Family, Snow and of course New Pics!

Justin's dad Jim, Susan, and Andrew decided to stop by to visit. It was their first time seeing Norah...and we have a few pics!

Norah is already warming up to Jim. You know imitation is the biggest form of flattery!


*Don't blame me, Justin made me do it!

Here's a good one.



If only Justin could learn a few tunes from his pop, he could serenade our little one to sleep.




Here is a random shot of Susan and me.



Aaww now Norah is warming up to Andrew.



...and she's adapted Andrew's hairstyle :)



It was sad to see the family leave, but as they say bigger and better things were to come (well not better, but definitely BIGGER!) We had a huge (for Cincy) wintery mix mid-week that consisted of roughly a foot of snow and considerable ice, which left a lot of people without power. Lucky for us we never went without power, but unfortunately a few of our relatives in KY are still without. :(

On a lighter note, I didn't have to go anywhere so I was able to get a picture of my car blanketed.



Justin was kind enough to take a few pics of our frozen trees.






Alright, alright, alright here are a couple of cute pics of Norah!
Lately she has been a kicking machine.





Aaaww! My favorite baby and favorite comic characters taking nap time!


ps thanks big bro for your web blog inspiration and help...and imitation is the biggest form of flattery. ;)

Every princess needs a dragon

Norah was given lots of presents for Christmas and this is one of her favorites. I left her in her room looking at her present for a few minutes and on my way to her room I heard her cooing and caaing and figured she got carried away with the fun she was having...little did I know how much!


On another note, here's our Mii family. Norah's on mingle, so for those of you who are connected with us, she can travel to your Wii!

Long Time No Type

Sigh.

Besides the rigors of home life, Justin has been getting his hind-end kicked at the jet motor factory. We're coming up on the first major test for a the first engine of a big defense contract we're trying to win. Used to be I'd get home, maybe exercise, talk to the wife a bit, eat a bite for dinner and head downstairs to generate some sawdust or fire up the xbox. Doesn't seem to be much time for any of that sort of thing as of late. Work sure does get in the way of life.

We had a great Christmas break and got to spend lots of time together and with friends and family. Norah got to meet boatloads of Schulers, Sipeses, Robinsons, Shipps and Coxes ; I'm not sure she knows everybody's name yet, but I'm sure she'll catch on. Too bad we didn't have a few more weeks off. We did manage to document our visit with a couple of pics:






Three Stooges!!!



Nisha is adapting to motherhood like a pro. She amazeses me every day with her patience and her determination to wrap up her PhD. She's been able to squeeze in starting to write up her school stuff in between all the things required of a new Mom. She rocks.

On the Dad front, I have decided to try my hand at crafting her a Greene and Greene styled high-chair. Should be fun... hopefully it turns out nicer than the crib. I'll post progress pics here shortly

So, here are the Norah updates.

Went in for the 1 month checkup (at 5 weeks). Nisha didn't record the "official" weight but she said that Norah had gained almost 3 lbs and grown 3" in length. That blew me away. I knew she had gotten bigger but not on the order of 40% in weight and 15% in length. At this rate (40% increase per month) she'd weigh 4,392,819,960 lbs and be 6,941 feet in length (1,996,736,345 kg and 2115 m for you Canucks and other adherents (weirdos) to the metric system) by the time she was 5 years old. Whoa. Hopefully that slows down a bit.

Cute pics: