First Solids

And just like that...that little newborn (OK 5 1/2 month old) of mine is eating solids! We tried to hold off as long as we could but it was becoming more and more evident that she was ready to eat! She was following our utensils while we ate, she would open her mouth hoping something would come her way and then finally she started crying when we weren't feeding her. So one day last week I decided it was time. I baked up a sweet potato, tossed it in the blender and voila...food for days! She sure LOVED it! Cait got in on the action to and took her turn feeding her baby sister. It was a fun day for all of use and the big girls were so excited to help feed Nora for dinner that night. We're so grateful for Nora and the light she brings into our family! She's pretty awesome!

I'm going through Pictures

So I'm going through files on the computer right now and I came across these pictures of Nora that I completely forgot about. I remember this day. My Baby Blues were particularly rough with Nora. I was really struggling to get out of that fog and couldn't really see a way to get there. She was three days old and I thought to myself  'I need to take newborn pictures of her...or hire someone to do it for me'. Neither really felt like a great option...but I knew it would be the easiest if I did them myself. The first few days (weeks...almost months) of Nora's life were filled with Colic and bouncing and never laying flat. On this particular day she fell asleep in the bouncy chair and was out for the count. Like really really asleep. She was sleeping like she never had before! So I quickly ran downstairs, grabbed the few simplest props I could find and spent about 10 minutes taking her picture. There are maybe 8-10 decent pictures out of the bunch...and although it's not a TON it's enough. And I seriously can't even remember her looking like this! So dark, chubby, her hair, her cheeks, her eyes, her squishy lips. So I'm super glad I have these pictures.

Anyway, I really really love having this blog so I'm trying to catch up on the last few months. If you're super interested in reading you can just scroll back...as I'm placing the posts in the months I'd like them to fall. 

Halloween

So there's this thing about me...I just really really love theme costumes!! Like almost nothing makes me happier than a family all themed out for Halloween. It's getting harder and harder every year to convince these kids to go with a theme though. I can't even remember what they all originally wanted to be, but I was lucky enough to be able to convince them to be Mummy's. In my naivety I though this would be such an awesome and super super easy costume. Well...I have sure learned from my mistake. Mummy costumes are one of the most time consuming things to make ever, like it took me at least 6 hours to make just the shirt and pants on the two big girls costumes, then I had to make their hats and Nora's little sleeper costume. My hands were so sore form all the stitching and my lips had some sort of allergic reaction to the thread I kept running through them before tying the knots. OUCH. Anyway, there was literal blood sweat and tears put into those costumes. So guess what...they're being Mummy's for the next few years! We've got to get some serious mileage out those costumes...lol! Now, back to the theme thing; so there's this thing about Cait...you can't convince her of anything. So she vehemently rejected the idea, and therefor ended up as a Mermaid for Halloween. And in classic Cait style, right as we were heading out the door for trick or treating she ran upstairs and changed into her Elsa dress. Oh Cait.

Anyway, Halloween on  Saturday is the best. So much time to get ready. We lazed around, went to a cousins hockey game, hit up a Halloween party and then carved pumpkins and ate dinner. Such a nice change from the usual gong show rush that Halloween is.