Nora Evelyn

Here’s another example of Nora’s camera work. The featured model is her doll, Marabelle.

I love this picture. I love this picture. Jen took this picture and it might be one of my favorite things that has ever happened ever (yes, including cookies). Okay so we have Nora’s crazy smile, Julie mouse patting violet bunny on the head (presumably to comfort her for something), Corny Cob looking just the tiniest bit crazy stalker there in the corner, Marabelle snoozing in a Biscuit-blanket hammock, and the disembodied head of Yellow Baby overlooking it all.

(from June 28^th)

Nora had a couple of helium balloons get away from her in our living room on Saturday. She stood looking up at them for a while before disappearing from the room. She came back a minute or so later with her stool from the bathroom and quickly solved the problem. [click for success picture.]

The title is, of course, an allusion to a classic of American filmmaking and not meant to be an indication that anything exciting happens in this video. :) Nora totally gets the basic objectives of the game ‘catch’ now (even if the motor routines required to support it (like suppressing giggles while the ball is coming) are not quite there yet).

She definitely could play for Michigan’s football team with the skills she demonstrates here (at least as kicker).

The first step is admitting you have a problem; Nora has not taken that first step.

On the way to school this morning Nora was exceedingly concerned about where the Sun might have gotten to lately. For some reason she was not the least bit consoled by reassurances that the Sun must still be there (or, at worst, was still there a few minutes ago) or we’d all be dead.

These pictures date from a far happier time (just a few weeks ago) when a little girl could go outside in short sleeves and a pair of froggy boots to chalk up the porch, sidewalk, and the horizontal surfaces of a nearby park.