Norah has been amazing lately, just sweet and funny and cheerful and easy. She has definitely hit the “language explosion” phase–she has been a great talker for a long time, but now it seems like she is learning words hand over fist. She’ll just pull out some amazing word that we didn’t even know she [...]

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This afternoon, like we often do, Norah and I called Brian to say hi. “What do you want to tell Daddy?” I asked her. “Hi,” she said. She is just starting to talk a little bit when we’re on the phone, instead of clamming right up and getting shy. “Daddy says hi too,” I said. [...]

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On Sunday, I had a baby shower to go to for Brian’s cousin, so we all drove up to the Falls for a visit. It made for a long day for Brian and Norah–cooped up in the house for three or four hours while we were at the shower, and of course Norah was missing [...]

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We went to the farmer’s market this morning. It’s still so early in the season, I knew there wouldn’t be much there but annuals, but I was hoping to get some more asparagus before the season was over, and Norah and I needed an adventure for the day, so we drove out to East Aurora. [...]

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