I can't believe we have a one-year-old.
Way to go Norah for surviving our family so long!
We love her so much. I can't imagine life without her.

(It was exactly one year ago this very minute that I started labor...crazy huh?!)

Norah is Nine Months!

Wow. I can't believe we have a child this old. She is starting to look (minus the hair) like a toddler instead of a little baby :O( But I guess it will eventually happen so I might as well get used to it.

She is so much fun!


She loves to laugh and giggle and is very ticklish. She apparently took her first step when I wasn't looking so I don't count it yet :O) Our predictions are she will be walking by Halloween but we'll see if that really happens. She loves to make noise any way she can, especially with the pots and pans or "singing". She likes to push our chairs and stools around the house which also makes a lovely noise.


She loves her dad and will light up and run (crawl really fast) when she hears him open the front door at the end of the day. Most of all she loves to be outside, which I am happy about. If she is ever fussy we just take her outside and she calms right down.


She now weighs a whopping 21.6 lbs. (89 percentile) which sounds like a lot but she has actually been at this weight for 2 months now so we see this as a tampering off sign, thank goodness! She is 27 inches tall (50 percentile) and her head is 18.5 inches (98%) large. "It's like an orange on a toothpick"! haha. We love her and are grateful she is here.
Oh and she loves to eat paper. She has destroyed more books and magazines than our dog ever did. Oh the joys of parenting :O) I love it.

Sewing attempts.

So my whole family is coming down this week (I'm so excited!) and we are getting family pictures. My mom wants us all in navy blue but we couldn't find any navy blue tops for the little girls...so I decided to make some. haha :O) This was kind of a silly idea becuase I didn't have a pattern and I have major size issues....meaning I always make things super small. I once tried to crochet hats for my nieces and nephews for Christmas and ended up making hats too small for dolls. But hopefully the tops will fit them better than the hats did. Here they are...

And what would a post be without some
picture of Norah? Here she is standing..almost walking and her cute new
cheesy grin.

Growing up and out!

Here's our little Norah...not so little anymore.



We missed a few months in there but I think you get the picture....she's grown! I added the 1month picture back next to the 8th month just cause I think it looks so funny.

Peach pie disaster!

About this time last year I made the most amazing peach pie I had ever tasted. I"m not bragging, it was simply common knowledge. Ever since then I have been trying to recreate the masterpiece with dismal results. The first 2 tries of the season didn't even make it to the pie pan. The cornstarch and junk wouldn't thicken and then suddenly burned. I almost ruined my pan that night. The next try made it in the pan and onto a plate but was basically peaches with graham crackers all over them. Not much pie-ness (pronounced PIE-ness, not the other way) going on there. But the sister missionaries said it tasted good...but they have to say that, they are missionaries! The 4th, and I think final one for this year, was a tad better but still just a messy goop on your plate. *sight* I guess I'll perfect my FoodNetwork award winning peach pie next year. We'll have to wait and see.

Me and Norah in Zion

All pie's aside, we have had a fun couple of days. Last week Norah and I went for some fun hikes. One is Snow Canyon State Park called Jenny's Canyon. It was more like a little jaunt in a river bottom but with a 21lb. baby on your shoulders it was just the right distance. Then Logan did the Red Rock Relay that went from Brianhead, through St. George, and then out to Zion's so Norah and I did a hike while we waited for Logan to finish. I have never seen the park that packed with visitors before! There were parking lots I didn't even know existed that were full of cars. It was fun to be told that Norah was pretty in so many different languages and accents. I've decided that Zion's is one of my favorite places because it combines so many of my favorite things. #1- Beautiful landscapes #2- Fun hikes and rock climbing #3- International people-watching! Ha! I could be so content just sitting on a bench in Zion's watching the crazy/fun people walk by. I love it.

Norah at Emerald's 1st Pool.

Random side-note: There are only 18 more days until the St. George Marathon. I can't wait for Logan to rock it. Then it will be over and I can have my husband back and I will get to exercise a little bit too. Yay! Training takes so much time and I am always grateful when it's over....and when he does so well. :O)

Norah stuck under the exersaucer.

Norah turned 8 months old today. Wow! Time is flying by. I took her to the doctor yesterday and she weighs 21 lbs....I already said that but wow. I am getting an incredible arm workout every day. She has 7 teeth and getting her 8th one as I write. She is crawling super fast especially when she is getting into something she shouldn't, like toilet paper, garbage cans and the fridge. She will walk if she is holding onto something or someone. She has the best smile and laugh. Overall she is a super happy baby and we are so lucky to have her in our life.

Norah also loves to "kiss" mirrors. Basically she just spits all over them and laughs. Pretty funny until she does it on a dressing room mirror at the store and I have to explain that they might want to wash it after she has slobbered all over it. hehe.

Her favorite thing to do right now is look at books. I will find her in her room just holding books like she is reading them and then she'll shake and twist them. It's pretty darn cute.

Huntsville Fun

Last weekend Logan, Norah and I went to Huntsville to visit Logan's grandparents and to run the Huntsville half. It was a great weekend. First of all it was perfect weather! I loved wearing a jacket in the mornings and not sweating to death during the day! Logan won the half marathon with a time of 1:13, not his best time but he was satisfied with it. It was so fun to see him running all alone at the finish line. He has been injured for a while and is just getting back into his regular running again. I'm so proud of him! Norah was too I'm sure :O)
Then we spent the day with Logan's grandparents. They are so funny! They both have grown up in Huntsville so every corner, every house and every rock has a story. I loved hearing what a "rebel" his grandpa was when he was young.


Our little family after the race.

Logan getting denied by Norah for a kiss. Ha!

Grandpa Reed and Grandma Toni with Norah.

We visited the Monastery and bought yummy jam and honey!


Norah LOVES the swing!


Cute!

Norah is growing up so fast! She now has 7 teeth and is saying dadada. You can't see the teeth in this video but you can hear the dadada sounds. Logan is so proud that she is saying dadada instead of mamama....he thinks it's because Norah likes him more. :O

Just kidding...the video wouldn't load so just go to my facebook and watch it...I think it's funny.

Mommy Margaret.

Had a fun visit with an old friend last week. Margaret Keiffer (oops I don't know her new last name) and I met 11 years ago when we were both exchange students in Germany. I haven't really kept in contact with her over the years but found out she was visiting family in Hurricane, Utah via facebook and forced her to come visit me. It was so fun. I can't believe how sometimes you wont see someone for a really long time and yet you pick up right where you left off. In Germany we all called her mommy Margaret because she basically took care of us and was so loving. She is now a for-real mommy and it was fun to get our girls together.

Yeah her girl is a month and a half older than Norah but
Norah looks like she could eat her for breakfast!