Nora Evelyn

the good part of this starts at about the 50 second mark. If you see only one half of this youtube video this year, make it the second half:

Nora’s preschool held its Christmas pageant this morning and Nora got to be an angel singing a slightly expurgated version of Silent Night (no talk of virgins in this version). Nora, it would seem, thinks that angels flap their wings:

More later!

Nora’s friends sang to her at school today (if someone brings you a cupcake, you sing for them. it’s one of the central rules of any civilized society right after not killing each other and using turn signals). It’s not quite her actual birthday yet, but it’s always nice to get in a little candle practice in a safe, nurturing environment.

This was supposed to be in the Nora and Pooh post earlier. Oops.

Here is a series of videos of Nora meeting Disney characters. As you can see, she was very shy and didn’t enjoy it at all.

So a few weeks ago (before we’d unpacked, even) I was practicing speech sounds in our living room in preparation for one of my classes. One class of speech sounds involves using your tongue, rather than your lungs, to move the air necessary to make speech. I complained to Jen that my vocal tract (throat, tongue, epiglottis, larynx, etc.) hurt because I’d tired myself out. Out of nowhere, Nora took it upon herself to teach me how to teach my students to produce these sounds. Unfortunately, the camera wasn’t rolling for the best part of the lesson (one hand on her hip, finger wagging in the air), but you get the gist from this, I think.