My Little Fishy

My mom is a swimmer. I mean, not only does she love to swim, she's an amazingly good swimmer. For years and years she swam a mile a day six days a week. More than once she was stopped by swimming coaches asking what team she swam with. Once a woman who identified herself at a junior olympics swimming trainer stopped her mid-lap and said that she WISHED she could teach her students to swim like my mom.

I am a flopper. Not even really a floater. When I was little my parents would sometimes go weeks without washing my hair because I was so terrified of having water in my face. Mom made sure that if I were out in the middle of the pool and my raft flipped that I could get to the side without drowning. After 6 summers (or more, I've blocked it out) of swimming lessons, that's about all I learned.

My poor momma never got a kid who loved the water as much as she does. Until maybe now... Below are a few pictures of Norah in the pool yesterday. She got more and more comfortable in the water as time went by. Today she was dunking her own head under and kicking her legs out behind her. I think grandma might finally have her fishy baby.

Norah with mom as she was first getting in. She's enjoying the buoyancy.

My happy little water baby.

Again with the bouncing! Does this kid ever sit still!?!

On Vacation

In celebration of Summer (and my mom not having to work during said Summer) my parents got a place in Breckenridge for a week. They've been here since last Sunday and they were nice enough to invite us up for the last few days of their holiday. We left Durango after work on Wednesday and arrived just before 11 pm. 

We've had a lovely time so far. Yesterday was all about the shopping! We went to the outlets at Silverthorne and then to Target. Norah basically spent three hours hanging out in her stroller watching us shop. She was so well behaved. Especially for a girl whose biggest shopping experience has been in Farmington. 

Today we took a nice walk through town while Daddy took a nap (he's feeling sick from his THIRD sinus infection this year). The highlight of the day came after we got back from town. We took Norah swimming in the baby pool here at the resort. She had so much fun! The water was only a foot deep so she could stand up on her own. I think we got a few good pictures. We'll see when we get back home and upload the new pics to the computer. For dinner we went to a great restaurant here in town. It was fantastic food! Norah was so well behaved too. She really made the experience pleasant when she could have ruined an otherwise lovely dinner. Funny, as long as you keep her face stuffed with food she's a pleasure to be around. :-)

A Good Sleeper

Norah can pull herself up these days. On Mother's Day morning, we came in to wake her up and found her standing up, holding on to the side of her crib. Time to lower the mattress! 

She's been sleeping better the last couple of weeks or so too. She usually only wakes up once a night now and falls back asleep within minutes. On Sunday night I got up, fed her a little, and put her back down at about 4:45. I thought I heard her around 5:30 but I just let her be and she went back to sleep. She must've awakened, sat herself up, and decided to have a little early morning play time, because when Mark went in to wake her up around 7 he found her like this:

I think the thought process went something like this, "So what if they're asleep. I'm a big girl. I can sit up and play in the middle of the night all...by........my.....ZZZZzzzzzzzz."

Yup, our girl's a good sleeper.

The Best Ride Ever

Mark randomly decided to put Norah on his shoulders one day and boy did she love it! We stood her up in front of the mirror. She looked like she was having the best time. Her dad had fun being the buckin' bronco too, except she pulled on his "mane" quite a bit.

Hey Dad, is that US in the mirror?

This is even more fun when I pull Daddy's hair!

I stayed on the full 8 seconds! I've beaten the Daddy Bronco!!

Mmmmmwah!

She actually started blowing kisses several weeks ago, but apparently she has opinions about being filmed. I took almost two minutes of little video snippets before I got an actual kiss. Of course she did it right on cue as soon as I put the camera away!

Teeth!

Norah's two bottom teeth are making their debut appearance. They started coming in about three weeks ago. Judging by her recent behavior we're guessing that the top ones aren't too far behind. Along with her new teeth, I suppose it's appropriate that she's decided that she won't be eating baby food any more. She takes one bite, gets a second mouth full and spits it directly at whoever happens to be feeding her. After a couple of frustrating meals we decided to give her finger foods that she can eat on her own. She seems perfectly happy to eat as long as she can feed herself. This leads - as you can clearly see below - to quite a bit of food missing her mouth and landing on her face.

I love the look on her face in this one. 

A Few Pics

Tanks to our good friends Kim and Danny for sending this outfit for Norah. They're from CA and Kim was worried that she picked the wrong size and Norah would be too big for it by the time warm weather came around. Lucky for us, my kiddo is a shrimp. If she wasn't we would have missed out on all this cuteness!

PS - Check out Danny's ministry group Captivators. They're amazing entertainers who will work with you to make your next church, school or ministry event exactly what you want it to be!

And now for the photos: