My baby is one! Kids these days and their insisting on growing up.
Nora, from the beginning, has been my good sleeper, good eater, and all around laid back baby. She does require a lot of cuddling. She's good about playing on her own for quite a while until she realizes that she needs SNUGGLES and then she WILL NOT BE PUT DOWN typically until nap time. She is Mama's girl in a way that Jo never was, which has been both fun and challenging.
In the same way that Jo made me a mom, Nora made Jo a big sister, which has been so fun to watch. Jo constantly tells me "I love my sister" and "I love my baby Nona." And tells strangers, "My baby sister a peanut" because I've always called Nora peanut. Hopefully Nora will either be very good at taking orders or very good at ignoring them, because she's going to be told what to do and how to do it often and authoritatively.
Nora's birthday wishlist could start and end with "unfettered access to the open dishwasher" though she'd also like to chew on my phone, smash buttons on my computer, disappear the Apple TV remote, and chew on Jo's sparkle flats. And she'd like to never get her hands and face cleaned after eating or be removed from the bathtub against her will. Her favorite activity is a game we like to call Danger Couch, where she crawls and walks around our sectional and we push her back on every time she starts to fall off. She finds that part especially hilarious.
It's a little sad that my tiny baby Nona is gone, but for the most part I'm so happy to watch her grow into the person she's becoming and can't wait to get to know her better when she starts talking.
Happy birthday, Peanut. Thanks for all of the sunshine this year.
Nora's First Year from Lori Graham on Vimeo.