Norah's Blessing

Norah's blessing was today at church. She looked so beautiful in the blessing gown from Kyle's mom that Ava wore at her blessing. It was super sweet to see Kyle holding her up in the front of the chapel, and she never cried the whole time too, making it a much more pleasant experience.

I waited to put her in her gown until right before the blessing and immediately took her out of it right afterward to save it from spit-up, but was able to keep her happy until Kyle got home after priesthood to take some pictures.

She did pretty good for about five minutes, but was finally too ticked off to continue, but gave us a funny picture of her screaming.

Being Creative

More creative games come up with by Ava to pass the time, she is so cute and imaginative. Here she is vacuuming the stairs and doing a fine job of it too. She literally hit every single one and was photographed here near the bottom.

Food Storage

Kyle and I are more than aware of the need for food storage, and even planned on getting some after graduation, but didn't. It has been on my to do list for over a year now and when I received an email asking if anyone wanted to join in on a bulk food storage order, I signed up immediately. We got it all in our pantry and it looks like we are set, but with only wheat, rice, oats and beans, we are far from it, but at least we have a start!

Lemon Heaven

When we were blessed enough to get meals delivered to our doorstep all the time after Norah was born, someone made us the most delicious lemon squares. I have never met a dessert I didn't like, but this one was hands down, MY FAVORITE non chocolate food ever. I bugged the giver for a couple of weeks after she brought them by and this week she emailed the recipe and I whipped up a perfect batch of my own. STILL my favorite! YUM!

Another Try

Since the doctor advised us the Norah should be upright all the time to aide her keeping her food down, we have decided to give the BabyBjorn another try. We tried it before, but she just didn't seem to like it, so we gave up. Now that it might be my only chance to have free arms during the day, we are forcing her to hang out in it. She still doesn't love it and cries when she first gets in, but most of the time after about 10-15 minutes of carrying on and constant bouncing, she falls asleep for a bit and gives us a break.

Good Buddies

Since Norah has been so needy lately, not allowing me much time to play with other kids, they have become such good friends. It has been super sweet seeing the two of them play their games together all day long. Their activities vary, sometimes coloring, sometimes listening to books on CD, sometimes dancing or just playing and reading books. Whatever the activity, I am so glad they have eachother while Norah requires so much of my attention.

The French Braid

A while back, Ava got her haircut and the stylist braided her hair. It was Ava's favorite thing ever as long as the braid stayed in. She kept asking me to recreate it for her and up until this week my attempts were pretty meager. In my People StyleWatch magazine it says braids are totally in, motivating me to figure it out. Well, I did!

Three Expressions of Norah

Norah has three expressions, most of the time she has a scowl on her face. We aren't sure if it's intentional, but it looks a lot like this.

The next one is a spacey look, which she has almost as often as the scowl. It looks a little something like this.

And the rarity, but favorite face, is her sweet little smile. She doesn't have a lot to smile about, always crying and spitting up, but never sleeping, so when she sports this one, we are in awe!

Baby Birdman

Kyle and I have been watching the NBA playoffs while bouncing Norah late into the evening. We are rooting for the Lakers, of course, and they are playing the Nuggets for a seat in the finals. A player on Denver's team has a mohawk and he is nicknamed the Birdman, so here is Norah with her own version of a Birdman doo. We are still rooting for the Lakers, but thought it was a cute hairstyle for our baby girl.

New Medicine

The medicine smells nasty, I can only imagine how it tastes. She takes it as well as can be expected considering her palette is accustomed to milk only and Zantac smells like straight up peppermint.

First Outfit

Well, after 6+ long weeks of a fussing baby, I finally broke down and went to the doctor to get some medicine. I thought this whole time that she was spitting up/crying/not sleeping because of something I was doing wrong, but after thinking about it for awhile and talking to some friends, I decided that wasn't the case.

The doctor said anytime there is projectile spit-up, something is wrong and that we should try some medicine after all the other stuff I had been doing for 6 weeks wasn't working. Zantac was the medicine of choice, but that I should also try to keep her upright all the time including at night and to let her keep nursing until she stops on her own (less crying, less bubbles).

I'm not sure if the medicine is all it's cracked up to be, but all the other stuff seems to help a little bit. She has been slightly happier, so I was feeling motivated to get her dressed for the first time ever in hopes she might actually keep it clean for at least a little bit. We'll see.

Sort of a Smile

Kyle and I were changing one of Norah's diapers together and she started making these faces. The last one almost looks like a smile to me!