Nora ate solid food for the first time yesterday. Apart from the beginning where she grabs the bowl (like it’s a cup of water) and tries to drink it I think this went pretty darn well. MP4 version is much clearer but the youtube version should download faster.
Nora met her new cousin Kacie Elizabeth yesterday but, I’m afraid, found the dogs a great deal more interesting. Here’s a photograph to capture the moment. Welcome to Earth, Kacie! It’s Mostly Harmless.
Here we see Nora taking an interest in Charlie the dog. We also see my big, ugly knee, but that really couldn’t be helped — sorry. As expected, her first official act was to grab his ear firmly and pull. Charlie was a very good sport about this but kept his distance for the remainder of our visit. :)
Nora came into the lab this morning to help me run some subjects. :)
Nora, Jen, and I spent some time this afternoon kicking back and enjoying some glasses of water. For a first-timer we think she remained remarkably dry.
Nora just *loves* her hygiene. Actually, she can do without the water and the bathtub and the soap and the scrubbing and the q-tips and the drying and the cuddling and the portable heater. She just really, really likes to not have any clothes on.
We learned many things at Nora’s 4 month check-up today but the two that stand out most clearly from the growing body of photographic evidence are:
Sorry we didn’t post anything on her actual 4 month birthday (yesterday). Grad school is hard.
In case anyone is concerned that their comments are not being read by the subject of this site, here we see her attending to her blogging duties: deleting spam, going over the logs, checking her e-mail, and improving her PageRank. She allows the in-house tech support to operate the keyboard, but I’m sure it’s clear who’s really pulling the strings.
Nora’s first st patrick’s day was a hoot. She and I rode the bus to campus where she hung out with Mommy at work so I could run subjects in the lab:
Then, this evening, she had her first bodhrán lesson:
