E introduced Nora to her first real swimming pool. Needless to say, Nora LOVED it.

She practically jumped right out of my arms and into the water. (You can see a bit of the skirt Sarah brought me from Scotland!)

I got Nora a little toy laptop, in the hopes that she would prefer it to working her magic on my computer. She uses it for her very important business.

What can it be? This is so exciting!

It’s my bike seat! Wahoo! Wait, what are these black things for?

And…a helmet? Wait a second. No one told me there would be a helmet.

Have you ever seen someone so excited to be in a rocking chair?

Nora makes so many different expressions now–I can’t get over what a big personality she has stuffed into that tiny little body. She was kind of sad when I started taking these pictures, so I cheered her up by making a bunch of crazy noises (as one does). In the photos where she’s leaning to the side, she’s trying to look around the camera to see how I’m making that “boop, boop” sound.

Our little camera hound has suddenly turned coy. Too many episodes of America’s Next Top Model?


Nora is fascinated with grass. I sat her down in the center of the blanket, and she leaned waaaay over so that she could almost reach it, and then toppled over, wriggled onto her stomach, and picked a handful. Then she whined until I sat her back up again so that she could examine her bounty in comfort. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Blake gave me a new camera for Mother’s Day, so I got things started right by taking a super close-up shot of him cooking his famous chili.

We went up to the cabin to hang out with my side of the family for a while, and Nora got thoroughly spoiled by my mom, Dave, and Angie (who aren’t this blurry in real life).

We drove back down the canyon and over to Blake’s parents’ for dinner, and I took some pictures of his family for Nora’s little photo book. Welcome to the internet, guys!