"Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep... Yeady?"

Head for cover... we've had a word explosion! Out of the blue, Norah is talking all kinds of funny :) She seems to have an odd pattern of adding an a if the word ends with a k and substiuting y for r. 

When she is waiting for dinner, she repeatedly says "Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep... Yeady!?" (no, we don't only use the microwave to cook our meals!) She now says "Milka" instead of "Mum" (milk) and "Booka" (book). Best of all, she learned how to say her name "Noyah". She always says this with the proudest of smiles! She also threw some chanting into the mix; after I told her I would get her more of something, she proceeded to chant "I get more! I get more! I get more!".

Oh how I love love love this girl!

(Valentine's Day)

Love ~ Renee

I Heart Faces - "Hands-On Fun" Photo Challenge

So I just stumbled across the weekly photo challenge on I ♥ Faces. When I saw that this week's theme is "Hands-On Fun" this shot immediately came to mind, so I can't pass it up! There is nothing that makes me happier than seeing Daddy holding hands with his sweet girl :)

Love ~ Renee

A little bit of attitude

I think she was getting a little sick of being in front of the camera, so she gave me "the look". Her personality is really starting to shine through lately. She has been yelling "YEAH!!!" at the top of her lungs when she is excited... like when she sees that she is going to the pool, or to Noodles & Co. Oh, and when she doesn't want to do something, like go to bed, she says "No Way!" and waves her arms back and forth so we get the point! She makes me laugh endlessly.

Love ~ Renee

Officially One and a Half!

Miss Norah has changed so much throughout her first 18 months, but one thing that hasn't changed is her love of books! She has quite the collection now and none of them, I mean none of them, have gone to waste. We read them morning noon and night over and over again... I only hope she keeps this up through her college years!

Other random notes of cuteness:

• Every single morning we must tuck Monkey and Bear in bed, each with a paci (or "pashi" as Norah calls it) and their favorite blankie, blow them kisses and say "nigh nigh" when we leave her room.
• She has just discovered "owies" and now they appear out of thin air, accompanied by the most pitiful pout and fake cry I've ever seen. Each owie must get a kiss... I cannot resist :) When she witnesses other kids getting owies (even in books) she cries and pouts for them and then gives them kisses.
• She already insists on picking out her shirt and socks in the mornings, and we just can't leave the house unless we have sparkly heart clips in our hair!

So this is what our mornings look like when we are stuck in the house because it is 11 degrees and snowing outside... spring cannot come fast enough! 

 

 

Love ~ Renee