Nora recently convened the first annual meeting of the blue house tiggers. One small tigger was forcibly excluded for having whiskers. The others were surprisingly thoughtful guests and, apart from themselves, left precious little mess.
This was Nora’s first semi-successful attempt at a boardgame.
She mostly understood what she was supposed to be doing, though when my piece got too far behind hers, she picked me up, put me down on the square right behind her, and said “Nora has to stay with mommy on the sidewalk.” And when I told her that the whole point of the game was to be the first person to get to all the candy at the top of the board, she picked up both our pieces, moved them up to the top, and then pretended to eat candy. That’s my girl!
Nora this week got a package in the mail from her friend Salomé. The package turned out to contain our new Bolivian friend “New Baby.” Nora’s creative streak with names continues! Then on Thursday afternoon Nora and Salomé shared a fantastic conversation via Skype. Frankly, I was skeptical that two toddlers could have an engaging video chat but it was really fun and lasted about half an hour.
Nora was very excited about her new ladybug kite until it finally took flight and then she wandered off to the sandbox and wouldn’t even look at it.
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.
