Nine Months: Four Generations

Weights and measurements:  17lbs, 11oz; 29 inches

Relatives:

Nora's with my Grandpa Baker (or Grampie) and my stepgrandmother, Jannie.  This was taken on our family trip Back East (oh, that phrase evokes so much of my own childhood...like, how I used to think that Moses Lake was in Western Washington because "west" meant farm and "east" meant city) during which we spent a lovely time with Basil's family in belated celebration of Granmary's 60th birthday.  Luckily, my own grandparents live less than an hour away from Nora's so we were able to have a nice New England drive in the becoming fall foliage.

There are more photos of that trip, of course, and some videos.  This one is just for now.

Nora's Crawling Adventure

(Youth Theatre Northwest, September 2008)

Taken using our new Flip Video Mino camera (Thanks ma & pa!), edited using iMovie '08 (thanks Apple!)

Meaning "one stop"

Nora, on the monorail for the first time, imagines the future that will never be.

Affected thusly, she retreats to On the Boards and crafts her newest piece of fundable performance art:(You can tell her work is political in nature because in reality, the former was the latter and vice versa.)

With Apologies to Our Neighbors

Please find a backdated post here.

Not Quite Halloween

I was half organizing the living room, half playing with Nora this morning and picked up the scarf I used in class all last week to play the dragon's-egg-losing pirate, Lady R.  Nora used it to this effect:




I'll bring the dip if you bring the Dostoyevsky.

An Afternoon in the Life of Nora J

2pm

Nora, post bucket-swinging and interestedly watching kids running around at Volunteer Park. We'd just overheard a five-year-old boy say to a batch of other boys "Do you want to play Indians? Or Native Americans?" His query was followed with "I'm a dinobot!" and "I'm riding a dragon!"  Nora was understandably perplexed by the rules of the playground.

3:30pm

Here's our girl with something she does understand:  gears.  Or, rather, moving cool plastic things around that make other similarly cool plastic things move around.  This was in the waiting room of Children's Hospital.  (She was there to have her hearing screened; she didn't have that test at birth.)  The waiting room offered other exciting distractions such as chairs, couches, newspapers, fish (almost as awesome as dogs) and other people's shoes.

6:15pm

Oh, man.  This girl loves her some cherries.  Or, in this case, one cherry nabbed from the sample tray at Whole Foods.  Other patrons in the store could not hold to their must-shop-work-over-eat-soon demeanor once they spied her mug of destruction.

7:30pm

The marketing for these diaper wraps claims that because they fasten in the back that baby hands won't be able to find and loosen them.  Erm, except for babies who have realized that arms and hands rotate.  Mostly she just likes the sound the velcro makes, but I figure we're mere seconds away from her figuring out that the cool sound also means her behind can be diaper free.  

8:15pm

Nora and her papa, engineering bedtime.

Eight Months: TGIF (Time to Giggle, It's Friday!)

Thanks to Flickr for their new video upload tool. Take that, slow YouTube and Blogger!