Norah The Baby Genius

It is getting progressively more and more difficult for me to nurse Norah anywhere except on the couch, with only family around, because she has become quite the little fidgeter! If she had her way, she would spend all of her nursing time standing in my lap, facing the other direction, while playing with a toy in one hand and pulling my hair with the other, watching the world pass by and occasionally giving me a love chomp for good measure!

This makes nursing in public a bit challenging, as she is no longer interested in being covered up, and wants to immediately turn her head to investigate every noise! It is even getting hard to nurse while I Photoshop (which is, by the way, the only way I can ever get any work done!), because Norah has become completely enamored with the keyboard. She loves it, especially the space bar. It is her very favorite key. Usually I try to discourage this, because if she hits one of my "hot keys" then strange things start happening to the pictures I'm working on! So the other day, I let her sit down and play with the keyboard for a few minutes, just for fun.

She composed an e mail to her Daddy! She is a tiny baby genius. Perhaps I should get her this too! (Thanks, Waffle House man, for the tip!)


Here is a transcript of the e mail:

hujiji mkknn gnybbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbe¸ccvqqqqqq, k











++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ d
*-------------dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd vvv z mk mmmmmbgf , zzzzzzzz xxxx


And here she is working on it. She was very serious about it. That baby cracks me up!





p.s. If anyone has tips on nursing wiggly babies, I'd love to hear them!

Conversations with Bear

Barrett: "Hey Mama?"
Mama: "Yes?"
Barrett: "I think when I grow up I wanna fly airplanes."
Mama: "Wow, that would be pretty cool!"
Barrett: "Yeah, and I would fly them way up, so high in the sky that I went all the way into space."
Mama: "Wow. That's pretty high."
Barrett: "Yeah, but I would have to be careful, or else I might bump into God."

Norah says hello!

Jason is Old(er)!

A very big "Happy Birthday" to Jason, who turned 36 yesterday! It was a busy day, but we had a lot of fun. After driving back from Conway, picking Barrett up, grabbing a cake from Coldstone (yummy!), killing a little time at the mall, picking Autumn up from another birthday party and unloading the car (whew!), we headed to Dixie Cafe for a birthday dinner with the fam. After dinner, we reconvened at home to try out the cake, which was exactly as delicious as you are imagining. Here are a few pictures from the festivities!


































Oh, and a little side note... When Cold Stone says "Allow 10 minutes for cake to thaw before serving," what they actually mean is "If you only allow 10 minutes for cake to thaw before serving, it will still be solid as a rock, break one of your gigantic knives, and require your soon-to-be brother-in-law to saw it open with an even more gigantic knife and a lot of elbow grease." Observe:









But it sure was good once we got into it! : )












Jason also got some rather... "interesting" gifts!








It's a good thing some restrictions apply on the favor Jamie gave him! ; ) Happy birthday, babe! I hope it was fantastic!

Birthday Card

Yesterday was Jason's birthday! I created this card with my iPhone for the occasion! A big "thank you" to Brooke, Dad, and Jamie for capturing these insanely goofy pictures of us that I co-opted to use here!

Bedtime Photoshoot

After getting to try out lots of cool new lights at the JVS lighting workshop, we picked out a few of our favorites to order. We just got some of them in, so I grabbed the kids on their way to bed the other night to have them help me try them out, just for fun! I told the kids to do whatever they wanted in the pictures, and then Barrett decided he wanted to try the new light out too, so he took a couple of me.
















I guess in some families it might be odd to do a random photoshoot at 9 p.m. of everyone jumping around in their PJ's. Here it somehow seemed like just another evening! : )

Kori's Special Picture

Here is a special picture that I found and took all on my own, with no suggestions or assistance whatsoever. I did not, as some have implied, overhear Jason saying that there were really cool clouds outside and then immediately jump up from my chair, camera in hand, and block his access to the window in order to beat him at taking pictures of the cool sky he found, and then proceed to download it to my computer and Photoshop it in a Jason-esque style and then claim it as my own only to bother him.





...Or did I? ; )