Norah 2 Months

11 lb 13 oz - 75% class
24.25 inches long- 95% class
She's a big girl and only getting bigger... fast!
~Smiles A LOT! I feel like 2 months is really early to be getting so many smiles, but I am not going to complain at all. I love them!
~she can focus a lot better but still not 100%
~we work on tummy time once or twice a day. she does ok but gets tired of it pretty fast
~wakes up about twice a night. Normally around 1 or 2 am then again around 6
~very ticklish. That's when I can get lots of those pretty smiles. I almost got a laugh, once, too!

Norah 1 Month

Since I didn't keep up very well in the beginning, I made some sticky notes of her developments, so here they are:
~starting to become more aware. She spent most of her first month sleeping; day in and day out. I had to set my alarm at night to get her up to eat. Not many moms can say that! Needless to say she is so easy!
~lifts her head.
~Rolls to her side. She doesn't get too far but she likes to tuck her knees in and lean over. Great start!
P.S. so I was just going through my notes and I found this under my list of Norah's developments:
"says first word=Tim"
Someone was playing on my computer! lol Thanks for the little addition Mr. Tim! We will make sure she works on your name asap! haha

Ella’s 1 Year Old!

My niece, Ella is one year old already! She is such a sweet baby. We love you Sweet Pea! :)

Circle of Neglect

Norah can now sit in her entertainer (aka the "circle of neglect" since babies get put in these things so that mom can get something done). She loves it and really doesnt need the red booster seat thingy. just one little towel on her side and she's good.

look at that smile!

Look at that hair! lol

Mirrors and Hair bows

Avery's bathroom in our new house has a counter that she can actually see over while on her step stool (Our previous house had abnormally high counters which were nice for us tall folks but not for little ones). Anyhoo... she loves to play with her hair bows, headbands, and clips and comes to tell me that she is "pretty" while wearing every possible one she can get on her head! lol

Shirts.. Who Needs ‘em?

We are going through the "run around the house naked" phase.

I don’t even put a shirt on Avery in the morning unless we are going out in public since it comes off first thing and I can't keep it on her. Yesterday, she figured out how to take her diaper off... not good!

Norah’s Baptism

September 3, 2011 Norah became a child of God!
We had just a small little ceremony at my parents lake house with just immediate family, with the pastor from my home church, and my grandma, since we were in limbo moving from Louisiana to Houston. It was perfect... besides the fact that Avery screamed through the whole service because she didnt want to sit down (who wants to sit down when you could be swimming or running around the lot?! lol)
Oh! and what is even cooler is that the pedestal table that we used was made by my dad in a shop class when he was in about 5th grade or so and the bowl he made just before the baptism just for Norah. She gets to keep the bowl and since my grandma keeps the pedestal table at her house, she said she will make sure that Norah gets it one day! How awesome! :)

I hope this lasts

Ok, I am back! I sure hope I can keep up with blogging again!

I really miss it. It is such a good way for me to keep up with my growing girls. I know I will regret it down the road if I let this go.

Anyways, Here's a few posts I've been wanting to do for a while....
P.S. I now, Blogger wont cooperate and let me upload pictures... UGH! very annoying!!

Hello!

Its been a while since I have had any outside contact with the internet world. In the past 3 weeks I think I have only been on Facebook twice and that was because I had a specific notification I wanted to see and as far as blogging goes... well I think you can tell how well I have kept up with that!

Anyways, both girls are sleeping at the same time so I thought I would make a quick post.

We have been living with my parents now since August 29 and the moving truck gets to our house tomorrow to unload all of our stuff from Louisiana. I can not wait to get settled!!! I get so unbelievable stressed out when my life is scattered all over the place; living out of suitcases and not being able to find anything is not a cup of tea! I do have to be so greatful though that my parents agreed to take us in. That saves us so much money (an sanity) as opposed to living in an apartment.

Norah's baptism was on Sept 3 at my parent's lake house. I will have to make another post on that later.

I still need to do Norah's first month post and as she quickly approaches 2 months old I have lots of catching up to do! At least I have been taking notes to help me remember little milestones here and there.

As for Avery, she is loving being with Nana and Pappy (and Lucy, their chihuahua). She is so sweet to Norah and gives her kisses all of the time. I think she really likes having a baby around (for the most part, anyways). She also is starting to talk... A LOT! It's really pretty cute how she tries to repeat everything I say. Time to start watching my mouth! lol

Wish me luck on getting settled as fast as possible. I can't wait to show pictures of our new house and tell all about it!

Here's some pictures of the quilt my mom made for Norah and a few of the little gal, herself!

New Nail Colors

I am totally obsessed with brown nail polish lately. I just recently found a few that I like, though. I am currently wearing:

"Little Brown Dress" from Essie.

However, I was in Ulta the other day and finally checked out their Texas line of OPI colors. I love them! How appropriate since I'm moving back in 2 days! lol Anyways, I got these colors:

"Houston, we have purple"

"Dont mess with OPI"

and I am going back to get "Suzi Loves cowboys"
I also found "Stormy" by Revlon:
Its really pretty. It's a dark gray but in some lights it has a plum tint to it; really does look like a storm cloud!