I'm just going to jump right in with some recent pictures and will go back and put up Christmas pictures later. :)
I'll have to scan in some of Nora's recent artwork. She's become quite the portrait artist with these funny smiley face people (the one above is holding a balloon). They started as just the circle with eyes, nose, mouth, hair, arms and legs and have evolved to have hands and legs, fingers and toes, eyebrows, dee dee's (belly buttons), and if they're lucky......wait for it......a nice little V for a vagina and a line clear down to the feet for a penis. Lovely.
Miss Elise is getting funnier and smarter by the second. She dances when you say "dance", waves when you say "bye bye" or "hi", claps when you say "yay", and has recently started to hit her head with her little hand to let us know she bonked her head on something. She has also done the ASL signs for 'bath' and 'all done', although she only did them each a few times. She's crawling all over the place, zooming up stairs if given the chance, and standing unassisted until she notices she's doing it at which time she falls gracefully. She gives fabulous hugs and big wet kisses (or, more frequently she just offers her cheek or forehead for you to kiss). She is an absolute joy and cracks me up regularly. She cracks Nora up too, which melts my heart.
Dress up!
Elise's first tea party - not so sure how much she's enjoying it here.
Elise and Mama all dressed up in sunny yellow (and a goofy sweat band).
And to close, nothing says Merry Christmas like enjoying a candy cane with your sister (don't worry, Elise's was still covered but she watched how Nora ate it and sucked/licked it like it was delicious).
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