April Days

4.16.20

Spencer is rocking Nora to sleep tonight.  That is a hugely rare activity.  She is a mamas girl through and through – which I don’t mind.  She was recently really sick with some respiratory virus (I think RSV but they wouldn’t test her due to COVID resources) and she reverted a bit in her night time routine.  Before that she was play games to push bedtime later.  She would come and sit with me to rock, then say her baba was too hot or too cold.  Yell DADAAA, then walk to the kitchen with spencer to fix the baba (after shutting the door on me saying “Be Back, Be Back”).  She would do this 2 or 3 times and then we just stuck her in bed. 

Nora and Baby John playing at the door (banging the back of their heads against it).  So great to have cousins close by again!  Nora LOVES Brauts but so does Max, his wee-beady eyes are always watching and waiting to steal a bite!  When she wants to she is an eater, mostly in the bathtub.  She hardly touches dinner but bath time rolls around and she is ready to eat.

After being sick she easily goes to bed when it is time, of course not before a good rocking.  She cuddles in and I sing her all the songs I can think of.  Sometimes she falls asleep, depending on the nap situation of the day, and sometimes she is happy to just rock then lay in her crib.    

Tonight she was laying in my bed, we were waiting for dada to get her Rudolph and clary (Clarice) dolls, and she looked over at me and said “I love you” and I said “I love you too” and she said “I love you so much”.  It was so adorable.  She has been saying it more and more but this was the first time she said it unprovoked.  I think I will keep her.

Some mornings you wake up and just decided its going to be a muddy day.  We filled a pit in the backyard with some water and let her have a good old fashion time.  (The pit will hopefully be filled with sand at some point!)  So she spent the morning running around naked in the back yard, getting hosed off, eating lunch on the trampoline, and playing with bubbles.  While we moved about sitting in the shade enjoying our short lived cool weather.

4.21.20

I have put Nora in front of the TV – that slows her down!  She is a non-stop two-year-old who is fascinated with scissor right now.  Luckily, I found some random child scissors in the house.  We sat down and learned how to cut-I really hope that doesn’t come back to bite me. 

I had to work this past weekend.  Its always makes for a very long week before but more so afterward.  I have spent the day just digging out of the buildup of life.  While I am working I am glad Spencer could be home with her and get some daddy/daughter time in.

This girl loves to go for scooter rides.  When we first got the scooter she was too little for it so I would use a dog leash and pull her around the neighborhood.  Now I have to run to keep up with this girl!  What a difference a year can make.  Also she is one cool cat with her glasses.  She complains of the sun being to bright and needing her glasses.  She troops into church walking down the pew with an adorable pair of sunglasses on and she is a hoot.

We love sitting out front at the end of the day.  When Nora hears someone talking she says "mama, people!  Lets go see!"  She is so cute is hard not to go check it out, especially when she is saying "come on, hold my hand!"  She especially loves our neighbors rocks in their driveway.  We only make it 1 min into the scooter ride and she takes a 10 min break to play Mickey Mouse Clubhouse in the rocks. 

We also have a water table out front and  she loves to pick our flowers and take them "Swimming!"  She hands one flower to me and says 'Talk to it".  She does this with toys as well, so our toys or flowers chat with each other.  And then we basically just drown flowers for an hour and have the time of our lives!

I have been working hard on cleaning out our carport shed space which for some reason as resulted in more scooter rides.  As we zoom around the neighbor hood she will yell out “Ahhhh, a car!” (a parked car) and I drive towards in and at the ‘last moment’ dodge out of the way, to which Nora says “phew, we made it”.  Some plants over hang the side walks and I yell “Ahhh, don’t hit the flowers (or tree)!” and Nora starts yelling with me.  Once we have passed, she turns her head and yells back at Spencer “Don’t hit the flowers (or tree)!” over and over until he responds.  If he is riding in the street, she will yell at him and point dramatically with her little finger from the street back to the side walk.  We are not supposed to be in the street!

Nora was resting in my lap and max was laying with his head on my lap as well.  Nora looked over at him, brightened up and said 'Oh so cute!'.  I must tell her she is cute all the time because when I ask her she says "Yes, Nora is cute cute cute" and then I die because she is!