Monday

Three Months Old




Busy and Fun-filled Weekend

This weekend Joe's sister and her family came up from Maryland for Norah's baby blessing. It was fun to spend time with them. Their kids are getting big and are so smart and cute! Friday night our ward had a ward Christmas where Joe, Norah and I played Joseph, Mary and baby Jesus. Sunday morning Norah was blessed. After Church we had some friends over for lunch. Later that night we visited my brother Bryan. It was so good to see him seeing that it had been almost a year since I last saw him. I am so blessed and so grateful for such a great family!
Andrew and Joe (I especially love Andrew's seductive look):
Viv and Norah:
Andrew and I:
Mona and Hailey made friends with these twins, Grace and Abby, in our Ward. They were so cute dancing around, following each other, and pretending to be Rudolph:
Norah's first Santa experience:
Here we are, four generations! Definitely not the best picture of us all but it will do:
Norah with her Maryland cousins:
Norah likes her hands:
Andrew and Norah enjoying the monkey gym. Andrew was so gentle with her, it was cute!:
All of us saying goodbye! See you in a couple of weeks!:

Friday

Big Girl!

At Norah's two-month check up about two weeks ago she weighed 12 pounds and was 23.5 inches long. She is growing so fast! She is all smiles now and it's getting really fun. When she smiles at you she'll bat her eyelashes and sometimes nuzzle her head in my shoulder like she's shy. It's pretty cute! One thing is true about parenting; just when you think you understand the babe, it all changes!! Norah was sleeping so well. Then we stayed out late with her two nights in a row and ever since has been throwing us for a loop (whatever that means). She's been waking up almost 5 times a night these days. I'm ready for a good night's rest but I refuse to let her "cry-it-out." I never thought I'd be such a wuss but I just can't do it. It just breaks my heart to see her scream and get so upset. SOo today we took out the book "The No-Cry Sleep Solution" from the library. I'll let you know how it goes! Wish us luck.