November snow

Last day of November and so far we have about 3 inches of new snow that fell last night. It's still going strong this morning! Very curious how much we will get before it switches to freezing rain.

Norah update, 15months (and a few days...)

Norah is a walking, running, climbing, talking little kid! She LOVES our cat and tries to snuggle her at every chance. She knows where her hands, feet, hair, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and bellybutton are and will poke you in the eye too if you're not careful!

She can climb on our kitchen chairs, the coffee table, and couches, and she loves getting in the rocking chair in her room.

In the last few weeks she has decided she likes babydolls. She will bring them to me wanting them to be wrapped in blankets so she can hold them.

She still loves stroller rides so we try and go for walks everyday. This is getting a little more difficult with the cold/snow/ice here.

The talking. She started with Up. Then Uh Oh and Duck. She is now up to the following:

Hi

Hello

bye

byebye

drink

juice

kitty

cheese

cracker

cookie

choo-choo

all done

no no

wow

thank you

This past weekend she started to combine Hi with other words. Hi Daddy. Hi Kitty. And while we were visiting over Thanksgiving, Hi Kaylee (her cousin). It's been pretty exciting!

I forgot to add, she's still tiny! She still fits in all of her 12 month clothing, and she can wear a few of the 18mth things. She's been at 21lbs since we moved here. Oh and she loves to use her spoon and fork, I'll have to do another post on that.

Just had to share...

Issued by The National Weather Service
1:35 pm PST, Wed., Nov. 17, 2010
Special Weather Statement for East Columbia River Gorge, WA

... COLDEST AIR OF THE SEASON TO ARRIVE THIS WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...

A WET PACIFIC LOW WILL USHER IN COLD AIR AND SNOW TO THE CASCADE REGION THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING... RESULTING IN THE POSSIBILITY OF 5 TO 9 INCHES OF SNOW ACCUMULATION.

MUCH COLDER ARCTIC AIR WILL OVERSPREAD THE REGION THIS WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK... DRIVING SNOW LEVELS TO THE BASIN FLOOR. SEVERAL STORM SYSTEMS WILL IMPACT THE AREA PRODUCING SNOW... AND POSSIBLY PROVIDING FOR A WHITE THANKSGIVING FOR PORTIONS OF THE REGION.

PEOPLE PLANNING TO TRAVEL THIS WEEKEND INTO NEXT WEEK SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR WINTER WEATHER DRIVING

An interesting read

I found this interesting, it's about how a lot of women view their bodies, and how they should change that perspective.
Warning! Do Not read if you are offended by f*bombs and a few other choice words.
a-call-to-arms-and-abs-quads-calves-and-shoulders

Look at that Hair!

Cheesy grin!

Music with Daddy

Banana

Norah prefers to hold her banana like a big girl now. None of that silly breaking it into pieces business.

Chocolate Cookie

Never liked them....

Almonds that is. Until now. I bought a groupon for The Nutty Guys.
Butter Toffee Almonds, Cinnamon Toffee Almonds. My oh my, they are soooo good.
I'm sure they lose all they're good nutritional properties when you cover them in a butter/sugar mixture, but hey, they're delicious! Groupons are so cool!
I also got in on an awesome deal from this new site Gilt. They were giving $20credit for creating an account. I was able to get Norah a super cute organic bamboo shirt for free! It even covered shipping! I actually got George to sign up too so we got two shirts :)
I love free stuff! Thanks internet!

Slide Climber

Norah likes to climb up slides more than go down them. She's pretty good too, better then I thought a 14mth old should be!

She likes to go down this one by herself, it's not that steep at the bottom and has a long flat end so I let her! She was so proud of herself!

Updates updates updates....

So we've only had one weekend home since we moved. It's been a little crazy here. George has had lots of Army stuff. We had family visiting. We moved our horse. More Army stuff. Busy busy busy...we are ready for some downtime. The house is mostly unpacked and in order. We still need to hang pictures, but we needed a tape measure, which I bought while we were in Vanc this last weekend. It's been a slow process of finding out what we are missing and shopping over the weekends while we are in Vancouver since there aren't a lot of places out here. There are still a few boxes of random stuff and lots of empty boxes that need to be taken to the recycling center.

Otherwise we are all doing great! George likes his job, I like being here with Norah. Norah is crazy smart, oh and she's cutting her fourth molar. I need to start working on her 15mth old post....she has several words now! Okay, time for random pictures:

Her eyes are turning brown!

I made pumpkin cookies with cream cheese frosting....yum.

Livvy and the boys came to visit for a few days!

He Cooks!

She sat on the box and fell in, so she just relaxed there for awhile

Looks comfy right? I'd probably lay there too if I could fit!

Mmmmmm

Too bad it took four hours to make!

Or maybe that's a good thing, so I won't make it too often...