More photos from spring!

...If you can really call it spring here in Seattle (grumble grumble)...

In lieu of actual sunshine, however, these should hold you over.

Thanks to Kirk & Emmy for their hospitality and awesome camera!

Mysteries of the Universe!*

What IS a packa??

And what DID Nora discover?!

 

This post is mainly to say that there are some choice 2nd birthday and Christmas items on their way to Uploadsville soon.

*And also to confirm the obvious fact that we've been watching a lot of Lost.

[delayed post from 1/7/10. Still worth the pix/vids, though, I think. And yes, we know we still owe you the birthday/Christmas photos...]

In case you were wondering if there were any recent photos of Nora we forgot to pull off our camera

Yes.

[Public link to a Facebook photo album. You should be able to view it without being a FB member, but let me know if you can't]

Hair. Teeth.

"This is the pillow. This is the pillow."

That's the mid-nap sentence I heard via the baby monitor yesterday. Nora was sitting up and identifying the objects in our bedroom, beginning with those closest to her (she was having a nap in the MamaPapa Bed). "This is the pillow. This is the book. That is the necklace. Mama, turn the fan off." That sort of thing.

Luckily, she went back to sleep fairly easily. That time. She's sleeping again right now, but who knows when she'll wake up and what she'll be saying. She's been waking up more than usual these days due to sleep talking. It's a little surprising her brain hasn't exploded what with all the pronouns, verbs, adjectives and hanging gerunds firing up new synapses. I mean, IT BLOWS OUR MINDS.

(It's okay if I say something particularly stupid if I use capslock, right?)

I've been trying to video some of her accomplishments, but she blocks every attempt by turning her direct attention to the camera. Every time. Until I figure out how to set up the tripod far enough in advance that she stops noticing the camera you'll have to bear with these still shots:

Who eats yogurt with a spoon?

Hardly incognito.

Shortly after this photo, Nora immersed herself in Shilshole Bay. Looking down at an open-eyed, underwater mermaid freaked out this mother, but when I picked her up, her first words were "back in the water."

Just today, plotting at the Volunteer Park wading pool.

...and awake. Today's waking words? "Mama. Mama? I want to go see Mama." Why am I typing instead of going in the bedroom? Because Basil went in. I know, because she just said "Need a ladybug necklace. Papa, get it puhhhleeeeeeease."

Independence

I really think that Nora represents Paul Revere in this photo:

Why must my camera phone have such poor quality?

This photo followed a fantastic summer day of a morning trip to Volunteer Park and an afternoon trip to Golden Gardens. The first included a wading pool and a little picnic; the latter included complete submersion in Shilshole Bay and a Surprise Dinner Picnic (tm?) with Yuki, Mimi and Philip. Not a bad way to prepare for impending fireworks...especially when said fireworks are way past someone's bedtime.

May you all have the freedom to wear one holiday's accoutrement on another.