Yvonne wrote down this conversation she had with Norah today:
“Would you like to go on an adventure today?”
“Yeah.”
Where would you like to go?”
“To Panera Bread.”
“Do you want to go there for lunch?”
“Yeah.”
“Who will you see at Panera Bread?” (She thought Norah might say “Mommy,” since I work there so often.)
“Boys.”
“What are you going to do [...]

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Norah and I have been writing a lot of letters lately–she’ll color a picture, and I’ll take dictation, writing to Grandma and Grandpa, or Yvonne, or PopPop. Today she was playing with my book, and she took out my bookmark (arrgh!), and pretended it was a letter she was reading out loud:
“Dear Mommy. I love [...]

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I am only just finally starting to realize that Norah will be turning 2 soon. I don’t like to think about it–we have all loved this year so much, I just want to hang onto the last bits of her babyhood. But she’s not a baby anymore…she is truly a little girl now.
I was remembering [...]

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A few days last week, Brian was in Vermont for work. On Friday, as he was making the long drive home, I said to Norah, “Aren’t you excited for Daddy to come home?”
“Yeah.”
“What are you going to tell him when he gets home?”
“Ta ra ra boom-de-ay.”
Huh. No idea where that came from. Jack’s Big Music [...]

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