Nora - 7 months

Crawling

We're in that stage.  This kid is learning to move.  Put something in her line of vision that she wants and she's off.

A week at Auntie Anne's

We headed to the lake at my Aunt Anne's recently.  Trevor couldn't stay the entire time we were gone but I stayed with the kids.  They had a great time in the water and both of them were doing their versions of swimming by the end of the week. 


My aunt with my nieces Isla and Katherine who are two months older than Nora.



Isla and Grandma



Katherine and Mom



Crayola has a website where you can take a kids picture and make a coloring story out of a cartoon of them.  It sounds cooler than it is but it was still fun for the kids to have their very own stories to color.



Lillian wanted to wear her goggles.  She wore them for  quite a while.  This is what she looked like afterward.

In case you wondered if I was there, I was.  I took the pictures. :)

A tea party

Lillian got a tea set for Christmas and Lillian and Elijah have been enjoying having tea parties.  Fills my heart with joy when I see them playing together so nicely.  Because, that doesn't always happen.

A good big brother

There is something to be said for having an older child when you have a baby.  The other day I called Elijah and asked him to come see me.  He told me he couldn't.  He needed me to help him.  I walked into the living room and this is what I saw.  He had picked Nora up and moved her so she could play at this little piano.  She was having a great time.  (He needed my help because he didn't know where to put her if he left.)

The teeth have arrived

Nora got her two bottom teeth this week.  It has explained a little bit of her increased crabbiness.   I can tell that she's generally not enjoying this activity in her mouth.  She's biting everything in sight but has had surprisingly little drool. 

This are the things that are considered news when you have little kids.

Last Day

We arrived at church yesterday and there was a big tent and activities set up. It was church picnic day. Elijah asked if he was the last day of church. We were both a little confused until we realized tht he's been having so many wind up parties lately (Pre-school, soccer...) that he assumed a party at church must mean that was also the last one.