13 Months & Baby #2!

Well, this month just flew by and I have a feeling the rest of the year is going to be the same. It is amazing how busy weekends get when you have a baby. There are all sort of baby related things to do: play dates, play groups, gatherings, park time, blogging, scrap booking... it just goes on and on. Here are a few of the things we have been up to this month.



A play date with Yael. This kid is smart! She knows a billion words and at 20 months has already started potty training. If only we can get so lucky with Norah.


Look at that face. Yael and Norah sitting on Alana's lap. Yael was naming all of Norah's body parts. Norah did not know what to make of it. Norah is still only saying a few things in the midst of her gibberish. Mama, Dada, Baba, Hi, Bye bye, uh-oh and every now and then we think we hear other words like Aiden (cat and cousin), Elmo and we swear she said macaroni this week.

Then she gestured back? Maybe?
Cute girls.
Then on the 8th Norah and I got to spend the day together. She had a follow-up for her hand surgery at Shriner's. Everything went perfectly and they said scarring is minimal. Her second hand surgery is scheduled for Nov. 13th. After the appt. we stopped by Panera and got a chocolate chip bagel. It is sad but Norah now knows the BAG that the bagels come in. She begs immediately and starts shrieking. She LOVES bagels. Now if we could just get her to eat meat...

Please feed me?

After a little bagel she was being super cute.

Then we had some playtime with daddy outside while enjoying a break from the rail brought in by hurricane Ike. This was just a really windy day.
Playing with grass and leaves.
She LOVES her slide. There is that tongue again.
Weeeeeeeeeeeee....

Not willing to part with the leaf.

Testing the wind with her tongue?

Later that week we had another parents as teachers appt. They were asking all of the things she can do so that they can plot her on a graph. She performs to a T during these appointments doing things we did not even know she can do. Then there is the list of things we tell her that she isn't doing yet and lo and behold she does them the next day. On the 13th Norah took her first tentative step. She is now up to 5 or 6 steps at a time and only between us. When she gets towards the end she LUNGES forward and laughs. You have to catch her quick or she will fall on her face. She walks like mini Frankenstein. Super cute. My guess is that in this time next month she will be walking all over the place. Get ready Granny Janny and Papa NeNe!!

On the 14th we attended a subdivision picnic and met several nice families with small children in the neighborhood including a girl that I graduated high school with. Small world!

Outside the picnic playing with flowers.
And trying to eat them.
With Dada.

Playing peek-a-boo.

Mama telling Norah secrets.
Trying to get her to smell the flowers.
So other than that, Norah's car seat is now turned around forward facing and I finally started scrap booking which is very time consuming. I was up until 11:15pm last night messing around with it. Norah went to the doctor on Thursday for 3 more shots and screamed bloody murder until they gave her 2 cookies. That stopped the tears immediately. She is now 19 lbs 13 oz (20%tile), 29 1/4 in (30%tile) and her head circumference is 45 cm (45%tile).

And in other news we have officially began our 2nd adoption. We switched agencies and are updating our home study docs. We will be going to Ethiopia this time and have requested another infant girl. I have not given up my dream of having a little boy, it is just temporarily on hold. We feel that having the 2 girls closer together in age will be easier as far as shared space, activities, toys, friends etc. Someday they will have a little brother and then our family will be complete!