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Nora loves her daddy


My Aunt Beverly came and we took a roadtrip to Terre Haute to meet my Mom and Dad...quick trip, but pretty fun.

Nora has sudden days of grown-upness. She will just wake up older...it's strange. I have found that she really likes the warmth of outside. She's much calmer during diaper changes when they happen outside in the sun-warmed car.

4-H Fair

I'm not well versed in fairs. I think I remember going to only one fair -once (some festivals, but no fairs). I have no recollection of riding a ferris wheel, eating an elephant ear, or many other 'fair-like' things. So, I've been really anticipating the upcoming 4-H fair. Andy has Mondays off, so we planned to go visit the fairgrounds and have an evening out. I was anticipating an elephant ear, lemon shake-up, and a ride on the ferris wheel.

Unfortunately, the vendors were few -and, I'm not sure why. We found a funnel cake but no elephant ear. And, I thought I'd had a lemon shake-up before, but I was a little disappointed when I found it was more like lemonade and less like a frozen lemon thing. And, there were a variety of rides, but absolutely no ferris wheel. I did see the most gigantic pig I've ever seen and lots of chickens. Nora seemed to have fun for the first 2 minutes of the fair, but then she fell asleep for the entire rest of the time. So, not what we imagined but a fun evening anyway.

Itty Bitty Garden

On Memorial Day Andy and I dug up some dirt and tried to plant a garden. I wasn't really sure anything would grow, but I wanted to try anyway. We have 2 squash plants, 5 green bean bushes, 3 tomato plants, 5 corn stalks, and some watermelon. All things seem to be growing, but there hasn't been any vegetables or fruit. Today I walked out to see it again and found that there is at least one very baby green bean growing on each bean plant...but that's it. I hope it makes enough that some day we can eat from our garden. I'm excited to see everything grow :)

I must be a mom...

This afternoon I went into the bathroom and caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror. I laughed and thought to myself, "Now I look like a real mom." I felt both physically and emotionally better today than I have in a while. So, when I looked in the mirror and saw my disheveled hair, leakage stains and baby throw-up on my shirt it made me smile...and feel proud. When you look like that, you must be doing something right, huh?

Sleep whenever you can...

Andy took this picture of us this morning -both exhausted after the night.

Nora Brielle -June 24th

She finally arrived, and it's been more lovely and more challenging than I ever expected. I love her dearly.