Nora Rose: Five Months!

Oh man, oh man, our Nora turned five months old this past week.

And I really feel like she's growing by leaps and bounds.

See, told ya so.  More hair.  Longer.  No more infant status.  Straight up baby adorableness.

And she is rolling everywhere (never stays put on one side).

Talking (er, screeching) up a storm (we think she sounds JUST like a cat...no, seriously...thus the cat onesie).

We just moved her into the girls' shared room this month and so far it seems to be going just fine.  E sleeps like a champ and doesn't seem to be bothered by Nora's 1 am and 5 am hunger cries.  Thankful for that.

Her napping schedule is still not nailed down, but we're aiming for working on that in the next coming months (just because it makes life easier).  She still takes about two short naps in the am and then another nap in the afternoon.  

She's interested in toys more and more, but particularly likes grabbing faces and hair...mainly my long hair.  Ouch.  

Takes a paci very well, but spits it out once she's good and asleep.

Still no solid food, but I feel like that's coming soon too.

She's a joy, an absolute joy.  We love you, Norny, you model, you...

One of THOSE Evenings...

Oh man.  I'm BEAT.

It's been one of THOSE evenings.

I'm sure you know what I'm talking about...

You know the kind...where you prepare what you think is going to be a fun meal complete with smoothies and striped straws.

Then your toddler (who normally loves smoothies) thinks that said smoothie is for the birds and won't touch it.

Yeah.

Then as you're contemplating and talking out with your hubs a fun evening thing to do, it all gets derailed when a certain toddler bites a certain baby on the head.

Yep, the head.

One is wailing, the other must be disciplined, and any hope for family fun now seems to be hanging on by a thread.  But wait, it gets better.

All settles (mostly) down and I proceed to wash dinner dishes in an effort to ward off an impending bad attitude thanks to disobedience, then it happens.  I set one plate on the rack and down fall three others. Dinner plates shattered.

Family fun DONE.

(haha, it's funny now that I'm typing this out)

BUT WAIT, there's more.

I ask hubs to give the toddler a bath while I clean up my now quite destroyed kitchen.  I pull out some colored ice cubes thinking it will be fun for the toddler to play with in the bath and perhaps all won't be lost.

Fail.

She doesn't find it fun tonight and instead just screams about it...which leads to the baby crying.  Again.

And then hubs leaves to go get new plates because we are down to two (and I think he just needed a breather :)

And slowly we all settle back down, read a story, nurse the baby, and finally, FINALLY, this evening is coming to a close.

WHEW.  WHAT. AN. EVENING.

But since I didn't take pics of bitten heads or shattered plates, why don't we look back at some pictures from my birthday when things were a little less...chaotic...shall we say...

Thankfully, at the end of the day, even the most CRAZY of days, I'm grateful to be doing life with those three.  Those most important three.

Unwanted smoothies, intense crying, and all :)

They Keep Me Busy

I'm feeling like the blog is being a little neglected lately, but ya know, some of it could be due to these two little munchkins...

(pardon the blurriness, our photographer apparently had a little shaky hand syndrome ;)

They keep me on my toes pretty much every moment of the day...well, make that night too (one IS still waking up a couple times a night).  I love, love them and wouldn't trade them for the world...but MAN, at the end of the day, I'm generally whooped.

Speaking of being a whooped mama, this article, if you haven't already read it, is quality.  I think she makes a very good point.  Read it.

And now, it's time to go to bed ;)  Goodnight, friends!

Is It Already Wednesday?

Well, technically here in Slovakia it is well on its way to Thursday...but I feel like this week is just flying by.

I'm guessing I feel like this because we spent the weekend away.  Weekends away always seem to make the coming week go by faster.

Is that just me?

I'm strange ;)

Anyway, we spent our time celebrating birthdays, listening to Jas preach (which he did in Slovak...proud of him!), playing baseball with some students, visiting a market, visiting friends who had just moved, and being in good company.  A full and quality couple of days.

Any moment with this girl in my arms is a good moment.  She's no longer a baby, but more and more an "independent" little toddler girl.

 Just couldn't help but put this one above in here again...I LOVE this pic!

And I'll end with these three of our jumping bean girl.  She could spend all day jumping if we let her, I'm convinced.

Ok, Thursday, let's do this!

She's A Cutie...

We were gone all weekend and just got back last night.  Of course there was time to snap some fun pics, so we'll be posting those soon :)

In the meantime, however, I thought I'd share just one sweet photo before I'm back with the rest...

I mean, really!?!  Oh, the cute.  Sweet, happy Nora.  Blue skies and baby love :)