Three months together...

It's the 13th of the month, the now special day of recalling when we first held Nora in our arms and she gave us glimpses of her beautiful smile and outgoing personality. She's changed so much already... her hair is growing out, she's filling in her outfits and she can walk across a room, even if she looks like Frankenstein in the process. She's learned to say baby sign language for the words "more, drink, milk, cereal, eat, and sleep." Lewis thinks we should teach her the sign for "must", because then she could learn to sign "Must drink more milk!" (A popular milk commercial slogan....) With gestures of  shaking her head "no" or nodding "yes", clapping, pointing at objects, giving "high-fives", blowing kisses, waving hello and goodbye, and giving hugs and kisses when asked... she is communicating really well. We're not too fond of the recent trend of high-pitched screaming/squealing when Nora wants immediate attention, but we'll work on that. Must be a girl-thing!

 

Nora has developed a cold overnight... woke with a high fever and cough. I guess Lewis was just too generous last week in sharing his cold virus with her. I hope this week will be alright, as it's my last one before the boys are home from school for Christmas vacation, and I'm not ready for that! :)

This past week, Nora attended the primary Christmas concert, but we had to sit at the back of the auditorium. She's a little too distracting to everyone. Playing with my cell phone case was her entertainment. (Please don't tell Lewis that I had a hard time focusing on the performance.) Daddy's shoelace was also exciting. Do you think we should start carrying more toys on our person? :)

As the concert was finished early, I fed Miss "Hello Kitty" her lunch in the van while we waited for Lewis. Can you tell that she was eating sweet potatoes? It's great that Nora can be so flexible. I just hope that people don't watch me feeding her in the car-seat from baby food jars, and wonder what I'm doing!

Friday evening, we enjoyed seeing our good friends, Gary and Suzette, who we were blessed to have as neighbours for many years. We snuck out to a late night movie after Nora went to bed, thanks to our live-in babysitters. :)

 

The week's highlight was definitely last evening, when we visited our friends at our former church in Langley. The Christmas dinner was delicious, and we so enjoyed introducing Nora to everyone. I just hope she didn't share her virus with anyone.

Here are a couple of pictures from the afternoon when Nora was still feeling 100%. She really enjoys her brothers.