub waiting for her to finish, me in front of the mirror, Nora in bed

Me: (examining hair in mirror, open drawer, find tweezers, pull out a red hair). "Oh no, this hair was losing color, it was going gray".
Emmy: "Mommy let me see".
Me: (hand hair over to emmy to show her how the hair is black on one end and red/going gray on the other)

Next Scene: Emmy and I in bathroom this morning.

Emmy: "Mommy, can I have those squeezy things?"
Me: (open drawer, give tweezers to Emmy)
Emmy: (puts tweezers atop head) "Can you help me? It's right here" (points me in direction to strand of hair)
Me: (pull hair, give to Emmy)
Emmy: "Oh NO!  I think I'm going black.  I mean, I think I'm going gray"

Oh dear.

13 months {nora}

If you've followed any of Nora's updates at all then you know the drill: collage for now, update for later.

I'm goin through the big D and do mean Dallas

It's midnight!!! I am SO going to be paying for this tomorrow. I've mentioned it before, but its worth saying again: If I stay up late, then Nora wakes up early. NEVER.FAILS. 

Oh well. 

Tomorrow ill be going to the big D and I do mean Dallas. First stop will be to pick my sister up at Dallas Love Field then on to DFW to go pick up our friends(another sister pair).  This is my first trip away from Nora, bittersweet yet probably needed. I've been inexplicably more attached to her than to Emmy. Actually, I can explain it, but its a long explanation. Let's simply say that I am holding tight and enjoying every moment with her. Well, trying to enjoy it even though at any given moment in our house Nora is crying bc who knows why, and Emmy's crying because she's getting neither attention nor understanding from Chris and me. Oh, I digress. 

Anyway, per Chris' request I have left a nearly hour by hour schedule for Nora. Emmy is staying Saturday noon-Sunday afternoon in claremore with Chris' parents and Nora will be out there all Sunday while Chris works on our vegetable garden at our house. 

I'm not even gone yet I already miss my girls yet I know that this weekend is needed. I hope to even sleep in....maybe all the way until 6am? How sweet would that be.

12 month collage {nora}

I need to work on a 12 month update, but in the meantime- a collage from the last month of our baby girl's first year.  SO hard to believe.