47 Weeks Old

Tick, tock, tick, tock. That's the sound of the clock counting down the days, hours, minutes until Henry starts Kindergarten. As the principal of his school said this morning at orientation, it marks the first step in launching our children into the world. Bittersweet for sure! But he doesn't start until Monday so I still have a few days to enjoy with him.

We've had another fun week - swimming, play dates, enjoying the last few days of warm weather. 

I got a bubble machine on clearance at the store and the kids have both been enjoying playing with that (as Nora is doing in the above picture). I love the look on Henry's face in the background here:

He's intensely focused on popping the bubbles.

No big developmental changes in Nora this week that I can think of. She's working on tooth number 9 still. Her hair continues to get thicker (hooray! so happy she has hair!!) and it's getting lighter as well. It will be interesting to see what color it ends up being. I'm still amazed at how dark it was when she was born though. She makes this hilarious growling sound which contributes to a running family joke we have about her being a quasi-monster called "the giant baby." When Henry and I are playing with his Fort Brave set or Star Wars (or anything really) and she crawls over and smashes our people or grabs something we say "oh no! The giant baby strikes again!" Or when she gets mad at mealtime because she's out of food and growls and smashes her hand on her tray we say "oh no! The giant baby is angry! Give her more food!" Etc., etc. So I just couldn't resist taking the following picture a couple days ago when she was messily eating raspberries...we were laughing that it looks like the giant baby has feasted on something bloody...

Oh no! Don't make the giant baby mad!

We made a "car wash" for Henry's cars one day and the kids both had a blast washing the cars while I made dinner....until the giant baby decided it would be a good idea to climb into the carwash. It's sort of hard to tell in the picture, but she's sitting in one of the pans of water.