Posts Tagged ‘Nora Faith’

A couple weeks ago, I shared a photo collage featuring just a few pages from a personalized alphabet book I made for Nora. And from that day on, I’ve received question after question asking how I created the book.

Today’s post is quite long, but if you’d like to learn how to make your own book (or if you just want to peek at Nora’s book) you’ll definitely want to keep reading!

One of Nora’s first words (after “no” of course) was “shoes”. She said it very clearly too — “sooos”. Nora LOVES her shoes, so much so that she’s has a fit if she can’t wear the shoes she wants to wear. So we make a game out of it — I pick her clothes, then she picks her shoes.

I’ve already learned to pick my battles, and Nora’s shoe choice is not something I’m willing to fight about

Cute baby alert — Nora is 15 months old today so even though I’m not doing monthly photos anymore, I decided to share some of my favorite pictures from the past 3 months!

We celebrated Nora’s first birthday over Thanksgiving weekend, and I’m sharing a bunch of pictures — and a few tips that helped me keep the entire cost of her party under $50!

I’d love to hear any of your tips for birthday parties on a budget!

Today we’re celebrating Nora’s first birthday with both Dave and my immediate families… so since you all can’t celebrate with us, I figure I’ll just share a bunch of cute pictures and her 12 month updates with you!

Our sweet baby girl celebrates her first birthday today… and although it has not be an easy year, we are so, SO thankful.

Happy Thanksgiving, Friends… and Happy FIRST Birthday Nora!

Nora is 11 months old today!

She’s still not even close to sleeping through the night; she still doesn’t take naps; she still doesn’t eat… but she sure is cute, so we’ll keep her

10 Months — Nora is officially in “double digits”, and honestly, I can’t believe how much she has changed since last month. Looking back over the past 10 months, I would say that we’ve seen more changes this month than any other month!

It’s official, Nora has been alive “on the outside” for as long as she was alive inside of me — however, the 9 months outside sure seems like a lot longer.

Nora has learned a lot over the past month — and, as you’ll see by the list of milestones below, she’s is quite “advanced” for her young age

My beautiful blue-eyed girl is 8 months old…

Well, she WAS 8-months old two weeks ago already; however, since I was on my blogging break, and since I certainly didn’t want you to miss one month of cute Nora pictures, I figured “better late than never” right?

Seven month! Last year at this time, we were thrilled to find out we were having a girl — and I was finally starting to LOOK pregnant {not just chubby}

Yes, everyone told us how different our lives would be after Nora was born… and we believed them. However, we honestly had no idea how true those words would be.

Seriously! 6 months already! Nora is getting so big, and you know what… I LOVE it!

I’ve never been a huge baby person and I just can’t wait for Nora to start crawling, walking, talking, and growing into a cute, chubby toddler. I suppose that when all my children are grown, I’ll look back and regret wishing them through the newborn phase of life… but right now, I couldn’t be happier!

That’s right friends… our babe is already 5 months old!

I feel like I’ve been writing these monthly updates on a WEEKLY basis, but maybe that’s just because I’ve been trying so hard to take lots and lots of pictures throughout the month!

Nora is growing like crazy and reached many milestones again this month… it’s still not all butterflies and roses, but we’re slowly starting to figure her out.

I know I’ve lamented the fact that Nora already seems to be so strong-willed and stubborn {like refusing to take naps!} but the other day, Dave and I were joking about how Nora is actually SO much like me!

Yup, I’m strong-willed and stubborn too… and once we started thinking about it, we came up with a whole list of traits and characteristics that are strikingly similar between my daughter and myself

Nora is 4 months old today… and it’s hard to believe that last year at this time, she still wasn’t even a thought in our minds! I do remember feeling extremely tired last March, but I figured it was because of all the extensive home renovations and the fact that I was out-of-town twice in one month.

Little did I know that a year later, we would have a 4-month-old baby girl!

Our baby is already 3 months old… as of yesterday!

Some days, it seems like these past weeks just flew by, other days… it feels like I’ve been doing this for years! Although she is the cutest baby ever {small bias here} these last few months haven’t been all roses and butterflies.

Parenting and motherhood is hard work! But things are getting better… she is smiling all the time and her personality is really starting to shine through!

26 years ago… we took a four-generation picture the day I was baptized.
Yesterday… we took another four-generation picture for Nora’s baptism.

We both wore the same dress, we both were cute as a button, and we both had the privilege of Godly mothers, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers. It was a good day!

Nora turned TWO months old yesterday… and seems pretty darn excited about it.

For one-month photo shoot, we had to take so many pictures because she was either sleeping or crying… this month, we also had to take a bunch, but it was because she was moving SO much!

I’ve been getting lots of emails and comments about how much Nora looks like me… and I have to say I agree!

However the other day, as I was looking through my old pictures {on our portable hard drive}, I came across this picture of me — crying in my bouncy seat. I have an almost identical picture of Nora crying in her bouncy seat…

What do you think? Does she look like her mom?