Remember those days....?

Loving your "popcycle" so much you can barely move........

innocence

How Norah is like Nunchucks.

Can't see the correlation there? Read on...... I have become very accustom to doing about 17 things at once. Women are known multitaskers and I am no exception to the rule. At any given moment I can type an email, make a sip cup for my toddler, read a book to her, answer a call for work, plan dinner for the evening, blow my nose, kiss a boo boo, coordinate the weeks activities and bounce an infant on my knee like a nervous twitch. Norah has become more than an accessory to my daily routine, but more like an appendage. I can whip her up on my shoulder and carry laundry to the bedroom, flip her from one arm to the next while nursing, and funnel her around my legs as she safely lands on the play mat for tummy time....All with ease and grace, not a thought put into it. I picture myself as a super hero with Norah as my nunchucks....if you get to close, you could be harmed in the shuffle of my daily routine. And all the while....Norah, giggling and farting as we go. Mothers are what make this world go around......

Pieces of Norah

Happy Mother's Day, Father!

Yesterday we had lunch with Gramma for Mother's Day. On the drive down to meet her, I was trying to get Madelynn to say Happy Mother's Day Gramma! so that when we arrived she would flawlessly greet Gramma as rigorously trained. When we arrived she promptly said, without hesitation, and before Gramma had actually exited her car......Happy Mother's Day Gramma! I was so proud.

After lunch, on the drive home...This is our conversation after a long silence.....

Madelynn: Happy Mother's Day, MOM! (my heart melted!)

Me: Thanks babe! I appreciate that.

Madelynn: Happy Mother's Day, Dad.

Me: Dad's not a Mother! Dad's a Father. You can say Happy Father's Day, Dad!

Madelynn: (pausing as she attempts the confusing nouns) Happy........Mother's Day,........Father!

She's got a sweet heart.

Conversations with a 2 year old

Me: Look Maddie, a wishing well!

Madelynn: Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh! (eyes wide as she pours herself over the edge)

Me: Do you want to make a wish?

Madelynn: Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh!

Dad: Here, I'll give you a dime to throw in.

Me: Do you know what a wish is?

Madelynn: uh huh.

Me: What do you want to wish for?

Madelynn: A Penny!!

Oh the limitations of life............

IF left up to her......this is what my daughter would choose to wear to the grocery store.

blue sky, green grass, windblown hair, lovely day.

many faces of Norah bug vol.2