On Saturday morning Nora was showing off for our new friend Cameron and decided to put herself in the oven of her little kitchen. This seemed a modest proposal (and, anyway, she is half Irish) so we helped. Ruggles even got into the fun in what I can only assume is meant to be a particularly flamboyant chef’s hat.
Nora’s Granny bought her a monstrous new kitchen for Christmas but it was too large to fit in our car (or in any of your more affordable U-Haul vans). Her cousin Brien delivered it on Wednesday and it only took 3.5 hours to assemble last night after she went to bed. First thing this morning we unleashed her on it and took a few photos.
In addition to “sink no water, mommy! no water! daddy fix.”, she also said, “no baby school today. Nora stay Purple House.” Many, many times. She *really* didn’t want to abandon her new kitchen.
It’s difficult enough to erect a bucket tower with toddler hands; imagine trying to do it under these blurry conditions! I may have to break down and read the manual for our camera. Please note the presence of “I am concentrating!” tongue in the first panel.
Nora’s new craft corner/table is great. Now she has a place to play with playdoh that (a) we don’t care what happens to it and (b) she can comfortably sit and (c) we don’t have to clear away at meal times. I think I may have to pinch some of these cutters from her for use on cookie dough.
Nora’s second Christmas morning at our house started with this little dollhouse and a poor wooden doll family trapped in frog wrapping paper. Fortunately, Nora was kind enough to free them.
Our good friend Markus came over this morning for breakfast (day old french bread with eggs courtesy of the Masing family). After breakfast he helped Nora and me assemble the dollhouse Hans gave us yesterday (she can’t have it until Christmas, but I don’t see any reason she shouldn’t have the fun of helping us assemble). Assembly went perfectly smoothly and Nora was a real help. Here are some pictures.
thanks, Markus & Hans!
Nora and her cousin Kacie celebrated the end of summer by donning their inadvertently identical swimsuits (really, complete accident) and playing in Kacie’s fancy Finding Nemo lawn sprinkler.
Today is Nora’s 21 monthaversary! She’s been 7 months old 3 times now; she’s one month more than 4 times as old as a 5 month old; she’s 3 months shy of her second birthday; ≤ 30 months ago she started to exist; she has 16 years and 3 months before she has to move out (just checking to see if anyone reads this far into the sentence).
Happy Anniversary, Nora! We celebrated by going out for pancakes with Grandma & Papa. I also celebrated by designing a future playtime activity wherein we bake a bunch of cookies together, measure their circumferences, measure their diameters and then find the ratio of circumference:diameter for each cookie. I call it “baking a pi” (baking, experimentation, the scientific method, measurement, ratios, pi). But this geekiness is all in her future; today playtime looks like this:
