Nora Evelyn

the editorial board here at rubberducky.org would like to take a moment away from our normal parenting activities to relate a message to all of the spammers like Trainum34@ymail.com who are constantly trying to get us to link to their crappy ad sites. We’ve never once been fooled by you people and we never will. Okay? It’s particularly easy to not be fooled when you say:

Children are so precious and only should be taken care of in that way! Your blog has given me some great ideas, so thank you and please keep it going!

in response to a blog post about the time we accidentally let Nora climb up on the back of the couch and dive into the pack-n-play. Yes, precisely the manner in which our precious children should find themselves cared for — we’re so proud.

We’re at a conference this week and, though we remembered the camera, we’ve forgotten the USB cable. If we’re able to find a place that will sell us a cable (or an SD card reader) we have all kinds of great stuff to post; otherwise it will have to wait until we get home. Hang in there, the management.

We think this totem might be a marker for the mother ship.

Thing 1: Nora noticed this morning that I was showering but had stupidly neglected to stock up on duckies. So she did me a solid and tossed each of the four duckies currently doing a tour of duty in the bathroom into the tub with me. I’m just glad it wasn’t the hair dryer. Luckily for you, there is no photographic evidence of this.

Thing 2: We may have jumped the gun on the love interest thing. Nora gave her friend Samantha a big hug today when I was getting her ready to come home from baby school. So Nora’s still playing the field, keeping her options open, and testing the waters.

There were a lot of campaign workers in our neighborhood trying to get out the vote. So I posted a sign.

It says:

shhhhh!
(baby sleeping)

You wake our baby and we’re voting for the other guy.

p.s. we mean it.
p.p.s. shoo!
p.p.p.s. thanks for volunteering!

Nora’s Halloween costume is now made. She’s tried it on and it fits perfectly. She is so blindingly cute in it that you must not look at her directly — instead you must content yourself with looking at her shadow through slits in a piece of paper. Still, though, this may be too much cute. You have been warned.

What is the costume? I’m certainly not going to say. :)

This post is a little weird, I know, as it has no pictures of the baby. I’ve put together a short slide show of Nora hamming it up for the camera yesterday morning, though. Anyone completely uninterested in diapers can go watch that instead. :)

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