11 Months

Here are a few of the pictures from Lenora’s 11 Month Photo Shoot. Not much to say about it, except it again was an all-day thing. We kept having to stop and then try again later. Something is also wrong with the camera, or the lighting by the sliding door is just really bad! We’ll have to figure it out. New camera maybe? Anyway, I finally had to bribe her with snacks, which is why if you look closely her hands are clenched… because they are full of puffs.  She is a silly girl, and I can only imagine how much fun trying to get her 12 month photo will be.  The last photo, is like “are we done yet mom!?”

STILL NO TEETH!

Doing Laundry

Lenora loves to help do pretty much anything that were doing, whether it be wiping off her highchair tray, vacuuming, sweeping, picking up her toys, folding clothes/unfolding clothes, putting them away, and now helping to do the laundry.  Today she helped put all the clothes into the washing machine! I didn’t even ask for her help, she just crawled over and started helping all by herself.  She loves watching the clothes get washed since she can see through the door, she points at all the bubbles and say’s “what’s that.”  She gets really excited when she sees us throw a big pile of clothes on the floor which means… FOLDING TIME! She will hand us each piece of clothing and as she hands it over she say’s “thank you”, it’s so sweet.

The other day she found a fabric softener sheet on the floor (a used one) and started scrubbing the couch, the floor, the TV stand, us, pretty much everything. So either she was trying to help or she was hinting that I needed to do some cleaning.  

She absolutely FREAKS if she is in her playpen while I start vacuuming. She screams and yell’s “Ma, Ma, Ma.” She has to be out while I’m vacuuming so she can help.  I’m thinking of getting her a pretend vacuum (not one that makes any sort of popping noise, we have to many noise producing toys) when she can walk, so she can help mommy without going crazy.

She’s a little mini Suzy homemaker in the making. I can’t wait until she starts helping me cook.

Lenoras First Christmas

I haven't blogged for a while so I'm at a loss as to what to write about. I'm sure the pictures speak for themselves.

Lenora's first Christmas went off without a hitch, she looked lovely in her 0.50 cent Goodwill dress (Old navy), her mock turtleneck and her $1.00 Black Mary-Jane’s which of course didn't stay on very long. She was excited to hear the doorbell ring, and to drag the "Santa" sack into the house. She liked opening the presents, tearing off small pieces one by one, if we didn't help her we would have been there all night! She was sharing her presents with everyone and putting EVERYTHING into her mouth! We did have to put black kitty outside because Lenora wouldn't stop chasing after him, and an ER visit for a cat bite was not how I wanted to spend Christmas Eve.

Grandpa & Grandma Great enjoying the Spiced Eggnog!

10 Months

Lenora turned 10 Month's old on the 7th. I can't believe she's almost a year old. The other day I was looking through her tubs of clothes and reminiscing about the tiny newborn stage, the excitement of being at the hospital waiting to see what she'd look like, snuggling in the recliner at 4am, watching her take in the new world, and figuring out what cute outfit I was going to put her in tomorrow. I told Martin "I'm ready when you are!" He laughed at me. Soon enough I suppose. Although Lenora has her moments of tantrums and whining, she still is an AMAZINGLY good girl!

I took 42 pictures for her 10 Month photo shoot and only about 5 turned out. She does not like to sit still, and since we couldn't do it outside we did it by the sliding door. All she wanted to do was stand up. Oh well. We got some cute ones, some crazy ones, and some downright sad ones! Lovely!

 

I am amazed at how much she looks like me, it’s kind of strange to look at her and see a little mini me.

 

UPDATE: STILL NO TEETH!

(I will be sad to see the gummy cheese smile go)

Singing Like Andrea Bocelli

Such a beautiful singer. She almost brought me to tears (Lenora, not the people on TV)

Learning

I love watching Lenora do things like this, it tells me that she is smart and that she is learning in her own little way. It's amazing something as simple as this could be so interesting to her. She's so wonderful.

My Winter Porch!

Finally got the front porch all decorated for winter! We had to PUSH our way through the crowd of crazies at Big Lots to get to the snowman, but so glad we got it! All I heard while back in the Christmas department was some crazy lady saying to her husband & kids... "I can't believe they don't have any more abominable snowman" (The inflatable ones, apparently Big Lots were selling those) She just kept yelling it over and over! Maybe she was hoping an employee would hear her and bring one from the back. GEEZ.